Boots sale - now 90% off

lisa21

Simmysim wrote: »

So your stood in a store in a sale with items you have purchased or are about to purchase, with camera phone in hand. And you tell a woman who previously asked you why the !!!! you were taking her picture that you are in fact a journalist writing a piece on people who will do anything to save a few quid. Despite the fact you participating in said sale.

Your right I don't know you, you are either a liar or dumb, or more likely both.

Thank God I don't know you, or anyone like you.


Also, it's 'you're', not 'your'.

sarah1972

Sarahsarah wrote: »

Lot of dumb people on this thread in my opinion, though it has given me a good laugh reading about the hordes of people, losing sleep and queueing to hoover up heaps of tat.

Even dumber thing to do is signing up for MSE today just to post rude and unhelpful remarks :mad:

Simmysim

lisa21 wrote: »

What a deeply unpleasant person you are. It's people like you who make others not want to post on forums. What on earth makes you think you have a right to insult me or anyone you don't know in this way?


I wasn't actually taking a photo of the woman. She wasn't even in it. And I don't understand how someone who spends their days trolling forums has the nerve to comment on what anyone else uses the internet for.


Now go away so all of the normal posters on here can continue enjoying their thread.

First of all I'm not a troll, you can check my post history. I certainly don't spend my days here. So dry those eyes champ.

I don't have the right to insult anybody, like you have pointed out its a forum. People air their opinions.

You call me deeply unpleasant yet you are exploiting people in a sale for a few blog hits while somehow believing you are better than them. Smacks of hypocrisy.

lisa21 wrote: »

Thank God I don't know you, or anyone like you.

I doubt you know many people.

luxor4t

Katgrit wrote: »

I wrote this last year and it went down well so here it is again for all you newbies!


For those of you new to this heres what happens, by law, every single year:

1. By day of sale in Jan this thread will be up to approx 157 pages.
2. Every other post is a newbie asking which Wed the sale starts on.
3. Loads of people swear blind that last year it started a week earlier than it
actually did.
4. Each Tuesday's posts contain details of someone's sister's neighbour's friend's
boyfriend's Mum, who knows someone who works in a Boots store, who swears
blind its DEFINITELY starting that Wednesday.
5. A few hardcore MSE'ers stay up til 3am on the website just incase it does start.
6. Wed morning: sale doesn't start. A few individuals who didn't know are still
sitting outside their local branch refusing to believe it in the vain hope the staff are
still "putting the signs up".
7. There's always ONE store who c0cks up and accidentally DOES start a week early. And the tills don't knock the discount off but the enthusiastic SA's overrides the til to give the discount, until the manager re-reads his fax from head office. So one lucky
forumite always gets lucky by accident.
8. The Tuesday evening before it DOES start theres always at least one grumpy git
store manager who swears blind they "won't be having a 75% sale at all as they
haven't sold enough at 50%". And he's been told this on a fax from head office, so
he knows for definite. Honest guv.
9. Someone's dog's sister's collegue's friend's Mum overhears 2 SA's chatting
about the need to put the signs up that evening after the store is closed. She asks
SA1 who gives her an icy stare and denies all knowledge. SA2 later sidles up to her
in the shampoo isle and gives her a knowing wink and a whisper of "Are you a
friend of Martin? Don't let on I told you but it IS tomorrow".
10. Boots stores are full of MSE'ers casing the joint, sizing up whats left and
deciding on their route round the isles/plan of attack for the morning.
11. The lovely MSE'er whos flat overlooks a Boots store does a reccy in her pyjamas around midnight to double check the signs are up.
12. Half of us stay up to buy online. About 2am Boots put up "the holding screen"
which is a picture of Skeletor with a bad fake tan, and giant white teeth, in a ski
hat. Everyone gets excited. Website crashes completely.
13. 4am Site back online, complete with Mr FakeTanTeeth. Those who are able (and still awake) fill their baskets ready for when 75% discounts kick in. Website crashes, holding screen back up.
14. 6am. Website back, discount applied, sales goes live but all baskets back to
being empty. People start frantically refilling baskets.
15. 6.01am. Website crashes.
16. 7am Queues start forming outside Boots stores. Always a fat chav in leggings
accompanied by 2 shopping trollies who is first in the queue. She wants everything
"for the kiddies charity party next year, you cant say no at such a good price".
Translate this as "it'll be going on ebay or at the boot sale".
17. 8/9am stores open. As doors unlock staff look a bit disgusted that people have
been desperate enough to queue. Stampede into store. Everyone gets seriously
pee'd off with the ignoramous with the trolley who is sweeping entire shelves of
goodies off in one fell swoop, having blocked off the isle at both ends.
18.Think all female rubgy scrum.
19. Bemused husbands/dads stood at ends of isles to recieve full baskets/trollies/
bags and act as guardian while wife goes back for more.
20. Small child crushed under weight of Gok sets placed ontop of pram while
Mother scrabbles under shelving for dropped advantage card.
21. Innocent passing elderly couple who just called in for some fibogel get caught
up crush but too overcome with amazement of discount to complain.
22. 9.30am Queues at tils bigger than the 8am queues outside. People staggering
out of stores laden down with bags, like a heat of Worlds Strongest Man.
23. 10am. Boots run out of carrier bags.
24. 11am. Website back up but everything sold out.
25. 1pm. Stores everywhere sold out. Shelves empty like desecration after a swarm
of locusts has decended, bar some Yardley gift sets and half the contents of a Fern hatbox.
26. A lucky MSE'er who forgot all about it just happens to wander past a local Boots store on her way back to work from the a dentist's appointment. The 75% sale is on, but they have stumbled upon the only Boots in the country that no-one else has been to. Rows and rows of No7 gift sets and plenty of Joules bags left. No pushing, no shoving, the whole Boots store to herself, with SA's kindly holding her bags for her.
27. Thats it. Done and dusted. All over for another year!

Add:
Go home and check the forum thread. Some will list their lovely purchases, some will bewail their bad luck, a small number will snark. Many will grumble about the website. :D

ic

Just nipped into Manchester Arndale Boots to collect something I ordered yesterday - unaware of this sale.

Its MENTAL - people screaming pushing pulling. Every till open, queues thirty people deep. Staff shaking in the corners, preserving their lives.

I'm returning another day to pick up my order, I can't be bothered with it.

pepperoni_2

lisa21 wrote: »

I do wonder what they do with them all. It hardly seems worth selling on Ebay what with the amount it would cost to post the larger sets? x

Perhaps I can help...I used to film weddings and birthdays and when we filmed a birthday party for an India couple be discovered the hosts were expected to give all the guests a present. As the majority of these events have a guest list going into the hundreds because they invite the whole of their local community this can be quite costly...so I would imagine they are trying to off-set the cost a little.

sarah1972

Sarahsarah wrote: »

But this is a public website, not a private club.

Its also a polite nice public forum and people that post rude remarks is not necessary.

I find it odd that you have registered on here just to slag people off, If people want to lose sleep, queue up at Boots and spend money then who are you to call them dumb?

clumsy_cupcake

Gutted I missed the online sale, I went to bed just 20 mins before it started. I couldn't stay up any longer. I rely on the boots sale to get some nice gifts for my family that i otherwise wouldn't really be able to afford. When I woke up at 7am the stuff I wanted had sold out.

Upset I missed it but after all it's only things. I'm sure my family would appericate home made gifts this year just as much.

Glad everybody got their bargains instore and online

Everybody that stayed up last night and had to be up early today, I'm sure you have been surviving on redbull and coffee like myself lol

valk_scot

Sarahsarah wrote: »

I just find it all very amusing and fascinating in a sick kind of way.

You said it, not me. If even you think your behaviour is a bit sick why are you posting to tell us about it?

sassyblue

I was disappointed for the first year ever as l witnessed people just being plain greedy taking loads of the same item and leaving the shelf empty, hardly fair for others.

Thank god my mum and sister had got me a few bits when they got there at 8.30 because by 9.15 the shelves were decimated like locusts had descended. :rotfl:

I popped into my tiny local boots and actually got the best bits there! A fabulous no.17 kit £65 down to £19.50 and it's got £120 worth of products in all set out beautifully. :beer:

This sale saves me so much money, as it's half hour to the nearest town and then extortionate parking prices, so if you add up all the petrol and parking money aswell I've easily saved half of what I've spent again and I've done my family's and friends birthdays throughout the year.

ETA, same time next year then peeps! X