Boots Grabbit Bargains Part 42 - Post your finds here

elisamoose wrote: »

I have skimmed through the huge amount of pages since last night ...........not sure what the posting in magic writing was all about...............surely if we can do something (what ?) to read it then the 'boots spies' can too?

Boots obviously monitor their sales and would be able to see what items are being combined , how many vouchers are used etc. That is why they have programmable tills! If they were seriously keen to make sure we all stuck to the rules then they would programme the tills correctly. If it gets out of hand then the glitch is busted pretty quickly.Whether that is because they read a relatively obscure web forum , or just analyse their sales return I don't know!
If people want to go underground then by all means do - but I really think Boots will still fix glitches(if it suits them..................just do the maths on how much more you spend in Boots than you used too) and no one knows who is the spy..................it could be one of the regulars who will sign up to the underground site !
I think one answer is to post if you find something good that is not posted already.....................then we all keep quiet and take advantage of the glitch until someone posts about it being busted. If we don't gloat and post over and over , perhaps we won't be so obvious on the Boots radar!

Sorry thats what I was quoting, but it didnt work!

I am still on page 40, so I am way behind in this discussion. We all have opinions on this and mine is that I feel that this thread should continue as it always has for years. Those of us who have been around for a long time know that Boots has always been aware of this site and IMO accept that:-


The speed in which they are fixed is relevant to the amount of information given here.

The more information that is posted the quicker they are fixed.

By information I mean (And I am wording this carefully) posting about stuff, that sounds like bragging. I don't want to quote examples but I am sure that people know what I mean.

I do not believe that what we call 'glitches' are all mistakes, many are marketing tactics. For example, when Boots gave a free Palmolive shower creme with every item. We all ended up with loads and I don't believe that Boots didn't know that most orders had 40, 50 or 60+ shower crèmes in every order.

Same with the Mitchum, it was no coincidence that when the vouchers first came out, Boots suddenly had Mecum displays everywhere we looked about 6 or 7 places around the store. They were never there before.. Think about it.

IMO the real problem is when people abuse the glitch, get greedy and then brag about it. I know a lot of people have returned items from a glitch for a refund. Have had double points etc etc. The point I am trying to make is don't post on here what you don't want Boots to know. I posted recently about this Think twice Post once.

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I am not standing in judgement, what people do is down to their conscience, just trying to make a points on what I have seen happening in the past. But the more information which dams you as an individual will also dam this community as a whole.

I think Boots are happy to have the glitches until they run their course, but the greed element creeps in and spoils it for all.

I am not in favour of a mass exodus to facebook, not everyone wants the lack of anonymity. And also this site is monitored by Mods and board guides, and is subject to massive scrutiny which gives us privacy regards our ISP number etc.

sally06 wrote: »

No, you didn't dream it;) I mentioned the Bourjois GWP on the last thread. I haven't seen it in real life yet (keep forgetting to look for it:rolleyes: ) it's a disco ball lipgloss. There's a pic of it in the new boots mag:)

Thank you:j am going to get the bourjois delice de poudre bronzing powder and will hold out till this comes with it. No wonder I couldn't find it, was trawling this thread - feel a bit befuddled now reading about old glitches, getting excited and then realising they don't work anymore!!!

Don't have a copy of the mag anymore - one of the girls put it in the dog's water bowl!

JoJoB wrote: »

Any ideas on shops to do with the following vouchers? For a friend of mine who is skint and needs to buy xmas pressies for OH. Can the £5 off no.7 cosmetics be used on men's No.7 stuff?

4 pinkies,250 points when you spend £30,100 points when you buy botanics facial skin care
2 150 points when you spend 20 quid
400 points when you buy boots expert teeth whitening programme
200 points when you buy 25 digi pics
£5 off N0 7 cosmetics range
£2 off on botanics mens washbag
half price on the FCUK weekend bag
save 10% on time delay for men

I'm thinking 342 on men's No.7 toiletries, pay with pinkie and £5 off No. 7 cosmetics, get gwp, would that work?

not sure if the no7 cosmetics would work, but i used some of my pinkies to get oh some no7 toiletries all in separate transactions, and the nice sa still let me have the gwp, so you might be lucky and get one without spending too much.
this was at westwood cross hth

Right...catching up now...

Hey NIMI :wave: Always nice to see another Cambridge Bootser Yep, clearance in Cambridge Retail Park can be really good sometimes (think they've shifted all the water filter cartridges now :rotfl: ) Have hopefully just about managed to clean them out of one of the 17 eyeshadows in the old packaging ('Style Queen' - I use this as an all over base from lids to brow line and then shove everything else on on top ) Agree about parking costs in Cambridge - been in the Grand Arcade car park once - spent ages looking for a blooming pay kiosk for the car park ticket that actually worked :rolleyes:

Hey yummy-mummy-cat :wave: Sounds like the bag I'm thinking of - but keeping my fingers crossed that I find it in the sale after Christmas...can't really justify £15 for it at the moment as lovely as it is The trinket set is from last year, little rectangular case with mirror inside - comes with three interchangeable thingys - solid perfume (well they called it solid perfume, I'd call it perfume slop but smells nice ), lip gloss (very nice colour, deep metallic red/burgundy) and a gold highlighter (not unsimilar to a Benefit product...think it's Bathina Body So Fine or something? ) Original price was £15 :eek: but I got one on 342 after Christmas at £5, and then two more for £1.50 in clearance in the summer. Problem for me with the trinket is that you can only put one thingy in at a time - so you could take your lip gloss out partying with you but not the perfume and so on...Probably designed by the same person who thinks the current ladies' GWP "clam shell case" is stylish :rotfl:

So Mr BTVB went back to Boots after work...

1x No7 Shine Control
1x No7 Instant Radiance concealer
1x GWP

Something like £13.25 to pay and he didn't hang around for a skin care till spit GWP is now going on eBay...got to pay for my No7 habit somehow

P.S. Very wise words from pollsdolls as usual :grinheart