Sneaky. I like it.

I bet you're fun at parties.

Is it big is it brown does it smile or does it frown :smile:

Bare with me lol

Bit of a two faced comment to make considering you posted a deal 3 weeks ago about how you can go into Mercedes and Land Rover showrooms, have a walk around, then stock up on free drinks and snacks and watch sky tv on their comfy sofas.
Im afraid i'll have to check the contents of your coat pockets before you leave sir :smirk:

Sneaky. I like it.

Good idea, I had one I forgot about

I've had 2 in the past that have expired. Good idea, thanks

very clever

well i learnt something today, thanks

heat

RESPECT Op :man:

All most welcome but Kudos to the member of staff at Tunbridge Wells who did this for me.

they will catch on

Is it big is it brown does it smile or does it frown :smile:

Bare with me lol

Cold this is cheating it's not a deal why would you pay 15p for a 5p carrier bag

??

It saves money that's all it matters

Feudian Slip! One track mind and all that... I will amend

I like this - nice one!

nice one

If anyone is sneaky its Argos, if you fast track items you don't get a gift card instore instead a code is hidden right at the bottom of your order confirmation email! It's easy to delete the email without noticing it.

Does a 15p bag even exist?

what's the point of this if you can't recycle it.
I'd rather buy £1 wipes at the till, which I would use.

Why don't you just buy something with it ! life's to short to be **** about like this !!!! Surely you can find something you want out of the thousands of products argos sell. This isn't a deal it's a punishment !!

Fraud.

Cold.

Bye.

Addendum: return 15p carrier bag.

Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.

OK I have updated this apologies the carrier bag was 5p I ave put a photo of reciept in title but cant upload to thread. happy to if someone would care to give me guidance.

well I never.......

It's a free £10.00 voucher you got from Argos it's free you are not paying anything. Why don't you just spend the £10.00 on anything you want on the day or bin it if you forget no one cares. If Argos didn't give you a free voucher then would you spend 5p on a carrier bag and why waste this thread there is no deal here move on.

You've just made my day

Buy this to extend the validity and donate it to a Christmas toy appeal, can't be accused of fraud then :wink:
http://www.argos.co.uk/product/1575431 or this http://www.argos.co.uk/product/1221352

How about just buying a £10 gift card with your £10 gift card,,simple!

Well done op. It's frustrating when it expires. Didn't know you could do this. Thank you for sharing. I'm sure Sainsbury's won't be happy.

What a great idea rent-a-tent :smile: Although I think my mother-in-law was ripped off last Saturday when she bought COD legacy edition for £64.99 but was told because they had started the 3 for 2 on toys they no longer do the £5/£10 gift card with purchases and now she's gone on holiday so won't be able to complain :disappointed:

It *may* even work just to ask a the till for a balance check. This can be enough to keep the card alive

Your's wasn't either. Thanks.

​Well said

So you spend 5p on a carrier bag to extend the life of a free giftcard you probably will never use.
You have just wasted 5p.
This is one hell of a deal, no wonder it is so hot.

Is it not a similar principal to the guy that was recently caught trying to manipulate the market¿ Argos are potentially losing out by doing this which can affect their profits..

heat for the cleverness x

brilliant!!! :smile:

That is a bit cheeky or you, but I like it XD

I like you style.

I like your style.

You can use the same trick with M&S Credit Vouchers which last one year. Not really a revelation to be honest, I guess not everyone realises these small little tricks

Genius

actually I dont think u can. the validity on credit notes stays the same so it will only deduct the 5p and print a new credit note with same expiry.

I buy something and then have to refund to get a credit note valid for another year.

Sneaky! WAS IT YOU THAT HACKED INTO MY TESCO BANK ACCOUNT!

Or just use it to buy a gift card for another store? They have them by the till in Argos

Top find, heat added. Wonder how long it'll take them to close that loophole!

Not real a deal, this actually costs you money rather than saves you money.

How? You buy a carrier bag, and it adds extra time onto the period you have to spend the gift card, which you'd be using in Argos anyway, it's like saying buying a GAME gift card for 80% value is fraud towards GAME.

No it deducts 5p and a new one prints out which Gives you another year. So the old one can be thrown away and your new one now lasts one year

No, but it extends the period in which you have to use the gift card so as you don't let's say waste it just because its expiry date is near.

Good effort OP

Did you work for MI5 OR M&S before to learn this trick?

I've worked on customer services where customers complain the barcode on their credit voucher can't be scanned. So I charge them for a bag type the numbers in and they get a brand new one

Agreed - this works for other companies for sure.

lol.. I'd probably lose the gift card by then.

It's not though is it.

It's a brilliant way to have the voucher renewed for 3 years, but I don't like buying bags so I will spend my £10.00 voucher towards something I need. I will then refund it on the spot that way I will get £10.00 cash instead of a voucher.

No, the refund is back to the original payment method. So in this case, they'll issue you another gift card.

Or just buy another £10 gift card from a wide variety of cards

I think it's a good deal; why not extend the expiry date of a voucher for the cost of 5p.

You're not someone who know's the price of everything but the value of nothing?

I am amazed by the negativity in some of the comments at someone trying to help people. As for people saying why not just buy something, maybe people dont need anything, yet they may need something important next year. Or maybe theyre will be a better deal on something next year.... you know a hot deal... in the UK like...

Nice on OP, good on ya

No wonder we won the war with folks like OP
Kudos!
Also the 5p a large % goes to charity with most retailers I believe Argos are an opt in they are in Wales anyway.
ps
Like rent-a-tent's opening sentence!

- Vouchers have expiry dates for a reason.

- if vouchers are not used, this translates to increased profits (in a roundabout way)

- prolonging the expiry therefore can have an impact on net profits

- someone asked what happens if you return an item and keep the voucher - in my book, it's all fraud


I'll get my coat..

I reckon rent a tent is actually columbo to figure this one out! :smiley:

A fine example of what I'm talking about..

Please don't post things like that on this forum. This site is for legitimate individuals, not people trying to take advantage of companies and taxpayers..

I'll get my coat..

Good loophole, shame it brought out so many @/$#hole moaners.

but explain you have no cash and ask them to take the 5p from your gift card.

If you are 'probably never going to use' the gift card, how have you wasted 5p when the 5p was taken from the gift card?

I put an extra zero after the £5 or £10 on the voucher and it looks like £50 or £100.
Works every time.

heat for being clever

After the 1p VAT that goes to the HMRC a large % of the 4p goes to charity, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17875023 old post but I doubt its changed and is same in rest of UK.

So £'s goes to good causes.

So in effect rent-a-tent has donated to charity.

Or if like some staff they just go oh its only a bag just take it... haha

Brilliant op brilliant

Heat just for exposing the nut cases.. :smile:

Can't do this.. Don't do that.. This is wrong.. That is unfair.. Who cares? In the end..

WE ALL DIE!

But until then let's lighten up a bit :wink:

Playing the system...more power to you!

first officer - please get your coat

Love it

check your avatar - makes you look a bit frisky

Garbage island springs to mind

Vouchers have expiry dates for a reason? Theft, that's the reason (and no, I'm not talking about the free ones on this thread) Money is handed over in good faith to buy a voucher, the shop has that money upfront, to put an expiry date on it is dishonest. There is no expiry date on bank notes so why should there be on vouchers?

I have been doing this since ages....but never thought of posting that as a deal....

brilliant

I hate gift cards with a vengeance for these reasons exactly, so to beat them at their own game...gotta give some well deserved heat OP.

then you is more pee than smart

my first heat added :smiley:

How can it be fraud lol

You tried to look intelligent or cool but failed.

Failed

So hard

:smiley:

... Why are you such a moaning little depressing ****

OP Owns hukd right now :sunglasses:

Oh god don't say that I'm sure firstofficer will say that is fraud & theft, just please think of Argos and it's profits!

I give you more better idea guys...Just buy 5p bag OR even any thing cost you few quid and just after few minutes simply returned them. You will get extension on your card Even FREE :wink:

lOVE iT <3

So you agree with me and how is that illegal you can buy whatever you want with the £10.00 voucher and return it if you want to and they will always give you cash refund and it's argos £10.00 voucher not taxpayers money.

Leave the coat I'm feeling hot...

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Awesome

here I was thinking why would I pay for the bag lol. heat added

I really don't see it as fraud. It's up to you what you spend the gift voucher on. I don't see staff having a problem with this. You don't even need to wait to pay at collection, it'll be quicker just to ask at till after the initial transaction.

i'm curious, if you withdrew a £10 note from the cash point and didn't use it, would you stick it in the bin? if no why not, clearly you don't value such small sums of money if you will chuck an Argos voucher away.

Can clarify that this won't work :smiley: The reason the expiry date changes is because it prints a new voucher and three years is standard on gift cards (obviously apart from the initial free ones).

Lolllll

Buy the carrier bag with the gift card, then return it. You can't beat the no quibble return policy, this will then give you a full credit gift card!

Don't be daft. They don't go to parties. Hot. Bye.

We all love a geeza like OP. Well done!

I've already had one expire on me so good trick

Good stuff

what happens if my carrier bag breaks and I need to get a refund?

Cold. 5p for a bag is standard price.

Whilst in Argos say that you desperately need the toilet (I recommend saying you need a number two right now) and they will let you use the staff toilet.
When in there take a toilet roll and put it in your new carrier bag.
Free toilet roll.

I bet when Argos still used to have those little pens you'd tackle someone to the ground in a citizens arrest if you saw them nicking one.

HAHAHAHAHA

Would adding £1 to the balance also increase the expiry date?

Like anyone would invite them :wink:

love it

love it,

My mind boggles with some of these replies..I'm voting hot :smiley:

Given that argos could have quite easily stupulated terms for the free £5/£10 gift card which meant that if the full balance of the gift card is not used then no change is given either in cash or as a voucher I would say this is perfectly legitimate . Either

1)Argos dont want you to do this but have been too lazy or inprudent to properly consider how this could occur

2)Argos dont really care because the evidence year on year suggests that the vast majority of consumers either use the £10 within its validity or allow the voucher to expire .

Manipulating the market by buying a 5p bag with a Gift Card???

WOW :confused:

top tip: keep that coat on at all times

Morals went out the window when they hiked prices at 3 for 2 events. Works both ways; hot!

Sap

Bloody great xx well done op :wink:

This also happened to me but instead it was when I bought an item, when refunded it, brand new gift card with 3 year expiry

****, that's funny...

No pun intended.

I'll get my coat..

Genius idea

omg thats crazy but have some heat

Brilliant idea, mine always expires and no its not fraud, they purchased a carrier bag

Genius!

Sneakily innocent :smiley:

NOICE BRUV

Lovin it!

Thanks OP. Voted HOT, HOT,HOT!

I used this this idea this morning where I earned myself a £5 voucher for a £60+ spend.
I asked for a carrier and was told it would cost 5p extra
I said I had no money on me despite having paid over £60 instore for the item I intended to purchase, and obviously received the appropriate change.

I asked nicely if I could use the £5 voucher as suggested here by the OP, and was asked "Are you quite sure? Is that all you want extra?"

I said, "Yes, Yes. I'm sure"

So she took my £5 voucher and provided me with the 5p carrier bag as I requested.

I asked for the voucher back, and she said I can't have it back as I had used it to purchase the carrier bag. I asked about the £4.95 balance where I was politely pointed to term 32 of the terms and conditions of the free gift card promotion

http://www.argos.co.uk/events/giftvoucher.html

Fantastic deal, OP. Well deserves all the heat. This is what we come to HUKD for.
How to buy a 5p bag for £5. That really is a HOT UK DEAL

well its hot . well done . but when you think about tbe way you done it . hat off seriously .

Certainly not cheating or fraud. The police wouldn't take kindly to be called for this. The system allows it and anyone doing this is simply applying the system.

lol brilliant find

Says voucher code. Not applicable to physical vouchers.

it's clever but embarrassing asking to pay 5p on a gift card when u have just bout something on a debit card!

I have noticed that they now use iPads in many stores rather than the old pencils and paper slips.
I know they did not mind you taking the pencil and paper slip out if the store, so it is probably okay to take one of the iPads home as it's the same principle.

yes it's hot, thanks for stating the obvious

I've no intention of becoming bare with you, I'd rather get naked with a bear

Re 'Vouchers have expiry dates for a reason' in a very marginal way. Think about the act of buying a voucher you give the money in return for no outlay from the retailer. So they bank the money and can earn interest on it straightaway.
- Shops are very wise to the fact that only a certain percentage of vouchers ever get used. Again another money spinner.
- A voucher holder has next to no rights in a bankrupcy situation.
- The only real issue for longer dated vouchers would be if a large percentage of holders decided to cash them in at once or over a relatively short period of time.

Surely these 2 accounts are the same person? I just can't believe there is anyone who would like these ridiculous comments.

You have won the internet today OP.

Good to know, nice one have some heat:p

How is this 2828°C and the hottest deal of the entire month!???
HUKD is rapidly becoming a social forum rather than a place to find genuine deals. Don't get me wrong I did snigger at a few of the comments but when I do my daily 5 minute scroll through the top deals these days, only half of them are actually decent deals with the rest being comedy gifts or something everyone found funny. No offence op, its a good find but the best deal in the UK for the entire month..? I'm not so sure...

Why do you think it is fraud ?
You are paying 5p for a 5p bag.

You forgot your coat.

:stuck_out_tongue:

That would be my choice too!

Similar thing with me earlier this year, bought an item for just over £50, given a £5 card (which incidentally wasn't a proper gift card just a paper card with the expiry date on), decided to use the card to buy the batteries for the item I purchased, which was £3.99 I think, Was told they would not give any change or credit on the promotional gift cards, so I picked up a bag of sweets as well for 99p. 2p lost but at least the assistant told me upfront .
Maybe different now this was back earlier in the year.

There's huk'ers and then there's legendary huk'ers. OP certainly falls in the latter category :stuck_out_tongue:

I spent £114.07 yesterday in bury Lancashire store.... lady at till gave me a £10 gift card.... I went straight to customer services and said I forgot I was getting a voucher (which I did) gave them 7p and they paid straight back onto my debit card £10.
So if your honest with them they just took it off my order
Saved a tenner there and then on the day.
I know this is about extending your voucher from 15th December for 3 years, but no need for a carrier bag or messing about, just save it on the day?, argos said no problem yesterday

great idea op, clever you :smile:

Very Cleaver... Have some Heat..:sunglasses:

3k heat?

Heh...this place sometimes.

​With 3000+ heat you're probably feeling a bit silly now. Heat.

This will work best if Argos are still around in three years.

(I'm fun at parties too)

That means that the majority of posts on here are false, I always thought HUKD was made up of liars.

Love your reply, I think you speak for the majority. I reckon this guy would mug the 'Tooth Fairy' !!!

Pulling these tricks just backfires in the long run cause they clock onto them and then are just less likely to give out such offers.

Just spend the gift voucher on something. If you forget about it then you obviously dont care much anyways. All these shifty shenanigans. Do you really want that "oh I see what game youre up to" look from the 19 yo cashier?

I actually returned a fee £5 gift voucher bought product recently and the refunded voucher is 2019 expiry. So thats another LEGIT option.

​why should anyone care about argos profits when those robbing ******* are paying people minimum wage and zero hours contracts

I think you got the wrong company.

Who's the feud with?

Their mother.

Sneaky ****. I love it :smiley:

Hot

How does this extend the argos gift card to 2019...

MOT!

SNEAKY, but good,! Surely this is a glitch?

Cause your new gift voucher expires 2019. It doesnt have the same limited use date as the free one.

Read the terms and conditions guys!! 32 states u can only use it once... ​http://www.argos.co.uk/events/giftvoucher.html

nob

Eh?

Cold to me if they stick to terms you either lost £9.95 or £4.95

In the past if there's nothing I want I have bought one of the vouchers Argos sell for another store.
You can't buy an Argos gift voucher with an Argos gift voucher but you can use it to by another retailers voucher.

Also if you buy something for less than £5/£10 it will automatically issue a new gift card with the balance on. I would question it with the cashier if they don't give you the change.

​how is this fraud

Dammit now I have to wait longer for my items because there are queues buying 5p bags

Amazing hack, love it :innocent:

The law says you HAVE to buy 5p bags :wink:

noooo did I just buy a £10 bag! :confused:

Nice tip OP, heat is on.

Can't believe the heat on this. Must be the Xmas silly season when you get loads more people coming on the site.

I'm at a loss as to how this 'deal' has got so much heat :confused:

I wonder what you would all do if they honoured the bag for free!

"No, just charge me for it please" said nobody ever!

'scuse me???!!!

Nice Octopus Complex joke... :wink:

Across the pond millions of Americans are wondering how another deal got so much heat also couple days ago :wink:

Haha, more than likely :smile:

The amount of times I've forgotten about my gift card! Thanks heat from me!

PATHETIC THE LOT OF U

Awesome!!

You obviously dont understand the meaning of the word fraud.

Hi can you do this when the free gift voucher was online (from an online order)?

Reserved online paid at tills

HUKD has a weird moral compass. On similar deals the OP would get torn to pieces for suggesting something like this.

Thanks for letting us know, I'll make sure this is reported to my colleagues. :smiley:

If it's an online code you can only use it to pay online, not in store. If it's a physical voucher yes you can.

That's what I normally do

This is not a deal, this is rubbish, please stop adding heat.

Why are people on this site always obsessing over gift cards? What is the point? Just give a £10 note if you want someone to have £10 worth of stuff from Argos. It will never go out of date (until the paper ones are replaced with polymer) and if Argos should happen, per chance, to be out of stock, they can spend it elsewhere.

Bit of a two faced comment to make considering you posted a deal 3 weeks ago about how you can go into Mercedes and Land Rover showrooms, have a walk around, then stock up on free drinks and snacks and watch sky tv on their comfy sofas.
Im afraid i'll have to check the contents of your coat pockets before you leave sir :smirk:

Another idea, especially entering the 'Season of Goodwill' & all...If fortunate enough not to need/be able to think of anything to buy with the free voucher (within the required time) or, may forget about it altogether, consider donating it to a local hospice/children's ward etc...I'm sure they'll find plenty of uses for it and be very grateful too! Heat added btw OP :smiley:

That wasn't what you was talking about lol, you stated that buying a 5p carrier bag to take advantage of a loophole (or not a loophole) was fraud lol.

do you actually know what fraud means ?

Yes. I know what you're saying by questioning me and maybe it's a strong word in this case. Call it a loophole then if you may. At the end of the day it's the company that potentially loses out, by an intentional act of the consumer so I feel it's unfair..

so why is a parliamentary committee looking at removing use by dates on vouchers as they are unfair to consumers then ?

Because they have nothing better to do?
It's perfectly fair for a company to put conditions on their vouchers that are given as an incentive for free in my opinion.

not all vouchers are free and they put a use by date on so people lose the money.

You also win on the lottery and if you don't claim in 6 months you forfeit the prize money.

genius!

My local store was extremely busy today, they seem to be totally understaffed, and compounded by everyone wanting to spend their £5/£10 GC's before expiry at the end of the month. Took 40 minutes to buy & collect 1 item -- try to go at a less busy time if possible i.e. not midday/weekend.

Because they have nothing better to do Hahahaha. You clearly don't you're getting emotional about poor Argos and their profit margins. Only joined this site yesterday and there are elbow pad wearing tories all over the place

I'm not getting emotional about anything and could not care less about Argos and their profit margins, and as you only joined yesterday you have a lot to learn about HUKD and it's members. Happy reading.

You do care. They were your exact words... And you are quite emotional over them,., Don't fume over Argos they have billions they will be fine. I'm sure they'll appreciate you defending them from the con artists spending money on their own vouchers though. You have a lot to learn about being a normal human. Happy Maggie thatcher day xxx

You obviously don't have a clear understanding of the English language, I said it was only Fair which you seem to interpret as CARE, and just because I think a business should be allowed to trade in a fair manor does not make me a Maggie Thatcher or a Tory lover. Plenty of business people are members of other political parties. What about that nice Mister Blair making a packet with his wife out of being a LABOUR prime minister.
OH I almost forgot about the Kinnock's, whole family of them.

I knew you were Tory hahahahaha I can smell you all from a mile away. bankers should be paid more bonuses too the poor little souls. Won't somebody please think about the bankers xxx

If a company has a loophole, use it, those ranting on dont seem to give a hoot of tax loopholes Argos & all the companies use. A loophole is exactly that, a exploitation, until closed.

Karmalot, falls under gambling law not consumer protection.

i have a couple of hundred pounds of gift vouchers that i was given at work as rewards for going over and above, i was saving them for later then forgot where i put them and eventually found them again by chance, unfortunately they have expired, i rang them up but there is nothing they can do expired vouchers are only good for giving the kids as play money

Ok bought something today, didn't want anything else at the moment, paid for a carrier bag using my voucher (it was 15p but it was big !) Now my voucher for £9.85 doesn't expire for 3 yrs giving me plenty of time to choose something I actually want. So as far as I'm concerned this 'deal' was of use, voted hot by me.

Yes they are free. For a limited time. Dont enter into the deal if you dont wanna play by the stated rules.

firstly, how very sanctimonious
secondly, as I didn't specify which vouchers I was referring to how do you know ? it may well not be argos as they are gift cards and not vouchers.

Thanks to this deal I bought few carrier bags online for 10p thanks heat added

Your mother-in-law plays COD? Coooooool!

Do you even know what sanctimonious means? This isnt about morals its about ignorance. If they have a use by date on then that is the agreed terms. Period.

Welcome to HUKD in 2016 :confused:

will this work with a £10 voucher on the bottom of a receipt? or would that be a one time use only as it is a voucher?

Some people are weird... heat!

Fraud, how? Would you still take the same view if they bought a different item and received a lower amount back on a voucher? The result is ultimately the same.

You're a fool, this isn't fraud at all.

This site should be renamed Hot UK deals & scams. Cause they are not the same thing. But theres scams aplenty listed here.

Quad: 185 comments, 0 deals. Says it all really!

No stock near me, but fab idea, will take another look for something x

Says it all about what? I dont hang around here like some do all day. I pop in very occasionally to see if theres any good offers about. You got a problem with that? How does that negate me having an OPINION? People can use this site however and whenever they like. We all bring traffic to the site. We all click on offers and buy stuff occasionally. Thats contributing plenty. Posting deals is not a pre-requisite to having an opinion. People like you really need to learn that. Do you know what I also dont post here? Scams & tricks. My point.

Well said and others have said that of me but don't always understand that you can be beaten to posting a deal that never gets recorded.

:disappointed:

If Argos doesn't want this to work, why not simply disallow carrier bag purchases from the list of things that enable gift card date extension?

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Idiot.

Twit.

Bye.

Not been on here for a few days, but I see this "deal" is still pointless yet getting ridiculous amounts of undeserved heat. :laughing:

Feudian? You are jousting around aren't you?

He sure is LOL

Brilliant, I did think feudian athough accidently typed was so much more intriguing

Or even better buy this http://www.argos.co.uk/product/3313622 for just 9p and you get a Xmas gift too!

​I do that with build a bear :-)

Lol! U sound like a typical school girl
Bye ha

this will be fixed soon by Argos....

You are 2 weeks and 2 hours behind with that comment.

a great little trick just done it on my gift card :smiley:

Thanks op, got them to hold up a few carrier bags so I could choose the one I wanted, why can't they just put a decent expiry date on them in the first place.

Because they want you to do your Xmas shopping with them. DOH.

[quote=lewissullivan20]How about just buying a £10 gift card with your £10 gift card,,simple![/quote

http://www.argos.co.uk/events/giftvoucher.html?tag=ar:homepage:top:slot3:CompanyVoucher

12. This offer is not available with the purchase of Argos gift cards.