Ultimate Christmas Countdown: 6 Weeks to Festive Perfection!

by Laura Burgess | Nov 18, 2024 | Uncategorised

It’s that time of year again – the Christmas Countdown has begun! Here’s your fun, festive checklist to keep you organised, stress-free, and full of festive cheer as we count down to the big day. Ready, steady, jingle! Christmas Countdown – November 6 Weeks to...

Make Gift Wrapping Magic with Variety Christmas Guide🎁✨

by Laura Burgess | Nov 13, 2024 | Uncategorised

The Ultimate Guide to Gift Wrapping This Christmas With Christmas just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to start wrapping those gifts! While some people find gift wrapping a breeze, others may need a little guidance to make their gifts look truly magical....

How to Save for Christmas for Stress-Free Festive Fun!

by Laura Burgess | Aug 20, 2024 | Budget Advice

Welcome to Variety Christmas Club! We know how important it is to many of our customers to save for Christmas, so we wanted to share our top tips and explain how our Christmas Savings Club works. As the festive season approaches, many of us are excited about spending...

Best Board games for Christmas fun

by Sean Polding | Mar 7, 2024 | Uncategorised

We asked some Agents to review some board games with their families to see which would be the best to buy for fun next Christmas. The board games were bought using Amazon.co.uk Gift Cards, Argos Gift Cards, One4all Gift Cards and Love2shop Gift Cards. We could have...

There’s lots of smiles on Christmas morning when you save with Variety

by Sean Polding | Mar 1, 2024 | Uncategorised

Many Agents say that they save with Variety so they can give their children and grandchildren a wonderful Christmas. Not only does it allow them to buy the toys and gifts the children have written on their lists for Santa, but it also pays for extra things too,...

Do you want a stress-free Christmas? Save with Variety!

by Sean Polding | Feb 13, 2024 | Agent Stories

Christmas might be the most wonderful time of the year but it is also the most expensive. As we are in a cost of living crisis, with rising food costs and bills, it can be hard to think about saving for Christmas… but our future selves will be so glad we did come...

Lisa thinks the Digital Choice Gift Card is simply the best!

by Sean Polding | Feb 7, 2024 | Uncategorised

The world has certainly changed a lot since Variety was established forty five years ago but the need to save for Christmas has stayed. When Barbara and Austin Polding first set up Variety, people ordered food hampers, which Austin would deliver himself. Then gift...

Agent Anita loves making other people happy

by Sean Polding | Feb 1, 2024 | Agent Stories

Mum-of-4 Anita Eccleston from Ellesmere Port in Cheshire loves being an Agent. She says: “I love saving with Variety because it gives me and my customers a chance to budget all year round for the following Christmas, taking away some of the pressure of having money to...

Mastercard Registration and Activation Guide 2024

by Sean Polding | Nov 6, 2023 | Uncategorised

You’ll soon be able to shop until you drop online and in-store but first, you need to register and activate your Mastercard Gift Cards. To do this, there a few small steps you need to take on the www.getmybalance.com. We advise that you use a laptop or PC for...

Mastercard – Enabling 3DS so that online transactions can be completed.

by Sean Polding | Nov 3, 2023 | Uncategorised

The EML website is based in America and so all correspondence comes from the USA. In order to successfully process all online transactions customers need to enable 3DS on their getmybalance portal. This is an option available when customers ‘View’ their card details....

Registering Mastercard Gift cards and getting PIN

by Sean Polding | Nov 2, 2023 | Uncategorised

It would appear that PIN numbers are now viewable on the new EML MASTERCARD website . Customers needs to login/register their account first on www.getmybalance.com. IF THEY ARE USING A MOBILE PHONE TO GO ON THIS WEBSITE, THEY WILL NEED TO ENABLE THE ‘DESKTOP VIEW’...

The Christmas Prepayment Association

by Sean Polding | Sep 29, 2023 | Uncategorised

Variety Christmas Savings are a founding member of the Christmas Prepayment Association (CPA); the Government instigated and approved trade association for the Christmas savings industry. In order to provide customers with the best possible service, and to improve the...