More bang for your buck in the VIP rewards centre

You’ll get a better deal if you just wait for BFCM, I’m assuming ?!

@LondonLEGO123 said:
"You’ll get a better deal if you just wait for BFCM, I’m assuming ?! "

Yeah but your voucher lasts 60 days so even better!!

I'm not sure if I should be annoyed that I've just bought a £100 voucher right after putting a big order in, or delighted that that big order put me just over the threshold for a £100 voucher!

Cashed in £70 and saved the rest incase anything interesting pops up again!

So if I’m reading this correctly, this has no benefit in North America?

There was an error earlier in the day when the £100 vouchers for instore and over the phone cost 1300 VIP points, the missing 0 made all the difference. Took them about 30 mins to rectify and I know a couple people made use of their vouchers. Some if not most got cancelled though.

So this whole thing is a mistake, it isn't a planned offer so not gonna happen anywhere else, nice to see LEGO actually honour their mistakes though.

And all that saving of my VIP points suddenly comes in very handy - got an extra £50 worth of vouchers thanks to this mistake

I remember a while back they had an offer where you could buy $5 or $20 vouchers for half as many points as normal, and feeling like passing them up was like using points during double points. Then I ended up having to figure out something to order just to use them, and they put me in a position where I was worried that I might run short on points during the middle of the coin/Ulysses promos.

Nice, thanks for flagging up. Have cashed in and used immediately to cross a few items off my wish list.

@Norikins said:
"Lego really seems to like letting mistakes happen, then "honoring" them. Remember the Bricklink Designer Program Castle in the Forest error where double the amount of units were ordered? Let's hope Lego keeps bumbling around, and accidentally does something like bring back Castle or Space..."

Lol the mistake that awarded scalpers. Lego loves scalpers. When Lego fans want the castle set, “oh sorry we gave them all to scalpers. You can still pay 4x MSRP for it on Bricklink though.“

@Mr__Thrawn said:
" @MisterBrickster said:
" @Norikins said:
"Let's hope Lego keeps bumbling around, and accidentally does something like bring back Castle or Space..."

GOOD LORD HOW MANY CREATOR 3-IN-1s DO YOU PEOPLE WANT."

All of them. They want all of the Creator 3-in-1s. Heck, why stop at Creator? Ninjago spaceship. Friends castle. City police running down the Forestmen. Harry Potter meets Futuron."

I want all of these!

Wow, maybe I should grab a flight to the UK and spend all my points! I would probably actually make a profit, and I could enjoy the peaceful English countryside too.

Strangely I got the error apology letter, but not the original newsletter.

Oh well, time for £200 off Hogwarts Icons plus GWP at the end of the month!

I'm not holding my breath for Black Friday, after the feeble effort last year!

If it was a mistake or marketing it’s made my day. I managed to get 76178-1 Daily-Bugle for £120 off.

How to boost your business hit by Brexit 101 : the humble mistake

(I know nothing about economy it's just a joke :P)

@Mr__Thrawn said:
"Harry Potter meets Futuron."

Now we’re talking! :-)))

@CCC said:
" @MisterBrickster said:
" @Norikins said:
"Let's hope Lego keeps bumbling around, and accidentally does something like bring back Castle or Space..."

GOOD LORD HOW MANY CREATOR 3-IN-1s DO YOU PEOPLE WANT."

As many as possible. I like the more creative sets. "

I mean I totally agree, I love that new castle, it knocks the socks off all the old ones, nostalgia goggles notwithstanding.

So if you get £100 voucher for 3000 points less, and 'normally' a £20 voucher is 3,200 points, then we're talking about 18% benefit (roughly) instead of the usual 5%.

Is that right? I'm just trying to assess the benefit vs other schemes we get, like double VIP points time etc, but my brain's lacking clear thought atm.

@abri123 said:
"So if you get £100 voucher for 3000 points less, and 'normally' a £20 voucher is 3,200 points, then we're talking about 18% benefit (roughly) instead of the usual 5%.

Is that right? I'm just trying to assess the benefit vs other schemes we get, like double VIP points time etc, but my brain's lacking clear thought atm."

No, the value of the accumulated points is effectively increased by 800/650 so what was a 5% reward in the first place becomes 6.15% instead.

@abri123 said:
"So if you get £100 voucher for 3000 points less, and 'normally' a £20 voucher is 3,200 points, then we're talking about 18% benefit (roughly) instead of the usual 5%.

Is that right? I'm just trying to assess the benefit vs other schemes we get, like double VIP points time etc, but my brain's lacking clear thought atm."

The way I did my man maths, was I got £200 of vouchers for 26,000 points, instead of 32,000 points. That 6000 points difference is normally just under 2 x £20 vouchers. So I see that I have got 2 x £100 vouchers for £80+ish each. If that makes any sense in how I justified banking them in. For me, it means the Tumbler next month for £9.99 :)

@colay:
Just remember, we established in a previous thread that it’s cheatin’ math if you count the points earned as money saved on the qualifying purchase, _and_ rebates cashed in as money saved on the following purchase. Someone here (and I don’t remember who) tried to make that argument, saying they spent $X in saved up points, then earned $Y worth of new points, so they then saved X+Y on the total purchase. There were a few raised eyebrows after that one.

Anyone know if these are valid at Legoland Windsor… seeing as I am going there tomorrow!

@captainpie said:
"Anyone know if these are valid at Legoland Windsor… seeing as I am going there tomorrow!"
No, unfortunately not.