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Boots loophole! Spend 99p on vitamins, get £2 back

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  • the till staff don't usually mind just scanning something to check it for you
  • teabythesea
    teabythesea Posts: 1,244 Forumite
    Fantastic, I always use these due to certain illnesses, fantastic to get a bargain on them!!x
  • Thank you grabbed 3 lots today and boosted my points a bit more :)
    *wonders when they will make dressing gowns acceptable day wear?*
    No new toiletries challenge - use up the stash first!
    NSD Jan 2/15
  • bc3000
    bc3000 Posts: 758 Forumite
    I got 1 today, should have got more and I probably will if I go in again :)
  • Printed 8 x 200 Points Vitamin Vouchers and picked up:

    5 x Boots Essentials Mulitivitamins (30) @ 99p
    3 x Boots Essentials Vitamin C Chewable Tablets (30) @ 99p

    Total Points boost of 1600 for £7.92 spend - Thank you OP for the heads up!:beer::j:T
  • Fantastic!bought one today but may well go back later or tomorrow lol.huge thankyou op!
  • Thanks to the OP for this....
    I have printed x3 off for this offer, got my points total rolling again for 2010!...already up to 600 odd points!

    How come someone managed to get to 8 (?!?!) printouts of the same offer?, the maxium i have ever got has been 3..

    Does the offer ever come back on?, I went back this morning, but didnt have the offer?.....just wondering if its a once a week thing?.
  • alexandrite
    alexandrite Posts: 552 Forumite
    edited 15 January 2010 at 4:41PM
    Thanks to the OP for this....
    I have printed x3 off for this offer, got my points total rolling again for 2010!...already up to 600 odd points!

    How come someone managed to get to 8 (?!?!) printouts of the same offer?, the maxium i have ever got has been 3..

    Does the offer ever come back on?, I went back this morning, but didnt have the offer?.....just wondering if its a once a week thing?.

    My technique was to keep pressing the "PRINT" button (in quick succession) until the option disappeared, so on this occasion 8 vouchers came out!!!
  • MrsAnnie
    MrsAnnie Posts: 679 Forumite
    My technique was to keep pressing the "PRINT" button (in quick succession) until the option disappeared, so on this occasion 8 vouchers came out!!!

    Did you have to do 8 seperate transactions at the till :eek: or did they let you use multiple vouchers in one go?
    I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he ha
    s had to overcome while trying to succeed. Booker T Washington
  • My technique was to keep pressing the "PRINT" button (in quick succession) until the option disappeared, so on this occasion 8 vouchers came out!!!


    Oooh thanks, I shall certainly try it, if im lucky enough to get the offer for the vitamins back again! :)
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