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French_Knickers

aau98113 wrote: »

I've only ever broken the £10 mark twice. Once for £10.73 and once £12.20. They were both relatively small receipts and not the largest value I've ever had either.

£8.xx is my best in the last month. It's been slim pickings lately :-(

Hmmmm, sounds like theres some right good ones to be had then! Will keep on wombling!

Has anyone tried redeeming loads and loads of these in one go? Was wondering about the feasibility of saving a couple of hundred quids worth up and using them on a large purchase. Reckon that would raise an eyebrow or 3!!!

SW42

Nearly got trouted on my double up vouchers as miserable SA queried whether I'd spent enough in the right dept. Surely they wouldn't scan if I hadn't?

Anyway, she did manage to take away my light bulbs, citing health and safety. I immediately went back to the shelf and entire shelf was being cleared so they are on the ball in there. If anybody wants to check, it was Tesco energy saving small screw mini globes pack of 2, £1.52. 18w equivalent to 24w.

m4rtin

mhoc wrote: »

Now we use price flop MOCs, JTD vouchers and conditional spends all together, usually with very little fuss and get the final totals down far below anything we would have dared to before black Friday

I once got a £42 odd shop down to 10p using just the mocs available at the time, I did actually buy a few of the correct items (6 x Mitchum ) using 7 x £1.50 Mitchum moc and no CS's (Didn't know about them at the time (Farmfoods etc)) but I know I was lucky in my choice of stores:cool: Lost count of the times the Supervisors used to tell the SA's off when they questioned the pile of moc's saying the customer is correct, as long as they are all unique and multiples if they have actually bought the product:cool: Ahhh them's were the days

Still not too bad but looks like the next set of price checks will be less useful than recent ones

m4rtin

SW42 wrote: »

Anyway, she did manage to take away my light bulbs, citing health and safety. I immediately went back to the shelf and entire shelf was being cleared so they are on the ball in there. If anybody wants to check, it was Tesco energy saving small screw mini globes pack of 2, £1.52. 18w equivalent to 24w.

Sorry, must have missed this. What's the story??:o

SW42

m4rtin wrote: »

Sorry, must have missed this. What's the story??:o

They refused to sell me them saying they were being recalled for health and safety reasons. Guy clearing shelf said they might blow up in your face. Or could be a potential 1p item. Who knows, you decide!

redfraggle_2

Not sure if it wa answered elsewhere but can confirm that DTD Duracell batteries do not compare. Found another clipstrip in my store yesterday, cant believe it, 10 days out!

dcon_blue

I'm still really behind but thought I'd add my recently womble ... which was yesterday.

I wombled 6 receipts ... from A$Da

• 1 cheaper
• 3 with a total < £40 and dearer ... so vouchers for 60p, 75p and 81p (£2.16)
• 2 with a total > £40 and dearer ... so vouchers for £1 and £3.10 (£4.10) AND 2 £5 wys £40 bonus vouchers - (The bonus vouchers are printouts like the APG vouchers)

So 1 womble produced £16.26 of vouchers ... need 2 £40 'profitable' shops now

mhoc

French_Knickers wrote: »

Hmmmm, sounds like theres some right good ones to be had then! Will keep on wombling!

Has anyone tried redeeming loads and loads of these in one go? Was wondering about the feasibility of saving a couple of hundred quids worth up and using them on a large purchase. Reckon that would raise an eyebrow or 3!!!

I had a couple of weeks where I was produciing large JTD vouchers and it caused a few eye brows. In my local they had not been trained and were refusing them until their CS said it was OK.

This was the last time when they had £4 wys £40 printoffs so I was buying £40 of shopping, using a £5 print off plus a few small MOCs if I could and a large APG of maybe £14, £15 or £16 and a few tiny smaller APGs to get the final total under £20 if I could.

I was actually quite low on laundry wash tablets at the time and some kind person on here mentioned that Bold Crystal rain was £10 in Asda but only £5 in Sainsburys for the big 35 capsule box so I always got 2 or 3 of these on each trip. I was also stocking up on cat food as it was £4.49 in Asda and £3 in Sainsburys.

My list was an Asda versus Sainsburys and I always included some value items that matched or were cheaper in Sainsburys to make the total number of items up to 8. The swedish meatballs were another good item to include as Asda and sainsburys sell them for either £1.50 or £1.99.

Then the Bold price dropped and the £5 print offs went so that was the end of that good game

mhoc

dcon_blue wrote: »

I'm still really behind but thought I'd add my recently womble ... which was yesterday.

I wombled 6 receipts ... from A$Da

• 1 cheaper
• 3 with a total < £40 and dearer ... so vouchers for 60p, 75p and 81p (£2.16)
• 2 with a total > £40 and dearer ... so vouchers for £1 and £3.10 (£4.10) AND 2 £5 wys £40 bonus vouchers - (The bonus vouchers are printouts like the APG vouchers)

So 1 womble produced £16.26 of vouchers ... need 2 £40 'profitable' shops now

I like the idea of this game. So you need a good £40 shop to start with to use your APGS - £6.26 plus one of the £5. Also need to use as many MOCs as possible.

And ideally generate a good JTD for next time.

I usually start by looking at things that might have a good price difference eg wash liquid, pet food and wine. Also spirits like Baileys, gin, whisky, vodka etc

Not easy espeically as T have been quite good to us recently so we have all been getting nice stock piles together in all catergorys.

mhoc

On this receipt did it match Asda versus Tesco to get the biggest difference?

Also any outstanding items with big price differences?

French_Knickers wrote: »

Ta. I was itching to input that one! Receipt was for 160 quid and already had 9.39 of multibuy savings on it. Just had a good feeling about it.

Its interesting though because big receipts from Tesco rarely yield anything as large amounts of items usually means good items and bad items just cancel each other out leaving the value of the shops similar.

With asda however even if that happens, their 10% policy means you'd still get a voucher.

I love asda receipts that look like strips of wallpaper! :D:D