Tesco Clothes Coupon Thread. Read First Post For Updates!

leadhead

tesco_vicky wrote: »

hmm yeah I do tend to take things out of context, but I generally use the rule that if someone says 'I don't want to criticise...' etc then they generally do! maybe a bit of an overreaction but it was annoying me when I was reading the posts before I joined that people were asking questions that i knew the answer to, so I join to help them out then get told that I am wrong! well if I am wrong then the entire tesco workforce (and therefore tesco itself) is wrong cos we all get the same training!

HI Vicky......Well. I'd have to say then that the whole Tesco workforce is wrong.....

On the last HandB I was using £30+ HBcoupons, a £6 Electrical and a £6 clothing coupon, and getting free HB, free gift card, free phone top up, and free food..........and it stopped two weeks later.....the excuse given that....it was a new store and the staff hadn't been told that they couldn't just accept a coupon because it had Tesco on it... so no training

I can take you to SA's now that will take every coupon i can throw at them, i can take you to SA's that think its OK to manually override the beeping till and add a coupon....I can take you to stores that have a 1 coupon policy, a 2 coupon policy, and lots more different variations of policy.

I have been a great believer in....Tesco policy is......We have no policy.

With respect to you...(and i mean that)...you work in one store and maybe shop in a couple of others...so you only really know what goes on in your store.....

I accept you have multitasking till skills, the girl i know only works on clothing, and the most amount of coupons she has ever been presented with in a single transaction is 2, and doesn't often get asked to process gift cards or phone top ups.....

I would say that all us "hardened clothes couponers" would never ever buy anything heavily couponed from the clothing desk.....same as we wouldn't buy a PS2 or XBox or Phone from the Electrical desk in the days of RandR......for the simple reason, that the spotty kid on till 23 hasn't been taught the rules....

In February last year, when there was an abundance of coupons out..I asked my OH to help me...she wasn't keen, but i promised her £1000 at the end of a fortnight if she helped.....
We visited around 24 different stores(some many times), buying from each £60 worth of clothes and handing in £48+ worth of coupons...at the end of two weeks, we had returned them all for full cash refunds(apart from one or two gift cards)....my OH had the £1000 i promised her and i had a further £600.(all profit)

I never told one lie, i never handed in one receipt(always got them back after showing)....it got a bit more difficult towards the end, with heavily couponed receipts, so the last few, we exchanged, got a new uncouponed receipts and took them back as before....an extra stage in the process, but well worth it....

A few of my pals in different parts of the country were doing this as well....very successfully.....

Sometime after this, more coupons came out, allowing us to hand in around £85 worth on a £70 shop...so getting free food/HB/gift cards/phone top ups as well

And it goes without saying(to us experienced couponers)..(and as I said in the first post of this thread)...all couponing is SA dependent.

Today(yesterday)(on a few occasions) I bought 12 packs of garlic capsules....handed over 12x50 points coupons........on one occasion i was told..."oh the coupon says one per transaction...I'm afraid i can only take one".....I said "OK then. please just cancel the transaction, and I'll put the 12 through on separate transactions"....she scanned my 12 coupons.......

I even got 12 added on at CS where the store has a maximum of 6 items per customer, she must have forgot!!!

I think really all I am saying is....You can really only speak for the store you work in, and as most TE's possibly shop in the store they work in, they don't have any where near the experience of some of the Couponers on here that have been active a long time.(people with much longer couponing membership than me)

We really do value your input, but as (kronen says above), until a glitch has been tried and tested...everyone just "assumes" .........not "knows"......and yes...you know the answer "in your specific store"..but we all know from experience, that not all stores are "singing from the same hymn sheet"

There was no nastiness intended in any of my posts relating to your posts....We welcome input from everyone except "trolls".....and no one gets shot down for asking...they may get referred to earlier posts however.

Any suggestions how my new Motorpoint Car can get a registration with the name GARLIC on the plate...........

PS, as the thread already knows,. last year/year before i was banned from a few local/area stores for RnR misdemeanors, and received a National Ban by letter, for Policy Exploitation...........Of course they only know if I'm in the store if i use my ClubCard(Tesco Identity Card)...which i don't when getting free HB/Clothes...but I am using a card now, as theres only points available....

leadhead

kronen wrote: »

I'm Spartacus too... Hi... are you still doing the Ts thing?..

BTW.. Love you LH.. Keeping on topic... you have a brill way of getting the answers we want & that I know you dont mean no harm in what you say.. man that dosent beat around the bush just gets straight in there.. Now get on to your lawyer as waiting your reply to TV... I love your posts..

Well Hello my Coupon Queen. I Love you too......does this mean our engagement is still on then, havent heard from you for ages....hope you are well...and hope you have a Garlic Mountain too..........by the way...who is TV.....oh yes i remember....

Hey_Dude

kronen wrote: »

I'm Spartacus too... Hi... are you still doing the Ts thing?..

Loitering with intent Lead & Kroners...

New job means less time to Tesco hunt...

Always keep a supply of Somerfield vouchers on me to self scan though - some here disapprove, but I can sleep at night.

We should have a R&R reunion thread

Duder

leadhead

Hey_Dude wrote: »

Loitering with intent Lead & Kroners...

New job means less time to Tesco hunt...

Always keep a supply of Somerfield vouchers on me to self scan though - some here disapprove, but I can sleep at night.

We should have a R&R reunion thread

Duder

Disapprove Duder???.......no, I dont believe it.............lol

Caused a few fracas myself, so they tell me(EPH, PTS and here they reckon)...although my lack of sleeping was usually cos i couldnt find them, rather than the guilt(wot guilt) of spending them....Sanex and Nicotinell still work as well......amazing isnt it....

I'm careful not to use them with humans though.....

Re an RnR reunion thread...just shout free XBOX ...and the thread will be full in minutes....

Hey_Dude

Yeah - I was gutted when I got the ring of death on my XBOX last Friday...

...got to wait 2-3 weeks for Bill to fix it...

...was feeling sad and blue until I remembered that I didn't actually pay for it.

Should have bought more than 1 though

Dude

leadhead

Hey_Dude wrote: »

Yeah - I was gutted when I got the ring of death on my XBOX last Friday...

...got to wait 2-3 weeks for Bill to fix it...

...was feeling sad and blue until I remembered that I didn't actually pay for it.

Should have bought more than 1 though

Dude

Yehhh.I never did get an XBOX...but got **(double figures) PSP bundles in a week on holiday in Scotland...but never kept one...but got the same** Goldens on them.....this was where my ban came from....ending up with a £1400 credit on my (now defunct) Tesco Credit Card....after Golden RnRs.

So I'm definately Spartacus

Still got sheets of the £37.50 Somerfield mag coupons off two years ago, and theyre still working....not in Somerfield of course.

feefeelalabelle

ive heard a few times now about the mix up with x boxes.....im intrigued?? did tesco over charge and then give you r&r? bet that was a good christmas;)

sarah_skint

rotfl those craggamore ones paid for all the curtains in my new house
and some cushions last week.........
do the wardrobe coupons still scan on anything? I am off out tommorrow with 3 sets..............and some h n b and some mail book tokens................there must be something i need!!

kronen

sarah_skint wrote: »

rotfl those craggamore ones paid for all the curtains in my new house
and some cushions last week.........
do the wardrobe coupons still scan on anything? I am off out tommorrow with 3 sets..............and some h n b and some mail book tokens................there must be something i need!!

Hi Sarah.. Yes they are still working on anything.. Used £34.00 of wardrobes on a £60.00 grocery spend today..

Good Luck & Happy Shopping..

leadhead

feefeelalabelle wrote: »

ive heard a few times now about the mix up with x boxes.....im intrigued?? did tesco over charge and then give you r&r? bet that was a good christmas;)

Never actually got an XBox myself, but got lots of PSP's, PS2's and lots and lots of phones and lots and lots and lots of other stuff...yes they overcharged us, and yes we got RnR.........some without a fight or cross word......and some with lots of fight and lots of cross words........and bans...

It was a good Christmas.....but the level of presents given that Christmas was never to be repeated