​Says the person who steals porridge from bears......

It's called a loophole, one that McDonald's didn't think of ,same as your politicians exploiting loopholes to make millions while you work your a** off to pay taxes.

Bet your fun at parties

This is not a deal. It's cheating. Cold.

thanks

Where is the barcode????

Zooming in & cant see any codes

Can't see any barcode on the now vouchers mate??

No they don't buy it , you do (for less of course) :man:

This is good bit why have all the pics with the barcodes been removed?

Tried this they didn't buy it

Tried this they didn't buy it

dead link :disappointed:

gutted xxxx

Codes still worked for me

not working now?

Yes still working even thought the vouchers are out of date

There are codes to get free ones now

Strangely I tried a different voucher that was out of date and it worked after typing the code in

Try to use code today it not working on there machine

Thank you dudea729 :smiley:

Is there anyway of checking? Would be interesting to see the top 10 most Liked comments :smiley: Can it be done?

I complained to Maccies on Twitter about an issue I had previously. They started to write back to me too.......1 year on and still nothing have been received to what they said they would give me...... Fat Cats

No. Nothing yet. I've sent an email to customer services but haven't heard back yet.

He said he could refund me or I had to get refunded and pay the full amount.

At 487(+) likes , this could be the most popular comment on HUKD!

Did the employee really go through the bin with her hands lol?!

Is Beefeater breakfast food nice?
In particular are the croissants nice?

What do you mean by manual override entries?

Has the refund been processed yet?

Did he make you pay the difference or refund you the £1.99?

In my previous ignorant of the facts about McCafe's I visited one today and it was a terrible experience and something I don't wish to do again, those screens are terribly in informative and terrible to navigate even with the help of a senior assistant and looking around I could see why the place was empty, I was the only customer. I had a word with the manager about it and he seemed unconcerned and not bothered when I told him if this was the new McDonalds I would now be new Burger King customer. When I said it was supposed to be a fast food restaurant his response was something like good food fast. The prices were higher than my usual outlet for McDonalds and the beef patties appeared much smaller. luckily they haven't all gone that way yet so I will still be able to buy in the good old fashioned personalised service at the counter and get my usual extras like extra milk and sugar with tomato ketchup without having to get it brought to me by a waitress/waiter after one or the other has brought my order to me. I now know why people bombed me for my previous comments and I apologise to them and anybody else who stuck with my saga.

Hopefully someone will try today so whilst getting the £1.99 deal also get the monopoly stickers with them like a double whammy

No luck here, went through the machine all fine, they asked to see the voucher, I said it was on the phone, was all fine until the manager came in and demanded to see the voucher, he said that the whole loophole is a scam and that everyone needs their own physical voucher.

Firstly "you lot" implies it's everyone and I for one have never done this "hack"I hardly ever use legitimate vouchers because it's too much hassle,I had ones sent to me from Britvic directly & Iceland wouldn't accept them :confused:

Anyway,that aside,as people have said this offer is promoted all the time in newspapers and via surveys etc so they can't be losing money on selling it for £1.99.

I'm sure there's another way it could be handled rather than simply throwing good food away "sighs"

I believe it is. We told them that. "Sure, you're no longer accepting the voucher, but is snatching the food off the customer mid-meal the way to deal with it?". To be honest, she was rather rude the whole time.

It's all about you lot and your greedy fiddles and not about McDonalds who provide a good service all year around. What about the hundreds doing this and being told next time we won't offer it to you, but you come back time and time again hoping they will be saying that they will honour it this time. Think outside the bubble and realise it's not only you.

I don't know why they aren't just telling people they will honour it this time etc but don't do it again,it's terrible reading all these stories of food being thrown away.

As this was in lots of Newspapers,people who have had problems like this and had food wastefully thrown away should contact them :smile:

It's a shame you didn't tell them to get lost as you'd already paid for it and you'd started eating it :disappointed:

Is the branch a franchise one ?

Report it anyway, taking you food off you , public embarrassment and humiliation , and asking for a bribe will be against their training and policy.

Just used this at Leyland for 2 meals. They brought the food to the table, then came back after I already started and took it off me (such a waste of food) and said that they'll refund it and can I place the order again without the voucher (which I did). Still yet to see a refund though. So it's not ok to take advantage of their loophole but it's ok to keep my dosh. Will wait until Monday and then complain if still no sign of a refund. Anyone know the best path to complain to head office?

Oh, and when I was at the machine, the member off staff came up and coyly whispered that if I give him £5 in cash, he'll bring it all back. It isn't even £5 extra to buy them full price. I'm not sure it would have gone in the till if I'd have complied.

The voucher was on Tuesday March 14, on London Metro Newspaper.

I've been using this ever since it got posted but today my local McDonald's manager asked for the voucher, I said I put it in the bin after I scanned it. He gave me the food but said I need the voucher next time.

I have the voucher just in case I get asked. Never been asked... Yet!

hundreds times！:smile::D:D

That looks like the Stocard app. How did you get it to display a barcode? I can only get it to show the QR code.

Only on some receipts. It didn't show up on the last 2 receipts I got.

Entered the code into the ordering machine from metro for £1.99 Big Mac and fries today. Was not asked to produce a voucher when I collected the food. If they would have asked for it then I had the voucher from the metro ready to gve to them. No need to bs them about having the voucher on my phone. Just get as many vouchers as you want from the metro paper on Tuesdays.

CHRIST OP YOU'RE IN THE MIRROR PAPER!! FAMOUS!!!

Was the food thrown away ?

I think the true life hack is that you've been eating that inflammatory **** for months and you're okay so far. Not good for your body...

I work at McDonalds and they are fully aware of this. Staff are being informed that if the reply 'it's on my phone' is given when they ask for a voucher they have to give the customer a choice to pay the full price (£4.08 in my store) or get a refund. Refunded a guy today, got called every name under the sun. I laughed.

Kept my receipt today and there's nothing on it,on your link it asks for a 12 digit number,there isn't one,so it must be only certain Maccies that do it?

Every week I forget and throw it in the recycling arghhhh

So the hack is costing you more money,genius :laughing:

Damn you hack!!!!!!!!
I've never spent this much in McDonalds in a single month!!!

Worked once at A1 - Durham services. Unfortunately Now they require paper voucher. :disappointed:

Used again today with no issues :smiley:

Not sure if already mentioned in the last 14 pages here, but you can get Big Mac & Fries for £1.99 by just keeping your receipts and filling in the survey on McdFoodForThoughts.com. No names or emails asked. Takes a minute. Then you get another receipt from your order and repeat... over and over until you pop.

Yup still works and just to be a pain in the butt I left this thread Hukd page on their large tablet device so any one can see , oh the irony :laughing:

Just used (on the 5th), had to enter the code manually into their "ipad ordering terminals", but no issues. The receipt I printed did say vouchers to hand in - but no one asked.

Heat added.

Upload again missed the breakfast because you can barely make out the codes all pixels

Worked today at white rose Leeds thanks must admit was stuffed after my 2 meals lmao ..heat added

will see if it works at Maccy Dee's tomorrow.

thx 4 that will try as soon as poss this week !!!

Used it today. Bloke on the counter showed his manager my order, he came over and asked for voucher. I just showed him photo of the voucher from one of the links above, he said ok and that was that! Bargain

it just keeps working as the code is the same code used by Mcdonalds over and over again.

Haha it made National newspapers............hehe I'm Lovin it.

cheers just got 4 meals for under £8. Must admit wouldn't want to pay much more for this rubber food but you can put them through all on the same order and no-one questioned it whatsoever at the tills on collection

Worked... kinda. Got the manager called on me but I eventually got the food. Not doing it again.

managed to finally use one of these at leicester :smiley: didnt say owt gave me my food lol

Amazing! You have given McDonalds thousands of pounds of free advertising in National newspapers! I would get on the blower and demand some commission.

FFS - these codes / vouchers appear in the free Metro paper ever other blooming day. Get over it ppl, Maccy D's are rubbing their hands or counting the rewards of all this a and laughing all the way to the bank!

You should of told me , I would of sponsored you :man:

Heat <3 Working. Used in more then 5 different MC's

if people read story in sun mcdonalds states is not a hack, guess what the bet you will now have to produce the paper voucher as they say it has to be provided the paper copy this will now be enforced is where my 50p lies

Congratulations , seriously you are a genius !! Now they will fix the loophole and codes will not work anymore.
Next time keep the codes for you and your friends.

hi put in code manually 2day and worked 4me wot happends after 5 march?

OMG :neutral_face:

Bet HUKD contacted them,free advertising :confused:

It's everywhere, the link I posted has gone from 3000 to 215,000. All the staff must definitely be aware now if they weren't already.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/593326/McDonalds-loophole-Big-Mac-2-meal-secret

http://www.mirror.co.uk/social/secret-trick-lets-you-mcdonalds-9954427

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3000894/mcdonalds-loophole-means-you-can-get-a-big-mac-meal-for-1-99-heres-how/

Media like this ruining it for everyone:

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/mcdonalds-hits-back-customers-report-12686295

Used twice today, was asked for the voucher once then when I said it was on my phone they just handed over the food. Second time round they didn't even ask.

Politicians exploiting loopholes to makes millions????
Do you have any evidence or examples????
This statement sounds like a lazy lie (fake news)

Just to let you chaps know. McDonald's have issued a letter to stores not to accept digital or override manual entries.
Asked for paper copy.
Looks like this has expired.

From experience, many of the cashiers just give the voucher back to u to re-use anyway.. Because it's a kind of illusion & isn't that different to the price if u were to buy the same without the voucher as part of a meal.. It just keeps u returning to McDs.. :smirk:

Can you update the link please. Error 404 displayed when clicked on

any1 had this work in notts

Just did this for a second time. First time no problem. But this time he asked for the voucher. I played dumb. Handed him my receipt, he explained he needed to see the voucher, I explained I'd thrown it in the bin on the way to the counter. He handed me my bag of **** food, but not before asking which bin I'd thrown it in :confused: weird. I gestured to one. Then left.

Let's be real for a minute! A coffee and an egg mcmuffin sure as hell ain't worth more than 2 quid. Cheeky ****.

Lucky again this time at different location and still worked and didn't ask at the counter for the voucher even thou it was more risky waiting by the till rather than table service.

Just used twice at Mottram near Manchester, we were asked for our vouchers but they still gave us our food when we said they were on our phones!

lies

Worked for me fine today, put it through twice at the self service kiosk. Lunch date with the hubby for £3.98 how romantic :smirk:

Guys, it's over. Don't do this anymore unless you have a plan or you will embarrass yourself. McDonald's is fully on top of this now and have started hardlining. They're making managers handle ALL voucher-by-kiosk orders and demand vouchers or no sale. I managed to get it today but only because I purposefully confused the hell out of the manager after she demanded the voucher so she just gave it to me LOL. She was pretty mad

Just tried to use this in Maidenhead, they asked for the voucher at the collection desk and made me pay the difference when I told them it was digital.

tried in nottingham netherfield store and said this code cannot be accepted at this time..can anyone confirm in writing the codes the images are blurry?

Most branches ask for the voucher after purchasing on machine

It does work

this doesn't work as you have to hand the voucher in when you collect the food lol

Lool, whatever, it saves money and works all the time. That's important

Don't do it! The food in McDonald's is toxic! Wouldn't eat it if you paid me!

Thanks, decrypt! You wouldn't happen to have a backup of the front of the leaflet too, so we know what each barcode is for?

edit: turned out a had the front page saved on my phone

here is the two on the same page for saving to your phone

Has the link been removed? owt for abit cheap look after the pennies pounds will look after themselves £££

Tried doing this in my local McD's yesterday, the woman on the till got upset with me for not having a voucher and said "I'll let you have the food this once..." - what was she going to do, take my chicken sandwich back and refund my £1.99?

Anyone got a backup of the full leaflet high-res images, please? :disappointed:

Tried it twice so far. Once worked, once another asked to see the voucher..

Hairy moment for me, felt like a crook, spotty youth saw me use the screen & key in the code. Once my receipt spat out I was asked for the voucher. The words "Got it off a website mate" did the trick.

You're boring !

People also should be aware that these vouchers are store specific and on this photo are for two restaurants in Preston. I have tried to use store specific vouchers at other restaurants in the same town & been told I can't do that.

The word 'hack' has truly lost all meaning

no image in link

​goodytwoshoes

Hi lucy did you order all the food in one go or go back 3 times ?

the link doesnt work mate

Used and worked for me today three of us ate for less than £6

Mirror of the image:

http://i.imgur.com/Dcj94Fj.jpg
http://web.archive.org/web/20170224074108/https://s11.postimg.org/my5serdsj/mcdonalds.jpg

I had this crap today the worst food from mc ever

They are too busy eating their discounted McDonald's in their plush BMW X5's

Why has image been removed

so is avoiding tax!

Has anyone still got the image so I can use it?

Because "hack" sounds so much better than "scam"?

You can also enter the number under the barcode infinite times into any McDonalds with an electronic manual order machine (idk the actual name) by pressing I have a voucher and there is an option to type in numbers after that.

Just used this again in London (Holborn) Not a word was said to me.

booom! easy! didnt even ask for voucher on collection :smile:

Btw heat for the deal!

Just a thought I went in to mcds other day with the kids for breakfast we got 3 sauasage and egg meals, cost was £3.59 each.(we used no codes I didn't see this deal) total was £10.77. It wasn't all that nice, super salty and gave us all heartburn after. Beefeater do a all you can eat with continental breakfast or fryed breakfast for £8.99 or £5.99 with 2 kids eating free.

Just asked me for voucher after giving it a good bashing over the last week lol

Just out of interest, I have some vouchers but they always say on the bottom what restaurant its for - have people got away with using in another restaurant??

Just did this in Bristol. No-one cared. Great deal. Thanks op!

Thank you got me and my partner breakfast great idea

This hack has hacked em off

I wouldn't be worried to be honest. The reason this works in the first place is because mcdonalds are lax about these vouchers even before this. They don't check because even the staff know that these vouchers are practically in infinite supply. There's no point. When you hand the voucher to the cashier they trash it in the bin immediately so how would anyone even know that they check for hand-ins? Also I doubt staff are going to waste their time on hand-ins when mcdonalds are busy. Half the time they don't even remember to put your sauce in because they're rushing so much.

got asked today in Kidderminster, said i had misplaced the voucher since i ordered. Said she would 'let me off this time but from tomorrow all vouchers must be handed in"

Nooooo ,it's too big this site now,it may have stayed under the radar if it wasn't on whatsapp :neutral_face:

They've cottoned on to our scam! Apparently, emails have been sent out requiring all vouchers must be shown lol

Mmm tempting, heat added

Asked for the voucher in Stafford, said I could have it this time but not again.

​Just sitting eating my big mac and fries for 1.99. Tastes better this time around for some reason http://i.imgur.com/PPnJmPY.png

It's old fashioned :laughing:

Where is the other half of the codes

Rubbish food...

They don't sound as exciting or daring.

Why does it always have to be known as a "hack" these days? Whatever happened to good old fashioned "hints, tips or suggestions?"

Report us to the police, I'm sure they'll be at our doors to cuff us and make us spend the night in a cell

I'm sorry this is all to complicated, I'll just stick to my sausage and egg McMuffin with coffee or 2 X cheese burgers with coffee and pay at the counter.

It's clearly written in the instructions at the top of the thread.

Technically it is voucher fraud as the voucher states it is only able to be used in those specific locations. It is up to Mcdonald's to update their computer systems and enforce the rule that the physical voucher must be handed in. There is a video of the touch screen used to get a free drink during the monopoly promotion last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2utSMLAYUXA - not that I condone it, it's just showing that it is possible.

:confused::confused:

This is fraud. Have some responsibility, selflessness and integrity: don't do it.

Have you read the thread :laughing: you pay first,there is no voucher for the machine :laughing:

Yes they have those here in Spain but I never use them, prefer the personal touch and get extra ketchup and sugar etc. but that doesn't explain how you can use a voucher. When they give you your food do they give you a refund of the difference after you show them the voucher?

The touch screens don't have any place to put any paper vouchers in. Here is a link to what they look like, they are card/phone payment only and a lot of stores in UK and USA have converted to them, at least the ones I've been to.

just used the barcode had to manually tap it in but it worked, got to the till got told the picture is no good need the voucher they gave me the food but wasn't happy about it, used in talbot green mcdonalds

I don't get this, you show the voucher when the food gets to your table when do you pay?

I used this just now and had no issues. Just showed the voucher on my phone once the food got to our table. Waiter seemed happy with the electronic copy!

Actually no I did not know you had waiter service, the only time I've ever had that is when your order is not cooked but that always depends on who serves you and how bust they are. But you will still have paid first, won't you?

As per the OP you place your order and pay at a digital screen,you then either collect your order from the counter or they bring it to your table,Manc has table service don't you know :laughing:

I cn't understand all these reports, because in all the McDonalds I've been in, in America, The UK, Germany, Spain and Thailand they take the money and vouchers before they make up your order, so why are some of you reporting that they ask for the voucher at the collection point. Hm very interesting Mariatte.

How pathetic and what a waste of food,they could have just said we'll honour it this time blah blah blah

I tried this in Longwater Norwich, the checkout girl said she needed a voucher, I told her I binned it, she got a manager out and then tried to tell me off and educate me on their policies, I told her look either take the difference or refund me because I never saw anywhere about what I could and couldnt do, had a queue behind me staring, I didn't care but I could feel my cheeks reddening as she harped on and on, in the end she said I could have all the food, but I wouldn't suggest anyone else bothers with this " hack ".

I had a similar issue

I had a similar issue this morning.. Ordered sausage muffin and a coffee and on collection they demanded to have the voucher, I told them it's on my phone and they said they had to have it off me, so I would have to pay the full price... When I refused she said I would have to have a refund which she kindly did and then threw the food in the bin..What an A*** hole.. I dont get embarrassed easily so I shrugged it off and walked out. But beware.....

Just thought I would chip in and say whilst it did work for me using the phone, the employee was a little cross, and said next time I need to bring the paper itself. This was the Richmond, London branch. Don't think I'm gonna risk it again, probably all aware of this HUKD post now.

you can get it for 2.50 with but ticket

You were posting on scanned copies, so I answered that point what are YOU on about?



Then you won't need a voucher then.

Plenty of these vouchers in the free Metro newspaper all the time. Grabbed a few copies, no problems here with handing in vouchers!

Ur not kidding , but the car par is too small just like its neighbour near morecambe , and the drive through I've never seen a car go down it.

It's not a hack, loophole, fraud or anything. It's just a voucher, no different from photocopying any other voucher. It's up to the restaurant whether they accept copied vouchers or not. In any case McDs burger and fries isn't really worth any more than £1.99 at the best of times.

Begs the question is this a deal or just a "cheat", where if you get caught out then you look a bit of a plonker in front of everybody else in McD's when the voucher is rejected?

"4) if they ask for the voucher just say sorry its on my phone."

What happen if they insist to see the code ??

This is not a deal. It's cheating. Cold.

Just worked at new McDonald's Caton rd , couldn't scan the barcode so types in the number and it worked , however on the both receipts it said [VOUCHER USED * HAND IN * I'm guessing that means who ever brings the meal to my table is meant to ask for the voucher so it will be hit n miss on this

Lmaooooooo i love this thread.

Eh? What are you on about? I have legitimate, physical vouchers in my purse. Don't make assumptions about people you don't know.

As I said earlier in the thread, the last time I was in McDonalds I got handed a wad of real vouchers by the counter staff, didn't even ask for them.

does anyone actually eat there out of choice?

Beginning to sound like McDonalds are aware people are scanning copied vouchers on their phones and trying to use them at the self-serve machines (maybe a memo has went round?). That's me assuming, of course.

I'd imagine most places would let you away with it but insist you use a real voucher next time. Depends how grumpy/how much of a jobsworth the assistant is.

Just used, although they wouldn't settle for the phone. So I said just refund me and she just said 'it's the last time', how am I going to live.....

This voucher available in Metro Newspapers London. They normally have it every Monday or Thursday. Not every week though.

I have been seeing it for a few years now. I do not eat Mc Donald often so I do not really use it a lot.

Yeah this worked but pure hit & miss with the person handing the food. Said I put it in the bin, they replied well you'll need to get it, said I'm not going through a bin, the staff memeber started rooting through the bin, couldn't find it of course. She then gave up and gave me the food lol. Not using this again haha.

Afraid I have to vote cold, just been cornered during the lunchtime rush to pay the difference between this and full price. Not bothered about the diff, more bothered about the way she handled it. She clearly wanted to lash out at someone. Ah well!

We were paying full price, the manager started calculating what to pay and my friend who i was with started being dramatic so we left :laughing:

If the machines accepted bank notes and you put a photocopy of a £10 note in to pay and it gave you £8.01 change, would that also be a loophole?

Using these vouchers in this way is fraudulent - it doesn't matter that McDonald's don't control it.

I used this today. It worked on those screens but the lady came over and asked for the voucher. I told her its on my phone and she asked to look, i showed her the voucher and told her i had recieved it through the postbox at home. She told me she had to get the manager to see if i could use it, the manager said no and that we would have to pay the extra money because they dont know how many times we have scanned that code. We ended up getting our whole meal refunded and walking out embarrassed. This was at castlegate dudley mcdonalds, other mcdonalds may let you, but just a warning if you're visiting this one

I've been using years old vouchers for years for any restaurant at any other. There are just buttons on the till and its easy. Whilst we're here let's praise McDonald's for how much better run they are than any other food business.

I don't understand why Veg burgers are never part of these deals. I never find a coupon for Veg Burgers. Yes, I'm a veggie

We got the new computers at my local mcdonalds, do I take a photo of the barcode then put this under the scanner?

Personally I think that McDoinalds give these vouichers out all the time so they are quite prepared to sell them at the prices shown, however, it does also say no photocopies allowed on the back, I suppose a scanned image is comparavle to a photocopy.
I would try this if i was desperate to save a few bob though. Nothing ventured etc.

Works great on the one on the East Lancs!

best deal thanks xxxx

Why would they ask when you collect? You order and pay on the self service. Even if they did ask, the order has been accepted and payment taken so its tough whether they want the voucher as it's already accepted and processed. In terms of cheating, I wouldn't say it's cheating as these and various other £1.99 vouchers float around all over the country and they still make money on it... Heat from me, shame you can't use it on the drive thru

Tried today and worked - when I went to pay the lady asked for the code, I said it was a picture on my phone of an old bus ticket, she took the bait and let me have it.

Open Stocard and SCAN the barcodes on the OPs picture. You don't type in numbers

I use these vouchers out of the Metro all the time, they do state they can only be used in a non drivethru, these might be the same!

Is the Big Mac suitable for coliacs?

Yes it works, I used it today.

I work at mcdonalds and was in control of the till and my friends I was referring to are my colleagues so I helped myself to some free food on top.

The truth is that the stuff that costs £0 is just an itemised list of the vouchers. So it says £1.99 then they list the contents individually, I did not get any free food.

Worked OK for the £1.99 Mac & Chips Manager wasn't too happy when I said I'd binned the voucher

I believe that is what I said (?)

Never again. I just spent a night in the cells and got done for deception for the vouchers. The staff locked the door and wouldn't let me out until the police came.

I don't eat there but have some heat! And enjoy your insides slowly rotting away!!!

Does the Stocard App work in the UK? On the blurb page it says "Optimized for the USA".

Stress tested this today, bought lunch for me and some friends. Used 5 at the same time. No issues, no questions. In and out. Lightwork. :sunglasses:

Lol, yeah I forgot :smiley: That's a bit embarrassing
There are some pescetarians out there, right?

So what if it's cheating? No one gives a sh.it.

There's quotes from quora about McDonalds "hacks" (urgh, hate that word) on the Daily Hate http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-4234704/The-best-McDonald-s-hacks-revealed.html

There's too many jpegs otherwise I'd just paste them all on here.

Examples:

99% of the time when you go to the drive thru they dont ask for the vouchers at the till. Some even just tell me to keep it which is a bonus when its a quarter with cheese voucher :smile:

Dont be so Naive!

Anything to claw back some of the money where we've been ripped off is good in my book, with chocolates with wrong gram amounts on, packets with more air than food in (crisps etc), price hikes left, right and centre. oh and lets not forget the marketing trick where food is photographed on small plates etc etc etc
Even with non foods, broadbands going up again (BT), utility companies putting their prices up. Were shafted on all sides!

some more codes :

81251209 - mcmuffin (bacon/egg or sausage/egg) - 99p iirc
81251308 - mcmuffin & coffee
81251506 - bacon roll & coffee
81251605 - bagel & coffee

(haven't used the last three so no idea of cost)

God bless your arteries. :wink:

I have a NUS card.....free burger!?!?!

Looking forward to trying this. I prefer Burger King, though - I've had & still got loads of vouchers from their app. I've had none from the Mcdonalds app, stingy gits!

I went into 3 of them in my town and each one said samething if the mcdonalds has a drive thru these are not accepted.

​ah lovely mcdonalds is wonderful. I love mcdonalds food so much. if you suck the chips you break down the sat fat content I was once told. and the lettuce on your burger is one of your 5 a day. FACT

voted cold due to it been morally wrong and deceitful

out of stock!

lmao
"logical or rational argument"? Like equating the use of a voucher printed and distributed by a company specifically to give customers a discount on their products with switching barcodes?
Seriously, seconding that no one cares what the McDonald's white knight thinks, especially when it's spouting such pitiful arguments.
It must be sad to need to cling so desperately to moral superiority, even when the topic is so ridiculous.

Tried to manually enter code in new Street didn't work...

Cold; use of the word 'hack'.

Do you think they care if you use the codes? They still profiting and your probably spending more by going more. Mcmarketing for the win!

There's an even better way, get the Stocard App, and scan the barcodes provided by OP and you can get a digital voucher that looks official and avoid possible embarrassment if you get unlucky and get asked for vouchers This one is the Quarter Pounder w/ cheese and Medium Fries

I think the Metro paper has these £1.99 cut-outs everyday.
This digital photo way is just a shortcut to that - so it's not actually dodgy.
Heat given!

How is this a hack and why is it getting so many heats! Mcd do £1.99 offers all the time. This is no hack

This voucher can be used as many times... so where the hack!!!! I used to work in Mcd, I should know..I thought you meant order as many food as you can and scan and pay £1.99 for the lot!!!! Cold

For the conscious ones, a Meal Deal at McDs costs them to make approx 0.35 p, if you count everything else, like, wages, tax, insurance, etc, it costs Mcds 0.80, so they are still making money with this "hack/glitch/sale". I used to work at Mcds and these were the charges the regional manager mentioned.

You're missing the point. *sigh* This is all Thatcher's fault.

U can get this voucher from metro paper free

Good one op, will put this to the test later this week. Heat added.

More of a loophole than a 'hack'. Here's a direct link to the image just in case you can't access it:



Not something I'm likely to use but heat regardless :smiley:

This "deal" in this thread has become irrelevant. It's a dishonesty poll.

Nah McDonald's managers usually retarded...

Eat s#it for less. What a deal...

I can't quite see how this has got so much 'heat'. It's a burger and chips for £2. Not much of a bargain and possibly only available in Preston. And it's McDonalds.

When I worked in McDonald's, a drive thru restaurant, we always accepted any McDonald's vouchers even if they were non drive thru restaurants only. These vouchers still get you in the door and get you buying food. They're happy as long as there is money coming through the door

big deal i just photocopy these vouchers and they take it, but when i use them at the digital ordering screen, they usually never take it after

Judging from the heat, McDonald's are getting a nice boost in customers. Could they have the last laugh? We not cheating them, they're cheating us :confused::confused::confused: *runs away in a panic*

​I scanned the original barcode from the post on a second screen. In my case the wife's phone

Great loophole op. I'm lovin' it.

Loophole will be closed now everybody knows...there will be a surge of customers..lol

The irony is that the OP thinks they're being clever by exploiting McDonalds but McDonalds are exploiting the OP for free advertising.

the op states, has been doing this for months!!! I am amazed they had the energy to type let alone still be alive eating that overpriced garbage :wink:

Sausage and egg muffin with coffee.

Cool;

Just to confirm I tried this at the Lakeside Shopping Centre store (ground floor) and it worked with no problems. I used the touch screen self service machine, pressed voucher, typed in the barcode number and paid £1.99. Waited for my order number to be called, showed my receipt and the person gave me my food. No voucher asked for.

She spends a bit of time in their beds. Fair trade.

​exactly! this is only a couple of quid compared to their thousands in dishonesty. this can't be morally wrong at all because it's not to the same level!!! :wink:

Probably the ones that hire their family as PAs and put it down as 'expenses'

lol do you need to ask .

Which politicians are these? And which loopholes? I think the people should know!

I've been using an out of date bus ticket voucher at self service machines for months now and have never been asked for it yet.

heat for post and funny comments on the bears :laughing:

Not sure why everyone is giving this guy stick?! Cant say ill use it but fair play!! I wish people would read before they criticize and say its cheating?! Cheating what? Its called a glitch that they weren't savvy enough to void....using the machine makes it a flipping great shout! Well done for realising! multi use...multi site.....READ people! xxx

​

I wouldn't eat at CrapDonalds if they paid me.

heat for post and funny comments :laughing:

Never really comment on this but Madalion your my hero. That comment had me in bits. NICE ONE!

Does anyone know if there might be an option to substitute the burger to a vege burger at all? Thanks!

Went through the drive through one day and the girl behind the counter was giving them out. Basically a hard plastic version of this voucher (like a Tesco Clubcard keyfob). However it has no expiry date and I just show the keyring when I go. She also said I was the first person that day to accept a voucher keyring. People obviously don't wanna save money lol.

Very smart :smiley:

I've been abusing this for some time now! Kudos for sharing I guess lol :smirk:

is there any way of buying the small milkshakes you get with a happy meal? they are not on the menu?

McDonald's get a really bad rap but the quality of stuff is actually better in UK than US.
The meat is better quality, they use organic milk and free range eggs here but not in the US.

You couldn't pay me to eat this garbage.....cold whatever the price

One pound fish

​Bet you're fun in bed

Thought these were usually store specific. Might get a McDonald's tomorrow

I suppose you could call yourself the hamburglar

Fear not, we don't carry our own coffins :confused:

Just tried it in a 24 hours mcDonalds in London. Works fine. I even typed in the code manually as one of the machines wasn't reading the barcode from my phone. Worked like a charm :smiley:

Absolute Genius.... I did chuckle!!!!... nice one :smile:

no one likes a moaner, especially as many of us are married to one :stuck_out_tongue:

Honestly, what's wrong with these people? No one cares if you hate mcdonalds, why would you even click this? Go away shoo :laughing:

Done it myself too good stuff but see it being sorted now it's viral

Awesome! Feel bad for paying full price now
earlier today

so much crap!! This works and is a great deal I saved money today with 5 people which is supposed to be the idea of this site

works well just one voucher per transaction

Heat for the Cheat :smiley:

Thank you sir, I forgot about Stocard.......looks mint in the app.

image clearly says 'offer only valid at mcdonald;s restaurants friargate and fishergate, preston'

have a feeling the barcodes wouldn't work in other locations even if entered into the ordering machines...

Mcdonalds have now caught onto this so good luck with getting this deal in some places now

Well damn... TIL. This is great. Now I can avoid potential embarrassment if they ask for the voucher :confused:

It's a screen shot of the code In my stocard app.

you don't even need the images you just type the number in. You will look an idiot anyway with no ticket and they will soon cotton on, probably get a name for yourself. You better off just looking around on the floor for used bus tickets that the vouchers are often printed on the back off

Its for his Vife..

And for not quite as long now we know how to get cheap Mcdonalds...

When someone uploads misprices and glitches, do you feel morally obliged to contact the stores?! :neutral_face:

Love it, love it, all of it!
Great post and comments!
HOT!!!!

Alternatively move to Preston & buy a local newspaper :smile:

I bet you've never read a book.

And we are surprised that Nhs is on its knees. So much heat for this deal which is crap food...

pewdiepie is in da house!

When I'm not posting here I'm posting to my amazing fans.

This code is clearer and should work for the bigmac and fries

It's a Dong of a deal

McDonalds hack - never seen a such a true statement. :man:

Everytime I walk past one I hack and feel like wretching.

Shame they did away with those Analogue ordering machines...

aratkin - joined 31 March 2014, 14 comments

you must be fun at morgues

I wouldn't be surprised if McDonalds themselves put this out to encourage the young savvy and cynical Hot Dealers to go McD's and buy a few loss leaders (they still turn a profit, just a smaller one) and encourage faster public adoption of the digital machines. They aren't losing money with these tokens (which is why they are in every free Metro paper anyway), a Double Cheeseburger is only £1.50 normally, a medium fries cost's very little to make. A big Mac is just a Double Cheeseburger with different sauce, a seeded bun, an extra piece of bread in the middle and a bit of limp lettuce, probably an extra 10p's worth of ingredients, but they rely on people looking at the above till menu and getting a medium-large meal that's in big letters for £4-£7. Plenty of people will still do that anyway, and more people that wouldn't normally bother will go and buy stuff before 5th March at least.

swapping veg for bacon - geddit!???

Im not against exploiting loopholes but this one just simply isnt worth the possible embarassment when they either dont accept 'the vouchers is on my phone' or ask to see your phone

I guess if your're, say, 13 to 25 years old then you can shrug it off but us oldies need to retrain a bit of dignity

Simpler just to use real burger king app vouchers instead

Sweet! Breakfast too!!

I suppose your theory could be used with bankers or policitians and their fiddling of expenses.​

Hey hey, that's my line :wink:

yeah, thats a lil bit too far out there and has gone straight over my head, sorry.

I rarely go there but have two vouchers from an Airlink bus to EDI that offer the same thing and they work since two years. Nobody ever ask for the physical voucher after using the digital order screen.

not sure your mother in law is up for it

Has anyone actually tried this at a non-Preston store please?

Are these the same for all stores? Says only that one in Preston on it.

chavs throughout England (97% of the population) celebrate

I scanned it and it worked. Then I cowarded out and ordered something less for more

​sometimes they ask for a voucher it only happens when they read the receipt and it says I have used one.one time they wouldn't give me my food till they saw the voucher. i already paid so give me my food

i hope mcdonalds dont go bankrupt because of this. i fear for their position in the industry.



theyre making massive profits even if they aold that meal at a quid.

The shopper police need to get a grip and find another website to sign up to. Pathetic.

Voted cold as this is basically a scam to steal, not a genuine offer.

Hot, but will no doubt now be put to an end, due to the additional numbers of people this deal will bring

yeah, dont tar me with that same brush you tarred deb8z with...
i dont want to be associated with a light weight,
brb just going to the McDrive-Through for the 3rd time today :smile:

Good deal..... .

Its a great steal-deal but I would not eat this s***e unless it was free and I was drunk. Very drunk. Hot for robbing the clown though

Crikey, no more lettice/pickles/onions on my daily Bigmacs after hearing that!
do you think they'l let me swap the veg for Bacon? :confused:

If this is cheating for you, you don't belong here!

Also people who regularly eat vegetables have a higher risk of cancer.

The peasants will go nuts for this.

Cold

Been doing this for a while as well but not through the phone, had some vouchers which I just keep reusing because no one ever asks for them.

You lost your scanned voucher in the two minutes or so between placing an order and collecting it? To the extent that you had to search high and low for it? I see

How so? You're not claiming a different food to what the barcode is for? McDs are perfectly happy with this deal and are still making profit, or else they wouldn't offer it. These deals are delivered to drag people back to McDs who aren't normal customers, thereby expanding the customer base. This "hack" achieves the same thing for them, so is actually in their favour. Getting all uppity and trying to claim its somehow dishonest is just silly.

grats on your new badge OP :wink:

the burgers they use in Bigmacs/cheeseburgers/double cheeseburgers are 2oz so you'l get 8.9285 from your 500g :wink:

​The only thing that fills you up :laughing: reminds me.of soda stream, nothing like coca cola

I receive these Maccy vouchers all the time and they have always been branch specific. We have 3 Maccy's where I live and the vouchers specifically state not valid at drive thru's and say that it can only be used at one specified Maccy out of the 3 that we have.

these prices come round all the time. on bus tickets on shop receipts etc

Nice. So you say sorry it's on my phone and then they scan barcode off the phone?

Cheat the honorable McDonald's? Not in my name!Good day to you sir, i said good day! :man:

Ha ha that' s me. I'd forgot about 'falling down' great film!

Anyone who goes in the mean time & tries it, let us know how you get on!

They ask for vouchers when you collect your food 90% of the time

So many Ned Flanderinos is this thread wrestling with the morality of using a voucher to buy a burger. Wish that's all I had to whine about, diddly.

I bet Christmas is a blast in your house. !

Fish is vegetarian? That's news to me.

McDonald's is stinkin. Are the fries and chicken burger not on the poundsaver menu anyway.

Hot but purely because it takes something off the ridiculous profit this multinational makes with little consideration for health

Aye and they must be able to make the drinks for like 3p

so this is what Brexit Britain looks like.....

It says that it's for a specific McDonald's store in Preston though so can't be used anywhere else??

​Must make a fortune, I use 500g of mince and make 6 thick burgers, be able make 15 of their size I reckon!

Bet you're fun at parties

Wow - I've never heard that one either :smirk:
You're just full of originality ain't ya?

I got asked for the voucher at the pick up and managed to convince the assistant that I put the vouchers into the self service machine. :laughing: Fast talk speech check passed.

I use to scan them at the self-serve kiosk and put it back in my wallet so that hopefully they would forget to ask for it when I collected my food.

Unfortunately it depends who serves you in my local. Any kind of management will demand the voucher. I genuinely couldn't find the one I used once and she made me just stand there and search high and low for it.

McDonalds are aware of this and i suggest you use it while you can. This will work 99% of the time at the moment.

When Monopoly starts in March this will stop as physical evidence will be required. e.g a voucher to be handed in or a refund/more money required.

Kiosks also have options for these barcodes to be removed, which if are abused, they will be. Benefit while you can :smile:

Good point yeah. The deals will expire eventually, and until that time they're happy for people to be rushing in, buying extras like drinks too, and probably bringing friends/colleagues.

Psml

Won't I go to hell if I do this?

Meh ok for some. I was given a keyring with no expiry date for Big Mac or chick sandwich and fries £1.99 or mcmuffin and coffee.

I agree with @samc90, pay to charity as someone might benefit rather than to a company which deep fries the patties from the freezer which is worth 40p and charges £4 and then worst doesn't pay any taxes.

This £1.99 mcdonalds thing is basically the new never ending dfs sale

*You're

This is annoying tho because now so many people are going to be doing this and they're going to end up removing the option of scanning them

Why dont you get off your high horse and stop taking them tranquilizers

I am so sick of reading this tired old "bet you're fun at parties" line - it's just the laziest, most unimaginative retort around. Think of something original!

i lol'd :smile:

At least you replied :laughing:

Meh ok for some. I was given a keyring with no expiry date for Big Mac or chick sandwich and fries £1.99 or mcmuffin and coffee.

Good find, only valid for a couple of weeks.

Fab! Cheers OP!

It's that what this site has really become? It's upsetting to see the top comments on this thread. I shouldn't be surprised that the general attitude of people in this country atm is reflected in hukd; greedy, dishonest people shoveling junk food down their necks. I will not be affected by your "stick in the mud", "bet you're fun at parties", "everyone does it", it's only mcdonalds" rubbish, either.

haha at first i was too, but a lady i work with does it all the time, the more i tried it with her being around the less embarrassed i felt about it tbh. so far i've used em for the past 2 years when i work in an area that has a mcdonald's around, and not once have they ever checked

anything for fish burger?

Think it's not available with places that have a drive thru

You're missing the fact you posted the same comment an hour ago :laughing:

I have been doing this for ages it's so funny when they ask for the voucher (I'm like what voucher?)

same as using the metro vouchers just more variety...i've never been to a mcdonalds that checks the date on those vouchers, used one from 2015 last week and they took it. heat from me :smile:

Hottest deal of the day , amazing

Can you order on the touch screen things & change the drink? i.e mcmuffin & coffee.. change it to a hot chocolate?

How can anybody feel bad about paying McDonald's 199 for something they probably pay 40p for! Everyone's a winner. Give the extra £2 to charity if you feel bad for the billion dollar company

I've always done this with old stagecoach bus vouchers using the barcode and when they ask I say I binned it after scanning

great deal just used thanjs

​But I don't want to go as low as politicians...

Is that how you justify your cheating?

Hack the system

page 3 if you use man size 60 posts per page :wink:

would only eat maccy d if there was absolutely nothing else

It pis-ses me off, that OP has been doing this for months... yet chooses to share now

I'm quite happy to comment without needing to make such insightful comments such as "incredibly pathetic", "sad" or "get a life". Feel free to respond with another insult if you'd like to further 'prove your point' though.

Lesson learnt - don't come into a "£1.99 Mcdonalds hack" thread and expect people in there to welcome arguments against it.

I imagine now that HUKD knows about this it'll be gone by next sunday :disappointed:

The best comment I've ever seen on HUKD.

proving my point exactly, how incredibly sad you are.

why would they ask to see voucher if you have paid for meal via digital screen already when you go to collect your meal you just handover your collection reciept? Or am I missing something?

Are you the HUKD posting police or something? Follow your own advice. Cheers.

I don't think it's cheating. It's not a use once code, good initiative op!

awesome, why cry over the fact it's a cheat too? who cares? 90% of the time (including today) those flyers are sitting at home and never get used. solution and exploit in one

the receipts for most* KFC's and McDonalds have a link to an online survey, do the survey and they give you a 5 digit code that you write on the receipt, hand it in next time you go and get bigmac n fries for £1.99 or at KFC you get 15% off your next bill,
the thing is, they have no way of checking to 5 digit code, so you dont need to do the survey, just write 5 random digits onto the receipt :wink:

*not all branches give out these receipts but most do

check this thread for info on the McDonalds receipt survey http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/mcdonalds-bigmac-fries-for-1-99-after-doing-an-online-survey-1st-purchase-required-2483600

I'm so delighted I don't know you in real life. If you don't like the method don't use it, if others want to use it they will, that's their free choice, people like you are so incredibly pathetic . So what if they use the method, what's it got to do with you? so what if people interpret things differently to you, are you the McDonalds offers definition police or something? Get a life.

I just show them my nus card and they throw in a chicken burger. Never questioned it.

COLD - not going to bother saying its cheating as its FRAUD

Get a Goat head, Get Salt, Get Oil
Create a star with Oil and salt, place Goat head in centre

Light the oil

Say these words
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Oh btw u dont need voucher, u just use your phone to scan the barcode on the image (at the new machines not till)

its like kfc, if you keep your receipt then write a random 5 digit code on and hand it in then you get 20% off your order and dont have to fill in the online survey, I have done this dozens of times and they never check.

Known it for months but just telling us now even though it ends on the 5th of march

COLD. This is rubbish not food. Your body does not deserve this kind of treatment.

ok fair enough, i did misinterpret your post,
but my original post was an example of a responce you may get, Not "this is what will happen"
when i asked if i could keep a voucher i was told no, as we need to send them to head office, and that was by the manageress

Ive done this a few times then when i get my order show them my nus card for a free burger :smiley:

THIS is what HUKD is about - beating the multinationals and not for promoting stuff as a deal at "artificial" low prices and calling it a deal. Vive la revolution (pardon my french)

without the voucher a lot of people wouldn't bother. so McDonald's make more sales and profit, the customer is happy with the price.... enjoy your weekend people :smile:

Well I wouldn't do that unless you want to embarass yourself. Generally, customer assistants don't give a c**p about asking you for a voucher. if a manager will be giving out your order he will ask for a voucher and if you don't have it you will not receive your order. If you want your order in that case, you will be asked to pay the difference. I had that situation, because I just took a pic of leaflet and I was using it untill I encountered a manager.

Yes but we as employees are told we can accept the vouchers, I work in the drive thru at least twice a week and we get 10+ 1.99 vouchers when I'm on cash and headset, all 1.99!vouchers for McDonald's say excludes drive thru stores but as a store we lose business if you go somewhere else

Like others are saying, you're not really cheating as this £1.99 offer is so widespread, it's as easy as picking up a discarded bus ticket in my city - if you really must have a physical voucher.

The tear-off vouchers I get state it's for city centre McDonalds only, no Drive Thrus, but I've found they usually let you use it elsewhere. Just depends on the manager.

Amazin!!

I work at a McDonald's, with a drive thru and we have never ever handed out 1.99 vouchers for our store, but we accept any stores voucher and like previous comments have said it's literally if the manager goes by the book, the vouchers normally just get ripped up and put in the bin when you hand it in, or if you go through drive thru mention you have it when ordering and you have a 50/50 chance of the cashier asking for the voucher

a true story follows.

Where I live they have this offer on the back of a bus ticket (or did) they also have (or did) had a similar offer from BurgerKing

I say or did as i use a bus pass now so im not sure if they still do, anyway, im 99% certain its still on offer

I went into the local McDonalds and showed the BurgerKing discount thing by mistake and the server said something like oh thats for for burgerking but whatever, what do you want for £1.99

Clearly for a valid reason as well. Guess there's always one sour grape in a bunch.

Using a voucher multiple times does not fall under remit of logical or rational.... much like your earlier comment containing 'disingenuous' (out of context, but 10 for effort) it holds zero relevance.

Your view has been pretty much destroyed by several people on here so I think the odd insult thrown your way is warranted - or logical, or rational, or disingenuous - you carry on using English in your own unique way. I'm sure someone will give you a hug.

How do I signup to receive these vouchers? I never get any?

You dirty rotten cheater!.... I love it, tell me more cheats :wink:

Your the type of person who would return a 10 pack of biscuits back if they accidently put 11 in. And wouldn't dream of using a bus ticket voucher if the journey wasn't paid for by yourself.
Of course, you can just compare my two examples as being the same as armed robbery and murder if you choose.

Just say I'm vegetarian so don't eat anything listed on the offer but I've previously done it before in this store, if the cashier isn't a moody **** they'll do it

Well now everyone and there dog knows about it so this will be gone soon enough!

Let me clear a few things up here
1. Vouchers don't go to head office
2. Vouchers can be used at drive thru stores ( technically any store in the uk because all our tills have the options) (but that is up to the cashiers or managers option)
3. With vouchers on your phone if they question it just say you downloaded from a e newspaper and they're in date.
4. Like 2 it's at the cashiers or managers descion but normally you can choose either, Big Mac fries, quarter pounder fries, chicken sandwich fries, Double cheeseburger L fries, veggie deluxe and fries, 6 nuggets and fries, fillet of fish and fries, and either Big Mac, Quarter pounder or fillet of fish and a medium drink. Or either the breakfast voucher which is a single sausage or bacon mcmuffin and drink.

In the end it depends weather or not the worker cares a lot and also if the manager follows the rule book. At my store we allow all of these options listed. ( Thurmaston)

Oh my heart bleeds for the poor, innocent multinational that you are all ruthlessly exploiting.

I used a £1.99 bus ticket voucher to get a filet o fish recently.

It had expired in Nov 2016.

Am I going to jail?

To all the people who think this is cheating McDonald's outta a small pittance of money, I feel cheated every time I buy a bigmac and fries meal. Because it looks nothing like the one advertised on the menu, mangled burger and 12 fries. On top of that the watered down coke with half a cup of ice.
And yes I'm a regular McD visitor ! my kids love McDonald's :confused:

...alternatively you could say the person who multiple people have argued with?
If you seriously are asking what being "logical and rational" has to do with discussion, then you are not worth discussing anything with. And that's before you resort to the petty insults.

​thanks. I never asked unfortunately. Will give a try!!

Actually I'm focussing on the one person who throughout this thread has argued most with multiple people... that would be you.

Of course people are looking at this because they want cheaper food. Why else would they be looking at it?

Logical and rational? What's that got to do with it? Moral perhaps, but that's about it.

Have you upped your dose without consulting your GP first? That would logically explain your rationale.

Consider that I only go In Mcdonald's maybe 2 or 3 times a year, this might encourage me but then I wouldn't be back for a long time.
Don't you think the manager would want me to come back more, even if he's only making £1+ profit on the £2 burger and fries? Overheads are already paid, my custom is a bonus.
Especially as I would probably buy a strawberry milkshake on top, which I imagine is the point of these "2 salty items but no drink for £x". Profit on drinks is especially crazy.

​thanks a lot! Avoided going to Mcdonald many times due to non availability of coupons. How foolish I never asked at the till if I can swap till now! will give a try

I'd file this under the same sort of thing as repeatedly signing up to services (Now TV, for example) as a 'new customer' by using a different email address to take advantage of new customer deals.

The system allows it but it's not the original intention and goes against the T&Cs.

I miss the free food app of a few years ago. I ate McDonald's breakfast lunch and dinner for like 3 weeks.

Just tried it with 2 McDonalds both attempt failed they need vouchers to see first

You do realise it takes multiple people, right? But I suspect you're just focusing on the person opposing your view.

You're right though, most people in this thread probably don't care - whatever logical and rational argument is put forth, people just want cheaper burgers.

Used one of those multiple paper vouchers as pictured in this Deal (we get them through the door here), a few days ago. Handed it over - the girl gave me a bundle of more £1.99 vouchers - just single vouchers this time, for Big Mac/Fillet O Fish or McChicken Sandwich & Fries at £1.99. So I don't need to do this :stuck_out_tongue:

Funny story. This won't work all the time but you can actually walk into mcdonalds and ask them for straight up for £2 big mac and fries. I went into mcdonalds once and had a voucher and I went to use it and when I gave the lady the voucher she said just keep it. That surprised me. So a few days later I'm in the same mcdonalds and I figure I'm just going to ask for this without a voucher and see what happens. The guy there actually gave it to me lol. I tried it again in some other mcdonalds (few weeks later) the guy there did it for me also. Worth a shot. McDonalds have been running this thing for years and it's in the paper literally every day. I don't think the staff care anymore about the vouchers.

Also I've since discovered you can make some odd requests, like asking for big mac sauce on a chicken sandwich or other switch ups. Have fun.

I didn't say don't eat fast food. In fact, I recommend you eat as much of it as possible for every meal. And I wouldn't be surprised to hear if you spent a lot of time sucking "exhaust pipes" for free mcdonalds vouchers...

I'm pretty new to UKHD and don't tend to post much.
This is mainly because of disputatious people like you that clearly think their opinion is the bottom line. Get a grip.
I think you should give Steve Easterbrook a call and tell him about this.... then again, much like most other people on here, he probably doesn't care what you think either. @ashe

Giving these out at back first bus tickets in Leeds

Please don't quote me saying things that I didn't say - that's dishonest and I don't appreciate it.

If you revisit my comment - what I said is they don't need to send the voucher to head office. It's clear that they don't need to do this, as the server would have retained my voucher and not told me to keep it.

Just be wary that when monopoly starts again, when ordering with the self ordering machines and the staff will want the vouchers

...

as far as I'm aware vouchers on your phone are accepted and aslong as you show the voucher for the product you've ordered your good

nice

Odd, that's exactly what I thought about your comment "they're still making a huge profit, they wouldn't care".

Yes... they are making it freely available by not making the 'one item per voucher' rule apply.

Whatabout if the voucher is on the phone do you do the same throw the phone in the bin

And whose fault is it that they can be used more than once? The people using them, or the people printing them?

i used that as an example of the responce you may get as thats the responce i got when i once asked if i could keep the voucher

I see you're a stranger to the economics of advertising and food/drink retail.

David Plat, He better be good with a name like that .....

Ah, that's why they make it freely available for anyone to use. Hmm, wait a second...

And for you to say "they need to send the voucher to head office" is a load of rubbish

They're still making a huge profit, they wouldn't care one bit about people re-using this.

Mwahahaha

that depends on the person serving, ive been using vouchers at my local McDonalds for 4-5 months, a couple of servers let you keep the vouchers, most dont

One that clearly says "One offer per voucher". But I don't suppose you want to highlight the bit which doesn't support your argument :smiley:

I'll buy it but whose gonna eat McDonalds ?

quality. heat op.

Oh, so I guess effectively making unlimited uses of something that clearly says "One offer per voucher" isn't. "Cheers for your comment though...."

same here

​Not at all! Changing barcodes in a supermarket is theft, as you are actively and fraudulently changing the barcode of the product that you are buying. Using the OPs voucher is just taking advantage of an existing deal.

surprised this got heat, the receipt clearly says voucher needs to be handed over

4) if they ask for the voucher just say sorry its on my phone.

then they say sorry we need the voucher to send to head office, so that'l be £2.79 + 99p for the fries please

Never mind I was looking at the wrong pic

Which is the code for fillet can't see on pic

No it's not! Your intentionally trying to defraud a system by doing that. Using their tools, which they provide you with, for you to use is not nonsense - its retail.
Cheers for your comment though.....

You're being slightly disingenuous by exaggerating one example and minimising the other. Macdonalds do not sell these items for £1.99 with no limitations at all. If they were "happy" to sell them at £1.99 without any limitations, they wouldn't need a voucher scanning.

Well maybe not Preston Friargate Store, off to Preston Riversway now.

I don't think some managers in McDonald's will settle for "its on my phone". I use the vouchers and very often they dont ask but there's usually always one manager who does everything by the book and demands the vouchers

So a gamble really

I've read this several times adding punctuation in various places but I'm afraid however I read it it makes no sense to me. Is it a puzzle?

:laughing::laughing:

I have some of these at home, just checked the code and its the same, even though they state a different maccys on the front, seems they send out same codes/tokens with differing restaurants printed.

"Lol don't eat fast food it's bad for you"

Damn, haven't heard that one before. What's your position on sucking on exhaust pipes? I've heard it has health benefits but I'm skeptical.

We use old vouchers. Never been questioned. Lol xx
I mean Months old too

I got to say it amazes me how people say it's right or wrong, which is their right to express their opinion. The choice of path you take in life is the individual's choice. No one can judge who or what is right or wrong. Here ends the Jony Sermon ;-)

For those concenred about "cheating", just remember that people who eat this muck on a regular basis will be dead a lot sooner than the rest of us :laughing: The punishment is inherent in the crime :smirk:

you can also get Bigmac & Fries for £1.99 by doing the survey they link to on the receipt, rinse and repete..
but just like the KFC survey they dont check the codes so you can just write 5 numbers on it and hand it over
they also let you swap the Bigmac for either a McChicken Sandwich, Fillet of Fish, 1/4lb'r with cheese or 6 nuggets

It's not quite the same as scanning a different barcode in supermarket because McDonald's are happy to sell these items for £1.99, that's why you see these vouchers in newspapers, back of receipts, bus tickets, through your letterbox.
Supermarkets are not happy to sell anyone a bottle of whisky for the price of curly wurly.

No it's not. it's the equivalent of finding a voucher on the floor in the supermarket and using it.
Just because your not the intended recipient doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't use it.
If someone posted a 10% off code that was emailed to them on here would dare not use it.

there is only fish burger. Why complicate things

Not often you see something from Preston on here!

The McDonalds vouchers from WHSmith also work. I have a few from 2016 that I always use and I find the staff hardly ever ask for it.

the wife gets the bus to work and they have the big mac/chicken sandwich and fries for 1.99 on back of bus ticket .. but you can get up to 3 of them at once from one ticket (3 barcodes)

:smile:

I hate these submissions. It's not a deal, you can scan a different barcode for anything at any self-service checkout.

Booooo
Have a little fun, we only live once :P

It's the equivalent of sticking on a different barcode to your food before scanning it, don't talk nonsense to try to justify it.

What if they ask to see the code on your phone.
Also isn't it cheaper to buy the burger and chips separately at 99p each?

what if they ask to see the code on your phone..

It says a certain area on the leaflet.

Will this work after the 5th march though

Branch specific?

It says only redeemable at the restaurant in Preston. (Small print)

It's quite funny that the advert right above the photos of the food on the linked page is "3 FATIGUE CAUSING FOODS. BOOST YOUR ENERGY BY NEVER EATING THESE 3 FOODS!"

Super size me!

which image

23645783 sausage egg or bacon egg muffin and a hot drink 1.99

23645783 is a sausage & egg or bacon egg muffin and a coffee for £1.99

This has been posted before.

hahaha

Cheat but heat

nice