The Great 'Boots Bargains' Hunt

bright_side

Westywoodpecker wrote:

I've ordered on line from Boots and used a £5 code & got free delivery with another code too. I did have to spend over £40 though.

I think delivery is automatically free with over £40 spend so there's no code to enter.

soolin

advantage_card wrote:

BTW Are people still getting Meal Deal points coupons out of the machine? BOO HISS if you are, they don't have that on the Eastage Centre machine as Eastgate Centre Boots hasn't sold them since last August! You'd think i'd stop whinging aobut it now but i used to have at least two, often three, a week so really miss the points collecting involved. No use going in a taxi to the Retail Park just for one!

k.

My own advantage card gets me vouchers for 100 points off a meal deal, but if I use my sons card I get 150 points per meal deal. Last week they also had crisps and drinks on special so buying two meal deals and the 'right' drink and crisps got me the whole lot for less than a pound in total.

However, I had been hitting the meal deal vouchers quite heavily and they stopped being issued on my sons card for a couple of days, but they are back now.

Soo

Dormouse

Right guys, I need your expert opinion. Would the following work:

-getting a No7 product worth, say, £7.50, which is also BOGOF, so getting 2 of them
-seeing that you're 'spending' £15 on No7, get 500 extra points, even though you're only really spending £7.50
-using the 10% voucher, so total is £6.75
-paying with the £5 skincare voucher...?

so you'd be handing over £1.75 and getting over 500 points? Pls pls pls tell me this would work?

Cat72

I was in Boots today, but could not find the magazine with the 10% off. They had loads of the advantage card magazines but I never seen any others ? WHta do they look like and where would they likely to be ? Please help as I have a lot of things to buy and 10% would really help.

cx01

This seem to be a bit of a Boots con. Some of the latest magazines are just on their own (most stores) and some stores have the magazine in a shrinkwrapping with an addtional booklet called 'Hot Holiday Buys', the 10% voucher is inside this additional booklet. It was only reading about it on this site, that I realised this. I went to the Cheshunt Boots today and they had both kinds, so I grabbed 4 copies of the shrinkwrapped one. lol

jockettuk

Dormouse wrote:

Right guys, I need your expert opinion. Would the following work:

-getting a No7 product worth, say, £7.50, which is also BOGOF, so getting 2 of them
-seeing that you're 'spending' £15 on No7, get 500 extra points, even though you're only really spending £7.50
-using the 10% voucher, so total is £6.75
-paying with the £5 skincare voucher...?

so you'd be handing over £1.75 and getting over 500 points? Pls pls pls tell me this would work?

trouble is your not actually spending £15 you might be getting the value of £15 on the bogof but your not spending £15 so you wont get the bonus offers..

shirley999

I bought 6 boxes of tissues online @ £1.79 BOGOF = £10.74 - £5.37 = £5.37.
Used a £5 voucher = 37p plus postage, £3.50 = £3.87 paid on credit card.
Arrived today with £5 voucher for spending more than £10.
+ 21 advantage points.
+ 10 rpoints.

Bargain I'd say.

Frogling

Cheltenham branch had the Jamie Oliver Italian Kit on sale at £2.50 each today. Set consists of:
Classic enamel colander, pasta wheel, ravioli cutter, rolling pin, sicilian olive oil and oregano

The olive oil is best before the end of June, but the colander alone is worth more than £2.50, so a great bargain.

They had about 50 of these sets out upstairs in little piles on the floor. Got one for myself and one for the MIL (bagged some extra brownie points with her now, so hopefully she'll babysit so hubby and I can go and watch Star Wars next weekend!)

Dormouse

jockettuk wrote:

trouble is your not actually spending £15 you might be getting the value of £15 on the bogof but your not spending £15 so you wont get the bonus offers..

I know what you're saying, but some of the extra points offers apply before the BOGOFs etc. E.g. if you're buying baby stuff that's worth £25 but with BOGOFs it's less than that, you still get the extra 500 points.

So I still don't know if this will work or not. Only one way to find out!

mhoc

jockettuk wrote:

trouble is your not actually spending £15 you might be getting the value of £15 on the bogof but your not spending £15 so you wont get the bonus offers..

Yes they are very mean in Boots. They actually want you to hand over £15.

I've always found it very difficult to actually spend exactly £15, usually its nearer £20. Anyone else manange it?

Everytime I say I am not doing another No 7 offer, there is nothing I need and I dont need to spend another £20. Then another offer starts, watches, make up bags, points vouchers and I succumm yet again

Mary