Boots Grabbit Bargains Part 48 - Post your finds here

zakiya12

anyone got anything that they want to swap for a blinkie i have four of them and none of my locals have anything worth geting only the wipes but not really fussed on them

kay_depp

balletshoes wrote: »

I didn't start Bootsing until after Xmas - whats the deal with 1000 points on the Xmas shopping nights?

On an xmas night, there was three between Nov and Dec, for every £50 you spent instore, you got 10,00 points back. You also got a voucher for an aditional 500 points if you spent another £50 at the next xmas night. hope that helps.

claire1977_2

moneysavingmumofone wrote: »

Does it work well as detangler? I have 1 bottle i got ages ago and have hair to my bum that gets sooo tangled!

It works really well on her hair, its kind of wavy and about midway down her back and gets really knotty, used to use the avon kids one but we both prefer this.

KarenBB

moneysavingexpert wrote: »

Hi, my nearest Boots are Basingstoke/Newbury - I can't find anything to spend my two blinkies on! B/stoke has some of the stuff listed by laura 85 but it is at least double the prices she's listed. Any ideas? they're burning a hole in my purse!

The lovely sandrascarlett posted about a No7 nail file and buffer kit that is less than £5 and you can pay for it with a blinkie. They are with with nailcate, false nails, make up brushes. I had a quick look today and they come with case to keep them in too. I think sandra sent one to a friend with some hand cream and nail varnish so a lovely hand pamper set. If you can find reduced No7 bits in your store some nail varnishes are down to £3.06 so on3 for 2 they would be £6.12, less a blinkie £1.12 to pay. might get a file and buffer kit myselt tomorrow. Thanks sandra

charleypink

moneysavingmumofone wrote: »

Does it work well as detangler? I have 1 bottle i got ages ago and have hair to my bum that gets sooo tangled!

I had to laugh, when i first read your post, i thought you had said the hair on your bum gets tangled!! lol

balletshoes

Bellydancer wrote: »

I picked up a couple of L'Oreal sets, which appear to have been a GWP at some time, for £1 each (hand-priced clearance label). It's a very smart white,zip-up, leather-look bag with gold piping around it, measuring about 6"x6"x4". On the cardboard surround it says ''Free Luxury Beauty Bag (with every qualifying purchase)''. The bag contains 15ml each of Derma Genesis SPF15 Moisturiser, Derma Genesis Night Cream, and De-maq' expert Milk-to-Toner 2in1 make-up remover, and a headband.

The SA couldn't scan the L'Oreal GWP properly, so had to manually enter the items as 'beauty'. The other SA next to her said something clearly wasn't right, so cleared the rest from the shelf . I wondered if they were actually trying to go through as £0.00?? This might be something to look out for in other branches, too.

If you can find them, these do scan at £0.00 - I love the bag these come with, really soft and can fit loads of stuff in.

c_l_a_i_r_e

Sarahdol75 wrote: »

I am trying to find the glitches and get the most pts, one day I may may have a lot of points on my card, but at the moment it looks dire. I need somebody to help me shop.

The majority of my points actually come from online orders. Normally boots.com have an automatic points offer where you spend X amount and you get X amount worth of points ie spend £50 and get 500 points. Then you can also use one of the points codes as well. Plus when the sale isn't about there are usually a lot more points offers floating around the site ie. 500 points when you buy any 2 products from a certain range, or 1000 points when you buy a certain perfume. If you combine all these offers you can usually get a good points return on your spend. Peeps usually post on here when there is the potential of a good points return online, you'll get used to seeing virtual baskets being posted here:D

balletshoes

suzi_69 wrote: »

I don't seem to be getting the hang of this Blinkie thing, or there is just some huge Boots conspiracy, to keep me from buying bargains!!

I went out this afternoon, determined to get some bargains!! I found some No. 7 nail varnishes for £3.06 each, so I got them on a 342, & paid £1.12, with a blinkie - BUT the SA said I couldn't have another blinkie, as I haven't paid out £5 cash - is that right? Do you only get a blinkie, if your spend is £5 over & above the £5 discount? I'm sure I've read other posts on here where people have only spent a small amount (after redeeming a blinkie) & got another one back? Or am I dreaming?? I wasn't confident enough to stand my ground, so I slunk off, very disappointed!! I was hoping to go back & get some more stuff with the next one! I've had one, solitary blinkie to spend & I'm feeling deprived!

The SA was right - after you've used your blinkie to pay, you still have to fork out at least £5 cash to get another blinkie.

suzi_69

balletshoes wrote: »

The SA was right - after you've used your blinkie to pay, you still have to fork out at least £5 cash to get another blinkie.

Yeh, thanks. Someone else has confirmed that, too.

I must have been confusing it with reading posts where people were spending multiple blinkies that they already had. There's that much on these posts that my little brain is frazzled!! :rotfl:

I feel better, now that I know the truth!

S xx

sarah_skint

c_l_a_i_r_e wrote: »

The majority of my points actually come from online orders. Normally boots.com have an automatic points offer where you spend X amount and you get X amount worth of points ie spend £50 and get 500 points. Then you can also use one of the points codes as well. Plus when the sale isn't about there are usually a lot more points offers floating around the site ie. 500 points when you buy any 2 products from a certain range, or 1000 points when you buy a certain perfume. If you combine all these offers you can usually get a good points return on your spend. Peeps usually post on here when there is the potential of a good points return online, you'll get used to seeing virtual baskets being posted here:D

got it in one

there were offers on cotton wool and wetwipes that gave you more points than you spent, like the cotton wool was just over 50 spent but got back around 60 in points, quite bizarre and the wet wipes were the same i had loads but am now running out!!

boots took away mine and my husbands cards because we had the same child registered for both apparently;)
we recived letters saying we were banned from the advantage card because of this funny how they informed us with less than 2 weeks to go until his 2nd birthday when he would no longer have been in the club:rolleyes:

i phoned but was told some magnificent lies, like i was returning loads of things( up to that point i had only ever returned one damaged .com item in my life!) and that i was buying too many things the same etc and i was gaining too many points and why was i keeping my balance so high etc etc

i was really upset about it then, so i made it my mission to take advantage where and when possible of any glitches i could and am not in any clubs. Needless to say i don't do too bad out of mr.b and neither does the womens refuge who in november had another 2 1/2 boxes full of odds and ends and loads of that cheap basics stuff that was floating around :T

i do like most who have been faced with this have an advantage card which is why i don't believe in keeping loads of points any longer:p