Boots scam?

deanos

I dont think 100 wipes is alot, i have 2 kids and you get through alot of wipes very easily, when the Pampers were on offer in Superdrug recently for £1.60 and BOGOF i bought about 20 packs, i only have about 5 left now and wish i had bought more :rotfl:

lokiman

Dave_Brooker wrote: »

Boots don't run scams.

Why would they??

Have to agree with Dave Brooker for once - Boots isn't exactly a bunch of dodgy blokes trying the sell you double-glazing. It's a company with a very good reputation for customer service, and it really wouldn't be likely that they'd be involved in a scam. Even what you've alleged is hardly a scam. Now, where they did go wrong is in completing the order for the paid wipes, but not sending the free wipes. If they weren't going to send the free wipes, they really should have contacted you before completing the order to advise you and ask whether you still wanted to order.

ellybelly89

you would have been better off placing multiple smaller orders than one huge order.

Dave_Brooker

deanos wrote: »

I dont think 100 wipes is alot, i have 2 kids and you get through alot of wipes very easily, when the Pampers were on offer in Superdrug recently for £1.60 and BOGOF i bought about 20 packs, i only have about 5 left now and wish i had bought more :rotfl:

Wipes are *always* BOGOF somewhere.

They're not very good for the enviorment though...

Dave_Brooker

slarge wrote: »

Go bait somewhere else idiot

You accused boots of running a scam because they did not allow you to buy a vast number of something on a BOGOF offer...

dangeroussports

No point in trying to reason with the OP.

She's playing the victim.

RibAd

interesting on either side... I can see the logic in placing such a high order, but obv when these kind of offers come up they obv have to be suspicious of high orders. They probably thought you were going to flog them elsewhere and make money off them.
It was never specified if it was Boots' own brand or J&J...
If you ordered online, then you could have been anyone...

as for the money aspect, who knows?
Still, I think ordering a high amount of wipes on an offer like that is taking advantage - if you walked into a store and saw that brand x (eg booze, coke) was BOGOF and you thought "oh, why don't I stock up and buy 50 and get 100 so I have plenty til Christmas" and find the whole shelf empty afterwards?
Personally, bulk stocking is slightly greedy - imagine it was very limited stock and you were the one mum that came in after someone bulk buying on the BOGOF i'm sure you'd be throwing a hissy fit with staff and being unimpressed with it all!

Becles

slarge wrote: »

I ordered 50 packs of wipes, which was 100 with the BOGOF offer. They delivered 50 and canceloled the 50 free. Hardly a quantity for setting up a wipes empire. I have 3 young kids and these last about 4 or 5 months.

Wow - that's a lot of wipes!

Have you considered using cheap flannels instead? Buy a load from the poundshop/Tesco Value etc, then chuck them in the washer when they're used. They just get washed with the next lot of laundry so no washing costs. It's not much hassle and it'll save you loads.

Bollards

I don't think I've ever seen Boots Baby Wipes not on a BOGOF offer in our local store, so I don't really feel the need to stock up on vast quantities of them at one time.

Dave_Brooker

Bollards wrote: »

I don't think I've ever seen Boots Baby Wipes not on a BOGOF offer in our local store, so I don't really feel the need to stock up on vast quantities of them at one time.

If they're not BOGOF in Boots they are in Tescos...