Boots OOTW 18/12/09

carol9uk

my local store arent get any more,they sold out with 45 mins. oh well

LegalBlonde

Exactly! I think it has been hyped up by MSE etc but I for one thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Those who have not been lucky yet - they will restock. It is a great Christmas present or treat to self and a great bargain - but as many people who know nothing about it have said to me on viewing it - I would not pay £50 for it.

So when's the 75% sale?

koolkid

LegalBlonde wrote: »

kk, but they did not KNOW how popular it was going to be so why would they have?? I take everyone's comments about reading this site etc and yes maybe their systems could be better, but I can't believe a profit making company would purposely choose to let demand outstrip supply - especially as it is one week only, no matter how desperate/disapointed/upset some people are, they ain't gonna pay £50 on 25th are they?

I think you're getting me confused with someone else!

EmH

As far as I know most of the smaller stores don't have the hatbox anyway. The Boots site says it's only in larger stores and only the larger of the two Boots stores in Reading had them.

nicole.17

EmH wrote: »

Nicole, and everyone else going on about how many they got, please spare a thought for the people who've missed out. Imagine how they feel. Some people have been hoping for this offer for weeks and looking forward to it since it was announced. (And it's NOT just you Nicole. Sandra requested that everyone consider the feelings of others. Not really an unreasonable request, especially at Christmas).

As has already been pointed out, this sort of bad feeling is how rows start and it's how we lost the original Boots thread. It's Christmas, a time for good feeling, not spite, jealousy and arguments.

If you got what you wanted, great, well done. But please don't rub other people's noses in it.

It wasn't even my who brought them, therefor having no relation to me atall! So why dont you stop getting jealous and starting arguements? And like I've said to HELP OTHERS WHO DIDNT GET ONE Boots get a delivery tonight for tomorrow morning.. check again then. And then another at dinner time tomorrow!

LegalBlonde

KK i am not - someone posted between our posts - i was referring to you saying why not make it offer of the day. If they did not know how popular it would be why would they do this?

Anyway, there is still 6 days to go so I hope everyone gets sorted

koolkid

Yes but my post was a joke with EmH's with reference post and it wasn't my feeling towards the OOTW (it was me who in fact said in the 1st place that they wouldn't purposely run out of stock within the 1st 5 hours of the deal!)

LegalBlonde

all i can say then KK is i am sorry....i did not know it was a joke....and i have just read over 100 pages of a thread catching up from last night so i can't recall you saying in 1st place.....sorry.

EmH

nicole.17 wrote: »

It wasn't even my who brought them, therefor having no relation to me atall! So why dont you stop getting jealous and starting arguements? And like I've said to HELP OTHERS WHO DIDNT GET ONE Boots get a delivery tonight for tomorrow morning.. check again then. And then another at dinner time tomorrow!

I'm not jealous at all. I've no need to be. If you look back you'll see I posted that The Oracle in Reading had quite a few left at 5pm, so I could have bought as many as I wanted then, had I wanted to.

Sandra asked everyone nicely to please think of others. She has a point. For some reason others seem to have accepted this, but you're feeling the need to get aggressive about it. Why not just take the comment on board, as others have, and let it go, rather than letting it risk having the thread closed, as happened with the original Boots thread? That way, in the long run, we all miss out.

invisiblecabbage

hello everyone, Kidderminster Boots is not very big and they had about 15 left at 8am this morning. I walked all round the shop with 3 trying to find someone to serve me. Eventually found someone and she had no idea about the OOTW, was quite amazed at the reduction. Certainly seemed like one store where the staff were not going to be grabbing the offer before customers. Maybe they got busier later on and have sold the rest ... but it might be worth a phone call if you are local. Hope this helps.