Boots Grabbit Bargains Thread part 5 - post your finds here

pingua

Queengemma wrote:

Hi, the best/cheapest vitamins i have found to buy with the 300points voucher is Boots Caffine Strips for 49p!! They are in the vitamin section and on the back of the packet it says 'Boots feel the difference vitamins range', incase anyone queries it. The voucher didn't go through at the till but didn't notice till I got home so rang customer services, spoke to really nice lady and she added the points for me.

Thanks for pointing out the strips. So what exactly do they look like and ehat you meant to do with them?? Never heard of such a thing.

With the vitamin coupon, I have found that nearer the bottom of the receipts where it says total savings£xx.xx under this it says including £1.00 deals. I took this to be the coupon??? Not sure though as on other receipts it does not say this. So maybe it does not always come off. I am just too lazy to sit and work each receipt out - some are thaqt confusing and I feel I have done well enough that I could not possibly complain.

I atcually went into boots today and came out with....... nothing!!!:eek:
I tried the eye lash things but would not work with voucher. And I asked when the 342 no 7 was finishing and they thought it was the 30th???

bunny-zoe

inkie wrote:

They are normally £9.99, and have minatures of cleanser/toner/moisturiser/night cream etc etc (thinking off the top off my head). Time daley is a boots premium brand and the voucher is for £5 - making it 4.99 or free if you manage to find one reduced.

Thanks Inkie & Annapantscats for your replies, I will keep a look out for this one to try.

annapantscats

bunny-zoe wrote:

Could you tell me about this kit, what is in it? - Is this a boots own brand? Would the Time Delay Starter kit be on the reduced section only? How much is the voucher for in the Change one thing booklet. Sorry for all the questions. Thanks, Nikki

Hi Nikki
The set is Boots own brand, a little clear plastic case with 5 trial size items inside. (cleaner, moisturisers x2, toner and a tiny tube of restoring treatment).
I think each store varies with what is reduced and what isnt, but I spotted one on the reduced shelf in Mitcham, south london, so they may be reduced elsewhere too. It should have been £10 and was reduced to £5. The voucher is worth £5... so I got the kit free. :T I only knew about this deal from a previous post on this thread, someone else may be able to give you more info??

I hope this helps...and I do hope you manage to find a reduced set for yourself!!

dizzy_lizzie

littlejaffa wrote:

like alot of people i don't understand the 641 voucher, but today i got 3 packs of pretty polly tights for less than 1 pack of boots own, just from normal 342 deals soi'm happy

Hi littlejaffa I know how you feel. I've got three of the £3/£5 vouchers and have no idea how to get the best deal. And is the botanics offer of buy one get one free a voucher from the machine? I read all the offers and how they're done but still have no idea how to do it!! I asked at our local boots if the £3 part of the voucher could be used on the minis but she turned it over and said no. Though it seems some are able to buy the minis with it, maybe I'm just confused it's easily done

lmcg123cat

geordiescouse wrote:

Ooh quick, quick, anyone near Durham Arnison, loads (and I mean hundreds) of botanics items reduced all going through with free moisturisers! Fill yer boots!!!! (and baskets!)

Just shows you how fast this thread is filling up....I posted this last night back on page 8!! The SA said they are making way for new stock....6 4 1 is working too.

burnham1

Ok, who raided all the cheaper No7 items in Birmingham before I got there ?.....

Today in the bigger store I found 5 of the No7 Glossy locks,....but all on the No7 counter, so I had to wait til the SA was busy and sneak them away..!!!!..then found 1 lost looking lip and eye balm on the main suncare stand so the 6 for 1 worked again,

Just to let you know if you are in Birmingham and maybe elsewhere, downstairs in the big main store , opposite Mand S, they have a section with food items...boxes of chocolates etc.....all marked at full price but with the green christmas parcel sticker.... had seen them in the reduced sections in other stores so got the SA to price check and they were 75% off....boxes of Belgian chocolates £1.25 and £2.00 and jars of humbugs and licorice allsorts for £1.50 and they had some of the fabric jewelery boxes with sweets in for £1.75....worth a look in other stores as well maybe....

inkie

Hi littlejaffa I know how you feel. I've got three of the £3/£5 vouchers and have no idea how to get the best deal. And is the botanics offer of buy one get one free a voucher from the machine? I read all the offers and how they're done but still have no idea how to do it!! I asked at our local boots if the £3 part of the voucher could be used on the minis but she turned it over and said no. Though it seems some are able to buy the minis with it, maybe I'm just confused it's easily done

No it'd not from the machine. You can choose any botanics product (excluding cosmetics and minatures, ) - best value of this offer is to get the cheapest botanics item that you can - from 99p, and then chose a free moisturising botnaics product (see the first post in this thread to give you a list of whats permissible). You will be charged for the cheapest. You can put as many as you like through the till, and you will always be charged for the cheaper item of the pair. The voucher is a 100 point voucher in the back of the magazine in Boots (which is either £1 or free to advantage card holders)

joe13

Happy_shopper wrote:

Is it right that if you buy a no.7 mascara, you get a cleanser and toner free? And can you also use this offer to get 2 no.7 suncare items free? Sorry if I'm repeating questions - I think I read about this on this thread before, but I can't remember where...I usually hang out at the freebies board where everything's reasonably straightforward so this thread is a lot to get my head around... :rotfl:

I got a mascara as part of the 342 No 7 offer. I was also given the free gift that came with a mascara purchase, you cna choose from a cleanser, toner, sun tan lotion or self tan. Have only seen this offer in larger store, not available in my local smaller boots.

ella2002

Looks like the ebay sellers have been buying these suncare products

sonee2405

dizzy_lizzie wrote:

Hi littlejaffa I know how you feel. I've got three of the £3/£5 vouchers and have no idea how to get the best deal. And is the botanics offer of buy one get one free a voucher from the machine? I read all the offers and how they're done but still have no idea how to do it!! I asked at our local boots if the £3 part of the voucher could be used on the minis but she turned it over and said no. Though it seems some are able to buy the minis with it, maybe I'm just confused it's easily done

hi the botanics offer is not buy1 get 1 free.The actual offer is buy any botanics product and choose any moisturiser free.theres lots to choose from-what everybody is doing is getting a 99p botanics body bar or any other cheaper botanics product and getting mositurisers worth about £5 free.The boots magazine also had 100 points for botanics on it so combining that with the body bar also put 100 points back on the advantage card.you can choose face creams for day, night, ageing skin, mens moisturisers, tinted mositurisers, golden glow lotions and even stretch mark cream loads of choice.
If you have 3 vouchers you can spend the hair vouchers on the ranges slisted and pay the differnece- lee stafford products are good and you just ahve to pay about 99p. john frieda hair products are about £3.30 to £3.79ish so you can pay less than a £1 there and if you are after a free hair item then the voucher also works with the umberto gianni shine spary which is £2.99.
We have been using the £5 vouchers for no7 on a suncare and 342 offer.
suncare from no7 is on bogof at the moment and no7 is also on 342.both of the offers kick in at the till so if you buy 2 suncare and 1 normal product e.g nail polish and use the voucher you only pay about 50p.some of us managed to buy 6 suncare and only pay for 1 combined with the vouchers.
If you use a voucher to purchase a burgundy g/bag with gold handle and small selection of no7 products inside£6.50 but £1.50 with voucher you will find 2 vouchers inside for 250 points on no7 and 300 points on boots vitamins.HTh