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Littlereddevil_2

rhosynbach wrote: »

good morning hope the elite are well

very sad news to post this morning my dd1 and her partner had a baby girl, she survived barely an hour,
they found out on friday that the baby had Edwards syndrome and could not decide what to do next but the decision was taken out of their hands when she went into labour. Its hard to find the right words to say to them i think alls we can do is be there for them.

My heart goes out to them x
I was told my daughter had a chance of having Edwards syndrome luckily for me the amino results came back clear apparently it's very rare but my friend had an Edwards baby a year or so later, she survived the birth (which apparently is unusual) and was transferred to a local hospice she died about 10 days later , so so sad x

Chrisv

Queenriderbrekke wrote: »

Nice indian chappie from microsoft is going to block my windows 7 computer because it is infected and I won't let him remote access it to repair it, lol!

I had a little chat with him yesterday - he hung up on me after I told him that he was ringing me at work - and I work for a Government IT dept. :rotfl:

nerfdad

Queenriderbrekke wrote: »

Nice indian chappie from microsoft is going to block my windows 7 computer because it is infected and I won't let him remote access it to repair it, lol!

:rotfl::rotfl:

emmad5689

Don't know if it has been confirmed yet but head and shoulders intensive is still glitching as off 10.24am V T
1 x ASDA Spring Greens (500g)£0.75£0.75
1 x Birds Eye Potato Waffles (10 per pack - 567g)£1.50£1.00
1 x Swizzels Matlow Strawberry Refresher Bar£0.10N/A
1 x Candyland Flumps Mallow Twists£0.10£0.10
1 x Haribo Starmix£0.10£0.10
1 x Haribo Tangfastics£0.10£0.10
1 x John Frieda Full Repair Full Body Shampoo (250ml)£5.89£3.92
1 x John Frieda Full Repair Deep Conditioner Mask (150...£5.89£4.00
1 x ASDA Creamy Coleslaw (300g)£0.64£0.64
1 x ASDA Smartprice Orange Squash Double Strength with...£0.42£0.42

V M
2 x Robinsons Special R Orange & Mango Squash with No ...£2.50£2.00
1 x Swizzels Matlow Strawberry Refresher Bar£0.10N/A
1 x Candyland Flumps Mallow Twists£0.10£0.10
1 x Haribo Starmix£0.10£0.101 x Haribo Tangfastics£0.10£0.10
1 x ASDA Chosen by You Lemon Daisy Cup Cakes (2)£1.00N/A
1 x ASDA Strong & Absorbent Extra Long Kitchen Towels ...£2.00£2.00
1 x Head & Shoulders Apple Fresh Anti-Dandruff Conditi...£4.97£3.50
1 x Head & Shoulders Apple Fresh Anti-Dandruff Shampoo...£4.97£3.50
1 x Yazoo Chocolate Flavour Milkshake (1L)£1.30£1.30

Colin_Hunt

Queenriderbrekke wrote: »

Nice indian chappie from microsoft is going to block my windows 7 computer because it is infected and I won't let him remote access it to repair it, lol!

Was it Roger? Or Kevin?

CookieRaider

CookieRaider wrote: »

Here's a freebie for all you cooks.
https://responsys.hs.llnwd.net/i5/responsysimages/anmail/20140212-1626-EM-CC-JamieOliver/JamieOliver1626/header_cvdb.jpg

Just done this and spoke to a real person call only lasted just over a minute, although she did try and get me to spend a fiver for the next 3 issues. (No Thanks say's me);)

David.

Savvybuyer wrote: »

This was from last night (early hours of this morning:eek:) when I had already become tired and in truth could only give a reply without really considering it. It now leads on quite nicely from this.




Googling around "price perception", I came across lots of things, including this:

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/5-psychological-studies/

and this: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-price-perception.htm (along the lines of 'price perception is a marketing strategy where more expensive items are portrayed as being normal or similar to less pricey items')

So that's what Mr S means by 'based on price perception data'?:think: In other words, you are living for less than you think (not necessarily actually are living for less) by falling for much more expensive items that you feel (and here's where I lose most of you:D - by reason of their juxtaposition with other, less expensive items) are less costly than in fact they are:wall::wall:.

I have total distrust of Mr S's marketing and puffery tag-line by now!:rotfl:

There's lots of other articles, academic articles (e.g. Journal of Consumer Behaviour - I now can't recall which article I was taken to earlier) - but what about the one where the turquoise version of a product, instead of being put on half price as intended, was mistakenly doubled in price and then it sold out:eek:? Now it was double the price, consumers actually associated more value with the turquoise version and bought into it. Only the muggles who really don't consider anything rationally (i.e. most people:wall:).

So - people are willing to pay twice as much yet have the item on its original price and they ignored it! It was because of the association with the lower-priced items around it, that the turquoise now stood out and people bought it at twice the price.

I've now decided that, for example, the "magic" 10p per wash that we'd/I'd been using is in fact a fallacy into which I had fallen:(. There is nothing "magical" at all about it and I shouldn't have fallen for the attractive advertising-promotional effect of posters on these threads having said it is. In fact, to defeat the marketing and the price perception that may seem to try to rip us off, we have to take the opposite approach and reject all we're told. There's also a strong effect of the number nine at the end of a price. Just like items at 35p straight actually sell less than when the items are priced at 39p. Except that we would pay 44p:eek: if it were promoted with a crossed out 50p ("reference price") that then makes us think 44p is good value. It's all "relative". Well no, it isn't actually!:D 44p and 39p are too expensive and [Strike]it should be 35p[/Strike] so is 35p - it should be far less. That 10p per wash is a rip off. Only if it's 4p or less am I interested. (That way, the 'offer' prices of fairly normal 10ps look expensive and might encourage us to equally effective products that have 7 or 8p per washes and thus save us money!:D:D:rotfl:.)

Also - this is a good, interesting (or not) read: http://www.oft.gov.uk/shared_oft/business_leaflets/659703/Advertising-of-prices/Pricing-Practices.pdf
(Interesting that that's under a heading of "business leaflets". It's not aimed at us, but at businesses and to assist them to manipulate/alter our perceptions of what we think we are getting in a manner favourable to the producer and supplier rather than ourselves/consumer. Says the cynic.)

Glad that's sorted then Savvy

CookieRaider

Ok my teenage daughters keep taking my H&S even when i put it back in the bedroom after use:mad: so am on my last bottle and without it i'm walking around as if it's been snowing please help as i don't know the score with the 3 for 10 and i have read back just don't know what to buy. Tried to take a pic in As last night and camera on phone wouldn't work:mad: (fixed now) so as i say am on the last bottle from last years glitch. HELP and tia.

Tinyshoes

remote90 wrote: »

Does anyone know exactly how this plays out? Have Dr. O done this kind of competition before?


I've done well winning in week 1 and week 2 but I'm rather running out of family postal addresses!! Do we know how strict they are about winning at the same postal address? And do they mail out vouchers or will it be a downloadable "safe coupon"? Thanks.

May have already been answered but I only got a winning email yesterday with link to claim my voucher by post. I actually entered competition sometime early last week. HTHs

altojack

Back from MrS with my 'normal' (what I thought was normal) that ds4 (not ds3) kindly (?) Did as a cc for me as I'm still feeling carp with this chesty cough that I've had since Christmas time.

Anyway, I felt rather embarrassed when I collected shop. Told the girl it wasn't my order Tec as I ordered my fish, steak, chicken and a few other bits. There was a load of big blue bags in my order.
All other items were mine, but then girl said that the Cadburys bags were marked up at £1 so I had a bargain.
I guess ds4 was lurking last night? Not read back yet but he must have added the sweets to my order. Wait til he gets home from work, bless him. Thank you ds3 x

Off to put shopping away