NECTAR points - Count up to Christmas
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YAY - it's happening again this year !!
Just received a notification in my Nectar app about points boost / bonus ahead of Christmas. Have a nosy on your app and activate for free 50 points to start with.
I took part last year and ended up with around £20 of extra points over the promotion, plus the weekly offers! Good to see after the double up was cancelled!
These are personalised to individuals, with boosts completed by making the required number of transactions or purchasing the specified products. The boosts may relate to products purchased within Sainsbury's, or may relate to other Nectar partner brands as detailed in the app dashboard. The boosts will be clearly shown in the app.
I've had a look on my app but can't see anything about points boost, will keep an eye out as an extra 50 points would be most welcome.
MrsCraig Hi go to your App Store and see if there’s a update then your nectar app will refresh got mine this afternoon. Good luck Steve
Thank You. 50 extra points for me also.
Just a shame they are not doing the double up this years
Just looked on my app and it’s not there yet but I will keep looking just updated my app and it was there so I am well on the way to save more for my Christmas shop
tara73ziva oh great! It's good that partners like argos count towards it this year too!
This is mine yours may be different. I love Nectar points - I currently have £712.55 cannot bring myself to spend them! 
FG280 I do all the offers on my nectar in sainsburys extra points for buying my favourites. Always buy things from eBay when they do the 4 x points so if I was buying from currys or Argos I’d buy from their eBay site. I got my house insurance through them and got 8000 bonus points, got the nectar credit card and got bonus points offers and double points for a year. I also have my energy with them on a fixed tariff which was 10000 bonus points and extra points each month then you have the Argos triple points offers and then there is nectar canvas survey site too. All adds up. I bought my sons nursery furniture with all points 4 years ago was £550 - quite obsessive with them
oh just remembered when they did spin to win, I split my shopping into £10 lots and filled our car and the 2 kids cars up £10 a time too think we got about £55 that day!
I also built a pretty big balance, basically using the American Express Nectar Card. But I was disappointed since they removed Expedia from the companies you could use the balance for. I find Nectar very interesting and easy to build a good balance, especially if you take advantage of the weekly offers. On the other hand, it is quite limited in terms of where you can use your balance compared to other reward schemes.
emmabeckz Yeah, I have a good balance at Boots too. I'm not particularly eager to use my balance either, and I do the same with my coffee rewards. I usually pack 9-10 free coffees before I start using them. The attendants always find it strange 
Nectar has British Airways now to use the balance, but all my air miles are on the Virgin Atlantic scheme, so that doesn't make much sense for what I'd like to use either.
I haven’t looked at my nectar card since the double up last year as I couldn’t get any regular home deliveries so had to use Ocado but it’s linked to my eBay and I had insurance so got double points. I never look till the end of the year - says I’m -£10.98. How can I be minus? X Looks like my double up was taken out twice?? 
I have just found it. Definitely a welcome idea. Most of my shopping is there and theses days anything extra is a great help.
I got a notification from the app about this offer, but I didn't find anything there when I opened the app. A little weird, but maybe it isn't available on my account yet.
For those not finding the offer you have to have the latest version of the app. Unfortunately that version is not available for my ipad so I've had to get it on my phone.
chrissiebruce this is the same in my mums app which we don't understand, as she shops as much as me. I thought it was open to all, not account specific 
I spoke to someone named Rahul on Nectar's Live Chat since I hadn't had the promotion, he told me its invitation only this year and everyone invited will get an email, this sounds like utter nonsense to me; it's more reasonable to assume that if you get a lot of bonus points each week (like myself) then they will skip you.
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