Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

michaels

If your Tesco shop is £50 more than Asda you only get a £20 voucher not a £100 - however Tesco then count it as having had your maximum DTD for the month - is this a breach of the T&C, Naughty, Amusing or Fraud?

misskool

GDB2222 wrote: »

There's a step missing there? 10 receipts x £20 = £200. Is the £100 limit per person or per credit card or per address?

Tesco doesn't expect everyone to maximise their DTD.

MSE shoppers weren't part of their focus groups :rotfl:

It's worth stocking up on things you would use

purch

Do you really wear heels that high mk ? :eek:

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

Per household.

So is using fake email addresses, no clubcard, paying in cash and doing multiple claims:
a) amusing
b) naughty
c) breech of terms and conditions
d) who cares
e) tesco's fault for not being cheaper
f) fraud
g) criminal
h) illegal
i) hanging offence

Well strictly speaking it's a-h unless hanging has been introduced for fraud by the Tories.

Back to work today. I'm starting to get very bored in this current job. It's not exactly stretching.

Kids are better tho so that's a plus.

purch

It's not exactly stretching

It must be such a pain being a Genius :eek:

PasturesNew

I bet statisticians at Tesco are laughing as they "spot" the ones maximising the DTD .... and failing, by increasing their overall spend or generally getting it wrong, or never spending the voucher.

Doing DTD and really going for it is an art and a skill, like any other: only 1 in 1000 people will actually follow through and complete the tasks to achieve the objective.

Doozergirl

misskool wrote: »

I thought it was complicated but it's not that difficult.

Let's do a shop that may have been done today. Buy Persil non bio £12, magnums £2.29, heroes £3.96, pringles £1.99. Total £20.24
The equivalent shop in Asda would have cost Persil £5, magnum £1, heroes £2, pringles £1 = £10.
So you would have saved £10 by shopping at Asda. Because tesco are not cheaper they are giving you double the difference. They email you a £20 voucher tomorrow.

Rinse and repeat.

(10 receipts a month per household, £100 a month, £20 a receipt)

Ok. So I just buy stuff and enter the numbers into the website? I just put in my "normal" receipt from Saturday for the hell of it and am waiting for a reply. I don't expect much as I usually hunt for cheap stuff anyway. I shop in Asda usually because it's cheaper and I think their extra special stuff is much better than Mr T.

And they change this on a Tuesday? If I go shopping tomorrow it will still be the same stuff as today?

Might as well give it a go, though I warn you, they'll pull it now because I tried it!

silvercar

misskool wrote: »

Tesco doesn't expect everyone to maximise their DTD.

MSE shoppers weren't part of their focus groups :rotfl:

It's worth stocking up on things you would use

A lot of the stuff on DTD is buy "1 for 90p, 2 for £1" and that compares with Asda price of 50p each. Then along come a queue of MSE-ers buying 1 for 90p just to DTD.

OH showed me some promotion his firm were working on. It turned out it was some complicated thing where you buy a contract from company A and that gives you a voucher for company B. Now company B were subsidising this to get more customers, but they also had a separate promotion running that gave a discount and free P&P and company A had a cool off cancellation policy. I spotted that in theory you could sign up with A, get the voucher for B, use it with the discount and free P&P and then cancel A within the cooling off period and be left with some free product. So not only was B losing the product that it would end up giving away but that customer would not be interested in future purchases and that was the whole point of the scheme. When I pointed this out Company B MD even emailed me to say he reckoned the number of people who would do this would be so insignificant that it wasn't worth worrying about. Then it happened.:p So mistake number 2 was coming on MSE and saying that instead of doing this they would have a special MSE code for MSE-ers to get a discount.:p that was ignored as the other route gave a freebie and got more MSE publicity. Then the whole offer had to be restructured just to avoid the whole scenario.

Its fine for Tesco because they are fair game/ big enough etc but I'm sure the MSE effect has hampered small operations.

Generali

purch wrote: »

It must be such a pain being a Genius :eek:

Oh Lord it's hard to be humble,
When you're perfect in every way.
And I can't help but look in the mirror,
'Cos I get better looking each day.

The problem is that there just isn't enough challenge in it. Given enough time I could even train you to do it.

lostinrates

This tesco talk makes me feel I'm missing out too PN....but I do live near enough a tesco and I just don't get it.


Today we dug a big hole. I'm not sure why. we were weeding and got bored so we started digging instead. STILL haven't finished weeding, but do have a moderately impressive hole and a hugely impressive pile of junk from big hole. Big hole was once a ditch we think. with we've dated its infill to about 1985, based on the best before dates on various choc/crisp wrappers.