Adopt an animal £1.86!! Glitch?

catrinka88

Hello,
Boots have a sale on their adopt an animal sets, but they are scanning through the till for £1.86!

I got penguin (reduced sticker 7.00) and meerkat (reduced sticker £7.50) and both scanned in as £1.86. Maybe a glitch?

The tiger one doesn't work, it scanned through as £10 still.

All come in a tin, with booklet, gift registration forms, leaflets and poster.

Make a nice gift and pretty sure they are normally £20ish

msgigglewick

could do with a penguin one but can't get there till tuesday, bet they will have corrected them by then or none there.

SkintGypsy

Is this basically a charity donation, dressed up in a fancy box? Not sure if I could be quite so gleeful about my 'bargain' adopted penguin??

natalie2011

Does this not defeat the object of adopting an animal?
How far is £1.86 going to stretch!?!

*Jelly_Tots*

I'm sure it would be Boots taking the loss not the charity.

globalds

*Jelly_Tots* wrote: »

I'm sure it would be Boots taking the loss not the charity.

Don't know how right that makes it ?

seems a bit low ...

olias

I went to put £10 in a Royal British Legion box for a poppy, but while nobody was looking, I got away with slipping in 10p instead - bargain!

Olias

funnyfreckle

Just check the 'expiry dates' on the back of the box. I was going to buy a penguin one as a gift but you had to send off all the paperwork by the end of last year. Another one was in March 2013 which was no good for me.

The Meerkat ones I saw had a date of October 2013.

The 'expiry date' is not a great way of putting it - sorry! It is the date by which you have to submit the registration details for the scheme. Hope that makes sense. You have to look right at the bottom of the back of the box to find it.

buffy1981

I got one of these in the 75% sale last week it was scanning at £3.75 but the expiry is jan 2014 I also got the baby prints on canvas gift box for the same price HTH

coship2300

If these are the Gift Republic items then only 10% of the RRP goes to the charity.

No idea how much Boots were paying for them but Gift Republic must be making a nice earner out of something a lot of people think is all going to help animals etc.:(

*Jelly_Tots*

globalds wrote: »

Don't know how right that makes it ?

seems a bit low ...

What I meant was, if Boots are making the loss, not the charity, then it is no different from any other Grabbit (where the company involved makes a loss as a result of a pricing glitch).