Tesco 11+ support group for incurable gasbags and addicted bargain hunters!

caz2703

Londinium33 wrote: »

Pardon my ignorance, but other than the fact you may not have and Asda near by, what is the benefit of a JTD voucher?

The Gold Blend was a good example until the latest price change.

Tesco charge £6.48
Asda charge £4

Now the easiest thing would be to go to Asda and buy it but the savvy shopper realises 2 things at this moment in time:

1. Ts will give clubcard points - it all adds up
2. Having spent £40 the previous week, I now have a £5 off another £40 spend

So I go to Ts and buy 6 jars of Gold Blend plus a couple of bars of chocolate to reach the £40 minimum spend threshold.

T price: 6 * £6.48 = £38.88
A price: 6 * £4 = £24
JTD voucher for £14.88

Not forgetting that you only actually paid £33.88 in Ts because of the £5 coupon so ......

£38.88 - £14.88 - £5 = £19
Each jar costs approx £3.17

And as well as that, I now have 40 CC points so assuming you use the pure cash value of 40p (you could get up to 4x the value in rewards but I digress), each jar now costs £3.10.

Basically if there's a MOC for Ts but Asda have the better price it's like being able to use the Ts specific MOC in As. Oh and my local Asda are pants for parent & child spaces so I prefer my underground car park with lots of big spaces to get the kiddos in & out safely.

Your turn now ............. how do I turn a fiver into a ton?

Londinium33

caz2703 wrote: »

The Gold Blend was a good example until the latest price change.

Tesco charge £6.48
Asda charge £4

Now the easiest thing would be to go to Asda and buy it but the savvy shopper realises 2 things at this moment in time:

1. Ts will give clubcard points - it all adds up
2. Having spent £40 the previous week, I now have a £5 off another £40 spend

So I go to Ts and buy 6 jars of Gold Blend plus a couple of bars of chocolate to reach the £40 minimum spend threshold.

T price: 6 * £6.48 = £38.88
A price: 6 * £4 = £24
JTD voucher for £14.88

Not forgetting that you only actually paid £33.88 in Ts because of the £5 coupon so ......

£38.88 - £14.88 - £5 = £19
Each jar costs approx £3.17

And as well as that, I now have 40 CC points so assuming you use the pure cash value of 40p (you could get up to 4x the value in rewards but I digress), each jar now costs £3.10.

Basically if there's a MOC for Ts but Asda have the better price it's like being able to use the Ts specific MOC in As. Oh and my local Asda are pants for parent & child spaces so I prefer my underground car park with lots of big spaces to get the kiddos in & out safely.

Your turn now ............. how do I turn a fiver into a ton?

I don't see you are actually saving anything at all really as you could equally spend £40 on normal shopping and get the £5 of of £40 spend anyway and the clubcard points as neither are specific to any deal.!!! You are now just limiting yourself to now having to spend your JTD in Tesco and not choose where to spend your cash. Your maths does not really add up unfortunately.

In fact your £5 voucher has nothing to do with your JTD it is completly seperate as you got that from a previous shop JTD or no JTD

as for £5 in to a ton,,,, that is easy,,,, I have turned £200 into about £6k in the last 9 months thanks to other forums.

caz2703

Londinium33 wrote: »

I don't see you are actually saving anything at all really as you could equally spend £40 on normal shopping and get the £5 of of £40 spend anyway and the clubcard points as neither are specific to any deal.!!! You are now just limiting yourself to now having to spend your JTD in Tesco and not choose where to spend your cash. Your maths does not really add up unfortunately.

In fact your £5 voucher has nothing to do with your JTD it is completly seperate as you got that from a previous shop JTD or no JTD

as for £5 in to a ton,,,, that is easy,,,, I have turned £200 into about £6k in the last 9 months thanks to other forums.

I sometimes wonder why I bother. If you've turned £200 into £6K then why are you here being condescending? The GIOL forums are that way >>>>>> Mind the door doesn't get you on the way out.

P.S. I should point out that this is a Tesco thread - the clue for where we spend our money is in the title :eek:

Issyc

Londinium33 wrote: »

I don't see you are actually saving anything at all really as you could equally spend £40 on normal shopping and get the £5 of of £40 spend anyway and the clubcard points as neither are specific to any deal.!!! You are now just limiting yourself to now having to spend your JTD in Tesco and not choose where to spend your cash. Your maths does not really add up unfortunately.

In fact your £5 voucher has nothing to do with your JTD it is completly seperate as you got that from a previous shop JTD or no JTD

as for £5 in to a ton,,,, that is easy,,,, I have turned £200 into about £6k in the last 9 months thanks to other forums.

I have £200, please help me turn it into £6,000 in 9 months. I would be ever so grateful.

caz2703

Issyc wrote: »

I have £200, please help me turn it into £6,000 in 9 months. I would be ever so grateful.

:rotfl:

My figures aren't quite that good (in fact according to L33, my maths really doesn't add up) but I have certainly turned a few quid into 4 figures in 9 months. It's called JTD, DTD and glitching, 3 things that I don't think some people will ever get their heads around no matter how many nice ways it's explained to them.

And on that note, I'm off to bed, safe in the knowledge that I've helped someone tonight

HappyChappy84

Issyc wrote: »

I have £200, please help me turn it into £6,000 in 9 months. I would be ever so grateful.

I've got 4K what can he with that for me??:beer::beer:

I was trying to have an early night but my body and brain was having none of it as I'm not even remotely tired.

HappyChappy84

It's been quiet tonight, did everyone rush out for cheap hair dye?:rotfl:

lloydy84

Just been reading comments on Martins blog, the one about closing the Gambling part of the site down. Those defending the thread (quite rightly IMO) mention this and the other thread a few times, comparing the two. Could spell trouble for us.

Hey_Dude wrote: »

I used to be very active as a Tesco R&Rer - basically exploiting a loophole where you could buy an XBOX (yes honest!) for £299, be charged £300 (the item scanned £1 more that the shelf edge label) and claim a full refund AND retain the item.

This practice was supported and encouragred by MSE even though this was very much shopping outside of the spirit of the Tesco price promise.

More recently it is the case (rightly so IMHO) that MSE supports forumites exploiting the less attractive Double The Difference policy currently operated by Mr T (where you buy something, get charged to much and receive double the difference of the over-charge).

In fact the top threads of the Grabbit Forum are devoted to encouraging and sharing mis-priced items in Tesco to be exploited by MSErs up and down the land.

So my laborious point is how can knowingly ripping off Tesco be viewed as being less of an 'offence' to legally taking up a bookie's offer of a free bet and then matching it to make a profit?

HappyChappy84

SaverSavvy123 wrote: »

Wooooo! Looking good everyone!
DH just bought me a Mac Book Pro and its lovely and shiny, and this thread is really colourful, its like the fogs lifted!!!!!! Just need to learn how to use it now. HC might be coming to you for some tips

HappyChappy84 wrote: »

Tip number 1. Anything you ever learned about Windows - forget it!:rotfl:

Tip Number 2. Book yourself in to some of the workshops Apple run in their stores if you have one nearby.

Tip Number 3. I charge £3 per piece of advice, payable in the form of vodka or beer in the HC Glitch & *female dog* bar.:beer::beer:

Tip Number 4. The first thing you've probably noticed is that there are no buttons underneath the touchpad. Everything is controlled by 2 or 3 finger taps, 2 or 3 finger swipes or swirls. So, to make life easier and give you that 'right click' function you might be used to on Windows do the following....

-Click on the apple icon in the top left of your screen.


-Click on 'System Preferences'


OR

-Go to your dock at the bottom the screen (if you haven't moved it) and click on 'Launchpad'


-You will then be presented with a screen like this


-Then select 'System Preferences'


-Once in 'System Preferences' you will be presented with a screen like this. Click on 'Track Pad'


-Which will get you to this screen


-Make sure there is a 'tick' in 'Secondary Click' and 'tick' "Click or Tap with two fingers'


-Once this is done, if you tap, or click two fingers on the touchpad you will get the same options as you would using the right click button on a mouse etc. If you highlight a word or a phrase on an website and double tap/click on the highlighted area you can select 'Search With Google' to save you having to go to Google and type it in.;)

Tip Number 5.

The Dock at the bottom of your screen is annoying, just sitting there blocking part of your screen isn't it?:p

You can do numerous with things with the Dock. You can make the icons smaller, or bigger, you can remove things from the dock you won't use often (these can be got from 'Launchpad' if you do need them.) You can even make it disappear and reappear as if by magic. When you move your cursor away from the bottom of the screen the Dock will hide itself, move the cursor to the bottom of the screen and it will reveal itself. Clever eh?

-To do this, go to 'System Preferences' again and click on 'Dock'.


-You will then be presented with this where you can change all kinds of settings relating to the Dock.


-To hide and show the dock automatically tick the box.


Simples, even Westvleteren could do it.:j

Tip Number 6.

Watch these videos.

http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/whats-new/#video-lion

This one starts at 2:50 in and unless you or your DH/DS/DD have got iPhones/iPads then there is no need to watch it all the way though as it will tell you about iCloud and other useful features.

http://www.apple.com/apple-events/wwdc-2011/

And take a look at this..

http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/whats-new/features.html

3Dogs

janicerobson1 wrote: »

hi just got dtd on mens and ladies wilkinson sword xtreme 3, 4 pack razors, they are hanging in the the beauty aisle on clip strips, ladies xtreme 3 beauty barcode 0408 label said £1.80 charged £3.60 mens xtreme 3 sensitive barcode 0400 label £1.87 charged £3.75

3Dogs wrote: »

Lady was getting DTD on Wilkinson Extreme X Ladies Disposable Razors - saw the 2 sells for pink and green packs - one was £3.60 now half price £1.80 and the other was £3.75 now half price £1.87. These are showing full price on website so may have been an ood SEL. She had bought 2 of each and it looked like a planned purchase so may be someone on here or a lurker at least She got 2 x £7'odd back as CS thought she'd only bought one of each at first

And that lady had already posted the details by the time I did :rotfl: :rotfl: Thanks for the pm Janice - hope to see you in that store sometime soon for a coffee;)