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I Had a guy at the door tonight, well spoken & well dressed.. he handed me a leaflet for a "Premier Card" telling me it entitles me to free food in certain places also money off in other places. All he asked was £20 and this is valid until july next year. has anyone else had this and what do you think? im always quite unsure of these people!!
Mystical Potato Head
01-Nov-11, 22:02
I Had a guy at the door tonight, well spoken & well dressed.. he handed me a leaflet for a "Premier Card" telling me it entitles me to free food in certain places also money off in other places. All he asked was £20 and this is valid until july next year. has anyone else had this and what do you think? im always quite unsure of these people!!
He's genuine,they ran the same promotion a couple of years ago.He was at our workplace on Friday.
It's a genuine sales offer: up to you and your eating-out habits to gauge whether it's worthwhile.......
I'm sure a similar offer was run a couple of years ago: It's quite common in other areas.
I Had a guy at the door tonight, well spoken & well dressed.. he handed me a leaflet for a "Premier Card" telling me it entitles me to free food in certain places also money off in other places. All he asked was £20 and this is valid until july next year. has anyone else had this and what do you think? im always quite unsure of these people!!
Personally I would never ever buy anything from anybody who came a knocking at my door. It would not make any difference if they were genuine or not I still would not buy.
I also do not believe that you could get Free Food from any Establishment in Caithness, just because your had bought a premier card.
Hen Broon
02-Nov-11, 00:41
Hey had pictures of several establishments and what offers were available at each place, it was basically so many free meals per premises as long as you went with a pyaing customer and others you got say a 20% discount off your meal. I went out for cash and he was supposed to come back but never did lol, he must have had plenty of takers.
onecalledk
02-Nov-11, 00:41
When I used to live in Inverness we got this sort of thing all the time. I think if you look at the actual places you can use the card you will find they are in cities and nowhere near you. Even living in Inverness and that was a good many years ago it would have been a struggle to find an eatery that was part of this "scheme". Not so cheap to get the money off if its a 5 hour to the central belt .........
K
Bobinovich
02-Nov-11, 01:37
Remember this from a few years ago and took the offer up then - a number of local eateries participated, it was very well used - easily saving more than the £20 fee. Would consider it again depending on the deals and places available...
Hey had pictures of several establishments and what offers were available at each place, it was basically so many free meals per premises as long as you went with a pyaing customer and others you got say a 20% discount off your meal. I went out for cash and he was supposed to come back but never did lol, he must have had plenty of takers.
You say he had Photographs of several establishments that offer Free Food if you go with a Paying Customer.
OK tell us the names of these Establishments. Also did you phone any of these extablishmets up to see if they know anything about this scheme.
I know quite a few years ago this was brought up on WatchDog. What Happened was that a Leaflet was made up with Photographs of Local Establishments and Text saying that had all signed up for the Discount Card. Same Idea two dine for the price of one. Then when you went to book for a Meal either the establishment knew Nothing about the scheme, or you were hidden in an almose inaccessable table and were served only half portions. In the end it was not worth it.
It is a case of "Tanstaffle", for those of you who do not know what this means here is a translation.
There aint no such thing as a free lunch.
You say he had Photographs of several establishments that offer Free Food if you go with a Paying Customer.
OK tell us the names of these Establishments. Also did you phone any of these extablishmets up to see if they know anything about this scheme.
I know quite a few years ago this was brought up on WatchDog. What Happened was that a Leaflet was made up with Photographs of Local Establishments and Text saying that had all signed up for the Discount Card. Same Idea two dine for the price of one. Then when you went to book for a Meal either the establishment knew Nothing about the scheme, or you were hidden in an almose inaccessable table and were served only half portions. In the end it was not worth it.
It is a case of "Tanstaffle", for those of you who do not know what this means here is a translation.
There aint no such thing as a free lunch.
Don't know why your are so disbelieving of thisa nd what people are telling you about it. If you do not want to buy fair enough but do not knock something because you do not know about it.
I have used the scheme more than once and it is genuine and backed by the hotels shown on the list. I have not seen this year's offers but Iwill be buying when he gets round to me.
JSutherland
02-Nov-11, 10:17
I used this a couple of years ago, and it saved ££££s!, Its well worth £20
I also used this a few years back and there were several places you could eat out in Thurso and Wick If my memory serves me correctly Halladale Inn at Melvich participated.Well worth £20.
The Music Monster
02-Nov-11, 10:45
Must admit that this seemed too good to be true, so we rang an establishment mentioned on it and they confirmed that it was genuine. Some really good savings, not sure if or when we'll use it but it's definitely the real deal!
Crackeday
02-Nov-11, 12:12
You say he had Photographs of several establishments that offer Free Food if you go with a Paying Customer.
OK tell us the names of these Establishments. Also did you phone any of these extablishmets up to see if they know anything about this scheme.
I know quite a few years ago this was brought up on WatchDog. What Happened was that a Leaflet was made up with Photographs of Local Establishments and Text saying that had all signed up for the Discount Card. Same Idea two dine for the price of one. Then when you went to book for a Meal either the establishment knew Nothing about the scheme, or you were hidden in an almose inaccessable table and were served only half portions. In the end it was not worth it.
It is a case of "Tanstaffle", for those of you who do not know what this means here is a translation.
There aint no such thing as a free lunch.
Seems you have been proved wrong kodiak!!! Going by the posts on here anyway, seems there is such a thing as a "free lunch" or near enough free!!!!
We had one of the cards a few years ago (before kids) and it paid for itself on its second outing!
We used it quite a bit and saved a lot, but, this time we decided against it as we never get out for a meal.
So if you are likely to eat out at the places on the card(at least two places or one place twice) its well worth it, but if you rarely go out its just a waste of money as you wont use it in the timescale!
And at the time we got the card there were a couple of eateries on the way up from Inverness that had good discounts too!
Seems you have been proved wrong kodiak!!! Going by the posts on here anyway, seems there is such a thing as a "free lunch" or near enough free!!!!
Sure I could be wrong, no harm in being wrong but just careful.
One thing I will say though, No one has yet posted any Names of any Establishment in Caithness who accept the Premier card, so a person can get a Free Dinner if another Person pays for a Dinner.
Sure I could be wrong, no harm in being wrong but just careful.
One thing I will say though, No one has yet posted any Names of any Establishment in Caithness who accept the Premier card, so a person can get a Free Dinner if another Person pays for a Dinner.
Just admit your wrong!
just had the bloke come round
Charlie chans are participating
as are the ulbster in halkirk, there is more but I have forgotten them!
Hi there everybody, this scheme is genuine, we have already used it (an establishment in Castletown no less) and you do save up to £10 on one meal, others are, 2 in Wick, 2 in Thurso, others in, Tongue, Dores, Dingwall, Halkirk, Jo'G, 2 in Tain, 6 in Inverness, some of these have a limit of 6 free meals, others have 20% off and some are unlimited and the festive season is not included in most. This offer will mean we can now go out for a meal a little more often than previously and so far so good. I can supply you with a phone number if you pm me if interested.
I work in the Ulbster in Halkirk and this genuine. We had a couple in the other night when i was working that used the voucher :)
Alice in Blunderland
02-Nov-11, 19:28
The Storehouse, Foullis Ferry is on it Dorres Inn, Park Hotel Thurso, The Norseman in Wick, Mackays Hotel Wick,Spice Tandoori Wick, The Castletown Hotel Castletown, School house restaraunt JOG These are just a few.
I have purchased a card as I did a few years ago. Excellent deal. No tricks. Last time I had this card my friend and her husband also used it when they were going out, no problem.
These establishments get on board as the offer runs through the 'quieter time' for most of them. If this encourages folks to come in and have a meal or two at discounted prices then at least they have bums on seats and possibly drinks being bought at the bar. Its excellent value and if you like to go out it pays for itself within the first couple of uses.
oldmarine
02-Nov-11, 20:19
Read a lot of positive responses on this thread. It's good to know that many of you got good deals.
chocolatechip
03-Nov-11, 19:19
We had the same guy come to us at Lybster and most of my neighbours have taken the man up on his offer, so we did too, it will be nice to have a treat or two. It's just the 3 of us so it will slightly be less expenisive.
annemarie482
03-Nov-11, 20:07
we bought one too!
nice guy, genuine deal :)
Mystical Potato Head
03-Nov-11, 20:46
Just admit your wrong!
Asking Kodiak to admit he's wrong is like asking the earth to stop rotating.
Park Hotel
04-Nov-11, 22:08
Hello,
I have had lot's of phonecalls from the public this afternoon and this evening querying the offer and it is indeed a genuine offer!
Our offer is:
Order two 2 Course meals off our Lunch or Evening Menu and receive the least expensive main meal free up to a maximum saving of £10.50 per main meal.
(1 free main meal per card per visit)
There are 6 small boxes on the card and every time you use the card we tick the box, so potentially saving up to £63.00....that can't be bad!
The offer is valid until 1st July 2012. Great idea for a Christmas pressie too!
Thanks,
Park Hotel :)
[QUOTE=Kodiak;900945]Sure I could be wrong, no harm in being wrong but just careful.
One thing I will say though, No one has yet posted any Names of any Establishment in Caithness who accept the Premier card, so a person can get a Free Dinner if another Person pays for a Dinner.[/QUOTE
Went to Mackays last night, used the card and got £11 off. Good meal too
shame we seem to have missed the guy coming to our house to get the card as we had one before and used it a lot
It is genuine and it is for places in our area. however, as I found out when I tried to use it, you have to order 2 starters, two main courses and two sweets and you only get one main course for free. That is fine if you normally eat that amount of food, for me one course is usually more than enough. It also works for take-aways at Tandoori Spice, so I guess you could feed 4 people on two meals (If you eat as little as we do)
Spice Tandoori, Charlie Can, Norseman, Park Hotel, MacKays Hotel. Ulbster Arms, Schoolhouse John O'groats, also several placves in Inverness and Dingwall.
I'm unsure about other places but in the Ulbster Arms you have to have 2 people having 2 courses for the offer to be valid. Doesn't matter if one has a starter and a main and the other has a main and a pudding though.
It does state on the voucher what you need to qualify for the discount for each establishment though so you can check before you go anywhere.
Incognit0
12-Nov-11, 23:09
When I used to live in Inverness we got this sort of thing all the time. I think if you look at the actual places you can use the card you will find they are in cities and nowhere near you. Even living in Inverness and that was a good many years ago it would have been a struggle to find an eatery that was part of this "scheme". Not so cheap to get the money off if its a 5 hour to the central belt .........
K
I take it you haven't actually seen one then? All of them appear to be for local restaurants and some have good deals too. Some are even takeaways which is a bonus
I take it you haven't actually seen one then? All of them appear to be for local restaurants and some have good deals too. Some are even takeaways which is a bonus
Bought mine today. Loads of local restaurants, hotels and takeaways plus some we use a lot in or on the way to Inverness including Storehouse and the Dores Inn on Loch Ness. Also accommodation in Inverness which is handy. :D
dirdyweeker
14-Nov-11, 23:49
Bought mine a couple of weeks back and have already enjoyed a meal out with £10 off. Ticket only cost £20 so it has almost
paid for itself. I love eating out so for me it is a bargain and of great use. Plenty local eating establishments and a good way to try out new ones!
Us Caithnessians seem to need a lot of convincing. :)
Also bought this time and a few years ago, but before we handed over the cash I phoned one of the places to make sure, and all was OK.
yeh i think the sale men are staying in castletown hotel and are here for a few weeks yet selling
Bill Fernie
20-Nov-11, 19:02
You can still get a discount card from the company selling them by emailing them at -
r.scott.mclean@hotmail.co.uk
Bill Fernie
23-Nov-11, 22:08
As there is a lot of interest in the card I have spoken to Scott McLean the team leader selling the card and have now posted a copy of the card on the web site to help everyone make up their mind.
See the card at http://www.caithness.org/fpb/2011/november/gallery.php?gallery=12
Scott McLean says he is happy to take orders by phone. Contact him on 07974571025
It is genuine and it is for places in our area. however, as I found out when I tried to use it, you have to order 2 starters, two main courses and two sweets and you only get one main course for free. That is fine if you normally eat that amount of food, for me one course is usually more than enough. It also works for take-aways at Tandoori Spice, so I guess you could feed 4 people on two meals (If you eat as little as we do)
I have used my card three time in two weeks - twice in Inverness - card paid for and ten quid in pocket. You only need to buy a two course meal and even if you do not eat the starter you are at least a fiver in pocket. I saved £30 but even if I ordered starters and did not eat them i would be at least £15 in pocket - getting close to paying for the card with this approach.
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