Don't get conned with buy 3 get cheapest free!

Own_My_Own

This used to happen in Woolworths. One year the were massive queues where people were paying for 3 items at a time, even if they bought 12. Etc.

The following year the tills had been altered so all items could be put through together but with the same result.

The following year the went bust.

arcon5

So you bought 6, got 2 cheapest free.

Sounds standard & very much correct to me. A bit of common sense is all you need.

Pollycat

fluffnutter wrote: »

But I don't understand why the OP didn't cancel the transaction and ask for it to be done as two separate ones.

Me too.

I did that (years ago) in Woolworth's on some toys that me and my sister were buying together.

I'd got the exact money in my hand and when the assistant asked for quite a lot more, I asked her how the till had calculated the amount and it became clear that I'd paid for the 4 most expensive and got the 2 cheapest free.

I put the money on the counter and asked for her to void the transaction and I put the toys into 2 groups of 3.
I paid for the 1st transaction from the money on the counter and then paid for the 2nd transaction from the remainder - and it was spot-on!

The assistant looked at me as though I'd got 2 heads. :rotfl:

DiddlySquat_2

fishpie_1234 wrote: »

Just made a supermarket purchase with this offer. Bought 3 expensive multi vitamin products and 3 cheapo calcium tablets. Got the 2 discounts on the cheap calcium tablets. Would of saved a bundle on the multi vitamins.

Lesson is only purchase the expensive stuff and forget bundling it with other cheaper products from same line.

Not much of an incentive to buy lots of different products as the same time!
:mad:

Thats exactly right.

You bought 6 items therefore allowing you 2 free.
The free items are always the cheaper ones in these deals and it quite clearly states that.

If you had wanted a free multi-vitamin, you needed to pay for the 3 multi-vits together without anything else, therefore one would be free.
They need to be different transactions.

How else would you think that a store would work out which one was free?

ThumbRemote

DiddlySquat wrote: »

Thats exactly right.

You bought 6 items therefore allowing you 2 free.
The free items are always the cheaper ones in these deals and it quite clearly states that.

If you had wanted a free multi-vitamin, you needed to pay for the 3 multi-vits together without anything else, therefore one would be free.
They need to be different transactions.

How else would you think that a store would work out which one was free?

The free items are not always the cheapest when buying multiple multi-buys. As has been mentioned up the thread Boots at Christmas give items 3 and 6 free when buying 6 items on the same offer, and I vaguely remember M&S used to - not sure if they do now.

It's extremely easy for a store to work out which ones are free. They just pick items 3 and 6 instead of items 5 and 6 to apply the discount.

Pollycat

ThumbRemote wrote: »

The free items are not always the cheapest when buying multiple multi-buys. As has been mentioned up the thread Boots at Christmas give items 3 and 6 free when buying 6 items on the same offer, and I vaguely remember M&S used to - not sure if they do now.

It's extremely easy for a store to work out which ones are free. They just pick items 3 and 6 instead of items 5 and 6 to apply the discount.

I've bought BOGOF suncream from Boots, 4 items all different prices.

I asked the SA if it would give me the 2nd most expensive free (rather than the 3rd and cheapest) - so pay for item 1, get item 2 free, pay for item 3, get item 4 free - and said that if the till didn't work that way I'd pay in 2 separate transactions.

She said it would be Ok and when I'd checked my receipt, it was.

I think you have to be vigilant when buying offers such as these.
I'm sure there'll be people along to say you shouldn't need to be vigilant, but the fact remains that you do need to be.

mattyprice4004

So you weren't conned, you just didn't engage brain before walking to checkout?

Coopdivi

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

So you weren't conned, you just didn't engage brain before walking to checkout?

Presumably you haven't looked at your own signature recently. You weren't advertising your own website again by any chance?

Azari

Coopdivi wrote: »

Presumably you haven't looked at your own signature recently. You weren't advertising your own website again by any chance?

:rotfl:

Well said.

There's something deliriously ironic about someone who pokes fun at someone else for not working out the 'rules' when they have been brazenly displaying the evidence of their own failure for all to see even when it would be simplicity itself to deal with it.

Pollycat

I don't think the OP was conned either, but I wouldn't be rude to him.

I'm a bit confused exactly how the OP thought this offer would work.

I could understand buying 3 items of the same value - so in reality buy 2, get one free.

OP - did you expect to pay for the cheap calcium tablets and get the expensive multi-vitamins free?

If so, I do think that's a bit naïve.