Every last impecuniosity totally exterminated

Savvybuyer

davemorton wrote: »

Did you forget your link there Savvy?:o

No forgetting.
Just takes time to find the original post and transfer the link into it.

davemorton

Ordered from Amazon. I do love a bit of web shopping.

fairclaire

davemorton wrote: »

Night Mildred



I Partride looks like the one I will pick from that list, I do like a bit of AP. The author of a street cat named bob was on some program this weekend, not sure which one.

James Bowen wrote a street cat named bob. It's a very! good read, very engaging and just a really good ( real ) story

davemorton

I fancy Heads in Beds too, but by the looks of it, it is a new book, so still expensive.

Savvybuyer

Money_Doctor wrote: »

Hi, Ihaven't used Mr T for Pricer Promise yet, could somebody confirm you need to buy 10 different items - Is it like Mr A whereby some items might come back N/A so you should always buy more.

Don't see anybody posting Fillers to make up the 10 items for Mr T

Sorry if I got the wrong end of the stick don't think I have lol

Apparently 9 different items plus reuse a bag. (I think I'm correct in saying it (T PP) works like that. Although I'm not sure whether it's supposed to be that way, I always used to have the number of different products, in case the prices for the rival returned incorrectly and in case I needed to go to CS and to avoid them saying 'well you shouldn't have qualified as you only got 9 items'. (...but bag re-use is one item???).

Also I think if, for example, you buy a daily newspaper in T, doesn't that appear on PP and say N/A everywhere else (as it's not a 'grocery' item) but nonetheless counts towards the number required for PP? I don't think (I stand to be corrected) that the number of items - while obviously an issue for T - it isn't an issue in the sense that if a different item (there don't appear to be excluded categories?) is on your receipt, it'll count on T PP and not like the Sada APG scheme where it has to be a grocery item that appears on MSM.co.uk (and that which is a moving target and items go on and off that site with different items appearing for different people in different areas of the country).

Bear in mind that my 'fillers' (on my lists) aren't the cheapest items you could possibly get - but tend to be 'normal' items that could be used to add to a shop vs [etc.] - as they 'should' be N/A at the applicable rival (but need to check that rival's website yourself, since I've used MSM and not the supermarket's own sites (the supermarket's own sites are what T uses)). Unfortunately, this is simply due to lack of time on my part - I can only do so much (and what I do do is excellent).

So, for example, you could buy a single small Haribo Tangfastics pack, 10p in T, counts as a filler. But, in my pedantic way, I do not include this on my lists for T, as technically the item is available in Sada and therefore you could have bought it in Sada on a price comp. and got, in effect, the price of 9p (due to the 10% cheaper). So that's a better deal - by one penny - although if it means, instead, you buy an item in T that's not comparable to A (if T were cheaper than A and A did stock the item, it would be 10% off T's price in the right shopping, but if the item isn't available in A you could never have got the 10% so 'best' buying in T (or Svs T if branded item and T cheaper or same price as S!)), so if you bought an item on price drop in T that is unavailable in A, but it cost more than a 10p Tangfastics pack, buying that 50p price drop item could be not as good a deal as using the 10p Tangfastic instead, if it's that Tangfastic that is your final item getting you the greater PP voucher back!

How you shop is up to you. I tend to prefer avoiding anything in T that's available in A, as I could then have got it 10% off (via the APG) that what T would give - either on its own price or vs someone else (except of course A itself, as you get nothing from A if it is already 10% cheaper - but get (if T has got the comparable items and prices for A correct) the price match from T if you bought your 'A' shopping there). I just can't bring myself to pick something up knowing I could have got it, effectively, at 10% cheaper than that, somewhere else, if if that 10% is one penny! But while I 'save' a penny (and use the item to make up 8 items in the relevant A shop), it may make much more sense to simply put it as a filler in a shop done in T, as it costs little and it tips the basket over into giving a PP voucher it wouldn't otherwise give (which could be especially much better if it happens to be one on which a glitch has been found vs the competitor in question).

Nonetheless, it's also a 'clever' aspect of the scheme at T (and elsewhere) whereby you have to buy 10 items (or 9+bag reuse) thus giving them more money than if you could buy less and, since the number of items on the T scheme has gone from 1 to 8 and now to 10, and frankly it's just a price match, I'd just buy the one item I need at the cheaper store in the first place! (MOCs/glitches excepted perhaps.) For me, it's one of the final straws and just too much. And the few extra CC points (worth pennies) for spending more then using the refund don't attract me any much, particularly as they were cut back from double to single points 18 months or so ago anyway. And now you have to have 10 items:(:mad:.

I've quit while I was ahead (or, rather, behind and more money extracted than I wanted to from me by T - at one stage I had a "T Losses" document to track it all and minimise it as much as possible, as they always seemed to change the T&Cs after my shopping and take more from me than would have been the case under the old T&Cs - but such a battle of wits it became - and somewhat exhausting (sorry, folks, I know I've said this before) - that I won't shop there anymore. (And the CC points just grab you back in, as you have more than 0 points and therefore need something to get to the next 50 mark.) No thank you!!

Sorry - turned into a T rant at the end. The answer to your question is at the beginning! (Re-read first two paragraphs - sorry for my being unkind to my readers in this respect.)

fairclaire

davemorton wrote: »

I fancy Heads in Beds too, but by the looks of it, it is a new book, so still expensive.

might be cheaper by the time you go on hols? where you going in July?

davemorton

Just ordered another book for £1.55 including postage. Dont know how they can do it so cheap!

FunkyFeet

David. wrote: »

Flabby is asleep :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

don't you be telling porkies Dotty...I woz not:o Honest:o

right, lets find some gr8 glitches:)

davemorton

A nice 2 week cruise stopping at Rome, Barcelona, and a few other places I cant pronounce.

fairclaire

davemorton wrote: »

Just ordered another book for £1.55 including postage. Dont know how they can do it so cheap!

it great! Im going to do that 5:2 diet.....2 days fasting a week ( well not fasting, but doing 500 calories 2 days a week) the book costs nearly £6.......only £2 on kindle