The ELITE Eggstra Easter thread

squilliondollarbaby

What bugs me (just a little :rotfl:) is that T has worked out in their own marketing dept there is little difference in cost overall in giving points or money-off on the wine (Tesco Wines).

Ie it's either 500 points or £5 off £50 etc. They don't care which.

But the points do actually mean more to a lot of us.

I completely ignore money-offs but nearly always go for the points offers.

If they bothered to work out the fact that I buy wine with points offers but ignore wine with money-offs, they'd get more repeat business. :cool:

squilliondollarbaby

janed9388 wrote: »

Re the wine. The 750 points works on 2 cases on pre discount price. Unless you actually want 3 cases..........

Realised that one a bit too late lol

mhoc

Well I've been trying to figure out the new Royal Mail prices for parcels with no success apart from giving myself a headache and a nose bleed

so parcels need to fit into a specified cube now, under 8cm deep for small parcels but above this between 9 and 46 cm and its a medium parcel and the price shoots up. How much it goes up I can't figure out as Royal Mail have not updated their postal price system yet.

So ideally my ebay parcels need to be small and flat which they aren't and anything worth more than £20 has to go signed for.

I've had a look at myhermes and this looks OK but I can't see how to get this onto my ebay re listings, how to specify the courier costs. really I want to use Royal Mail for parcels to Europe and Myhermes for Uk parcels.

for the number of things I sell its hardly worth the effort of figuring this all out.

ellie14

David. wrote: »

Now folks cheap hardy grass seed that is dog proof if you have any ideas let me know :rotfl:

Grass seed (presuming horticultural )Don't know about dog proof ,but I tried allsorts of expensive seed to patch thicken my lawn ,then tried Poundland £1 a box bingo nice grass as well.

squilliondollarbaby

Mr Lowenbrau adds: £3.33 a bottle for some lovely wine plus all those points, Squills - not too bad old chap but the girl is right you thicky :T:cool::rotfl::D:rotfl::cool::T

i_been_robbed

hello everyone

confirming new pots and seeded bread still working

11 items (9 different) on your bill qualify for comparison Tesco
+£2.11

1.04 x ASDA Bananas by Weight (100g) £0.71 £0.82
0.41 x ASDA Carrots by Weight (100g) £0.36 £0.36
0.16 x ASDA Onions by Weight (100g) £0.14 £0.14
0.16 x ASDA Red Onions by Weight (100g) £0.14 £0.14
0.62 x ASDA Swede by Weight (100g) £0.62 N/A
2 x ASDA Baby New Potatoes with Herbs & Butter (360g) £2.00 £0.78
2 x Kingsmill Really Seeded Bread (800g) £2.00 £1.00
1 x Barratt Flumps Mallow Twists £0.10 £0.10
1 x Haribo Tangfastics Mini £0.10 £0.10
1 x Cadbury Freddo (18g) £0.20 £0.20

Comparison total (compared products only) £5.75 £3.64

squilliondollarbaby

That would be £3.75 a bottle for some much better wine, I guess.

I'll take the Lions @ £3.33, sweetheart!

artha

redfox wrote: »

if you log into your account online you can convert it to a non annual fee one that will still get nectar points (at the current rate of 1 point). I did that a couple of days ago.

They just seem to be doubling the nectar points and charging £25 a year for that :eek:
edit:
actually you don't need to go to your account, here's the direct link to choose an alternative card http://www.americanexpress.com/uk/microsite-nceapp/nectar-ip.html (about 2 thirds of the way down the page)

Many thanks Redfox, I'd never thought of looking and would probably just have accepted that it was going to happen:o

frequent

mhoc wrote: »

Well I've been trying to figure out the new Royal Mail prices for parcels with no success apart from giving myself a headache and a nose bleed

so parcels need to fit into a specified cube now, under 8cm deep for small parcels but above this between 9 and 46 cm and its a medium parcel and the price shoots up. How much it goes up I can't figure out as Royal Mail have not updated their postal price system yet.

So ideally my ebay parcels need to be small and flat which they aren't and anything worth more than £20 has to go signed for.

I've had a look at myhermes and this looks OK but I can't see how to get this onto my ebay re listings, how to specify the courier costs. really I want to use Royal Mail for parcels to Europe and Myhermes for Uk parcels.

for the number of things I sell its hardly worth the effort of figuring this all out.

Multiply the length x height x width in centimetres and divide the answer by 5,000. The result is the volumetric weight.

Compare that to the kg figure, which ever is larger is your price.

Anon

Longships wrote: »

Today's Mr Ts shop - bought 3 x finest meal deals + 3 extra bottles of wine, bavaria, Parioli toms plus a few fillers just in case. Sub-total was £77.61 after multi-buy and 26% wine discounts £44.65 used coupons for bavaria, 2 x Parioli, 3 x finest and £5 HH (none of the finest coupons scanned but were put through manually by SA) Total actually paid £31.65 and got back a £10 PP and another £5 HH.

Can't help feeling I could have done it better as I lost £5.66 by going over on the PP. Still I am saying that we got 6 very nice bottles of wine for £3.60 each and everything else free!

1x TESCOFINEST TARTE AUCHOC 2 PK 220G £3.00 † n/a n/a n/a
1x TESCOEDAYVALUE MUSHY PEAS 300G £0.15£0.15£0.15£0.15
1x GIANT NEW REFRESHER CHEW BAR (C) £0.12 n/a n/a £0.12
1x BARRATT FLUMPS 12G £0.10 £0.10 £0.10 £0.10
1x HARIBO KIDS MIX UP/ STARMIX P/M £0.10 n/a £0.10 £0.10
2x HARIBO TANGFASTICS P/M 10P £0.20£0.20 £0.20 £0.20
4x BAG RE-USE CLUBCARD POINT £0.00 n/a n/a n/a
1x T. FIN* SPINACH & RICOTTA FILO PARCELS 300G X £5.00 † n/a n/a n/a
2x PARIOLI CHOPPED TOMATOES 400G £1.00 † n/a n/a n/a
3x TESCO FINEST MONTEPULCIANO D'ABRUZZO 75CL £20.97 † £15.00 n/a £20.97
1x T. FIN* FRSH CRM P/ROLES WITH SWISS CHOC 8PK £2.50 † n/a n/a n/a
1x TESCO FINEST BEER BATTERED COD 300G X £5.00 † n/a n/a n/a
1x T. FINEST LAMB CHAMP PIE 700G X £5.50 † n/a n/a n/a
1x T. FIN* SEA SALT & BLACK PEPPER WEDGES 400G X £2.50 † n/a n/a n/a
1x T FIN 2 HOT CHOC MELTING MIDDLE DESSERT 200G £3.00 † n/a £3.00 £1.50
1x TESCO FINEST ROAST POTATOES 450G X £2.50 † n/a n/a n/a
1x T. FINEST MED VEG SELECTION 250G X £2.50 † n/a n/a n/a
1x BAVARIA SHANDY 6X330ML CAN £2.50 £1.78 £2.00 £2.99
3x HARDYS STAMPS SHIRAZ CABERNET SAUVIGNON 75CL £20.97 † £12.00 £20.97 £16.47
Tesco comparable total £44.89 £27.02 £48.11
Competitor shop total £29.23 £26.52 £42.60
The difference £15.66 £0.50 £5.51
cost less cost less cost less

Do you particularly like Flumps etc or did you still get your fillers even when you have significantly more than the 10 items required?

Anon