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Boots Grabbit Bargains Part 49 - Post your finds here
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i picked up some botanics body treats selection today ( i have a picture but amn't sure how to add it??). This was ~£15 just before xmas cause i had a £5off acm voucher. Some stores have this SEL £7.84 (not marked as reduced) and all botanics BOGOHP!
Does anyone know how to add a pic?And truth be told I miss you...And truth be told I'm lying0 -
PS. I'm loving the Soap and Glory Hand Food. Yes, I know it's for women, but who cares! It smells like bananas or oranges or something and I'm lovin' it!
Hi Mimi
You should join Soap and Glory's Facebook group - they're looking for men to grace the packaging of their new men's range.0 -
Hello my lovelies.
Ok, so not entirely boots related, but related to things previously mentioned on this thread (SandraScarlett perhaps?). Anyway, I've just seen an advert for the (mainly facial?) Amie brand. It's for young skin...but contains no parabens and sulphates among other things, which I've heard people looking for on here. S'drug does it, if boots doesnt.
Hope this helps someone
C xCraftster.com is eating all my free time!0 -
Glad to see more Cardiff bootsers :beer:
Well, as others said, I haven't seen any clearance in Cardiff queen street store for ages. Strange thing though, last time when everybody was getting reduced no7 / last chance stand, there was nothing there at all. However, did see 3 bottles of serum and hundreds, lol, of green day/night fluid thingy on the skincare shelf, without any price tag. Nobody was picking them to use with blinkies as most can't be bothered to ask price. I got one serum price checked and it was reduced to just over £5, so got one with blinkie. Next day went there trying to get a couple more, just found all the discontinued ones that mentioned in this forum had completely disappeared!!! :eek: :eek: Went to ask a No7 SA about intelligent balance (think that's what the green bottle thingy is called), she said there's no such thing. Anyway all I had last round with blinkies is just one bottle of serum, how sad
I know in London boots stuff are priced higher than rest of the country, but most of the time I had to use my blinkies/vouchers while I was there
Sorry to kill the new cardiff bootsers' enthusiasm, but it's either Cardiff store has dumping clearance rather than sell them policy, or the no7 SAs just grab them all before any reaches the public:o . There were almost never old GWPs in queen street store, except they did have the putting set last week:D.
Not to totally disappoint you, the tiny one in Capitol centre has a clearance stand right by the door facing the till, odd bits and pieces, and the one by the train station has a clearance stand at the very end of the shop. Occasionally you can find few bargains there. Hope that helps!Still wondering where did all the reduced no7 stuff go just overnight :rotfl:
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They had loads of these last week, all gone now. But I'm sure if you asked one of the OTT SA's that flounce around the Men's range, they would get some more from somewhere if you wanted them. Where abouts were the FCUK washbags you saw at £2.00? Looked high and low for them, didn't see a single one.
Which one is the Merrion Centre?
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The Merrion one is the one inside the Merrion Centre where Morrisons is, next door to Peacocks. I never find anything very interesting in there and it is only really small.
The FCUK bags were with all the FCUK ladies bath stuff on the ground floor on the top shelf of the display. They are black with a white pattern on. Can't find a pic of them on .com. Can have a look out for one for you? They are a bargain at £2 on 342, make a great gift.0 -
Hello my lovelies.
Ok, so not entirely boots related, but related to things previously mentioned on this thread (SandraScarlett perhaps?). Anyway, I've just seen an advert for the (mainly facial?) Amie brand. It's for young skin...but contains no parabens among other things, which I've heard people looking for on here. S'drug does it, if boots doesnt.
Hope this helps someone
C x
Hi cave, I have actually asked about skincare/ haircare without sulphates and parabens in the past for my mom. I only know the Naked range at Boots. Thanks for the tip. and for those interested Boots do do AMIE and they are now on 2 for £7 accoridng to their website. I have never seen it in store, tough.0 -
Can I ask.....
When you use the S&G £2 voucher do you give the SA the whole email or cut out the voucher?
I'm off up boots tomoz and wondered what the protocol is!?!?!0 -
If anyone gets terribly bored reading my posts, please skip it now, cos it'll probably be as long as War & Peace!!!
Went out today with a friend who is a BV (Boots Virgin!), and doesn't even have a card! She wanted today to be a Boots Learning Experience, so I said I would be her tutor!! :laugh:
We met at Chancery Lane, and found a little cafe doing cappuccino and an almond croissant (yum, yum!) for £2. It was empty. For the next half an hour I took BV through glitches, vouchers, 3 for 2s etc etc.
I had printed out 6 x S & G vouchers for her, and got her started by giving her these and some of my Wrinklies, but suggested that anything she decided to buy of any value, that was made by Boots, she put through on my card as she'd get the 10% discount. :cool:
Whenever I go out with a friend, we always split every coffee, meal, snack etc straight down the middle. Because I'm the one providing the vouchers for the 2 for 1 meals, or cheap theatre tickets, I'll usually find that the friend wants to buy me things, but all I'll take is one cup of coffee, cos I'm having a much better time being in good company and laughing than I would on my own. :beer:
Also, if I walked along the road, laughing hysterically, I'd get arrested!:rotfl:
Shop 1 - Chancery Lane. BV bought (in separate transactions) 3 x Time Delay Sunshine Gradual Tan, with SP15 Moisturisers. The cost of each was £5.86, less my discount, less the wrinklie - 27p to pay, so nearly £18-worth of stuff for 81p! :j
Then we walked along, in the rain, chatting, as you do, until we came to:
Shop 2 - High Holborn. BV bought three John Frieda Frizz Ease Serum, I think they were £1.97 each, so with the other part of the Wrinklie, there was nothing to pay. :T
Then at noon, we went for lunch at the Little Bay Restaurant Farringdon. This was on the news on Friday, because for the month of February, you only pay for drinks and beverages - and then you pay what you think the meal is worth!!! This is their Credit Crunch Price Buster.
I phoned to book a table, but explained we were pensioners, and would not be able to pay what the meal was worth, but what we could afford. "That's what the promotion is for" I was told. So ................ we both had Crab Tartelette (note the french spelling!) with salad, and a lovely sauce, followed by Fillet Steak, with Potato Rosti, and Spinach, and finished with Chocolate Bavaroise, with Passion Fruit sauce, and cream, and a cappuccino.
We had a jug of tap water with our meal, and when the bill came it was for ..... £3.80 - the price of the coffees! I gave the waitress £15, for both of us, and said that the food was delicious but this was all we could afford, and would she take her tip out of that, whatever she wanted to, and fill in the food cost on the bill, as she felt fit.
Then I booked to take Dee, before we see Thriller, and when we left, the Head Waitress opened the door for us, and said "Don't keep apologising for what you've paid. Some people pay more than the true cost, some pay about the right amount, and some leave 50p and we rarely get a tip!" For all I know, they might have put down that we'd pay 50p, and hadn't left a tip, and then split the rest between themselves. And good luck to them!:beer:
Full of good food and cheer, we then walked to St Pauls, in the rain, and whilst walking along, I gave BV a quick tutorial on wombling, clearance, Pantene, Herbal Essences etc. She learns fast!
We walked into Boots at St P, and the first thing BV found was a wrinklie in the baskets. "I've wombled" she cried! Several people looked at her, and then looked away quickly. She then proceeded to buy another JF serum, and another Time Delay thingy, all for 27p.
Then she found some Herbal Essences for 87p, and explained that though she wasn't going to buy any, that if she had a card, and bought 10, they'd cost her £8.70, but she'd get £10 back in points, and was that right? She was so pleased when I told her she'd got a gold star! :T :T
Then we went to Oxford Street, and when we walked in, we were given a voucher for £5 off when you spend £25, to be used at: Sedley Place (Oxford Street), Bluewater, Victoria Centre Nottingham, Westfield Centre Derby, The Fort Birmingham, and Dudley Street Wolverhampton.
I gave BV some S & G vouchers, and we had the refusal/call a Manager/this can definitely be used statement from me - and eventually he over-rode it, and BV did this 6 times, all in separate transactions, paid £1.20 and gave me 3 of the minis, and said "those are for you, least I can do!" So that was Shop 3.
Whilst we walked round, I pointed out the Olay GWPs, and the SS tills, and BV, who was now on a high, put an Olay Cream Wash for £5.86 in her basket, 2 GWPs, and said "let me try, but you stand next to me".
She gave the loitering SA a brilliant smile and said "I'm learning this and get flustered if I'm being crowded, but be sure I'll call you if I need help" so he wandered away.
And all I had to tell her was finish and pay, and press coupon etc and she paid 86p, and said "am I a veteran now?"!!! And that was Shop 4.
Then we started Shop 5. I got 3 Sumptuous Bath, and GWP (all of them were 488), and tissues to take it to £25. Then the till took my 10% discount, followed by 3 for 2, followed by the 250 points from my last GWP, followed by the 100 points on No 7 voucher, followed by the special £5 voucher, and I ended up paying £5.50 for the 3 Sumptuous Bath stuff, in Boots logic, plus the cost of the tissues that I'd bought to take it over £25.
Then we did it all over again so that BV could take advantage of this, but on my card, with me providing the points vouchers, and that was Shop 6. On the way out, the SA gave us the £5 tokens again. Then BV took me for a coffee and I felt bad, cos I'd got the points from her transaction! But she said they were my points anyway, and she'd get the 250 points from her GWP, and she was more than happy, in fact she was delirious.
So then we finished our day at Liverpool Street, and BV, who was now getting a bit drunk with Bootsitis, scoured the floor for wrinklies, the clearance shelves for bargains, found the No 7 Pedicure Set, £15, put it through on my card, less 10%, it was half price, she used her 2nd voucher, and had just under £1 to pay! And that was Shop 7.
So I said "In the words of Alan Sugar, when it's the final - you're hired!" :rotfl: :rotfl:
When we parted, BV said she was a little peeved cos she lives out of London and doesn't get free fares, and was now seriously thinking about moving, so that she can get a Freedom Pass!
And I've kept my second £5 voucher to use at Bluewater on Friday! So I reckon that was a brilliant day. BV phoned me on the train to tell me that she reckoned that she'd got £120 worth of stuff for about £14!! Plus a very cheap meal! :j :j :j
Oh yes, someone asked (Piccasso?) about returned items being put on a gift card. Sweetie, you just have to be firm. You say you will obviously be buying Boots stuff cos that's all you can buy with it, but you haven't sufficient time today to look round, so could they just put the amount on a gift card please.
And regarding the S & G, once you've found an SA who will do this, keep the receipt so that if you want to do it again, you can produce the receipt and show that it has been accepted, and how it was done. The £2 comes up as Brand Coupon.
And yes, if goods are faulty, no matter who makes them, it's the seller that you've had a contract with, in this case Boots (they sell - you buy), no matter how much they try and flannel you.
So sorry if I've bored you all, but it was a lovely day!!
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Sorry to kill the new cardiff bootsers' enthusiasm, but it's either Cardiff store has dumping clearance rather than sell them policy, or the no7 SAs just grab them all before any reaches the public:o . There were almost never old GWPs in queen street store, except they did have the putting set last week:D.
Not to totally disappoint you, the tiny one in Capitol centre has a clearance stand right by the door facing the till, odd bits and pieces, and the one by the train station has a clearance stand at the very end of the shop. Occasionally you can find few bargains there. Hope that helps!Still wondering where did all the reduced no7 stuff go just overnight :rotfl:
Agree with you jessie_yi, Queens Street is so disappointing, I get so many more bargains since I've moved to Swansea. However, I find the best Cardiff store for bargain bits is Llanishen. There is usually a clearance shelf of some sort and most of the bargains/cheapest stuff to buy with blinkies is in stock. I suppose most people go to that store for meal deals or basics. I also went to the store in Cardiff Bay recently and they had a box full of old GWP, so this might be one to try? (I hate driving to the bay so I only pop in if I'm in the area anyway)
I know a few people who work in the Queens Street store and they've told me about stuff they've kept in the stockroom, so that's probably where the clearance stuff goes!
Thanks for the tip about the train station, I'm coming home this week so I'll pop in0 -
i_luv_percy wrote: »Can I ask.....
When you use the S&G £2 voucher do you give the SA the whole email or cut out the voucher?
I'm off up boots tomoz and wondered what the protocol is!?!?!
Just copy and paste this bit, you can get 3 down one side of a sheet of paper, and then 3 down the other! HTH0
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