Tesco Cottage - Refund the Difference Deals

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Welcome to the new, not-quite-as-good-but-still-a-respectable-grabbit, Tesco thread, based around their revised war of words, T&Cs and promises against ASDA.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8480180/Tesco-drops-double-the-difference-as-shoppers-cash-in.html

This story broke on 28/04/11 as Tesco pulled their Double The Difference campaign. Many people thought that was the end of it all but we've found there are still loopholes to exploit and as long as that is the case, MSE's cottagers will continue to win the war!

COUPONS!

Take the following as an example:

Day 1 - Buy two Fairy Fabric Conditioners, total £3.40, use two £1 off coupons:(http://www.supersavvyme.com/fairycoupon/home.aspx), No photocopies
total to pay £1.40 in cash. Input details into Price Check, get voucher for £1.40 back.

Day 2 - Buy two Fairy Fabric Conditioners, total £3.40, use two £1 off coupons, total to pay £1.40, use voucher, pay nothing in cash.
Input details into Price Check, get voucher for £1.40 back.

So far, you have four bottles for £1.40.

Day 3 - repeat Day 2.

So far, you have six bottles for £1.40.

Day 4 - repeat Day 2.

Continue until offer expires or you find a new product and printable voucher to try

Pros: easy, once a product has been found; shouldn't take long to do a shop as it's one item at a time, essentially clearing the shelves; good way to utilise vouchers and coupons to minimise cash spend; the above is just an example, there may be dozens like this.

Cons: items need to be cheaper at ASDA and have coupons available, as well as be priced to effectively be paying pennies (e.g. a £1 off coupon for a product that costs a tenner is never going to work as well as the above example); reliant on coupons being allowed per item rather than per transaction, avoiding minimum printing T&Cs of websites and not getting a trout.

This method is simply a way of getting ASDA special offers in Tesco - thus increasing the number of offers available to you at your local Tesco if you don't have an ASDA nearby.

Link to the tesco misprices thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=1656271

Tesco 1p finds thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=2711727

MISPRICES!

As most of us know, Tesco staff have been running around like headless chickens changing the SELs for a large number of products over the last few days. There's bound to be mistakes: in the last 48 hours alone on the old DTD thread, Patak's sauces have been going through at £1.48 rather than the £1 advertised on the SEL and those fruity strawberry things have been going through at 43p each, rather than the SEL advertised £1. These are on top of the normal errors that occur in Tesco on a weekly basis.

Got vouchers left over? Spend them on these mispriced products. Get the Double the Difference back at Customer Services in cash, immediately. If you're really cheeky, then enter your receipt to Price Check = Triple the Difference!

Pros: Potentially better than DTD, 1.5x better in fact; finding the mispriced items could be very easy collectively, use the Tesco Misprices thread here on MSE and instore scanners; get more for your voucher and at least cash back at CS.

Cons: Time-consuming, finding those mispriced items; no guarantee of 3x difference if receipt is marked by CS, although certain people didn't have problems during the DTD promotion

The link to the coupon thread (thread 17): https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3134500

The new thread is here (thread 18):

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=3202004

Okay, so there's no spreadsheet, no lovely updaters and no editors but we still have the camaraderie, the desire and the difference to fight for!

Let's show Tesco they can't beat us so easily!

Stryder

ist it this over the top exploitqtion of loopholes thqt eneded the DtD scheme in the first place?

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Stryder wrote: »

ist it this over the top exploitqtion of loopholes thqt eneded the DtD scheme in the first place?

Depends how you define 'over-the-top'? This way, it is pretty much impossible to get a large number of coupons through so best buying in twos. Tesco get the coupon money from the manufacturer, so Tesco are actually gaining more this way than previously.

And, no, in answer to your question - I personally feel it was Tesco failing to enforce their own T&Cs which resulted in the demise of DTD.

karlie88

where's the spreadsheet?

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karlie88 wrote: »

where's the spreadsheet?

:rotfl:

Oh god...

bargainhuntergill

Thought this may be handy

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3134500

find your coupons here to do some math

Nice one Adam

neas

Fail to see attraction as all tesco do is make price same as asda. Coming in with no vouchers it wo you ld be simpler just to use coup at asda.

theonlynuttytart

adammccance wrote: »

Added to OP, thank you.

I've just printed off my SuperSavvyMe coupons (click 'it didn't print correctly' to get a second, then photocopy x n) and they state 'one per purchase' which is just vague enough to allow two per transaction, I feel.

i used two this morning in the same shop without any problems, did buy two fairy gels tho. SA was quite chatty until i got out my vouchers.... felt so cold i nearly put my coat back on!:D

midwinter

Thanks for this thread

May it produce good finds for us all!

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neas wrote: »

Fail to see attraction as all tesco do is make price same as asda. Coming in with no vouchers it wo you ld be simpler just to use coup at asda.

My nearest ASDA is thirty minutes away by train (I don't drive), it would cost me half an hour (plus walking to and from stations) plus £2 in fare.

Besides:

Day 1 - Buy two Fairy Fabric Conditioners, total £3.40, use two £1 off coupons, total to pay £1.40 in cash. Input details into Price Check, get voucher for £1.40 back.

Day 2 - Buy two Fairy Fabric Conditioners, total £3.40, use two £1 off coupons, total to pay £1.40, use voucher, pay nothing in cash.

So far, you have four bottles for £1.40.

Day 3 - repeat Day 2.

So far, you have six bottles for £1.40.

Etc. Initial cash outlay can be negated by using an old DTD voucher.

bargainhuntergill

is it me or is supersavvyme hard to navigate round, found the fairy fabric softner, cant find a coupon thou?? any help?
(I use loads of this and was waiting for it or comfort pure on dtd, it never happened)