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The mystery of the stolen Nectar Points - and the loyalty card price sting

This is Money Podcast

This is Money

Business News, Business, Investing, News

4.1650 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Supermarket loyalty schemes have become even more of a big thing in recent years as the two giants Tesco and Sainsbury's have rolled out Clubcard and Nectar Prices.

But while cards bring lower prices, the points collected still mean prizes for some loyalty scheme fans.

So, what happens if a fraudster steals your points? This is Money's Angharad Carrick recently went on the trail of some stolen Nectar points and uncovered a story that delivered as many questions as it did answers.

On this podcast, Ang, Georgie Frost and Simon Lambert discuss the mystery of the stolen Nectar Points and how our reader got short shrift from Sainsbury's, Action Fraud and the police when they had £230 nicked.

Plus, are these loyalty cards any good and worth having anyway and why is the competition watchdog investigating them?

Also on this week's show:

Many more people are taking mortgages than run past state pension age but with work and retirement blurring and changing does this matter? Simon explains why he thinks it does but for another reason.

Would you buy fake cash for a knockdown price off social media? It sounds daft, but this is a genuine thing - we look at how it is happening.

And should a reader who is still working at age 77, worth £2.6million and doesn't want a big inheritance tax bill start giving money away - and splashing out on themselves and their family?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to This Is Money podcast sponsored by Charles Stanley Direct.

0:07.0

I'm Georgie Frost and joining me and Simon Lambert today is Angharad Carrick.

0:11.0

And coming up, the mystery of the stolen nectar points.

0:15.0

Why hasn't the issue been fixed?

0:17.0

Does it matter if your mortgage runs after retirement?

0:20.0

I'm 77 still working and worth 2.6 million.

0:23.6

Have I left it too late to cut my inheritance tax bill?

0:26.6

And would you buy cash of social media for a knockdown price?

0:30.6

Don't be getting to stay up to date with all the latest breaking money news.

0:33.6

Just go to this ismoney.co.u.k.

0:36.6

or download the app.

0:39.0

Charles Stanley Direct. Investing made easy.

0:44.0

Cost effective and flexible.

0:48.0

Using our website or app.

0:51.2

With our comprehensive range of investments, trade in shares, funds, investment trusts and

0:57.6

ETFs, there's a range to suit all levels of investor. Choose your own or consider our ready-made

1:04.3

solutions. Charles Stanley Direct. Sign up now. Investment involves risk. But first, loyalty programs.

1:12.1

Love them or hate them.

1:13.9

You most likely have at least one kind.

1:17.1

And if you don't want to pay over the odds at, say, supermarkets, they are increasingly hard to ignore.

1:22.9

Just ask Simon Lambert, who recently succumbed to a Sainsbury's nectar card.

1:28.3

But apart from all the data that companies can glean from you when you sign up to these programmes,

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