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- Aug 29, 2011
People on RDF are saying the promo got shut down. A lot of people aren't even getting the 20,000 points for the past half hour to hour.
I knew I should have went earlier in the day booo... Oh well even 20,000 will help..I went with my daughter this morning, both of us had the offer and she got 40,000 points ($40) back on $60. My shop was going to take awhile, we had lots of errands and she hadn't had breakfast so I said I'd shorten the list and go back later. At 4pm when I went back they were saying it was a glitch and everyone now will only get 20,000. They were also saying someone in their store earlier received 500,000 points.
I'm not impressed with the Shoppers I stopped at on my way home. $65 pre-tax total rung in and then the cashier says the system has been glitching today and most people aren't getting awarded their 20,000 points with the $60 spend. Contact PC Optimum for your points. The offer is still showing on my APP more than 30 minutes later. It clearly glitched and did not go through. If it worked, the offer would have been removed by now. I really really wanted to tell her to refund everything and go elsewhere but there was a long line and she was the only cashier. 15 items.. everything but one was something we needed and almost everything I bought was a good price.
EDITED: If she had said that *before* I would have put everything back on the shelves; walked out and gone to a different location. (sigh)
That is horrible.The 20,000 points won't be clawed back. I'm referring to those who "won" more than 20,000 points today. Shoppers/PC randomly sent out a contest offer of Spend $60 get 20,000 points and a chance to win up to 1M points in the APP. People were winning $100 to the highest reported was $850. Now, hours later, Shoppers/PC has taken everyone's points back and left 30,000 as a "sorry for the inconvenience".
I will say that when I was first reading about this I thought there must be something wrong. That many people can not be winning those amounts. Doesn't make sense, the company would be taking a huge loss. Then when I was reading that the system went down, in my mind, I thought yup, they caught the glitch and shut it down.The 20,000 points won't be clawed back. I'm referring to those who "won" more than 20,000 points today. Shoppers/PC randomly sent out a contest offer of Spend $60 get 20,000 points and a chance to win up to 1M points in the APP. People were winning $100 to the highest reported was $850. Now, hours later, Shoppers/PC has taken everyone's points back and left 30,000 as a "sorry for the inconvenience".
I will say that when I was first reading about this I thought there must be something wrong. That many people can not be winning those amounts. Doesn't make sense, the company would be taking a huge loss. Then when I was reading that the system went down, in my mind, I thought yup, they caught the glitch and shut it down.
While it's going to be a nightmare public relations thing for Shoppers I'm not surprised they took back the points. Was the 30,000 they left on top of the 20,000 earn for spending $60? If so, that's not a bad deal. $50 on a $60 spend. I do feel sorry for those who had gone ahead and used the points. That would be discouraging.
What is this offer/promo you guys are talking about?
Does anyone have a picture of what the promo said? I didn't receive it so don't have a frame of reference.
I'm in Ontario, shop at Shoppers regularly and did not receive this offerYea I didn't get this. I bet it was regional (ON)...
I took a screen shot of the offer, but I didn’t end up getting in to a store.
Not the full terms and conditions, but here’s the info:
It sounds like a great contest, and it’s too bad they screwed it up and clawed back the big wins.