EXPIRED Boots Vitamins Discount Error

honeyandnoahsmummy

Many thanks to the OP and everyone else that made it make sense!!

I've just got

6 x shots - £1.99 each
3 x Multi vit - 79p each
3 x Evening Primrose - £2.05 each

snack a jacks - 30p
buble bath - £1.00
Snack - 27p

All for the grand total of £1.28!! :j

I had no idea how it has all been worked out, it says I have total savings of £21.95! I also got a £5 No 7 voucher too!! :T

josie

Cj87 wrote: »

If you buy 6x boots vitamin c tablets (79p) each and 6 x shots u will get £2.81 off the rest off ur shopping because aswell as the shots being in the 3 for 2 they r also free when u buy vitamins, hence the glitch

Yes, but that still doesn't explain it as that would be a £3.98 off the total of £3.16 which would only give you 82p off your shopping when it's clearly giving more!

josie

ilovecustard wrote: »

I bought six shots and
3 x vit c at .79
3 x cod oil at .99

comes to £3.56

also a £4.25 handwash and a £1 sandwich

total £8.81

came to £2.84 to pay

didn't use any coupons...forgot!

I make that £5.97 off my shopping....sorry if that's wrong!

Cj87 wrote: »

£2.41 off the rest of ur shopping (don't include the vitamins & shots as they would be free)

No, ilovecustard is right. S/He hasn't counted the shots and their shopping excluding the shots comes to £8.81.

£8.81 - £2.84 = £5.97 saving.

You don't need to count the shots as they go on and straight off again. The saving is in the additional 3 for 2. When you buy 6 vits and 6 shots, it takes off all the 6 shots as free, fine. Then it takes off 2 more as 3 for 2, even better. It then seems to take off another one, showing as ***MULTISAVE*** on my receipt, so taking off 9 x £1.99 in total, hence the £5.97 off your shopping! :j

My receipt shows the same saving of £5.97 too - total should have been £10.14 - £5.97 - £1 (Boots ATM saving) = my total of £3.17.

Basically, if you're getting 6 lots of shots and 6 lots of value vits either multivits or vit C, the saving off your total bill will be £5.97 (although part of this will be taken up by the £3.16 cost of 6 value vits on 3f2) HTH!

Cj87

josie wrote: »

No, ilovecustard is right. S/He hasn't counted the shots and their shopping excluding the shots comes to £8.81.

£8.81 - £2.84 = £5.97 saving.

But I am stating just the profit you make as you have to buy the shots & vitamins to get the glitch to work. Most ppl want to know how much they would need to spend on other shopping so that their total isn't left as a minus figure after buying just the shots and vitamins (priced under £2).

They didn't have to pay nothing for the shots & vitamins as with the discounts they worked out free ....plus a profit of £2.41

They just paid the remainder of the total of the £4.25 handwash & £1 sandwich they bought, should of been £5.25...but ended up paying £2.84

so thats £5.25 - £2.84 ...(profit of £2.41)

So I would count that as getting the shots & vitamins free and then a saving of £2.41 off any other shopping..

neosi

Hi, Big thanks to the OP

Did Two transactions earlier and got a total of

12 x Tubs of Vitamins
12 x Vitamin Shots
8 X Cans of Shaving Foam

Total cost 75p should have been £35.75 !!! before discounts..

The simplest way to understand what you have to spend is ignore the cost of the shots as they are free and then they give you the discount as they are also on 3 4 2.

If you buy

3 x Shots you get £1.99 credit
6 x Shots you get £5.97 credit ( The till gives an extra £1.99 for some reason)

You still have to buy normal Vitamins on the 3 4 2 offer. The cost of these comes out of the above credit.

For example
Buy 3 x 79p tubs after 3 4 2 it will cost £1.58 (-£1.99) leaving £0.41p Credit to spend on anything else
Buy 6 x 79p tubs after 3 2 4 it will cost £3.16 (-£5.97) leaving £2.81p Credit to spend on anything else

It would be fantastic if you only had to get 6 shots without any vitamins but as per an earlier post it seems to get all this to work you do have to buy tubs of vitamins as well...


Let hope its still working tomorrow...


Edit : Update to say that if you cant find the vitamins but your store has the shots get them in 6's or 12's as they will be free

76rosie

got 3 shots and 1 vit c, 1 cod liver oil and 1 multi vitamin. bought 1.52 moisturiser. paid 1.31. didn't have stock to buy more. thanks though free stuff always nice. :beer:

must_try_harder_2

I went to my local big boots today and they were out of the shots. The small boots had plenty of shots but a smaller selection of vitamins and none at all for cheaper than £2.05.

I have read everything here and still can't figure out what I should have bought if the cheapest vits are £2.05.

Can anyone explain it simply?

czerniacha

must_try_harder wrote: »

I went to my local big boots today and they were out of the shots. The small boots had plenty of shots but a smaller selection of vitamins and none at all for cheaper than £2.05.

I have read everything here and still can't figure out what I should have bought if the cheapest vits are £2.05.

Can anyone explain it simply?

I think you'd have to pay just over 4GBP for 6 shots and 6 vitamins...?

ca. 2GBP for 3+3?

tazmac25

Thanks op for this
Stocked up on loads of the vitamins we take and paid peanuts for them
The vitamin drink is interesting thou....... Still oh will be having that lol xx

Cj87

must_try_harder wrote: »

I went to my local big boots today and they were out of the shots. The small boots had plenty of shots but a smaller selection of vitamins and none at all for cheaper than £2.05.

I have read everything here and still can't figure out what I should have bought if the cheapest vits are £2.05.

Can anyone explain it simply?

In one shop I bought
6 x boots kids chewable vitamins @ £2.05 each
6 x shots £1.99 each

total to pay was £2.23

HTH