Possible grab it glitch? for WHSmith

Carriannelouise

Hi, i dont know if this was a store error or if it will work everywhere...
today i went into the bra*ford store and picked up the hugh fearnley-whittingstall everyday cook book with 60% off at £9.99, i had a voucher for £5 off when i spent £15 on books so i also picked up a childrens book (it had sparkly fish on the cover) it was priced at £5.99. so i thought had spent a total of £15.98 less my £5 voucher = £10.98 i went to the till and before i handed her the voucher she said that it came to £10.98, i was a bit confused and asked how, she showed me that i had qualified for buy one get one half price(nowhere did it say about this when i was picking up the books i believed it was only on selected stickered books) but it had given me the half price discount of £5 for the cook book so full price for the lower priced item and half price for the higher priced item. so i got another book for £4.99 and the total with my voucher was £10.97! so thats over £20 worth of books for just under £11!
maybe i got the discount the wrong way around because she scanned the kids book first but a handy glitch i got an extra book for the little un for 1p less than i was going to pay in the first place even with the voucher

i got the voucher free in store when i bought a ruler for about 90p yesterday but the staff were giving them to people if they asked without buying anything

i hope this makes sense ask questions if your confused ill try to explain :P
HTH

snowey119

i work for smiths and the books are so over priced i just find it so much cheaper getting them off amazon i no some kids books at the moment are going through the till at 99p like captain underpants because its old stock

Rich44_2

snowey119 wrote: »

i work for smiths and the books are so over priced i just find it so much cheaper getting them off amazon i no some kids books at the moment are going through the till at 99p like captain underpants because its old stock

I don't think they're overpriced they're just not cheap which is always going to be the case with a bricks and mortar establishment.

Amazon etc is ok if you can wait, if you have a means to pay online etc but Smiths aint all that bad

busybee100

Theres an online offer of half price on the top ten, River Cottage Everyday is one of them. May be running it instore as well.

tattybonce

snowey119 wrote: »

i work for smiths and the books are so over priced i just find it so much cheaper getting them off amazon i no some kids books at the moment are going through the till at 99p like captain underpants because its old stock

Why are you hiding under a new user name?

Carriannelouise

snowey119 wrote: »

i work for smiths and the books are so over priced i just find it so much cheaper getting them off amazon i no some kids books at the moment are going through the till at 99p like captain underpants because its old stock

hi, the river cottage book was £9.99 i usually use amazon but recently they've been using a different courier and it never seems to get here but they always seem to have a very poor scribble as a signature then the book arrives about a week after i have complained!
the kids book deffinately scanned at the right price of £5.99 but like i say it said i had qualified for buy one get one half price and nocked a fiver off the river cottage book so from 24.99rrp to 4.99 after discounts i thought was great. i put it on here as i thought it might work with other books. as you work there maybe you could check

ill check for 99p books my sister used to love captain underpants :') she is now 19 but a blast from the past might make her smile

keith99_2

Is it actually the new River Cottage cookbook or an older one, as my local store has a big stack of older ones at 60% off.
The new on is River Cottage Veg Every Day.

On the WHS website is River Cottage Everyday for £5, would that be the one mentioned in OP?

http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=35232841

colmil

On the subject of Smiths, I am always very wary regarding their prices.

Especially at service areas, airports and railway stations, I only buy anything with a price on it, such as a newspaper, they really do load their prices!

celebrate

i buy my kiddies books from the car boot sale and never pay more than 10p per book lol!

my daughter is nearly 10 and generally gets through at least 3 paperbacks per day (holidays!)

Carriannelouise

keith99 wrote: »

Is it actually the new River Cottage cookbook or an older one, as my local store has a big stack of older ones at 60% off.
The new on is River Cottage Veg Every Day.

On the WHS website is River Cottage Everyday for £5, would that be the one mentioned in OP?

http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=35232841

thats the one! :O its still 9.99 instore, i saw someone buy one today. im glad got the mistake now otherwise id have been cheated! it deffinately came up as buy one get one half price on the reductions though. stupid shop! x