Turning John Lewis Vouchers into cash?

[iDrive]

Hi

We have a large number of John Lewis vouchers (wedding gift) but don't have anything we particularly want to buy from JL or Waitrose - is there a straightforward way of converting them into cash (other than selling on ebay etc)

[okgo]

Doubt it. But I'd be interested in them as got to buy something from there soon. Pm me if you like, obviously I'll want some incentive

[carreauchompeur]

Advertise them on a forum. Some chap I saw on M3Cutters (please don't judge!) was trying to sell £100 worth of PC World vouchers for something ridiculous like £95.

Errr, no.

[Sarnie]

Why not just sell them on ebay......most auctions seem to be bidded up to not far away from the value of the vouchers....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_tr...

[carreauchompeur]

Indeed. Bonkers!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRAND-NEW-JOHN-LEWIS-WAI...

[williaa68]

Wow, I'd never thought of ebay ing the "free hot drink and cake" vouchers one gets with the my johnlewis mailings!

[tim0409]

I got married last year and we are sitting on about £900 of JL vouchers which were earmarked for a new sofa. I can't quite bring myself to spend £2k on the sofa the OH has her eye on so I have convinced her the Ikea Ektorps will live to fight another day.

I would be loathed to sell anything like that on eBay given the amount of scammers, especially when you take the fees into account. I am currently attempting to sell a relatively new Macbook Air on eBay and it really has turned into a den of thieves - I just wish the PH classifieds were more active.

If I leave the vouchers for long enough the OH might forget about them and I can use them to fund my Apple addiction

If I was selling them I would much rather find a friend/family who was about to purchase something at JL.

Edited by tim0409 on Saturday 21st February 18:18

Edited by tim0409 on Saturday 21st February 18:19

[carreauchompeur]

Tim, if you're anywhere near the JL Home Outlet stores have some great offers.

[Patch1875]

I used to sell high street vouchers on eBay when I used to get them as a er(cough) bonus,amazing what people pay for them sometimes getting £195 for £200 worth.

The weird thing is the same person soon started buying them all the time so ended up selling them all to him no issues as he paid for them in advance!

As mentioned try selling on forums, I'm sure I sold a few on AV forums.

[tim0409]

carreauchompeur said:

Tim, if you're anywhere near the JL Home Outlet stores have some great offers.

Unfortunately the outlet is in Swindon so quite far from Edinburgh, although the OH has just suggested (from the adjacent Ikea Ektorp) that she would love to make the pilgrimage!

The Edinburgh store used to have a clearance store nearby which was excellent - we managed to furnish our house from a range of oak furniture seconds that gradually appeared piece by piece in the store.

[12TS]

Weekly shop at waitrose and the use the money you "save" to buy what you want?

[hman]

Buy small value essentials with each major denomination voucher to convert into cash.

Eg. can of deodorant with a £50 voucher

Repeat to fade

[Lozw86]

If they are paper vouchers they will give you change is cash

If they are the plastic cards, the value remains on the card

[iDrive]

Thanks for your replies - I wanted to avoid ebay as the selling fees make it a relatively expensive way of doing things!

They are all paper vouchers, so I can buy small value items and pocket the change (though that would take a fair few transactions and likely to attract the attention of the store...!)

Thank you

[Welshbeef]

Um weekly shopping until they run out?

I'm sure you will be buying Xmas gifts and birthday gifts for people plus someone might be buying white goods in which case you buy it for then they give you the cash.


Pretty easy really

[iDrive]

Thanks

Spending them at Waitrose is one way of using them, I was looking for a more efficient way of turning them in to cash.

[Welshbeef]

iDrive said:

Thanks

Spending them at Waitrose is one way of using them, I was looking for a more efficient way of turning them in to cash.

You could buy a Kuoni holiday from them - proper top end stuff

[hman]

iDrive said:

Thanks for your replies - I wanted to avoid ebay as the selling fees make it a relatively expensive way of doing things!

They are all paper vouchers, so I can buy small value items and pocket the change (though that would take a fair few transactions and likely to attract the attention of the store...!)

Thank you

Yes, the answer someone I know got was "we know what you're doing" to which the answer was "and?"

[037]

I'd have bought them from you a few weeks ago! I had vouchers but needed to add to them to get what I wanted.
I would probably expect to pay 10% less £value
Definitely be people interested.

[Gareth79]

carreauchompeur said:

Indeed. Bonkers!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRAND-NEW-JOHN-LEWIS-WAI...

It has been suggested that people buy vouchers as a form of money laundering, so they can empty a PayPal account without it hitting their main bank account.