M&S Sparks card

[SusannaQueen]

Are there no clothing offers with this any more or am I doing something wrong? All I have is £10 off Gary Barlow tickets and some lifestyle discount. Don't even get in-store vouchers for food shops now.
I've been holding off buying a pair of jeans, In the hope of % off.

Apparently 3 days from now Gary will be gone from my Sparks, hopefully it will stay that way

@SunsetSmartmeter

Apparently 3 days from now Gary will be gone from my Sparks, hopefully it will stay that way

Now there’s a Christmas Countdown I can get behind. Finally!

@YouGotThisKeepGoing 😀👏🏻

Just had a peek because it said I had 5 new offers

Gary flippin' Barlow still hanging around like an unwelcome fart for one more day
£5 off an M&S Magic and Sparkle chocolate box
20% off M&S panettone
£1.50 off an M&S Percy Pig musical tin
20% off multipacks of M&S Christmas cards

Every one of those stupid offers can piss right off.

Did M&S do any customer research prior to launching Sparks ?

I did get one freebie from the Sparks advent calendar - a cupcake kit. Will be fun for the DDs. But didn't use any of the offers, especially not Gary Barlow (sorry mate).

To be fair there used to be some decent offers with sparks. Pre covid I would get free Percy pigs, free £5 vouchers here and there (no minimum spend) and various discounts. But since the pandemic they seem to be much stingier.

@helloitsme3 I've not had a free bag of Percies in an age, for a while we got them frequently. DD and I used go get ours and eat them in the car while driving the dog about. Silly fun.

Popping to M&S this afternoon to collect the things I ordered with the 20% off. Will be a quick dash in and out. If the free coffee voucher had lasted longer, I would have popped to the cafe and bought lunch too!!

My app just said I have new offers but it's still the same ones there, including Gary who expires today. When he finally vanishes I'm going to break into Handel's Messiah

Gary has gone!!

I have no decent offers though. Just a bunch of stuff I don't want/need.

@DontTellThemYourNamePike I just came to say the same - Gary is no more! Let seasonal joy be unconfined

@SunsetSmartmeter Joining you in the Hallelujah Chorus!

I feel a wee bit sorry for him now.

I have £10 off a magnum of gin liqueur. I don't think it's selling as well this year as it did last year!

I got free wrapping paper last week and now have a free candle and a free bag of Colin’s waiting for me on the app as well as the range of discounts. Annoyingly I probably won’t get to claim them as we are trying to isolate until we got home for Christmas and you only get them in store.

I got free wrapping paper last week and now have a free candle and a free bag of Colin’s waiting for me on the app as well as the range of discounts. Annoyingly I probably won’t get to claim them as we are trying to isolate until we got home for Christmas and you only get them in store.

See, I don't get anything - not only could I not access the Advent Calendar, I'm not getting these sorts of offers - for example the free wrapping paper mentioned above, nor the candle or Colins......

I can find offers within the App - I have found a range of discounts there, but my "Sparks" offers have completely dried up!

I wouldn't necessarily want to redeem all the offers, but I'd like to receive them and at least have the choice!

Gary has gone at last but I have nothing else at all. It says add your new offers but then when I click there's nothing. I spend quite a lot in M&S so I'm getting a bit fed up with this now!

It's a cheerio to Gary from me too - its not personal Gary well, it is a bit but glad to see the back of you!

I never get free stuff either, but having to claim in store wouldn't be worth it for me unless it was something really worthwhile or I planned to go shoping anyway. We have a small foodhall about 5 miles away where I shop and use for store delivery but the nearest proper store is 20 miles away so I'm not making a special trip and paying to park on the off-chance they'll have a free whatnot in stock.

You're not missing much on the wrapping paper this year, I thought it was awful!

@PolkadotsAndMoonbeams

I have £10 off a magnum of gin liqueur. I don't think it's selling as well this year as it did last year!

I've now got this too, which has annoyed me as I've already bought one using the 20% off from the calendar. Had I known I would have waited and saved more. Not cool, M&S.W

I’ve also got £10 off a magnum of gin liqueur.

Gary's final gone but so have all the offers!

I've had absolutely nothing (except the winter day out which looks like it's going to linger for the next 5 months), since my measly £2 off brie en croute disappeared over a week ago. Bit disappointed, I've spent loads of money with M&S this Christmas.

This year I've had a candle it's rubbish a room spray, wrapping paper, baubles. Now I have two offers on their gin, I don't drink gin

@LadyEloise1

Did M&S do any customer research prior to launching Sparks ?

They hired the person who had headed up the successful Tesco Clubcard. You'd wonder if her hands were tied. The sparks scheme is staggeringly crap.