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Archives for August 2005

Cheapest UK Games for PSP ?? <£25
Anyone who is looking for their games cheap, it seems the best place is PowerPlaydirect.com. While their prices seem to be the cheapest in any case, they also have a refer a friend program that gives the refered person a 50p off voucher and the referer a 50p voucher once they've bought. As the vouchers can be sent to an…
Tesco Alba Dvd Recorder £79.97 +points+petrol Voucher
Hubby Went Into Tesco In Rugby And Bought For His Workplace An Alba Dvd Recorder For £79.97, Not On Offer Nor Reduced, I Assume All Tesco's To Have Same Pricing. Also When There A Goodmans Dvd Recorder For £99.99 Best Of All He Got To Use His Own Clubcard And Received A 5p Ltr Petrol Voucher, When His Boss Paid For The…
17" Digimate L-1715 TFT Monitor £99.95, £117.44 inc VAT
http://www.aria.co.uk/specials.asp#3000 H
Triple clubcard points at Irish tesco online
Just seen this on the tesco Ireland site: As a special thank you to all our Tesco.ie customers we are giving away Triple Clubcard points on your shopping! Place your grocery order with Tesco.ie for delivery between 29th August and 11th September 2005 and you'll get triple Clubcard points in your November Clubcard…
Whittards Sale
Went to Whittards in Hemel yesterday, and they have some fab stuff going cheap in the sale :) Up tp 70% off all summer stock. Teapot with strainer- was £14, now £7 Mugs from £7 to £3 Expresso cups with saucers, many fabby designs, down to £1.50 per set. Some lovely coffee/tea things here to buy to stash for xmas :)
Sainsbury's toy coffee maker and food mixer and ELC summer toys
Was told about this offer by someone last week, but only got there today, and thought might be good for cheap xmas pressies. They're selling a toy coffee maker for £2.99 (was £6.99) and a toy food mixer for £1.99 (was £5.99 i think) Don't know if they have anything else in this range, didn't at the store i went to. Also…
free sky+ recommend a friend
with the sky megazine there was a leaflet you can have free sky+ if you recommend a friend instead of usual marks voucher sorry if already posted
TV & Satellite Week 6 for £1
IPC's TV & Satellite Week has an introductory offer of 6 issues for £1. This is then followed by a quarterly subscription of £10.99. When you call the number, though, the lady suggests that you cancel as soon as the £1 has been taken from your account ... unless you'd like to continue. Jolly decent of her. Call 0845 676…
Johnson's Baby Wipes at asda bogof £2.60
Went into asda today (Ellesmere Port) and they had Johnson's baby wipes both skincare and extracare for £2.60 buy one get one free !
Asda V8 Juice
I purchased this last week, and yesterday wrote to them with my 15+ word statement saying I disliked it, when I circled the price I thought the shelf said £1.49, although my receipt said £1.48. I checked today at Asda, and yes the price on the shelf is £1.49, is this a case that I could tell CS and maybe get a £2 voucher…
energizer ultra batteries 1/2 price
just got back from sainburys, energizer ultra pack of 16 reduced from £9.99 to £4.99.( size AA )
WH Smith Box Set Price Crash...(plus console games BOGOHP)
http://www.whsmith.co.uk/whs/go.asp?menu=DVD_AND_Video&pagedef=/dvdvideo/prodlists/july05_boxsets.htm&promotion=p1_26aug05-dvdboxsets Went to my local store yesterday and aswell as having this promotion on in store, they also had PS/Gameboy/Xbox games, all buy one get one half price. Worth a look to get some early…
Iceland sausages
I've just bought 3 X 30 packs of BBQ sausages which were priced at 3 for £5, they went through the till at £1 each :D Hope this helps and is in the right place.
Virgin wines - 12 bottles + free champers for £49.99 + P&P
Virgin wines are doing a offer for their starter case of 12 bottles of wine and a free £18 bottle of Champagne for £49.99 + £4.99 delivery. Only available to new customers. Also, it's part of their policy that if you don't like any of their bottles of wine, you tell them and they will refund you the price of that bottle.…
Empire Stores final reductions - up to 70% off RRP
Empire stores have got there final reductions on the spring summer line. Mens, Womens and children clothing, household, leisure and entertainment. They all have up to 70% off...check it out http://www1.empirestores.co.uk/cgi-bin/Empireshopping.storefront/431593f70007210e27920a0b003805a0/Catalog/ps_00000 But be quick ...…
P4 530 3.0ghz PC £349
On PC World web site, Philips Reconditioned PC with full 12 months guarantee: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1422966866.1125477838@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccekaddfihfijhkcflgceggdhhmdgmj.0&page=Product&sku=291863&category_oid=-15247&fm=undefined&sm=undefined&tm=undefined * Intel Pentium 4…
boots.com new offers of the week
Sony DCR DVD92E - Digital DVD Camcorder - Now £479.99 (Was £599.99) Save £120.00 2000 Extra Points Canon MVX300 Mini DV Camcorder - Now £399.99 (Was £529.99) Save £130.00 Nikon Coolpix 5600 - 5.0 Megapixel Camera - Now £169.99 (Was £199.99) Save £30.00 Kenwood EON Range Toaster - Now £40.00 (Was £79.99) Save £39.99 Kenwood…
Moulinex food processor £20 debenhams
Debenhams are selling a moulinex Masterchef delicio food processor down from £40 to £20. It's a smaller size one but will do cakes mix, pastry batters, as well as chopping etc. It has a 400 watt motor.
Tesco Instant Barbeques with £6 Off Coupons !!!
In Tesco at St Helens tonight they are selling Instant Barbeques for £1.64. On the top of the pack is a promotion stating that there is a booklet inside for £6 off in coupons. Admittedly one of them is for £5 off the Nando's recipe book (plus another £5.99 p&p) but the rest are various coupons totalling £1.40 off Nando's…
Xbox controller £6.48 FREE P+P or £5.99 if you wait a little while
http://www.simplygames.com/product.asp?id=4038&aid=1120 Free p+p £6.48 But if you can wait for a while so they get some stock, special reserve have a cheaper one, and they a all s controllers too, not the big bulky ones. Special Reserve are hiding this deep in there site:…

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