Boots Christmas Nights 2009

mess0804

Nenen wrote: »

sorry if this is slightly OT but several people have mentioned buying a laser thingy on a Christmas shopping night. Is this for hair removal? If so I'd be really interested as I didn't realise you could buy one to use at home and cannot afford salon prices. I just searched the Boots website for 'laser' and it showed several laser hair removers but none at £250. I'd be really grateful for any opinions/advice regarding this.
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here is the topic where people talk about it. it has almost a year since it came and for now people seem quite impressed, but it depends of your luck too

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1526287

I am thinking of taking the risk ... but hope to get as many points from it as possible

mess0804

edda wrote: »

Here's the relevant web page on the Boots site:

http://www.boots.com/en/Seasonal-Events/Customer-shopping-events/Instore-customer-shopping-events/

The 1st date for the shopping evening is Wednesday 28th October.
You can click on a link near the bottom of the page and enter a store/town name to find out when the evenings are.

If I click on that link it just goes to the store locate near you ... it doesn't say the date of the next Christmas shopping evening...

esmerelda98

edda wrote: »

Here's the relevant web page on the Boots site:

http://www.boots.com/en/Seasonal-Events/Customer-shopping-events/Instore-customer-shopping-events/

Also, details are given on the points awarded. Including:

A total of 1200 points will be automatically added to your Advantage Card once and each time the £50 threshold has been met in a single transaction

So a £50 spend will give you 1200 points and a £100 spend will give you 2400 points.

Whilst this would be nice, I doubt very much that your interpretation of the number of points awarded is correct. If a person cannot break down their shopping into £50 chunks, I fear they will only get 1200 points. It does say in the blurb you quoted that 'A total of 1200 points will be automatically added to your Advantage Card once.' I think the 'each time' bit refers to separate transactions. So if you did 3 transactions of £50 each (which I have previously done), you get 1200 x 3 = 3600. This is my interpretation, anyway.

lauh88

Wirralites!

Bromborough evening is Wed 28th Oct 3-10pm
Birkenhead evening is Thurs 29th Oct 3-8pm
Cheshire Oaks evening is Fri 29th Oct 3-10pm

Anyone know the Liverpool date/times?

I hope the 1200 points thing is per £50 (i.e. if I spend £100 I'll get 2400 points in 1 transaction as opposed to having to split it all up into separate transactions - annoying!)

SeptemberBaby_2

Received my mailing yesterday:

Racecourse Retail Park, Aintree
29 October 2008 3-9pm

Clayton Square, Liverpool
29 October 2009 3-9pm

Gemini Retail Park, Warrington
28 October 2009 3-9pm

xx

mess0804

How can I find out for sure? For only 1200 points is not worth it going to the shop specially in one of those evening as I can't split the Smooth Skin IPL thing into pieces to buy the chunks... grrr... (and I saw that giftcards are excluded)

So no way in getting some more points back from the £250 spent?

netimka

mess0804 wrote: »

How can I find out for sure? For only 1200 points is not worth it going to the shop specially in one of those evening as I can't split the Smooth Skin IPL thing into pieces to buy the chunks... grrr... (and I saw that giftcards are excluded)

So no way in getting some more points back from the £250 spent?

you will get 6000 points for £250 as it 1200 for EVERY £50 spend... it was like this in the previous years and this year as well... it says on the web...

We know that Christmas is a busy and expensive time of year, which is why we're holding special Christmas Shopping Evenings during October and November*. Here you can get all your Christmas gifts from our fantastic range, plus we'll give you 1200 Advantage Card points for every £50 you spend – that's £12 worth of points to spend in any Boots store!**

boots is good with this offer, so when you want to spend £100 you dont have to split your shopping... its the same with their 3 for 2 mix and match... if you buy for example 6 diffrents set , if want be the 2 cheapest free but every 3rd one IFKWIM...

HTH

melvis

Do they do any extra points events online? My local store is tiny and doesn't stock the gifts I want to buy for people xx

MYLITTLESISTERLOLA

Don't want to start a fight but in previous years ( I've been to the last 7 xmas preview evenings ) It has been a matter of splitting your shopping into £50 baskets i.e a £100 spend does not earn £24 of points
I would love to be proved wrong as it is a bit of a pain splitting everything into £50 baskets
HTH

MYLITTLESISTERLOLA

melvis wrote: »

Do they do any extra points events online? My local store is tiny and doesn't stock the gifts I want to buy for people xx

If your local store is tiny I doubt they would do a preview evening, it is normally only bigger stores with a reasonable xmas offering
HTH