Tesco Toy Bargains - No swaps :)

Jada90

1600 Piece Lego sets half price £24.99 Was £49.99.! I got 2 for christmas presents x

Ohh and they also had the duplo version not sure how many bricks were in their but same price x

sam84uk

Why don't Tesco just change the pricing details on their system for the original barcodes? You'd think that would be easier than sticking new barcodes over them all. They can make other alterations to price when promotions end for instance.

BAILEYS6904

Londinium33 wrote: »

I can only assume that you are replying to my post as it was the one prior to yours and mine was obviously aimed at you.

In no shape or for did I endorse removing barcode stickers - so don't go there.




No ones saying you did.

However there was a post made (which has since been removed) that DID endorse removing barcode stickers. I for one, started a reply to that, and then other people have come into it, having not seen the original post, and its all got a bit exaggerated now. Whilst the removal of the original post is good, its just made the following ones look a bit harsh and one sided, when it wasnt :S

HTH

(can we all play nice now? Its us against Mr T, not against each other ) x

Jada90

On tuesday I got moonsand construction for £2.

In my store the parachutes have gone back upto £3 =( think it's over at my local's - Reading.

Londinium33

Agreed ..... time to play nice. :j:j:j:j:j:j:j

Londinium33

sam84uk wrote: »

Why don't Tesco just change the pricing details on their system for the original barcodes? You'd think that would be easier than sticking new barcodes over them all. They can make other alterations to price when promotions end for instance.

Reason they don't do that is because it is normally a duplicate barcode that is already being used by a mainstream company.

My Moonsand scanned as a deep pan pizza !!!!!

Jada90

I'm not getting involved in the argument but when I worked at boots as a s.a my colleague had served a woman who had swapped reduced stickers around, the lady got stopped by security, I'm not sure what happened to her.

I think its wrong that tesco are doing this though, for example their is 2 moonsand's on the shelf, both construction, same box everything one scans at £2 and one scan's at £9.99 I am no where near brave enough to pull a barcode off but I don't think (EDITED TO ADD **) - **It's fair** that the same product is scanning at 2 different prices.!

sam84uk

Londinium33 wrote: »

Reason they don't do that is because it is normally a duplicate barcode that is already being used by a mainstream company.

My Moonsand scanned as a deep pan pizza !!!!!

Surely the fact that it scans at all means that they have been using that barcode at some point (otherwise it would come up as not on file). All the different companies use the same barcodes for items surely as it's the manufacturers that print the barcodes onto the packaging. I guess this is all besides the point though.

It just seems to me that the way they've done it is a bit backwards.

Londinium33

Jada90 wrote: »

I'm not getting involved in the argument but when I worked at boots as a s.a my colleague had served a woman who had swapped reduced stickers around, the lady got stopped by security, I'm not sure what happened to her.

I think its wrong that tesco are doing this though, for example their is 2 moonsand's on the shelf, both construction, same box everything one scans at £2 and one scan's at £9.99 I am no where near brave enough to pull a barcode off but I don't think (EDITED TO ADD **) - **It's fair** that the same product is scanning at 2 different prices.!

Why is it 'not fair'?

If one is scanning at a lower price than the SEL you get the one at the lower price - you get a bargain. (as in the moonsand case)

If one is scanning higher than the SEL you get DTD - hence making it lower than the SEL or in some cases free,


Sounds completely 'fair' to me.

Londinium33

sam84uk wrote: »

Surely the fact that it scans at all means that they have been using that barcode at some point (otherwise it would come up as not on file). All the different companies use the same barcodes for items surely as it's the manufacturers that print the barcodes onto the packaging. I guess this is all besides the point though.

It just seems to me that the way they've done it is a bit backwards.

All different companies do not use the same barcodes as loads of different items would therefore scan as the same thing and the same price.

Every single product should have a unique barcode... that is partly the point of them.