Extra Lessons In Tempting Essentials

TrulyMadly

Earlier shop.

Paid £4 for 2 tropicanas:)

cheesyball

P.s When boiling vinager goggles are adviced ... :doh: ooo my eyes :eek::rotfl:

zippydooda

aau1 wrote: »

The PP site only knows how much you have paid and what the price/kg should have been on that day.

It then calculates the weight of the joint based on that price. So if you paid £11.85 and PP is programmed with £7.99 per kilo it assumes you must have bought a 1.483kg joint and compares with other supermarkets at 1.483kg

Preumably you bought a 2.96kg joint that was still stickered from a (now finished) £3.99/kg promo and so only cost £11.85

I've always said that the next best thing to claiming DTD to get your meat free is to buy half price stickered stock when the price goes back up (assuming it compares somewhere that still has a low price/kg)

thanks mate, this is the post that inspired me go out. the meat did not work out free but half half price. if you know what I mean. as I said in last post no unsmoked on shelf, so chanced smoked and it worked. I done 3 shops each with a joint just under £12 and got just under £6 pp each time. fillers on 2 shops were 10p sweets. up early so if requested ill post pp tomorrow. also thanks to all who contributed to this glitch.

aau1

fairclaire wrote: »

Ahh. That makes sense and strangely enough Ive never noticed that valuable nugget of info from you but I will be having a look tomorrow .

I'm actually not surprised you skipped it. It was the closest I have ever come to a savvy post

aau1 wrote: »

Here's how I understand the T DTD/PP meat glitch to work.

Sadly it's not an easy one to explain and I have to ask you to bear with me

Let's say that T was offering a particular pork joint reduced from £8.99/kg to £4.49/kg and that A is selling something comparable for £5/kg

Every one of these pork joints in T should have a similar barcode on them except for the last 4 digits which should include the price of each unique joint. That is how you can predict what price you will actually pay at the till

Lets imagine you pick up a 1kg pork joint, marked at half price of £4.49/kg and you pay the correct price of £4.49 at the till.

The price promise system only knows that you bought pork and that you paid £4.49. it doesn't know any more than those simple facts. But given that pork is £4.49 per kg on that day it can work backwards and deduce that you must have bought 1kg. Knowing the kg you have bought is how it calculates the price in other stores. It compares your £4.49/kg purchase against £5/kg in Sada and so your PP is reduced by 51p

That's the "simple" scenario

What if you mistakenly () pick up a full price joint that didn't have a new label put on? Say it was a 1kg joint that went through the till at full price of £8.99. The PP system sees you paid £8.99 on a day that pork is supposed to be £4.49/kg and so it thinks you have bought 2kg

The price in Sada is £5/kg so 2kg would cost £10. Your PP is reduced by £1.01 because you only paid £8.99 at T's till. Then you go to CS for your DTD refund of £9. So your joint was effectively free...unless you were doing a PP shop in which case you lost out on £1

But what if you buy a half priced pack after the offer is finished (i.e. the individual pack prices haven't been replaced)?

Again lets say you pick up a 1kg pack, still priced at the offer price of £4.49/kg. You will be charged £4.49 but because the PP system has been told that the price that day is supposed to be £8.99/kg it works out that you must have bought just 0.5kg. 0.5kg in Sada would cost £2.50 so you would get back £1.99 PP. So you get 1kg pork for the price of 0.5kg in Sada

What if you see OOD sels advertising pork at £4.49 per kg but you pick up a full priced pack at £8.99/kg or you pick up the wrong pork (British instead of Irish, etc)? Again lets pretend you pick up a 1kg pack and that this time you pay the correct price on that day of £8.99

The price promise system knows that pork is £8.99 per kg and so it figures out that you have bought 1kg and compares against the other supermarkets £/kg. e.g compares against Sadas price of £5 per kg so gives you back £3.99

But then you go to CS, tell them about the half price signage and that you should have only paid £4.49, get £9.00 back i.e. you were paid a penny to take it away as well as getting a PP voucher for £3.99





As you can see, there's a lot to consider with this type of glitch That is assuming Sada's price remains fixed at £5/kg throughout. If their price fluctuates then the whole house of cards comes tumbling down

davemorton

Wow :eek:, what was that?? Oh, it was an AAu post flying straight over my head!!

zippydooda

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Are these joints a decent weight?

Ie worth going out of your way for?:)

Just to mention.....I have a cravendale and tropicana shop AvS due in just after 11. Will post results

yes a good weight. in bed now, but dw said we will cut them in half (for 3 of us). 3 of them took a whole shelf up in my fridge.

aau1

zippydooda wrote: »

thanks mate, this is the post that inspired me go out. the meat did not work out free but half half price. if you know what I mean. as I said in last post no unsmoked on shelf, so chanced smoked and it worked. I done 3 shops each with a joint just under £12 and got just under £6 pp each time. fillers on 2 shops were 10p sweets. up early so if requested ill post pp tomorrow. also thanks to all who contributed to this glitch.

Cool. That's exactly right :beer:

TrulyMadly

aau1 wrote: »

Cool. That's exactly right :beer:

So the ones we need to buy are stickered at £3.99 per kg?

Is that right?

Thank you:)

Auntycaz

zippydooda wrote: »

thanks mate, this is the post that inspired me go out. the meat did not work out free but half half price. if you know what I mean. as I said in last post no unsmoked on shelf, so chanced smoked and it worked. I done 3 shops each with a joint just under £12 and got just under £6 pp each time. fillers on 2 shops were 10p sweets. up early so if requested ill post pp tomorrow. also thanks to all who contributed to this glitch.

Has anyone had it work on an unsmoked joint please?

zippydooda

ISS due in 8 mins for me. direction wsw at 11.33 pm
not sure I got this bit right, but will take 11 mins to cross sky.