I Feel Like I’ve Been Completely Conned! (ipoints.co.uk)

Member Name: splodgethecat

Product:	ipoints.co.uk
Date:	19/08/01 (84 review reads)
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Advantages: None really

Disadvantages: Don't bother saving up - they just upp the totals

Having just found the Online Perks category, I felt I simply *had* to write something about my experience with iPoints. First of all, apologies to those of you who have read my posting on this subject at the Opp-Com Community Boards, but as I figure not everyone from Dooyoo visits there, my experience would be useful to other Dooyoo members, so I can‘t see any reason why I shouldn‘t spread the word here. My beef is this;

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I have been a member of iPoints for quite some while now and my score gradually, and extremely slowly edged up and edged up until recently, I found myself the proud owner of an amazing 145 iPoints. Great, though I, Only 5 more points to get before cashing them in, in exchange for a £20 high street voucher.

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However, a little later on, I went back to see if I had amassed any more points, (I hadn’t), *but* I was disturbed to find that the number of points required to get the same £20 voucher had been upped by 50 to 200. If this wasn’t bad enough, after another visit to the site *this* week, I was further dismayed to see that it had been upped *again* by 50 to 250 points! That means that in the space of a couple of months the total points required to get this elusive £20 voucher had gone up by 100. What a complete scam. How on earth are you supposed to be able to get anything if iPoints keep upping the stakes? Where on earth is the incentive to try to amass points if they simply make it more and more difficult for you to redeem the points for anything remotely useful?

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Therefore, I had a look at what I *could* afford with my 145 points. This is what I could get;

Survival Tool
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I am a middle aged woman with no earthly use for such an item

Toastabag
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I quote from the site "There is no other way to describe a Toastabag than labelling it as a "thick, A5, black plastic bag." Well whoopee
chuff - a plastic bag! Just what I’ve always wanted.

A ZapCap
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Fancy name for something which is, basically, a bottle opener.

Condom Holder
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I should be so lucky!

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To say I was utterly disgusted with this paltry and insulting array of ‘prizes’ is putting it mildly. I decided therefore to use the 145 points to make a £10 donation to charity. It was Barnados - a charity of iPoints’ choosing. That is another thing that rankled. I would have liked to have donated the money to *my* favourite charity.

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To get to the point. I was so disgusted with this site, I closed my account there and then, because I cannot see how I would have ever been in a position to ever get anything from them. I feel angry too that they could insult people with these worthless, so called, prizes or rewards, especially after it takes you about a year to get enough points to even *qualify* for anything.

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Anyway, I’m sorry this op is short and sweet, but I think I have made my point. I definitely would not recommend anyone to a site which continually moves the goalposts. It‘s devious and underhand and as I say in my title, I feel like I have been conned good and proper.

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