tesco,free batteries

carolinabirichina

I can't believe that not only is this still working at WWX, Th*net but that the shelves were all restocked overnight! The signs are now showing as B1G2F but nothing else.

As I got enough of the AA batteries yesterday, I tried it out on the AAA and bought 6 first to test the water with a box of the Celebrations on offer for £5 - result! Only £1.50 to pay!

Went back in and bought another 18 packs with some assorted shopping to hide all the discounts. The SA couldn't quite believe her eyes and started looking at the receipt to see how it had all been calculated (and not in a good way!) so I distracted her by saying the card machine didn't appear to be working so she had to sort that out and I quickly typed in my PIN so that the transaction could go through before she could say anything.

Anyway, the total of both shops before discounts came to £125.19 and after discounts and a couple of coupons I paid the grand total of £14.29!!!

I love it when a plan comes together!!

I will be sharing mine around family and friends and am so grateful to have finally managed to get a glitch that worked.

philipmag

Worked twice at 13:00 & 13:15 in LEWES;

12 packs less -28 & then -21; total saving 49quid

then
6 packs -14 then -10.50.

£85.55 for £10.30

VERY HAPPY

Anon

Strange it working in some stores and not others - have people found this even in the same town/city/region? If yes, may venture out again.

That said, I have quite a few from yesterday and decided it would cost £4 or so in petrol to return them, so may as well keep them. Mrs Anon thinks I have gone mad and I hadn't the heart to say that the free batteries I went out for as part of the shop cost £1 odd a pack ...! Having benefited from DTD she knows that it generally works out

Anon

Anon

Tinyshoes wrote: »

All this "research" going on you would think Ts was paying people to do it! Lol

I would think that Mr Ts have someone on their staff paid to watch this, HDUK and other forums to look for their latest error - though they seem to take so long to update their systems after they are spotted that you do wonder if it is an elaborate experiment and we are the guinea pigs :cool:

Anon

andreavinne

Is it working in metro please?

Angelina-M

Anon wrote: »

Strange it working in some stores and not others - have people found this even in the same town/city/region? If yes, may venture out again.

That said, I have quite a few from yesterday and decided it would cost £4 or so in petrol to return them, so may as well keep them. Mrs Anon thinks I have gone mad and I hadn't the heart to say that the free batteries I went out for as part of the shop cost £1 odd a pack ...! Having benefited from DTD she knows that it generally works out

Anon

About ten years ago I worked for T's and my job was putting out SEL's and checking they worked. In those days there was a central computer that changed prices nationally so the price would scan the same in any shop in England. This doesn't seem to be the case anymore... shame eh!

Anon

andreavinne wrote: »

Is it working in metro please?

There doesn't seem to be a pattern at all - people have reported success and failure in Extras, normal and Metros - no real pattern emerging and no consistency. It seems the only way to find out is to put some through the till.

Anon

BusinessStudent

Angelina-M wrote: »

Ok so my store finally has some stock. Took three packs of the AA's to the checkout plus some other shopping. The only discount that kicked in was the Buy one get 2 free. I'm wondering now did I buy enough to make the other discount kick in?

People who say they are having success seem to be buying six or more. People with no success could be buying only three packs?

Its just a thought as to whats going on. I may go back tonight and try again with six packs. We will use them anyway in this house!

Anyone just bought three packs and had more than one offer come off?

Hi. You need to buy 6 packs x AAA batteries for £21.00 and the till deducts £24.50.
So you either buy 6, 12 or 18 packs and the batteries for free and the till also deducts £3.50 (if you buy 6 packs) , £7.00 (if you buy 12 packs) or £10.50 off if you buy 18 packs.

Hope this helps!

Angelina-M

BusinessStudent wrote: »

Hi. You need to buy 6 packs x AAA batteries for £21.00 and the till deducts £24.50.
So you either buy 6, 12 or 18 packs and you get £3.50, £7,00 or £10.50 off if you buy 18 packs.

Hope this helps!

So you think it could be that three isn't enough then? That was my doubt but it does seem that in the stores where it has worked, the people are reporting that they get two different discounts on the receipt even with just three packs. I didn't get that, just the standard buy one get two free.

Edited to add. Checking back there is quite a few people seeing two discounts

BusinessStudent

Went to three TESCO stores yesterday. Had success at two stores, however as I went to pay at the self service till at the third store, a jobs worth of a customer assistant told me he was unable to let me buy them due to "legal reasons" and removed these from my basket.

Still...Managed to get 24 packs of batteries + £14 worth of shopping for free. Have distributed the batteries to family and friends to ensure they get some!

Thank you to the OP for posting this!