AC Nielson Homescan
By vicki2876
@vicki2876 (5636)
Canada
October 23, 2007 11:16am CST
Are any of you members. You have to scan all your purchases you do and you get points for it. Sometimes it drives me nuts trying to get the ice cream into the freezer before it melts and scan at the same time. Or cheese! That never seems to scan. The points seem so low too. I have about 28000 points in over a year and a half and there isn't much that is worth getting yet out of the catalogue. I always seem to forget to send out my info each week. I do it by phone and need to plug in the corded phone and stuff.
Are any of you members? What is your experience with them and do you like it?
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3 responses
@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
23 Oct 07
I'm a member. I think its been almost 2 years now. I have around 37,000 points i think. I'd have more if I remembered to transmit more. I transmit mine over the computer. I'm going to start making more of an effort to transmit. I usually put all my cold and freezer groceries away first then start scanning. Then I just have to go into the freezer for the stuff I bought.
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@vicki2876 (5636)
• Canada
24 Oct 07
If I could transmit over the computer I would probably get more into it. Thanks
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@crochetmehappy (143)
• United States
24 Nov 07
I was a member for about 3 years. I don't like the way they do produce or anything from the deli. I would always have to drag out the card to scan that first then enter in the price. I got 2 things from their catalog and one of them came in a million pieces. It was a popcorn popper and they just sent it in the original box. No padding or box over it. It was the box that would have been on the shelf in the store with a mailing label on it. It took forever to get them to give me a return label and then give me a new one. After that I got something else to get rid of my points and got rid of it. It was too much work to have them treat me like that when I tried to cash out the points. Sorry that I didn't have anything positive to say. The points are very low for the amount of work you have to do for it.
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@vicki2876 (5636)
• Canada
26 Nov 07
I agree it isn't very good at all. Lots of work for VERY little points and it takes forever to gain enough points for anything worthwhile. I still haven't cashed out for anything yet. But I think once I do I will send the annoying thing back.
@CinderInMySoul (4717)
• United States
17 Dec 07
ive been a member for i guess 2 years now. after getting home from shopping i put everything away, then later on when i have time i take my receipt and scan everything.
its not hard, just a pain sometimes lol!
ive gotten dog toys, a telescope and a dvd player from them so far.
sending your info in every week also gives you bonus points each month, so i always send my info every friday. the points do seem to add up slowly, but shoot its not like im spending more than 5 minutes scanning my purchases each time.
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@vicki2876 (5636)
• Canada
19 Dec 07
Wow a dvd player and only there a couple years. Your points are adding up a ton faster then mine are! Thanks for the info.