Updated Printable Money off Coupons & Policies Thread 5 (and chat)

neas

C_J wrote: »

I have just discovered that you can buy national lottery tickets along with your shopping at the checkouts in Tesco - I seldom bother buying lottery tix as I think they're a bit of a waste of money, but I can certainly see me budgetting £1 of MOCs per shop to add one to my shopping basket every time I visit!

(Incidentally I did this on Saturday, but did not win any millions. This has made me sad)

can you buy lottery through a checkout? I thought you could only do that at the paper place?

veggiecar

Hovis loaves in store, have a 20p MOC around the necktie bit.
So if you buy it with a couple of couponnet 40p offs, then you are getting paid to buy the bread:beer:.
Put this towards your pik-a-paks and that's breakfast sorted;)
perhaps washed down, with the free prune juice

Jen_31

veggiecar wrote: »

Hovis loaves in store, have a 20p MOC around the necktie bit.
So if you buy it with a couple of couponnet 40p offs, then you are getting paid to buy the bread:beer:.
Put this towards your pik-a-paks and that's breakfast sorted;)

i only ever printed one, the date it all went c*ck a hoop ( where did i get that word from) not sure how you'd print more than one?.

Some of the first post is outta date, sadly its june 1st today :eek: soon be xmas :rotfl:

m4rtin

neas wrote: »

can you buy lottery through a checkout? I thought you could only do that at the paper place?

Yep did it a few weeks ago, prints on crappy till receipt paper but saves queuing at the ciggy counter (That's where the one in my local is)

veggiecar

Jen_31 wrote: »

i only ever printed one, the date it all went c*ck a hoop ( where did i get that word from) not sure how you'd print more than one?.

Some of the first post is outta date, sadly its june 1st today :eek: soon be xmas :rotfl:

Use another computer....sorry, not great for the average home user....

C_J

neas wrote: »

can you buy lottery through a checkout? I thought you could only do that at the paper place?

Yes .... when the lady in front of me at the checkout got her till receipt, it was followed by another piece of paper which I presumed was a till spit (I got all excited for a moment, in case I might too be lucky and get one). But then I noticed it said "National Lottery" on it, so I asked the young lad on the till if she had just purchased a ticket with her shopping and he confirmed you could indeed do this. So I did

I don't know whether you can choose your own numbers or whether it just gives you lucky dip ones (I just asked for lucky dips) (which, in retrospect, were not lucky at all) (bah).

BLUEWKD

Great quote from ultracheap on newspaper thread following discussions on free ice cream in the mirror
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I think they should have a National Coupon Day and coupons would fall from the sky like confetti... and all of them would have to be worth £1 or more - in celebration of the day! :rolleyes:
:rotfl::rotfl::T

Jules_1975

BLUEWKD wrote: »

Great quote from ultracheap on newspaper thread following discussions on free ice cream in the mirror
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I think they should have a National Coupon Day and coupons would fall from the sky like confetti... and all of them would have to be worth £1 or more - in celebration of the day! :rolleyes:
:rotfl::rotfl::T

That would be great :j but could you imagine how many people would throw a sicky just to be in with a chance.

pinkprincedss1980

C_J wrote: »

Yes .... when the lady in front of me at the checkout got her till receipt, it was followed by another piece of paper which I presumed was a till spit (I got all excited for a moment, in case I might too be lucky and get one). But then I noticed it said "National Lottery" on it, so I asked the young lad on the till if she had just purchased a ticket with her shopping and he confirmed you could indeed do this. So I did

I don't know whether you can choose your own numbers or whether it just gives you lucky dip ones (I just asked for lucky dips) (which, in retrospect, were not lucky at all) (bah).

As far as I know it's only lucky dips that you get at the tills but I'm not sure whether or not it could be seen as coupon abuse by the store to use coupons to buy your lottery tickets. Maybe someone like VC or M4rtin or Coupon Mad may know please. I would just hate to see more stores change their policies just when we all need them to take lots of coupons.

Coupon-mad

You can get a special scannable laminated ticket card with your chosen lottery numbers on, if you use the same numbers every week.

When you next pay for your numbers at the CS or Lottery kiosk, also ask for a laminated ticket of your numbers so you can pay at the till with your shopping, in future. The ticket can be for Saturday or Wednesday only, or for both (same numbers as you'll have just bought, unless you fill out another slip with a different set of numbers specially). Then you just have to remember to hand over the laminated lottery ticket thing at the till once a week.

But...you are not supposed to buy lottery tickets with coupons. For instance, if you are using a Tesco conditional spend the till will beep if you haven't spent enough, apart from your lottery ticket. With other coupons, the till won't know any different but the cashier should do and may get in trouble if they accidentally let you pay with mocs for a lottery ticket.

A nice SA told me that once when she merrily continued to scan my mocs down to pence and neither of us remembered that I should have 'paid' £3 for my lottery. Other cashiers in that store normally remember and stop at £3ish as they too have been told that paying with mocs is a strict no-no. As it happened nothing was said to that SA but I am more careful to remind the SA now, don't want my fave scanners getting into trouble over my mocs.

Final tip, remember to hang about and wait for your lottery ticket to churn out after your receipt (sometimes the system is a bit slow, once the cashier had to chase me to the door as I had forgotten and had already walked away when the lottery ticket finally churned out). Didn't win tho!:rolleyes: