How much do you save on your shopping using coupons?

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rozeepozee wrote:

I spotted your post in the Newspaper thread, Kirsty. Just thought I'd mention it here as there had been some posts about it yesterday. I did buy the mail as I happened to be passing Tescos at 8am this morning (how sad am I...?) but I saved a fiver with my other vouchers so it's no sweat. Wonder if the voucher will turn up later in the week? Still kicking myself I didn't buy a load of DMs when I coulda.

i bought 12 the other day and shared them with my sister as they had such a good date on them.

also used vouchers to pay for them so got them for next to nothing.

hopfully there will be some in the week.

givememoney

My passage into coupon spending isn't going as planned.

I did manage to get Waitrose to take some last week they just took them off without scanning, but today I tried out for the very first time, Tesco.

I picked the pimply youth as advised by someone on here, but unfortunately he was more tuned in than I had hoped. He told me I could only use vouchers up to 10% of the value of the shop. Then he tried to scan an internet voucher and it wouldn't. He then generously said he take another one I had for £1 which would have amounted to more than 10% but that didn't scan either.

So all in all no savings at all. I then went to customer service just to check if what he said tallied up with there version and unfortunately it did.

I won't be bothering with that again.

Narva

Please can we compile a list of interenet vouchers, i have spent ages this eve and have been unsuccessful. Looked up the colgate vouchers but it says open to the us only? hope someone can help. Thanks

stebiz

Hi Rozee,

I think you'll find the money off coupons site you posted was the bogus copy one.

The site is https://www.money-off-coupons.blogspot.com - might want to change your favourites.

Stebiz

rozeepozee

stebiz wrote:

Hi Rozee,

I think you'll find the money off coupons site you posted was the bogus copy one.

The site is https://www.money-off-coupons.blogspot.com - might want to change your favourites.

Stebiz

Is it?!? How do you tell? I print off and use the Discovery 50p coupon all the time in my local tescos and it scans just fine but, having registered with the others, maybe that's why I've had so much spam lately too....:o

Thanks for the tip. It never occurred to me. I'm a bit naive when it comes to the internet.

stebiz

Hi Rozee,

You'll see on the copied one all the info was posted at the same time (and not updated since).

Regards
Stebiz

rozeepozee

Ahhhh! Thanks :beer:

mrs_baggins

Hi all, I have never had the bottle to use vouchers for stuff I have never bought but after reading all these threads i may give it a go. One of the reasons i suppose is the tills- they know when BOGOF items are scanned through so I thought that when they scan the voucher at then end it will read whats been bought and not let any go through where the goods have not been bought but after all your threads seem this isnt the case?

rozeepozee

mrs_baggins wrote:

Hi all, I have never had the bottle to use vouchers for stuff I have never bought but after reading all these threads i may give it a go. One of the reasons i suppose is the tills- they know when BOGOF items are scanned through so I thought that when they scan the voucher at then end it will read whats been bought and not let any go through where the goods have not been bought but after all your threads seem this isnt the case?

It just comes up as "Coupon" and the value of the coupon on the Tescos bills. It seems as though the tills aren't that sophisticated.

Sazere

Had a good shop today at Tesco (although technically not wholly due to voucher use):-



Total spent - 16.62 (7 items)
Multi-buy savings - -9.97 (Buckaroo/Operation Games)
Daily Mail Book Voucher - -4.00

Total to pay - £2.65

Plus 26 clubcard points as used an extra 20 points voucher for buying salad cress at 24p!!!