Boots No 7 BB Cream Glitch

NewlyFrugalMumof3

Hi,

I am still confused as to what goes through on a 3 for 2 & BOGOHP. Could some kind soul please tell me how much it would be if I buy:

Skincare: BB Cream £12.95
Makeup: No7 Mascara £9
Makeup: No7 Mineral Perfection Powder £13.50

with both £5 & £3 vouchers. I will be using PLYMOUTH store.

thanks.

T.

michjay_2

Hi NewlyFrugal :wave:

Sorry I don't think that your shopping list above will work.

I have been studying this and i think in order for the glitch to work you would need to buy 2 items that are part of the No7 make-up BIG1F offer and then 1 item which is part of the N07 342 skincare offer. I also think that in order to get the 3rd item free it will have to cost less than the cheapest item that you bought on the B1GIHP offer.

eg.
No 7 Mineral Perfection Powder Foundation £13.50
No7 BB cream £12.95
No 7 Bronzer £11.50
Total cost = £19.96
minus £5.00 voucher
minus £3.00 voucher
Total spend = £11.98

I may be wrong but this is my logic behind the way it is working.

balletshoes

I'm not sure if you ladies and gents are aware what a great glitch this is as teatime45 has described earlier - its more than 90% off if you have both a self-service till spit for the £5 off and £3 off, plus one from the cashiers till for £5 and £3 off, and use all of them in one suitable transaction.

I've done it 3 times today,
total before discounts, £33.45
(one bb cream, one bronzer and one day moisturiser), bogohp on the bronzer and moisturiser free on the 342, then 2 lots of £8 off the total with all the vouchers
= £2.70 to pay .
Plus, even though I only paid £2.70 after all the discounts etc came off, I still got a £5 and £3 No7 till spit voucher each time as well!

This seems to work because the BB cream is classed as make-up and the self-service till spit has a different barcode to the cashier-till vouchers.

teatime45 wrote: »

First purchase today:
BB Cream £12.95
Lip crayon £9.00

I used one voucher from the self-checkout and it looks like it took off both the £5 and the £3. Then I used one £5 and one £3. Total paid: £1.45

Second purchase today:
BB Cream £12.95
Essential Moisture £9.00
Essential Moisture £9.00

I used a self-checkout voucher and one £5 and one £3. Total paid: £6.90. The woman at the till was very surprised (but nice about it)!

lisap4123

Here is what I found:
Yesterday tinted moisturiser £11.50 with half price lip laquer (£10.75 at full price), paid at self checkout - the £3 voucher scanned but the £5 one wouldn't so the SA overrode it, and queried that tinted moisturiser wasn't skincare but then it scanned. So I paid £8.87 and got a new self service printed voucher.

Then today I went back, bought something else and got a till voucher. I bought 3 x beautiful skin day creams at £12.50 each, got one free due to the 342, but no other discounts (I guess as i hadnt bought any makeup) I used the self service voucher printoff which took off £5 and then tried to use the £5 voucher given at the till - it didnt work but then the helpfull SA came over and overrode it, then it let me scan it and took off another £5. So i paid £15 for 3 day creams which should have cost £37.50.

I was happy with that although others have had better bargains, but no point getting stuff i dont need.

NewlyFrugalMumof3

Thank you Mitchjay. Think i will buy those items and see if I can find a magazine with a freebie mascara.

thanks for helping our my poor confused braing!

angelzanna786

NewlyFrugalMumof3 wrote: »

Thank you Mitchjay. Think i will buy those items and see if I can find a magazine with a freebie mascara.

thanks for helping our my poor confused braing!

I saw a mag today with a mini Benefit mascara, think it may have been Elle?

littlebit

The main thing that is confusing me is the vouchers, some say its worked out the same without them, so do you have to have the vouchers to make it just over £11, and if so where do they come from. TIA

Cathy80

I've been into Molyon Keynes boots today and spotted they also had a free gift for people using the 342 skincare promo. It's a small fabric bag with mini day cream, mascara, lipstick and eyeshadow. It's possibly special to this store as it didn't have glossy signs like normally they have for these gifts, rather a handwritten notice. Perhaps they had some left from a previous promo to get rid of. Anyway, 2 BB creams and a bronzer, plus the free gifts and both money off vouchers meant total of £11.42. Happy bunny!

Denise07

Joined the BB glitch party today - with 3 x bb creams for £11.42 saving £27.43
The assistant scanned the £5 voucher and i said "my friend bought these and the £3 should work as well"
As it went through she looked delighted ' you do love your No7 dont you?' she said.
I agreed with a smile:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

balletshoes

I just used my last set of No7 vouchers on a BB cream and an Exquisite Curl mascara -
total before discounts £23.95,
used the till spit £5 and £3 off, the cashier till £5 and £3 off, and a £2 off any mascara or lipstick acm voucher, and the mascara was half price on the current bogohp deal.
Total to pay = £0.45 !

Thanks OP and teatime45 - if I could kiss ya I would :rotfl:.

The 342 on skincare wouldn't work with the mascara and BB cream (believe me I tried) and I didn't get another No7 till spit this transaction, but 45p for a mascara and a BB cream, I'm not complaining.

I think the BB creams, bronzers and possibly the tinted moisturisers are working the 342 and bogohp because they are all counted as skincare as well as make-up? Does that theory make sense?