M&S 12 days of treats - rubbish!!

[WilsonMilson]

I see others have had free bottles gin and other delights, and am feeling a bit miffed.

I got a free small hand cream (which they didn’t even have at my local M&S) on the first day, and it’s been utter rubbish every day since - think 15% off women’s rights, 20% off skincare, 15% off a Panettone, £1 off a light up shortbread lantern. Just so disappointing.
Anyone else feeling the same? Does it go by how much you spend in M&S, I spent maybe £800 a year I’d say. Perhaps that not enough to get the good stuff?!

Agree, it’s been fun checking each day even if I didn’t want the pig decoration day 1. Still tomorrows golden bonus to look forward to.

20% offNobodies Child. No Golden Bonus yet.

My ‘gift’ today was 20% off men’s pants.

My golden bonus is... 20% off coats

The golden bonus is for those who opened all 12 days and I’m fairly certain it will just be an entry into a competition to win a holiday, judging by news reports I’ve read.

20% off a multipack of knickers!

Where did you find golden bonus?

My Sparks app says the golden bonus will be shown tomorrow.

In the new offers bit

Oh, 20% off dressing gowns, and my golden reward will arrive tomorrow apparently.

I need to win this.

I got offered a free Percy Pig decoration, which was our of stock everywhere. Other than that discounts on stuff I wouldn't buy (15% off a Toniebox - I had to Google what one was).

I thought it was entirely fitting for the sparks card, the least useful "loyalty" card in existence - haven't had any offers on there for months, before that it was very sporadic offers for stuff i'm not interested in and have never shown an interest in (10% of olives still doesn't make me like olives).

I got 29% off Samsung ear buds (random), 15 % off Christmas themed kitchen towel, 15% off stilton. Plus other completely useless discounts. Nothing free so far! Totally underwhelmed and needless to say have not redeemed any of them.

I had the candy cane lights and the mini body lotion - neither of which were stocked in my local store (which is also pretty big) and no alternatives - my discounts have been quite random plus 5O p off a shortbread in cafe with a drink.

I think they need to rethink it

Hey I’m well jel of your handcream!
it was absolutely rubbish!
A staff member told me to down load app and get it which I had never bothered to do, she had gotten free gin etc.
I got like 15% off women’s socks etc
waste of time!

That’s fair enough but then tailor it to things that I usually actually buy. Our local M&S is just food so give me discounts on what I buy there. I’m not going to travel to use a discount on something I don’t want and never buy.

I wish I’d got money off tights, I could do with stocking (see what I did there 😉) up.

Same here. Free handcream, which was out of stock, and the only other ones I've used were 20% off wrapping paper and a big chocolate slab that we're going to give away a a present.

I got some free chocolate coins and then 11 days of small discounts on stuff I wont buy. I did want to get DH some boots from there but none of the discounts were for men's shoes.

Mine today was 15% off light up candles ffs.

Definitely rewards big spenders. We spend about £130 on food every week and I got the free bread and light-up gin bottle.

The problem is that Sparks cards are a bit rubbish, so I suspect lots of people don't bother scanning them.

All money off codes here, and what really annoyed me is that, at this time of year, M&S Sparks normally offer a generic 20% off everything code which they haven't done this year.

The algorithm makes absolutely no sense because I spend loads of money and time in M&S. It's closer to me than the big supermarkets, so I do a lot of my top up shopping there during the week.
I haven't received a single free thing yet, just random 20% discounts for crap I'd never buy (and Samsung???? since when do they sell electronics???)

I got free Percy pigs = got them the other day. Happy days.

Happy Christmas to me!