Enter List Ideas (and more) To Exactitude (in shopping) thread

rose28454

Dopey1980 wrote: »

Anyone fancy sending a seller a question on eBay. The more people to send the question the better.

The question would go like this...

"Hi there, is postage really by courier or will you just send it by bog standard Royal Mail?

What happens if I'm the winning bidder and you don't get the money you want for it? Will you claim that I'm in some foreign country and refuse to sell the item to me?"

PM me the item and I will send the question

frequent

Logs in.

Back from pub 5 pints worse for wear.

Open a kopparberg.

Promises to not talk s h1te

Savvybuyer

I can't believe (well, yes, I can actually!) that I got 2 thanks on my another epic post. I bet some of you just click thanks, without bothering to read the whole lot now, as you know whatever I've said will be right (or if not, if I've made a typo. etc., that I will correct it as soon as I find out).

Thank you all.:)

(And thanks for those summer photos as well - above and now, it seems, below also.)

frequent

Savvybuyer wrote: »

I can't believe (well, yes, I can actually!) that I got 2 thanks on my another epic post. I bet some of you just click thanks, without bothering to read the whole lot now, as you know whatever I've said will be right (or if not, if I've made a typo. etc., that I will correct it as soon as I find out).

Thank you all.:)

(And thanks for those summer photos as well - above and now, it seems, below also.)

Not to be conceited is the q.

Would hit thanks alot quicker in return for the concise version.

TrulyMadly

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Hello, good evening all.
Did an Svs A shop this afternoon.
Firstly - as I have to begin in a logical way even though the main point is near the end:rotfl: - I was left rushing around in a faff again at 15 minutes and then at 5 minutes to closing time (once again, I didn't manage to make it there in time for more leisurely shopping).

Message on the tannoy announcing it was 15 minutes to close, then another tannoy at 5 minutes to the hour. I was trying to calculate the BM amount due back at the time - couldn't find one of my 'big ticket' items that would have easily put me over the £20 amount - so left, with around £4 short of £20, going around for whoopsies and trying to get small pence amounts to add to £4! My mental arithmetic, and my brain in general, was a lot better many years ago: unfortunately I've been through a lot in the last ten years or so, that my mind went blank and no calculator to hand.

All at five minutes to closing... I got distracted into listening to the tannoy - telling me what I already knew at that point - and couldn't concentrate until it had finished!! (I suspect there's some sort of sensory processing distraction at work here, although not full-blown SP disorder.)

Now the main point - it seems the Heinz 6 Multipack Beanz (sic) did work today vs A at £1.00, but it looks like everything else I bought on my shopping today didn't!:rotfl: Voucher of £6.38, but (having got home and calculated it out properly, after thinking I might have gone over the £10 cap) it seems it should be £8.77. Forgot to use the remaining amount on my gift card from last time against this shop. Couldn't use £2.50 nectar reward as that would have reduced my total to under £20.

Original bill was supposed to be just over £22.50, but as the size of the item I wanted that would have taken me there wasn't avail. - I thought going to the bigger store that I did would have helped - but it seems only the smaller store I saw it in last week has it:mad: - it was £16 and rush around for whoopsies (not too bad actually 'having to' do that, given amount 'saved') whilst trying and forgetting halfway through what figure I'd reached for the voucher calc. and then trying again to work out the total amount due back, with mind blanking:mad::mad:.

Actual whoopsies bought (all Sains own brand) included some 12 pack sausage rolls at a 'ridiculous'(!) 49p. Original price apparently £1.90, but I'm taking the original price to be only £1.00 due to seeing them being on offer at that amount previously (a month or two ago). 10p breads. Chocolate eclairs at 20p (original price says £1.19, but I am taking it as £1.00 as that's what a pack of eclairs is - and that would have been a pack twice the one I got - so only a 30p saving according to me (or only 20p if using APG vs S or M elsewhere).

So I'm taking it my whoopsies saved me only about 30p x 2 (for the bread), 20p for the eclairs and 51p on the sausage rolls (£1.01) rather than the 1.90 less 49p (sausage rolls) = £1.59 plus 70p x2 on the breads and 99p on the eclairs (another mind block again, however many pounds and pence that is). Also I lost 9p on some eccles cakes (as I've seen them lower priced recently before) and 20p on a pack of potatoes I was forced to add to reach the £20 (given that potatoes were 99p elsewhere recently but now, in S, £1.19). Not too bad adding that potatoes bag - as I now have one from the Tosco shopping and one from S - so enough to last the week now.

So actually only saved £1.01 minus 29p (70 odd pence, rather than the huge amount based on their 'original prices') - at least the beans packs seem to have compared today. Onto CS tomorrow after I find out what didn't compare and it may end up a bit more.:) Would have been great though if they'd have had (in the larger store!) all the items on my original shopping list (compiled at short notice). Faff faff faff:rotfl::rotfl:, but still probably ended up not too bad - at least I didn't breach the £10 cap as originally thought.

[Main point turns out to be in the middle??!!??:rotfl:of this, another long text from me!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::(]

Oh Savvy, what a stressful shop you have had. At times like that, you wonder if its all worth it!:o

I'm sure it is:D

nairny54

Iamsohappy wrote: »

Just for info as it might help someone doing an online order. I have done an A's delivery order for tomorrow as i can't leave hubby alone at the minute. I was doing a basics order so not for apg. I was able to order as many of the £1 dove soap 6 packs -ordered a few . I was also able to order the £1 beans 6 pack - it would only allow a maximum of 1 pack. Better than none when stuck inside. Good thing is that even if they don't have the stock they usually substitute better and can only charge for what was ordered. Nothing to lose.

I have also placed an online order but it let me order 6 of the bean packs,:j the order will arrive tomorrow so it will be interesting to see just what turns up :rotfl::rotfl:

Savvybuyer

Clarification of a possible ambiguity in my last long post (talk forever, and you end up with ambiguities!) :

"... at least the beans packs seem to have compared today."

I wasn't talking about whether they compared yesterday or not - I don't know - but that they might not compare favourably tomorrow if, for instance, A were to go and increase its price. So I added the word "today" as a caution regarding buying them tomorrow - in case A's price has altered a lot upwards by then.

Of course no-one but me would have identified two possible interpretations of the quoted sentence I've written - most people would just have read it in one way, assumed they'd read it correctly and not though about what else it could mean (or even whether they had got the meaning intended by me, its author). And off again on another long analysis!!!...:rotfl::rotfl::mad::rotfl:

At least it's now all made clear...

Thanks for bearing with me.

obama

Been away for a couple of days, and am very happy to see a familiar chap around once again.
Lovely old jubbly

frequent

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Clarification of a possible ambiguity in my last long post (talk forever, and you end up with ambiguities!) :

"... at least the beans packs seem to have compared today."

I wasn't talking about whether they compared yesterday or not - I don't know - but that they might not compare favourably tomorrow if, for instance, A were to go and increase its price. So I added the word "today" as a caution regarding buying them tomorrow - in case A's price has altered a lot upwards by then.

Of course no-one but me would have identified two possible interpretations of the quoted sentence I've written - most people would just have read it in one way, assumed they'd read it correctly and not though about what else it could mean (or even whether they had got the meaning intended by me, its author). And off again on another long analysis!!!...:rotfl::rotfl::mad::rotfl:

At least it's now all made clear...

Thanks for bearing with me.

To quote WS " taketh thyne head frometh thyne @rse"

Savvybuyer

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Oh Savvy, what a stressful shop you have had. At times like that, you wonder if its all worth it!:o

I'm sure it is:D

It probably is worth it. In fact it probably sounds more stressful than it actually was. It was the bit after the shopping - packing it all away properly after the store had closed - that was 'worse', but I need not go into that. It was actually calm - but a bit stressful - if that makes any sense (probably doesn't:rotfl:) - not too much getting annoyed or bothered by it, just the usual long-winded way that probably suits me more (and to which I am accustomed, or have got accustomed to. Happening sometimes). Not the best possible shop - given the lack of the necessary items - but, despite this, still managed a fairly good shop! I've done quite well, most probably, in the circumstances.:cool::):)