Boots Grabbit Bargains Part 5

PaleScene

This is a continuation of the Boots bargains thread which is a tad long now.

A very quick summary of recent topics:

Change One Thing leaflets. These may be due to disappear from stores, according to customer services (via email query). The coupons inside are valid until the 31/1/06, and will hopefully be honoured until then, some stores are putting up notices saying offers are one per customer, or removing products from the shelves.

These six coloured leaflets contain coupons against the following themes: Looking Great; Lose Weight; Eat Well; De-Stress; Stop Smoking and Get Fit. The coupons under most discussion are from Looking Great (Pale Yellow leaflet) - £5 off Danielle Ryman and Boots Time Delay ranges - no minimum purchase (EDIT: Some new leaflets are surfacing where the coupon is only valid for Danielle Ryman) and £1.50 off Toni & Guy Wax Stick and Tame-It Serum (buying both or two of the named products removes the £1.50 twice). Also, from the De-Stress leaflet, £1 off Boots Essential Aromatherapy range, various products are reduced in some stores - look out for pulse point gel, lime and grapefruit handcream and body spray, orange and bergamot candles, shiny green boxed bathing kits and sensuous bath crystals (some are under a pound and therefore free, several reduced items often trigger the till to take off each of them.)

A few stores have reportedly taken the DR/TD coupon out of the yellow leaflet, others have removed them behind the tills and may produce one if asked. Today (Thurs 19/1) was meant to be some sort of crackdown for this offer but people seem to be finding and redeeming coupons okay.

The 'spend £10 and get £5 No.7 voucher' has ended now but vouchers are valid until 31/1/06. Some of the reduced gift sets from last summer (pink packaging) have gone through the till reduced, 3for2 and accepting the £5off voucher. Otherwise, the Christmas editions - lip gloss, nail polish, glitter dust - are reduced in most stores to under this limit. The No.7 voucher is also valid on Ruby & Millie cosmetics. There is a 300point voucher in the advantage card machine for the new No.7 skincare range with steep prices. However, a number of people have found that this voucher does scan with other No.7 products if the cashier tries it.

The offers on the advantage card machine have mostly been static for a few weeks, the most generous is 100 points on Pure bathing products which is bogof in most stores. This does work on the 39p soap bars (sometimes with 150 points) however most people have reported that this offer disappears once used.

I think this is most of the current buzz - I hope it's useful as a recap.

EDIT: I will try to add in new deals, so that people can easily check up.

The No.7 voucher has now been replaced by a £3 hair products voucher if you spend £10. '2 for £7' on Toni&Guy has finished on the tills.

There is a new offer on No.17 make-up. Spend £5 and you get a free FrostFrench nail kit.

And I forgot to mention previously that there are leaflets on the Max Factor stands, buy one product and send off your receipt with the leaflet to receive a pass for use at Independent cinemas (2 variations). All the details are online on Max Factors own site.

There is an extra points offer on Boots.com, spend £15 on selected hair products and get 500 points.

Several people have successfully combined vouchers from the booklets in order to get a free gym ball or abdominal exerciser. In theory it's not allowed, as it's one coupon per transaction but in practice the till takes both.

Here are the contact details for Boots. On the threads there have been a few stories of people taking Consumer Revenge over the line into Consumer Terrorism (ie the woman sitting on the floor ripping up tons of leaflets!) but also several reported incidents of staff being unprofessionally rude to people who are using the deal within all the rules.

Boots Group PLC

Our main head office site is our Beeston site, 4 miles outside Nottingham City Centre, the address being:

1 Thane Road
Nottingham NG90 1BS

The main telephone number for our head office and all areas of Boots is: 0115 950 6111

Our central Customer Service department can be contacted on: 0845 070 80 90

banana1975

Thanks for the new thread - Perhaps we can hunt out some new offers. Apparently there are some starting tomorrow so the rumour goes!

mcallister1

There are new offers on the machine- should have printed them out.And a new spend £10 get £3 off hair products at till.

elisebutt65

Toni & Guy 2 for £7.00 offer has now ended but some SA's may still put it through if your store still has the SEL's up.

Karnam

Natural collection BOGOF and the Botanics BOGOF works on clearance reduced items.

I got loads of NC candles that were reducded to 99p for a pair, and then BOGOF so 25p per candle when original price was £1 per candle.

PaleScene

Karnam wrote:

Natural collection BOGOF and the Botanics BOGOF works on clearance reduced items.

I got loads of NC candles that were reducded to 99p for a pair, and then BOGOF so 25p per candle when original price was £1 per candle.

I bought reduced Botanics lip gloss and it had to be done manually - possibly a glitch as the make-up lines have been got rid of, but the skincare is thriving and bogof :rolleyes: (I really liked the make-up too.)

System

Anyone know if the Everyday Indulgence - Bodywash & Handwash is still BOGOF? Saw some of that in the sale.

chicarg

bham-dave wrote:

Anyone know if the Everyday Indulgence - Bodywash & Handwash is still BOGOF? Saw some of that in the sale.

Nope, not in in-store anymore. Have recently tried and the BOGOF offer has finished

mummysaver

Does anyone know whether the AC machine is producing new vouchers - the only usable one that I have had recently has been the no 7 one, oh and points for spending over a certain limit. The pure voucher only ever appeared once for me! Other than that I just seem to get vouchers for really weird stuff that I won't use, and probably couldn't give away! Before Christmas I had some brilliant AC vouchers - where have they all gone?

furrypig

Hi

Just to say had a very brief visit to Guildford boots today and they have plenty of all the leaflets (but didn't take any as in a hurry!). All TD stuff below £5 has been removed as others have found but DR is still bogof and I had a mailing for 300 points on this range so did quite well! Managed to get the Glitter babes party set £1 each bogof so only 50p which is great for party bags. Left lots on shelf (only bought 4).

Good luck everyone!

mcallister1

There are new ones as well as the ted Baker and ruby and millie that are all I've been getting. However, I can't remember what they were. None looked that good, but then I've missed great offers before by thinking that and not checking the ranges.