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Is the Bounty Pack worth it?

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ChucksAhoy · 21/05/2015 17:05

I found a leaflet to fill out and take to Boots to get a Bounty Pack which my midwife must've given me at my booking in appointment. I threw most of the other junk away and wondered if the free pack would just be more of the same old sales crap or if it's actually worth getting?

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Whatabout · 21/05/2015 17:20

Not worth it at all. Your data is worth bucks to them, in return you'll get a couple of tiny samples and lots of crap.

Diamond23 · 21/05/2015 17:22

No it's crap

Luciferbox · 21/05/2015 17:24

Not worth it

Steph1502 · 21/05/2015 17:24

My oldest is 12 and you used to get amazing stuff in the packs. Nappy samples, wipes, persil washing tabs, mini bottle of fairy and some great pregnancy advice books. Defo went downhill since then :(

Timeforabiscuit · 21/05/2015 17:25

Really really not worth it!

sockmatcher · 21/05/2015 17:30

You will be in dated with emails and junk mail.

Much rather this www.mamapack.co.uk

LooksLikeImStuckHere · 21/05/2015 17:31

Nope. I'm pregnant with DC2 (gap of nearly 4 years) and it's rubbish now!

It wasn't that great to begin with either.

Christelle2207 · 21/05/2015 17:35

I picked up my pack and the only sample was the tiny pot of sudacrem.
Def not!!

SunnySomer · 21/05/2015 17:36

And 8 years on I'm STILL receiving marketing calls and emails (definitely from Bounty pack as they use my maiden name which I've not used since a few months after DS was born)

seaoflove · 21/05/2015 17:39

Nope. I did with my first child and used to get phone calls trying to flog all sorts of crap, not to mention the junk mail.

Then I moved house Grin

With baby #2 I didn't bother.

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ChucksAhoy · 21/05/2015 17:41

I get enough spam email as it is! It kind of sounds like you'll get lots of useful samples but with the one at booking it there was some teabags and a shit load of junk. Hmm... don't think I'll bother.

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enjoyingscience · 21/05/2015 17:43

I had it with neither child, and can't say I was any the worse for it. Friends say that the mini sudocrem pot wasn't worth it for the amount of spam they got.

Boots parenting club used to give away a good nappy bag - that's probably worth it if you're after freebies! :)

EmpressOfJurisfiction · 21/05/2015 17:43

Have a look at this: Bounty Mutiny campaign

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ChucksAhoy · 21/05/2015 17:43

The Mama packs look good but it says on the website that there minimum order is 20?

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ChucksAhoy · 21/05/2015 17:47

God I've just had a look at the Bounty Mutiny Campaign - do they really have sales reps going around the maternity wards!?!?!? Why on earth would this be allowed??

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contractor6 · 21/05/2015 18:07

Sorry to hijack, I recommend setting up spare email account for this sort of thing.

Diamond23 · 21/05/2015 18:27

Bounty woman asked me twice and I told her very firmly no. She seemed gobsmacked I didn't want one of her pack "it's got your child benefit form in it!" So bugger off. The woman across the way was getting one of their crap photos on some kind if weird £10 a week payment plan- how irresponsible are they? Getting women into debt hours after difficult births (all the women on my part of the ward had emcs)

LooksLikeImStuckHere · 21/05/2015 18:40

The photos they took of DS on the ward nearly broke my heart.

They scrolled through all the other babies and then showed my poor, forceps battered DS with his bruised cheeks, massive swellings and bloodshot eyes.

I cried, I felt like I'd failed him. They were really pushy too. Forgot about that when I took the pack for DC2.

MissTwister · 21/05/2015 18:59

Bounty are evil! And the pack is shit, I got a tea bag

ARV1981 · 21/05/2015 19:20

Wow, I just googled how much the photos are! Crikey, you could buy a half decent digital camera with that money and take the pics yourself - and then everyday afterwards!!! It beggars belief!

Yes, very wrong to sign up vulnerable new mums to finance deals just hours after giving birth. I would have thought that was illegal (if it's not it should be!)

Lookslikeimstuckhere - you didn't fail him. You gave him the best thing ever - life!

Buckshot, it's allowed because the hospital has deals with bounty. It's a way for the hospital to pay for the services they offer. Bounty gives them cash for each person they sign up, more presumably if they sell you the photos.

AbbeyRoadCrossing · 21/05/2015 19:26

Not much in it, a pen and one nappy!
One the ward they were quite annoying. I was 8 days and the same lady burst in every day, I'm sure she must've remembered me by the 8th time. Still, not as bad as some of the horror stories on the other thread

ShadowFire · 21/05/2015 20:17

Not worth it. Hardly any samples, but months and months of spam e-mail trying to sell me stuff I didn't want.

The one you get on the post natal ward does have the child benefit form in, but I would think that you should be able to get one elsewhere.

ShadowFire · 21/05/2015 20:20

Yes. You can download the child benefit forms from the official government website. So you don't need the Bounty pack for that either. Hopefully clicky link below.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-benefit-claim-form-ch2

Aquilla · 21/05/2015 20:21

I love free crap so I filled in the form with some lies about who I was and where I lived and got mine from Boots/Argos.

changingagain · 21/05/2015 20:46

I got the Bounty one and the Emma's Diary one as I'd seen on here that people had got good deals on travel systems and cots. I get loads and loads of junk email from them and haven't seen any offers that are useful to me yet. The only bits I remember from the packs were the tiny pot of sudocrem, a packet of 7 pregnacare, a pen, a small packet of dettol wipes and a tea bag. Not worth it at all imo.