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anyone know anout m&s penny bazzar

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  • diddlydum
    diddlydum Posts: 209 Forumite
    Don't think I'd quite put in such racist terms meself...
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  • Can you buy those1p items from the website
  • Reverbe
    Reverbe Posts: 4,210 Forumite
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    diddlydum wrote: »
    Don't think I'd quite put in such racist terms meself...
    I see nothing racist here. It is well known that the majority of those cheapo shops full of tat are run by members of the ethnic communities. Perhaps you would like to visit our area of West London and see for yourself.
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  • Reverbe
    Reverbe Posts: 4,210 Forumite
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    Can you buy those1p items from the website
    a lot of the items are or rather were for sale on the website but not at 1p. I looked at the 125 shop yesterday online and when looking again that evening noted that a lot of items such as the mugs and aprons and kitchen planners were no longer listed. Avergae price of the 1p items seems to be about £9.50. HTH.
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  • Edinburghlass_2
    Edinburghlass_2 Posts: 32,679 Forumite
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    Reverbe wrote: »
    I see nothing racist here. It is well known that the majority of those cheapo shops full of tat are run by members of the ethnic communities. Perhaps you would like to visit our area of West London and see for yourself.

    Having been in the queue at my local Marks I think it is racist and particularly offensive.

    Fortunately I didn't come across anyone like you in the queue.
  • Edinburghlass_2
    Edinburghlass_2 Posts: 32,679 Forumite
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    Reverbe wrote: »
    Turned up on the offchance and ours was doing it. Apparently they didnt let staff put the items out until the morning itself.

    So you turned up on the "off chance" at 7.30 am :rolleyes:
    Reverbe wrote: »
    The pants were different in ours nor did they have the jewellery set pictured. Sad that our one would only allow you to pick one of the jewellery items even tho I was second in the queue and there from 7.30 am when some posters on here are saying that they managed to bag a brooch AND a bracelet etc. etc...

    Just asked M&S and there is NO rule that says you can't have more than one of the jewellery as part of your 5, just that you cant say have 2 pairs of socks or 2 ties(unless of course there are 2 of you).

    Queue at ours was massive and tripled back on itself by 8.40.After leaving the store with my items I notice it had grown even more. I am doubtful that most of those people would have gotten anything,
  • pipboy101
    pipboy101 Posts: 13 Forumite
    I just started this post to see if anyone knew anything about the offer!:confused:

    i like a bargain like everyone else but this is madness! i was only joking about the tent bit!but racism,7.30am,confused ,5 or not!

    Lets just hope m&s dont go down like woolys or we will have another full scale battle on our hands again!:eek: 100 picknmix bags anyone for 50p?:rotfl:
  • Reverbe
    Reverbe Posts: 4,210 Forumite
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    edited 20 May 2009 at 11:50PM
    So you turned up on the "off chance" at 7.30 am :rolleyes:
    Yes I live around the corner and always collect the papers around this time... not that I have to explain myself to you..:confused: There was no indication of my store doing this last night as nothing was set up until this morning - if you read my posts you will see that I live extremely local to this store and our town centre..Hence when I walked past it to go get the papers, I noticed them setting up so used the term "offchance" quite justifiably.
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  • pipboy101
    pipboy101 Posts: 13 Forumite
    edited 21 May 2009 at 8:42AM
    I have created a monster.Group hug right now people?
  • teaspoon1
    teaspoon1 Posts: 295 Forumite
    So you turned up on the "off chance" at 7.30 am :rolleyes:


    OMG, that's a bit stalker-esque! Calm down dear, no need to trawl through Reverbe's previous posts for evidence of contradictions.

    (seriously, maybe you do have too much time on your hands...)
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