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fairclaire wrote: »oh.....you should really remember what you say when you've been to the pub! :rotfl::rotfl: yes, you offered to share your 6 month coke supply with my kids as long as they brought the champers :rotfl::rotfl:.......just as well your a gent and as good as your word
Did you know the Easter hols start this week?:rotfl::rotfl:
Ohhh, well if they are old enough to carry things from the fridge, and therefore can be made to clean, iron and sweep chimneys, no problem“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires0 -
I've never shopped at Sains, but we have a new store just opened and i've had a mail drop for £10 off £30. Looking at doing a BM for the first time, so I've worked out the 'Rules' -
S's compares with - A's andT's
Only one comparable branded product needs to be bought.
You need to spend a minimun of £20.
Maximun of 10 of the same product.
Voucher given at till.
Voucher back capped at £10
Now I'm searching for items that compare well to give a BM.
Any help gratefully received.
Hello all. (Although perhaps I don't need to greet you, as it became too late last night and I ended up not saying goodbye, so technically I could be treated as being on here continuously, even though I haven't been!:rotfl:) Anyway, welcome one and all and sorry for disappearing off without so much as a goodnight!
Chrisv, this is a very good offer, as it represents a saving of 33% (or even 50% if you do it right and make the £30 shop £20 elsewhere - the £10 refund, though, does come in the form of more goods next time and trick is to ensure that, if that next shop is below £10 and doesn't qualify, you only buy items that S are cheapest on (and preferably all N/A in A so that you couldn't have had 10% cheaper still off them via shopping in A). On this, S can open a new store near me every week if they want...
Anyway I'm waffling, so I'll get to the point...
Apologies for this somewhat belated reply tonight but if you bear with me (perhaps even till Friday) I'll get my lists precisely sorted out. Please see http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...postcount=5486 and http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...postcount=5487 for items that were, a few days ago, cheaper (and represented in my view v. good value) at T and A respectively. Much of this I suspect/hope will still be the same, and it should provide a good start for you (but you'll now need to check t.com or a.com, whichever one of these competitor of S you've chosen, to make sure T's/A's prices on the comparables haven't risen).
The reason I say "bear with me" is because T's offers are changing again, and therefore it's now time (next day or so) for me to check what's now on offer at T and apportion it to A and S as appropriate. (Everything goes to Avs T if it's available in A, otherwise to Svs T (and Tvs A as N/A in A), then if N/A A & S but on offer in T, goes onto straight-buy in T, filler on Tvs A (and filler on Tvs S)!!!)
On the last (and next) Svs A and Svs T I've put some Sains. own brand items. These are own-brands on which S - hopefully - is best value, as all own-brands are non-comparable under the BM scheme*.
I think the best way on a £30 shop is to do one shop this week (of very little over £30 S bill), consisting of around £20, on S prices, of branded items that are £10 at the chosen competitor - thus half price compared to S - and the remaining £10 being fillers that are branded non-comparable to the chosen competitor (this bit has to be done with care) and S own brands on which S is best value.
I tend to use MSM.co.uk for this, and do two separate parts, firstly the "BM shop" bit, putting the comparable cheaper in A/T items into my S basket till the amount is £20 at S and £10 cheaper elsewhere (unfortunately sometimes not all the branded items are showing when logged in and I then have to spend time adjusting it and calculating it on my computer's calculator).
When you've sorted out the shop and exactly how much cheaper it is in the chosen competitor, you can then add the fillers to bring up to £30 (these being best value own brands and, for the more expert of us, branded non-comparables on which S is cheapest - in the case of an Svs A these will all be non-comp to A, but may be available at T at either the same price or expensive/much more expensive, in the case of Svs T they will all be non-comp to T and, also, we hope, non-comp to A as well because, if we later find they weren't, then we could have had 10% off by buying them in Avs S).
Hope this helps - a good start is my two lists - I suspect the A prices may still be the same as they were - but do check as A may have increased prices on some of them. For Svs T, I'd wait two or so days, till we know what's now Avs T and what's, in default, S vs T. If any of the S prices have increased on branded items N/A in the rival, or on the own brands, don't buy them!
This time, with a £30 shop, I'd do one shop - of £20 BM £10 elsewhere + £10 fillers - and then use the brand match next week on £10 of items best value in S. Or use it next week against a £20 shop £10 cheaper elsewhere (get a Nectar card and your points are going up faster). Normally, I'd do a £20 BM shop and then go straight back in and use it on £10 of best value in S goods. This time however, as you're doing £30, I'd probably get the BM, take it away and come back and use it next time. Of course it depends on what you need to buy and how much you're spending.
Get a nectar card before you shop, use it every time and with own bag re-use, download Nectar search and use it on your internet searches each month up to the maximum, spend doing BM shops and they'll think you're spending more, perhaps soon invite you to Nectar adpoints, where you can collect points for viewing ads (but buy products based on here and not what you've seen), possibly around £3-£5 per month. Use double points coupons wisely, against BM shops that cost more (and not the 'best value' shops), use in conjunction with MOCs you've got, on items that are cheaper elsewhere.
Note: if you collect 500 points, you can have £2.50 off a grocery bill, but your total spend, to qualify for BM, then needs to be at least £22.50 (but my BM items usually slightly exceed £20 anyway and with a BM nearly £10, the £2.50 is then a good proportion off (£2.50 off £12.50 in effect, which is more than 10%, so if you get to that stage you're getting a little more than a price match, otherwise there's probably little point, of course the £10 off the first shop amounts to a lot more than price matching, or else it is a price match but with £10 worth of "free" goods - take this up, it's excellent!) If you use a brand match coupon against another BM shop, the BM coupon counts as if it were cash, so you don't need to spend £20+the brand match value, only £20.
*The S own brands are items which - hopefully - have no comparable equivalent in A (so we can't do 10% Avs S) and either S is (again hopefully) cheapest per g/ml on them (and there aren't other sizes at A, or at Avs a diff. competitor to S, or at T, W, M, etc. that represent better value than S) or S is cheapest and the equivalent item is also stocked at T (but not A) at the same price or more expensive. (Of course, if we were shopping at T, and not S, then, on the T-own brands, vs S, it would be items that are either non-comparable to S and cheapest in T (and also N/A in A so we can't 10% Avs T!) or cheaper in S (again N/A in A so we can't 10% cheaper Avs S).) I say "hopefully" as it's always possible I'm not aware of a better offer - unfortunately I lack absolute perfect information, although I try to get as close as I can to that, because of limitations of the time I have available to me.0 -
davemorton wrote: »Ohhh, well if they are old enough to carry things from the fridge, and therefore can be made to clean, iron and sweep chimneys, no problem
Ha Ha. trust me, if they even had an inclination to do any of those things, I'd be keeping them. They guzzle coke, generally behave like a plague of locusts around food and are bad news for the nations energy bills......and as an added extra, 3 full nights sleep a week makes you feel blessed:rotfl::rotfl:
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TrulyMadly wrote: »Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think you need to even buy in multiples of 6. I think it's 6 bottles or over qualify for the 25% discount.
Might help if you are trying to get close to the £40 mark:)
CorrectHope is not a strategy.0 -
Im off to bed.....nice catching up DM :A0
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“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires0 -
davemorton wrote: »Which in turn were not as good as the elusive baking trays
(I think you got paid even more to take those away)
But then again, you couldn't drink those. I rest my caseHope is not a strategy.0 -
fairclaire wrote: »Ha Ha. trust me, if they even had an inclination to do any of those things, I'd be keeping them. They guzzle coke, generally behave like a plague of locusts around food and are bad news for the nations energy bills......and as an added extra, 3 full nights sleep a week makes you feel blessed
:rotfl::rotfl:
But what about the egg hunt I had planned for up the chimney??“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
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davemorton wrote: »But what about the egg hunt I had planned for up the chimney??
laters :cool:
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