Boots Grabbit Bargains part 2

lmcg123cat

pinkie wrote:

Does anybody know if Boots still do the trial packs of Huggies swimmers? I think they were around 78p, but i cant seem to find them in any large or small store near me?

the larger stores seem to stock them but you can get them in Tesco or Asda....Asda have a pack of ten for £2.50 on offer at the minute.

martfox

martfox wrote:

i know this is off topic so tell me if i need to go elsewhere but i was just wondering if someone could help me. -

i bought some hair straightners in october 2005, they are the nickyclarke gift set ones for £80. i bought them from boots.com and they were really good for a while until the ceramic coating started coming off even though i regularly cleaned them. i returned them to the store in march 06 for a straight swap which they did fine, however the same problem is occuring again already and i want to return them to the store for a refund on my card so i can buy some different ones from the boots website. i phoned my local boots who say that this should be fine but she didnt sound so sure so i am wary of going straight in and asking for a refund. it will be the second time returning, i have the reciept from the online order and i am still well within the 12 month guarantee.

do you think that they will give me the refund? i hope so because if i order the new ones online then i can get a much better deal ie. discounts, extra points etc

thankz in advance if any1 can help me

in response to my earlier post above. i went to boots who duely gave me a refund after much deliberation convincing them that i WAS allowed to get an exchange at a store if i wanted. they swiped my debit card and gave me a refund receipt saying i would get £80 put back on my card. this was on saturday. i expected it to be credited straight away to my balance (not my available balance but at least the balance) but it wasnt. so i thought it may take until today to go through but there is nothing still gone in. does anyone know how long it takes? i am worried that it wont go in and i will have to somehow convince them that i havent been refunded

rachaelc_2

Dunno if ive posted this in the correct place but here i do - went to boots in Mayfair on Saturday and brought the neew Gillette Vibrance for women razor (like the mens mac 3 - its vibrates zzzzzzzzz) it was reduced from £8.99 to 5.99, went back to hotel and opened razor, found inside a voucher for £1 off the shaving gel and £2 off the blades, so trotted back to boots and brought them, a pack of 4 blades were reduced from £8.90 to £5.93 plus the £2 off = £3.93 and the shave gel was reduced from £3.25 to £2.16 plus the £1 off = £1.16, i also brought the toni and guy heat protector spray which was 3 4 2 and got triple points!!! So i had £37.61 worth of things for £22.06 AND triple points - woo hoo!!

Chell

Kylie wrote:

How do you guys know about all these different websites!!!!

If you want a code for any site just google the company name and the words 'discount' and 'code'. It usually works.

grimelda

martfox wrote:

does anyone know how long it takes? i am worried that it wont go in and i will have to somehow convince them that i havent been refunded

They can take four days or so to go through; I wouldn't start to worry until a week has gone past. Just don't lose the receipt!

I once returned an item to Home base on a Saturday it showed on my account on the Thursday or Friday.

anta

Ellie2758 wrote:

Upstairs at Boots, on the pharmacy counter (yes, you think you're safe there dont you?) handed over another 200 point coupon plus wipe to boot-faced SA (d'geddit, BOOTfaced, lol). No points went on receipt. B-F SA :"No, I didnt think you'd get them for THAT". Oh, I said innocently, it does say ANY item. B-F SA: "Yes, but that's not a proper item, it's just a SAMPLE" :eek:
I refrained from argument. I'll just take my receipt back on a saturday to one o' they nice saturday assistants :rotfl:

Yous should ask SA: samples usually are free, aren't they?

pesky2

lmcg123cat wrote:

the larger stores seem to stock them but you can get them in Tesco or Asda....Asda have a pack of ten for £2.50 on offer at the minute.

They have them in Tescos in different sizes at the moment for 78p with a 50p coupon inside

bedshaped

Some boots will have them - mine still does but beware if you do buy them..
They've been around that long now that the coupons are mostly out of date - the one in my pack was and secondly if you're doing like I did and only buying them to use the 100 points coupon from the parenting club mailing( I was going to keep the coupon myself to use in Tesco and pass the swimmers onto a friend) it wont work, I had to ask to have the points added on and they wouldnt do it because it wasnt a full sized pack - despite the coupon saying 100 points when you buy ANY pack of Huggies Little Swimmers!!

I did email huggies though about the out of date coupons and they sent me a £1 one in the post.

martfox

grimelda wrote:

They can take four days or so to go through; I wouldn't start to worry until a week has gone past. Just don't lose the receipt!

I once returned an item to Home base on a Saturday it showed on my account on the Thursday or Friday.

thanks for this, checked my bank today and have been duely refunded.

bliss

Hi i dont know if this is in the right place. i bought a face cream in the no7 range on satruday and asked the SA if i could return item if unwanted (as it came free with no7 gift). So i went in today to return cream (was £16) and assistant said i cud not return as cosmetics... i thought creams were not classed as cosmetics?? Is this true. anyway i argued my case sayin i had been asured i could return (they would not believe me but i had made sure it was certain it was returnable otherwise i would not have bought it) , so after much deliberaion she relented, sayin that her job and her mortgage was on the line as opposed to a poxy £16 i would lose if they did not let me return (this annoyed me as im a student and should not have to feel crap because i cant do without £16!) Anways... she then said i needed to haev returned the no7 gift aswell as it was only given because i had bought the cream, i did not have this with me as i had read somewhere that you did not need to return the free gift as it was a GIFT and had no cash value... is this correct?? I jus said i would return next monday as i had work committments until then. Should i argue it out to keep the No7 Gift or jus let them have it? Thank you.