Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

... and I just don't get it.

Today we dug a big hole. I'm not sure why.

The answer's clear to see.... you're bonkers!

If your idea of Bank Holiday Fun is to dig a random big hole for no reason you can fathom, on a sunny Bank Holiday/Easter Monday then you're simply not cut out for the whole DTD thing at all..... or anything else much I guess.

misskool

Doozergirl wrote: »

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!

You can do a normal shop but you won't get much because an "average" shop would be about the same across both stores. But if you have a DTD shop then you would be maximising your profit. You only have to do it once for a £20 spend (for items you want) and then get a £20 voucher and spend it normal stuff. So you still end up approximately £10 up (as you still spend £10 at Asda for the items in shop 1).

I keep thinking they will pull it too but best make hay while the sun shines! I'm not sure when the offers change, you'd have to check the spreadsheet for the offers.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

The answer's clear to see.... you're bonkers!

If your idea of Bank Holiday Fun is to dig a random big hole for no reason you can fathom, on a sunny Bank Holiday/Easter Monday then you're simply not cut out for the whole DTD thing at all..... or anything else much I guess.

Have to admit, digging a big hole beats visiting tescos ANY day for me!

We're going ou to night and that's why we are in..turned the hot water on and going to get our nails clean ....but we both really would quite like to be out there digging just a little bit more...

(we've separated the finds, dh is ''in charge of'' the crisps and drinks wrappers, I get the chocolate ones...we debated the peanuts. They had a sweet tooth here. Mainly though, its broken tiles, few horse shoes, barbed wire, some gass bottles, loads of old cattle tags....) oh, and a big corner stone off the 1740s part of the house. That was fun to find about a foot and a half underground.

You know...I might just go and have one last poke about with the trowel...

SingleSue

I have actually been out shopping today...for things for me! Had great fun and not a trace of guilt about doing it...why? Well, I was spending my birthday money.

Got myself a duo seat for the garden, been after one for ages but just couldn't afford one, a new nightshirt, a dish drainer and a wooden spoon (mine broke after 20 odd years) and I still have just over £20 to spend.

Eldest surprised me and gave me £70 he had saved from his part time job and my parents gave me £20, so a total of £90 to spend on me, just me...so rare an occurance, I felt really rich going into the shop and not even stressing over whether I could afford it.

Still at my parent's caravan, been a great weekend so far but will be leaving fairly shortly as eldest has had to leave work early (he stayed home as he had to work....plus at nearly 18, he really doesn't want to be with his mum all the time) because we think he has had a touch too much sun and his throwing up.

One bonus of being here is that there is a very handy launderette (yes, one of those things that my home town has none of!), so all the school uniform has been washed and dried ready for school tomorrow morning. The other bonus is for my mum....I act as taxi driver while here.

LydiaJ

I had another look for cars. The Ford C-max does seem the right way to go for me.

I found one fairly near where I live, 07 reg, reasonably low mileage, £6.5k. I went to test drive it. It had sold by the time I got there, but the bloke persuaded me to test drive another one 08 reg, ridiculously low mileage (11k miles in 3 years), ex-motability so good service history. It was on at £8k. I said it was nice but I wasn't looking to spend £8k so no thanks. He phoned his boss and offered it to me for £7250 with 2 years' AA warranty thrown in, which seemed to me to compare favourably with others I've seen online that have been older and higher mileage, so I bought it.

I got home and checked it online and found it had actually been listed on autotrader as £7k, but this seems to have been a mistake. The label on the car definitely said £8k. Have I been ripped off paying £7250 for it? If so, should I try to do anything about it now? I have already paid for it, and am due to collect it on Thursday.

silvercar

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got home and checked it online and found it had actually been listed on autotrader as £7k, but this seems to have been a mistake. The label on the car definitely said £8k. Have I been ripped off paying £7250 for it? If so, should I try to do anything about it now? I have already paid for it, and am due to collect it on Thursday.

You probably have been ripped off, but you have a car you are happy with and you've got the warranty thrown in, so don't worry about it.

If you'd said that you'd seen it online for 7k he would probably refused to knock a penny of that and wouldn't have thrown in the AA warranty. So you've paid £250 for the warranty. Could be better than waiting for another car to come around.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Mainly though, its broken tiles, few horse shoes, barbed wire, some gass bottles, loads of old cattle tags....) oh, and a big corner stone off the 1740s part of the house. That was fun to find about a foot and a half underground.

You know...I might just go and have one last poke about with the trowel...

You can flog the horseshoes and bottles on ebay if you were intending just lobbing them in the recycling.

GDB2222

LydiaJ wrote: »

I had another look for cars. The Ford C-max does seem the right way to go for me.

I found one fairly near where I live, 07 reg, reasonably low mileage, £6.5k. I went to test drive it. It had sold by the time I got there, but the bloke persuaded me to test drive another one 08 reg, ridiculously low mileage (11k miles in 3 years), ex-motability so good service history. It was on at £8k. I said it was nice but I wasn't looking to spend £8k so no thanks. He phoned his boss and offered it to me for £7250 with 2 years' AA warranty thrown in, which seemed to me to compare favourably with others I've seen online that have been older and higher mileage, so I bought it.

I got home and checked it online and found it had actually been listed on autotrader as £7k, but this seems to have been a mistake. The label on the car definitely said £8k. Have I been ripped off paying £7250 for it? If so, should I try to do anything about it now? I have already paid for it, and am due to collect it on Thursday.

Actually, I would double-check this on a legal newsgroup. Try uk.legal.moderated. The reason is that there are some odd comsumer protection laws about adverts, and the trader may have fallen foul of these. I'd check the position with that newsgroup and then decide whether to do anything about it.

If you don't generally use newsgroups, you can post to it via Google Groups. Or if posting is still a problem, I can do that for you.

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

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You probably have been ripped off, but you have a car you are happy with and you've got the warranty thrown in, so don't worry about it.

If you'd said that you'd seen it online for 7k he would probably refused to knock a penny of that and wouldn't have thrown in the AA warranty. So you've paid £250 for the warranty. Could be better than waiting for another car to come around.

Thanks. The thing is I can't afford to wait around for ages for another car to come around. I have to go back to work on Wednesday, and the insurance company will stop paying for my hire car on Thursday.

My friend and I checked on Parkers. It was a bit odd - only listed the C-max from 2010 onwards, so we looked it up under Focus C-max, which is definitely different - they only stopped building Focus C-maxes in 2010, but they started building C-maxes (without the Focus bit) in 2007. It said £7185 for an 07 model Focus C-Max from an independent garage, without adjusting for its exceptionally low mileage, so I think £7250 including warranty can't be too bad. The C-Max does better one the Euro-NCAP than the Focus C-Max, anyway, which is obviously a big consideration for me under the circumstances. I wouldn't have taken it without the warranty, anyway.

GDB2222 wrote: »

If you don't generally use newsgroups, you can post to it via Google Groups. Or if posting is still a problem, I can do that for you.

If you could do that for me I'd be hugely grateful.

GDB2222

It's viewable here:
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.legal.moderated/browse_thread/thread/d10011a9cfa62202/150fff2f6680f9d6?hl=en

So far, no replies of course.