VB and Carlton celebrate footy finals with heritage bottlecap magnets
Victoria Bitter and Carlton Draught are giving away heritage bottlecap magnets for the NRL and AFL finals series with cases of beer.
The announcement:
James Tedesco with VB Bottle tops /WNRL .
Photo: NRL Photos/Gregg Porteous
Victoria Bitter and Carlton Draught are giving beer lovers the chance to collect a full set of heritage bottlecap magnets during the NRL and AFL finals series.
The Classic Collectables fridge magnets will be free with cases of Victoria Bitter and Carlton Draught purchased in-store at selected outlets.
Each case comes with two historic magnets, with each full set featuring 12 iconic logos. One-in-four beer lovers will get an instant win magnet with prizes including Grand Final packages and a year of free beer.
The Victoria Bitter Classic Collectables set features logos and imagery dating back to 1854, including one of the logos used on the first beer cans produced in Australia back in 1958.
The Carlton Draught set dates back more than 50 years to 1967. Before that year the beer – then known as Carlton Ale – was available only from logo-less taps despite its enormous popularity and history stretching back to the 1860s.
Victoria Bitter and Carlton Draught are the official beers of the NRL and AFL respectively.
“We’ve been around for more than 150 years and we’ve had some iconic logos along the way. Some are instantly recognisable, others less well-known,” said CUB’s Director of Classic Brands, Chris Maxwell.
“From holding up the footy finals’ shopping list to the bills nobody wants to pay, every fridge deserves a few Classic Collectables.”
The Classic Collectables will also come with cases of Mercury Hard Cider.
The VB magnets will be available in the rugby league strongholds of New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT.
Carlton Draught magnets will be available in those places Aussie Rules dominates: Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory.
The Classic Collectables are in bottle shops and pubs now.
Source: CUB media release
Well how great is this.
Bought a Box of VB at local Dan Store and recieved two Fridge Magnets.
Got a Winner top.
Come home all excited to enter to redeem prize only to find out I have to download receipt to redeem. Didn’t ask for receipt did I stupid me and wasn’t told at point of purchase I would need it to enter. (No.1 Blunder) Then find out I live in Victoria and only Cartons of Carlton Draught purchasers are eligilible in this State. (No.2 Blunder) Stupid me. I bought VB as this is my favourite Beer.
Oh well I will have to travel to NSW to purchase my VB to be eligilible for the prizes or change to Carlton. Well I’m not changeing to Carlton and not travelling to NSW so it looks like all VB lovers in Victoria are ineligible for any promotional prizes.
Good work Promotion Company
You Checked all the Boxes
If you want my phone No. to speak directly send me an Email
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Same here, have 3 winning tops didn’t ask for receipts. Live in NSW ,NO GO!! Not enough info????
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When you redeem the voucher just put in that you got it from a pub then you don’t need to download a receipt
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What are the prizes for the winning tops,thank you.
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Got three winner tops $15 each, went online to claim, given E Vouchers to purchase merchandise on their website only, can’t use at purchase point for cash discount on VB. Grr
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Have seven winners can only redeem one per email and mobile number.
What do I do with the rest?
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Cannot find where to put info on webpage only has box for dd m yyy
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have been trying to buy a green vb top in XL size, but your web site
won’t let me claim, i have 4 wining tops so have $60 for the tops
but it will only let me claim 1 at a time, purchased all at Picton Bowling Club, could you send me my top as what you have got set up is not working.
i can give you all my winning numbers so could you get back to me as soon as possible.
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this is a load of BS can’t even log in to enter
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Im a Carlton draught drinker, i have 5 winner $15 vouchers. i”ve tried numerouly times to collect my winning caps. why is it so hard to collect a prize. its a disgrace, very easy to buy your product, so do the right thing to your customers. Please reply ASAP. Not happy with the promotion. ” PLEASE EXPLAIN ” Byron.
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I am 65 and love my VB.
In the good old days when you won a price. Cap, Stubbie Holder T-shirt, It was at the Pub or Club where you drank.
Shame on you Carlton United.
It’s all to hard
Cheers
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Vouchers are as good as worthless, I’ve changed to Coopers, at least they don’t scam their customers
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Disgraceful They always treat the public like fools
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If it wasn’t CUB you would think it was a scam. The pack merely says go to classiccollectables.com.au and then enter your unique code. Have the marketing people tried to log in??????????????????? It makes no comment about keeping your receipt.
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got 4 winners and got no idea where to go so you blokes are a street ahead of me l dont have a reciept but bought at pub in nsw
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totally agree
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where or how did you enter
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Every time you order any item you can only use one voucher then you have to pay postage $5 in our case for a stubby holder. Went to the pub next night bought a scooner of Tootheys New (NSW)for $5 happy hour and won a free holder handed to me over the bar. I’m finished with VB.
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Won $15.
Thought I could redeem off next beer purchase. No.
Cheapest merchandise item a $15 glass.
Went to the checkout – going to cost $10 in postage.
So in actual fact I haven’t won a thing. Just a fridge magnet.
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This company makes millions of dollars year after year and it seems all they care about is lining their own pockets with cash then helping out the public, who buys these products.
CUB, you guys better pull your fingers out and fix up these errors or you’ll end up losing customers and will have no money to line your pockets with!
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Have 2 winning tops the codes on the back are NOT readable. What can I do now. I want these 2 tops honoured
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This promotion is a rip off. I thought with the winning e vouchers you would get $15 off a cartoon of beer. What a joke VB !!
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I agree this promo is SHIT
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This is ridiculous I’d rather you gave me nothing than make me spend 1/2 hour trying to redeem a voucher. I drink both VB and Calton Draught and the process is totally impossible.
Either do a give away or dont. Dont do this crap and waste my time……
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I have 12 winning caps….what do I do with them now. Can I use multiple caps to claim a prize?
This is a rip off.
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This is a joke alright. Having to pay postage for f***K sakes. What the should of done was produced vouchers Sent to our emails and we could use them instore and posted glasses and other promo winning items redeemable to shop outlets for us to collect not f*****g happy
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An absolute disgrace!
$15 E Voucher my backside!
CUB, you should honour all your loyal customers. I have many, like others, what shall I do with them now?
UnBloddyAustralian.
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We seem be a bunch of suckers. No i take that back.CUB its you that sucks. i know ive been a loyal customer for as long as i care to think. and you have done very well of us common folk, and dam it seems you cant even run a stand up competition.. but really what bites the most is $54 dollars a slab and yep its made 42kms down the road. So Whatever is my default Australian stance on the matter. Peace out.
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Won some e vouchers thought great log onto see what I could purchase and yep the afl glasses $15 checkout and it’s going to cost me $10 postage . Then I thought ok I could get a esky and put money towards the purchase postage $30 .
Hence I didn’t purchase anything. A big company like that can surely waive the postage considering the magnets are winners lol.
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WTF do you claim your $15 e-voucher from ,cant find the website for the promotion
F….g dandy
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It’s allowed me to claim the $15 e voucher. The cheapest thing you can buy is an AFL
team embossed beer glass at $15 each. Postage is $10 to send it out. Not worth it Carlton. You are making at least $10 each person on postage to claim a so called “prize”. This appears to be a way of making money from people to recoup your loss of manufacturing the prizes. I’m not bothering with claiming. It’s not worth it. Stick your prizes where the sun don’t shine.
Just have prizes given out like Tooheys do at venues. Simple.
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Could you please tell me how to send through my receipt..
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This promotion is a load of shit I couldn’t give a F___k about your $15 prize wins but i did want to collect all of the magnets , well im 3 short of the full set and just got of the phone to your merchandise department and was told there is no way i can buy the remaining 3 to complete my set Not Happy CUB Next time you run a promotion like this have spare bottle tops for people to purchase once the promotion has finished PS , I DRINK 3 SLABS A WEEK WHAT EFFING HOPE DO YOU HAVE IF YOU DRINK 1SLAB A WEEK OF COLLECTING ALL BOTTLE TOPS ? SWEET F***K ALL
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This is an absolute scam. Just bought mky first carton of xxxx ever so goodbye to VB for ever. Very angry!
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Vb can eat a bag of dicks! Who ever asks for receipts! What ever happened to all the free promo gear over the counter, at 65 bucks a carton you would think we wouldn’t have to solve da vinci’s Code to get something free!
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Hi Vb promotions, well like so my other people on the site, I have not been able to access the prizes you claim if you buy VB at my Local , I would like you to give the all the prizes I have won in your Competition, looking forward to receiving all my prizes,pleaser contact me ASAP
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Same thing got Carlton Draught in NSW, didn’t tell us about the receipt! Had 2 winning e caps, then, VB’ s in Victoria!
Won 2 e $15. Caps. Not able to claim with VB receipt.
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I won a $15 voucher they said I would receive it within 48 hours still waiting now the promo is finished thanks Carlton draft Michael 0438414500
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No comp end date on packaging, log in to redeem 3 evoucher tops, Sorry, this promotion finished on 6th October 2019 ! From everything I have read about this comp it seems like a dud.
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Bought a box of Carlton yesterday, got a cap magnet with a “prize” but couldn’t claim due to notice on collectables site that promo finished day before.
No notice to that on carton, or in store.
What a dud.
Pity I like the beer otherwise I would stop buying it.
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I will NEVER DRINK any of CUB stuff again.what a rip off.
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Well what a surprise! The promotion is over. As said previously some form of notification about the closing date would have been nice. Unlike some above I do have my receipts and was told at point of purchase that I needed them (sounds good), also told I good redeem the e-vouchers off my next purchase (Is this misleading advertising?). And why should I need to pay anything to receive CU promotional material (why not have them at point of sale). Totally disappointed, I’ve been drinking CU products for 30 years. Like all the rest above, I’ve got the shits.
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Looks like every single message is a complaint and I can’t blame them.
No promotional material in pubs stating closing date and have gone to redeem only to find out it is closed. This competition seems like one massive stuff up!
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Exactly my thoughts. Just a gimmick to purchase more overpriced merchandise. What a rort.
Put the magnets where the sun doesn’t shine, pointy end first
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What a crock of shit, the most you can find anywhere is 9 different caps….Where are the rest? Up your clacker?
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Whoever, it was in Marketing who came with this promotion should lose their job, unless the intention was to actually run a competition and not honour the prizes and piss off all your customers, in which case they should be promoted because they did a fantastic job.
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Reading through the comments, lots of very angry VB drinkers. These days companies do make it much harder to enter any comps. So waste all that promo money when people will still buy the beer? We are living in a very wasteful times. These companies know it. I tried also, And waisted my time searching on how to redeem the e vouchers? And the e vouchers will be thrown away into the rubbish just adding to our even more wasteful gabbage problem? Good on you VB for your hard earn trash
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your previous promotions have been straight forward and fair this one is just a farce very disappointed.
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This Sux, rip off bastards : (
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Ended up with 4 x $15 bottle caps, had receipts, went to claim them approx 2 weeks after they stopped handing out the magnets and that was too late. Companies that have such a short redemption period, are obviously trying to rip their customers off!!!
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Has anyone noticed when you use the magnets on your fridge, if you are not very precise they actually scratch your fridge.
Also think that they are a dangerous choking hazard for young children and should never be left within their grasp including the fridge.
Because I am so disappointed with this ill conceived promotion, I have banned CUB/VB products from my household for six months. That’s approx 1,560 cans that they will not sell.
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Shit promo,
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Shit promo is only the beginning
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I have 17 sets going and 13 of these sets are 3 caps from competition the same 3 caps in all 13 sets, and I buy beer all over NSW I would really like to finish the sets.
How are you all going with your sets?
Cheers Glenn ??
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