NEWSPAPER SUMMARY - Saturday 17th October 2009

redagila

Eurostar offer - first word is EXPLORE
You need 3 for the offer of 2 tickets from £90 to Paris, Lille or Brussels.
You can book online from Tuesday at www.offersinthetimes.com/eurostarpromo

Full details on page 46 of main paper
Also 3 tokens for books for schools

Tomorrow they are giving away a DVD of Motorcycle diaries

cardiffforthefacup

Noticed this in yesterdays Metro which may be useful to someone:
Free tickets for the Paul O'Grady show for 26/27/28th october at the London studios, Waterloo.
https://www.lostintv.com 24hrs or tel: 02085308100 mon-fri

quoia

redagila wrote: »

Eurostar offer - first word is EXPLORE
You need 3 for the offer of 2 tickets from £90 to Paris, Lille or Brussels.
You can book online from Tuesday at www.offersinthetimes.com/eurostarprom
Full details on page 46 of main paper
Also 3 tokens for books for schools

Tomorrow they are giving away a DVD of Motorcycle diaries

Your link is missing an O

https://www.offersinthetimes.com/eurostarpromo

moneysavingaddict07

Nudge wrote: »

Daily Express

Page 9 Coupon for 30p off Sunday Express

Page 9 Coupon for 10p off Mondays Daily Express

Page 31 Coupon and Token 1 of 2 needed from Daily Express
for Free Digital Alarm Clock from WH Smiths, valid to 21/10

Page 31 Coupons for 2 For 1 at UKs Top Attractions, offer
valid to use on various dates

Page 35 Coupon for £1.30 off OK Magazine valid to 19/10

Can i use the ok magazine coupon at tesco without buying the magazine?

JAG

moneysavingaddict07 wrote: »

Can i use the ok magazine coupon at tesco without buying the magazine?

Tesco will now only take coupons if you actually buy the product.

quoia

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Link to a separate thread by The Old Bag about the Daily Mail DVD offer, there are 14 DVDs to be given away. The first is as posted above by Nudge and the second one will be in tomorrow's Mail on Sunday. Then the rest to be collected from Sainsburys or Tesco using a voucher from the Daily Mail each day:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2015881

HTH, please thank the OP in the link.

And as always the Free Giveaway CDs and DVDs thread

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=101543

on the Grabbit forum has all these listed, as well as those in The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian, usually with additional details and links etc.

Current last page >>> http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=101543&page=39

THRIFTY_GIRL

barneydog wrote: »

No, this is a conditional spend coupon, (i.e. x pounds off a xx spend @ whatever shop), Tescos should take these

My local Tesco refused...pot luck I think

Tatty_

Old_Gold wrote: »

What is the significnce of the 99?

99 is a 'universal' barcode that will scan in all (most?) stores.

The Lidi conditional spend coupons that were around a little while ago started 55 and wouldn't scan in Tesco. They had to be put through manually as a NS coupon (non scan) and my Tescos doesn't like doing that:rolleyes:

lilian1977

I was told today that they don't take Somerfield or Waitrose vouchers, just Morrisons and Asda, and one other that he couldn't remember.

However, I was also told by another SA that they don't take ANY conditional spend vouchers from other retailers so I took it with a pinch of salt but decided not to risk it.

quoia

barneydog wrote: »

It's a 99 barcode :j

9918391395005

Old_Gold wrote: »

Sorry are you guys saying that Tesco will accept this five pounds off voucher? What is the significnce of the 99?

99 makes it a MONEY-OFF BARCODE (nothing specifically to do with universal scanning or where its accepted)

It's a standard within the industry so that tills can be programmed to recognise MOCs (Money Off Coupons) and DEDUCT (automatically or otherwise) an amount from the bill rather than add to the total.

Whether it actually even physically scans as a barcode is NOT absolutely guaranteed, those that do scan may or may not be accepted or acted upon.

As per this one, it is 99nnnnnnn500x

the 500 is the value in pence = £5

These 3 digits (positions 10, 11 & 12) obviously can be anything from 000 to 999

£9.99 is the maximum

000 means the sales assistant has to enter the value of the coupon.

000 is either because the value is £10 or more, OR more frequently when the coupon is for a FREE product and the cost of that item varies across retailers (and the issuer obviously would prefer to refund to the shop, for instance, 44p for a 44p item and not 55p to somewhere selling it for 20p - by making it a fixed 55p "maximum" value .. eg. 99nnnnnnn055x)

The nnnnnnn bit identifies the coupon to a manufacturer or product or both, or the issuer etc.

The 13th digit "x" is a check-digit and a "security device" to ensure to a resonable degree that the barcode is not mis-read by the scanner. It value (0 to 9) is created by a calculation using all the other 12 numbers and this is recalculated, checked and re-verified when it's scanned to determine a "good read"