Newspaper coupon summary for Saturday 6th May 2006

quoia

jamnutty wrote:

thanks mcallester and surfsister, for the info, just wondering wether it would be cost effective to bother with this one. telegraph not really a paper i wouls read. suppose if i buy from whsmiths and use the clubcrad voucher it makes it more appealing

julie

If you can't get the papers "free", 5 x 65p = £3.25

A £5 discount on a £10 shop would actually put you in profit - need to check there is somewhere near-ish to cash in the offer though.

Obviously the £10 off £20 would be the better option if available at a near participating outlet.

I suppose you can make a visit to an outlet a little more cost effective by taking more than one completed form if you do not go alone and take partner, friend(s) or relative(s) with you.
Just buy the appropriate number of 65p papers each day (say 5 for a family trip - that makes 5 x £3.25 = £16.25) and at the right outlet you could buy £100 (5 x £20) but only pay £50 (5 x £10)

JailhouseBabe

jamnutty wrote:

thanks mcallester and surfsister, for the info, just wondering wether it would be cost effective to bother with this one. telegraph not really a paper i wouls read. suppose if i buy from whsmiths and use the clubcrad voucher it makes it more appealing

julie

I have student discount vouchers, which you sign up for online:
http://misc.gfm.co.uk/cgi-bin/JUCD_regs_0001.cgi?src=208

I'm sure I initially read of this offer on MSE, but can't remember which chat forum it was in. The telegraph then works out at 20p weekdays and the 60 or 70p off on weekends. If I don't buy a paper for a few days, I still give my shopkeeper the vouchers so they can claim the cash back - they sometimes give me that days copy free when I do that.

If you have a university campus near you, you can buy papers there at the discounted price without vouchers.

mcallister1

quoia wrote:

If you can't get the papers "free", 5 x 65p = £3.25

A £5 discount on a £10 shop would actually put you in profit - need to check there is somewhere near-ish to cash in the offer though.

Obviously the £10 off £20 would be the better option if available at a near participating outlet.

I suppose you can make a visit to an outlet a little more cost effective by taking more than one completed form if you do not go alone and take partner, friend(s) or relative(s) with you.
Just buy the appropriate number of 65p papers each day (say 5 for a family trip - that makes 5 x £3.25 = £16.25) and at the right outlet you could buy £100 (5 x £20) but only pay £50 (5 x £10)

It is clear in the terms that it is fine to use multiple vouchers- the more you buy the more you save... I think I'll raid the copies in the gym cafe and the school library...
Also there is stll time to save 15 tokens for the animated tales Shakespeare from the same papers, which makes it better value.

jamnutty

have just had a look around the farm shops that do home delivery but most seem to charge between £5 and £10 for delivery so this does not seem cost effective either. my nearest one is ofering £5 off.

what are is the "Shakespeare Tales" sounds interesting

julie

RAMBLER

Fantastic days worth of posting. A big thanks to everyone and keep those eyes on the lookout.

mcallister1

jamnutty wrote:

have just had a look around the farm shops that do home delivery but most seem to charge between £5 and £10 for delivery so this does not seem cost effective either. my nearest one is ofering £5 off.

what are is the "Shakespeare Tales" sounds interesting

julie

These are the excellent animated tales you may remember from a few years ago,which it is not possible to buy in the shops as they have been ' out of print', or were last time I looked. Each is half an hour long and the telegraph is halfway through a promotion where you can collect 15 different tokens, including 2 Sunday ones, for a set of 10 on dvd, or pay £9.99 for a set of 12.It finishes May 21st,( checked quoia's post on the grabbit board, thanks) so unless you can get today's paper or an old one of last weeks tokens you are too late after all.Although I really don't think they will check to see if you slipped in one identical one... but I don't know
Almost all schools are using ancient vhs copies of these taped off the tv years ago as they are excellent- they use an obviously abbreviated version of the text and are in lots of different animated styles from animators round the world- eg The Tempest is stop motion models, Macbeth is done in a russian style I think.Some of them are really great.My kids' school have asked parents to collect them for them; any English department or primary school would use them if you feel altruistic. There is a £1.90 postage charge.

lovebug_rita

Does anyone still have the times from saturday ?They said that there would be a way of obtaining tickets to a preview for CURIOUS GEORGE in The Knowledge section - any help would really be appreciated as i missed this :-s
thanks. rita

quoia

lovebug_rita wrote:

Does anyone still have the times from saturday ?They said that there would be a way of obtaining tickets to a preview for CURIOUS GEORGE in The Knowledge section - any help would really be appreciated as i missed this :-s
thanks. rita

Yes it is on page 20.

It is at participating Vue cinemas at 10:30am on Sunday May 14th.

There is a "coupon" that it says you need to present having filled in with a REFERENCE NUMBER.

This is obtained by phoning 0901 553 0240 (50p / min)
Call should not last longer than FOUR MINUTES !!

There is a discrepancy about how many tickets you can claim.!!!!!!!
One the voucher it says "Readers may claim up to TWO tickets" but then further on in the instructions to the cinema cashier it says ""please admit up to FOUR"
Having said that it does say "claim up to FOUR tickets" elsewhere on the page.

Vue cinemas listed are:
Birmingham
Bristol Cribbs
Bolton
Cambridge
Cardiff
Cheshire Oaks
Croydon Grants
Edinburgh Ocean
Leeds Kirstal
Leicester
LONDON - Fulham Broadway / North Finchley / Shepherd's Bush / West End
Manchester Red Cinema
Northampton
Oxford
Portsmouth
Reading
Sheffield

lovebug_rita

Thank you so much for typing that all out, shame I need the coupon though to try the offer :-s

quoia

lovebug_rita wrote:

Thank you so much for typing that all out, shame I need the coupon though to try the offer :-s

If you post your location (postcode?) and requirement on the I WANNA forum, you might find someone that has one spare and only lives around the corner from where you live.