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Kit Kat Take Time Back Promotion (Purchased Required)

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Buy Kit Kat bars marked with "Take Time Back" and swap for free stuff.

2 wrappers gets you a free music download (unlimited)
6 wrappers gets you a free coffee or mobile game download (unlimited)
9 wrappers gets you $10 free phone credit or free dvd rentals - 2 months quixflix (1 per isp)
12 wrappers gets you free magazine subscription (Receive 3 issues of any of the following titles from Next Media and News Magazines: The Wiggles magazine, delicious, Inside Out, Inside Sport or Yen Magazine),
- video game (Receive one of the following video game titles: Combat of Giants: Dinosaurs (for Nintendo DS), Imagine Detective Adventures (Nintendo DS), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up (Playstation 2), Classic Word Games (Nintendo DS), Master All Classics - Board Games (Nintendo DS), Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party (Nintendo Wii) or Shaun White Snowboarding (Xbox 360)),
- or home service($30 Jim's voucher) (1 per isp)

FAQs https://www.taketimeback.com/FAQ.aspx

Terms and conditions here https://www.taketimeback.com/Terms.aspx

the kingsize kit kats are on special at Coles til Thursday (get 3 for $6)

If you eat Kit Kats, then this is a great freebie!!

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  • +1

    It's an OK deal for me.
    IMHO some of the rewards are more like promotions/clearance of participating products/services.
    Great for regular Kit Kat buyers.

    • +2

      Rewards aren't that great for the purchase in my view. I'd rather try my luck in a regular comp for bigger, better prizes. OK if you are addicted to Kit Kats and if they are on special.

  • +1

    If you can get Kit Kats on discount, pretty good deal.

  • +1

    Well, if I'm going to buy chocolate at work, might as well get something else at the end ;)

  • +3

    How many Kit Kats do I need to eat to get the sweet Kit Kat watch?

  • +1

    Nestle is an unethical corporation, and they have shown no indication of improvement.


    If you consider the integrity of ecosystems, the lives of orang-utans and African children to be significant to your purchasing decisions, then this is not a bargain.

    Links for the current campaign from Greenpeace: YouTube Video / Official site / Australian site

    Here is an Australian article about the public response to Nestle's tactics.

    • +4

      You make a valid point and people should weigh that up in their everyday purchases, but most here won't, including me sadly.

      • Good to hear you're making considered choices (whichever way they fall.)

        Few of us have the time, opportunity and support to make the decisions we really want to make.

        • +1

          Does this mean no Milo, Maggi noodles, Nesquick, Frosty Fruits, Drumsticks, Condensed Milk etc for you either?

          I don't know about giving up the Milo ;)

          • +5

            @sev snape: Quite so, I'm afraid.

            It's been a long time since I gave up Milo, and it was quite confronting to my childhood aspect.

            Yet, it was surprisingly easy.

            The other products were not a big deal (except condensed milk, which my double prize-winning ice-cream depended upon.)

            There are actually superior alternatives to Milo. I know that that may sound difficult to believe, however, it is true.

            There was one by Coles' old housebrand 'Farmland' called 'ChocPower' — at some stage it disappeared, and I got out of the habit of chocolate-malted milk. I've forgotten the name of the new version, but, it is available at Coles, and it is very good, and it is akin to Milo.

    • -5

      I wasn't going to vote, but have decided to in order to cancel out your minus.

      May be you should stop breathing if you consider the CO2 you are producing.

      • +1

        I think you're missing the point; it is not about what I think and my values, it is about what you think, and your opportunity to think it.

        Regarding your second statement: Nestle are systemically unethical — they were unethical in other respects long before carbon became a public relations issue.

        • -4

          You have too much to worry about. Without offending a particular profession, I do not know how many individuals/organisations in their fields or expertise can honestly raise their hands to say they have never bend the rules and acted 100% ethical through out their career/operations. Do you stop interacting with all individuals/organisations because they are unethical at some point?

          • +9

            @browser: So your stance is to do nothing because you can't do everything?

          • @browser: I'm not worrying. One of the great assets of an Ethos is that it makes decision-making more efficient and more effective.

    • +2

      Thanks for the heads up. I shall avoid Nestlé products. They're still in my bad books over their marketing of baby milk formula.

      • +1

        Agreed..They will never fully recover from that marketing stunt..

    • -8

      What do your comments have to do with a Bargain website. This site is for people that want to save money. (Mod: inappropriate comments removed)

      • +4

        People looking for a bargain are still allowed to have ethics…

        The poster simply displayed the fact that nestle is widely known for its unethical practises (yes most companies do bend ethics, but nestle stands out) and invited people to consider whether it bothers them or not before purchasing. No criticisms of people who don't boycott, no pushiness trying to get people to boycott - nothing wrong with that at all.

      • +3

        Hmmm, you're quite hilarious — I'm not sure if you're serious or not:

        Different people find different qualities of a product or service to be salient to their purchasing decisions.

        The conduct and integrity of a producer is a salient quality in these decisions for myself and others.


        These decisions also influence costs and bargains in the long-term — if you reward or ignore bad behaviour you increase the marketpower of badly behaved entities; eventually you may have no choice except to accept their whims, or the collective whims of an industry with no standards.

        Scenario:
        Imagine if the whim of an industry/duopoly with no standards was to remove labels referring to fat levels in food, or worse: to misrepresent these levels.

        You would have to rely on your personal knowledge of food to ascertain its fat content. Over time, this knowledge may be contaminated with programmes of misinformation, and education channels may become unreliable or absent due to industry pressure.

        In such an environment you wouldn't know how to guage food for its purpose and its value, so it would become easier to charge you according to their convenience rather than your values — and the price would be higher.

      • +1

        And what does your comment have to do with your negative vote?

        Personoally, at the moment, I admit I am a bit indifferent on the whole scenario. I'm just to busy to concern myself with such things while I have so many other things to think about.

        But I believe You and Me put foward an unbiased point (as he always does, check his comments) to help guide people (such as me) who don't have time to go out researching every company. Kudos to you You and Me

    • +1

      Unethical and unhealthy. They're the company that made all those poisoned infant formula in china. I would avoid them too.

      • +1

        Ok, i'm going to point out that the story isn't nearly as exciting as everyone is making it out to be. Nestle make baby formula. African people mixed the formula with dirty water. Babies got sick. NOTHING to do with the quality of the formula.

        • +7

          Unfortunately, it is more sinister than that.

          My understsanding is this: In the 1970s, Nestle representatives shamed uneducated teenaged mothers in Africa into spending large portions of their incomes on baby formula instead of using their own breast milk:

          • They were misled into incorrectly believing that breast milk was inferior.

          • And Nestle knew that they did not have access to sanitary water for mixing the formula.

          As a result there was a massive boycott of Nestle, and the World Health Organisation implemented laws about advertising substitutes for breast milk.

          Nestle claimed that they had ceased this practice, however, other groups refuted this.


          Currently, Nestle is:

          • Purchasing palm oil (for Kit Kats etc) from companies that clear the forest habitats of orang-utans. (Recently they began obtaining the same palm oil via a third-party.)

          • Falsely claiming that their milk-based products are important for healthy bones and teeth of children, despite the very high proportion of sugar and artificial additives that other sources of calcium are unimpeded by (such as natural yoghurt like Jalna or Bornhoffen, almonds, quinoa, seaweed.)

          • +1

            @You and Me: 40 years ago i'm pretty sure a lot of stuff went on that we know better about now. I really admire you standing up for what you believe in, i'm just struggling to see how this is relevant to a bargain website.

            If we went into the ethics over a 40 year period of every company putting out a product i'm pretty sure there would be no OzBargain left.

            A quick search also suggests we black list Microsoft, Coca Cola, GlaxoSmithKline, McDonald's, Bacardi, Procter & Gamble etc etc.

            • @acidburn02: Yet, all that Nestle has learnt is to try not to get caught — they have not developed any integrity of process in over forty years. And their crimes, and would-be crimes continue to the present; only appearing to adjust when their PR goes supernova.


              I'm not saying that people shouldn't buy Nestle or anything else (and there will be times when something appears, for a time, to be a "necessary evil") I'm saying that people should know what the product and its implications are.

              I know that it seems hard if you're not used to it. Do not make the mistake that ethics is all or nothing — it is a skill to be learned and practiced, and it something that you already deploy day-to-day and that you don't have to do all at once:

              It is the skill of taking command of your own existence — discovering what you believe, not what someone tells you you have to; and influencing society slowly and surely so that there can be more innovation and less incentive for anticompetitive (i.e. predatory, deceptive) conduct.

      • As far as I know, the Chinese company that produced the contaminated formula had nothing to do with Nestle. Although, high melamine levels have been found in Nestle products, apparently.

    • -2

      No-one cares about Nestle raping Africa for their cocoa & giving back contaminated baby milk.

      Mod: Removed unnecessary and off-topic comments about race. Please keep your personal opinions about race to yourself. This is your final warning. Edit a mod's comment again and you'll be banned.

      Everyone just wants their $5 Gift Card Refund from:

      www.nestle.com.au/colesgiftcard

  • +4

    They're on special for $1 from Target on Thursday

  • +2

    Google "boycott nestle" for my reasons.

  • +3

    I highly commend those who try to make a conscious effort on what they buy - why is there no CLEAR labeling on where things come from. I do not agree with the current global mindset: let's wait until we kill all native wildlife in countries who need to grow palm oil and mine themselves in big holes? I mean the industry is booming? Idiots! throws 2 cents….

    • +2

      +1 clear and accurate food labels.


      Check out this recent report from Background Briefing:

  • +1

    internet. wow.

    thanks for posting the deal +ve

  • -1

    Wow.. whats with the ethical waffles here… O_O
    Its a bargain site, if its a good bargain, then vote positive, why the hell are you ethical guys voting on a good bargain because of the company?
    It's not OzEthicallyPositiveCompanyBargains you ethical freaks!
    OH no! They deal with forest clearing companies that destroy orangutan's habitat!
    DID YOU KNOW..
    That by being in Australia you are supporting the invasion of Indigenous communities of Australia by the Europeans?
    My god! A bargain but by a company that has done something bad!
    Might as well don't eat chocolate anymore!

    • -1

      Something that happened over 200 years ago compared to something which is still going on today (from what I gather)?

      • -2

        Well the Australian Government is still approving houses to be built on indigenous land..
        I don't see why you call it "happened" when its still happening today..

        • -1

          people are aware of their surrounding habits and know how to relocate to other environments… and there are ho many billion people… there aren't that many orangutans left

        • -1

          It sucks, and governments and corporations will continue to do things that suck unless you start to know what you believe, and to send them feedback via your votes, purchases, conversations and projects.

          Better feedback will mean better governance.

          • -3

            @You and Me: Oh boo hoo, kit kat has lost two customers.
            ABSOLUTE DEVO!

            • -1

              @cwongtech: I'm a fan of Dada.

              Nevertheless, the confused replies that come from oddly defencive people can be bafflingly devoid of meaning, relevance and understanding.

              • -4

                @You and Me: Like your politically correct Ethics has any relevance or meaning of the term "Bargain" and "Deal".
                Whatever you do, unless you try to do it Greenpeace style, it is useless.
                Unless you spread it all the way to kids in Primary schools about the company kit kat your divine efforts will be useless.
                Do you understand, child?
                Boycotting a chocolate company by having a couple of people not buying their chocolate bars is absolutely insignificant when compared with the sheer number of fat kids in Australia who will buy them.

                I hope you understand.
                Whoever's negging me, how's your ethics and bargains?

  • comeon all, lets not argue. Please keep discussion on topic

  • -1

    See You and Me

    • Don't be lazy.

  • +2

    Nestle are changing their suppliers due to campaigns by Greenpeace.

    http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/kit-kat-manufacturer-ne…

  • +1
  • spending $4 on a family block of kitkat or $2.50 on a small one isnt really worth it in the end, having to buy 12 of them to get a good prize. kit kats are $1 at safeway rght now, but is spending $12 still worth it for something you probably noraly wouldnt even consider buying? decisions, decisions! the ds games sound ok though…but i wouldnt spend $12 on those titles normall anyway…this realy is only worth it if you reguarly buy kit kats

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