Da thread....do you dare come in da house?

Anon

The Tempur offer (try 3 mattresses instore, get free travel pillow) is being advertised on TV - offer ends 7/5.

Anon

aau1

Don't forget to check your rsh credit. Some expires 21st (which may mean its expired already as hey've previously gone with an early hours update)

Hopefully its not too late....

shirley999

I was quite happy that as a result of buying a 'few' Whiskas at Tesco of late my petrol points have added up to 7p this month. However, when I went to buy my petrol tonight I found out I could not use this 7p until I had first used 2p left over from last month. I suppose the moral of this story is to swap Clubcards at the end of each month. Anyone else caught out by this built-in catch?

ETA just posted a comment on their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/tesco?fref=ts

elliemoo

Well its goodnight from me

My DS who is 6, has been singing this for days!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uJugSwY3ww

fairclaire

Moff to bed too. thanks for the company xxx

zagubov

Off to watch Game of Throness Ep 1
See you tomorrow!

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

Pedant!

I dare come back in da house!:D And I expected nothing less, with that stick-out tongue there!

zagubov wrote: »

Off to watch Game of Throness Ep 1
See you tomorrow!

Goodbye for now - see you on Tuesday then!:)

As we were mentioning music earlier, or I was anyway, alone amongst myself as usual:rotfl::rotfl:, do you think these people (nearer the beginning of the programme) are geeky? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0424hn3/Click_19_04_2014/

Apparently this bit wasn't in the short version of the programme, not that I noticed anyway:o:o, but I've found it here (at the above link).

They were called "geeks", but I suspect I was picking that use of that word up as a detail again when it's really an aside:rotfl:. The word "eccentric" also got used; another detail!:p (Savvy - who on earth uses semi-colons? You make yourself appear to be a geeky college person:rotfl::D!) The various potential 'male geeks' there looked fascinated by some of the objects they were handling! Far too fascinated for normality!:rotfl:

The programme 'reporter', for want of a better word, also mentioned she has syna...syne...syn... now can I spell it?;), synaesthesia (and here's a song of course just to distract away from the point and go round a tangent again:(: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asQF1fn1Cgo). It's a "fascinating" condition - http://www.uksynaesthesia.com/ - and that's not just a quote from there but my view too - sometimes synaesthesia and Asperger's co-exist in the same person - Daniel Tammet for example is diagnosed with both (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet) - I'd love to have synaesthesia (of a harmless type that didn't cause any significant disturbance to me) but sadly, yet again, so near but so far:(:rotfl:! The two are distinct; of course (there appears that semi-colon again:D) you can have synaesthesia without Asperger's. Anyway, just interested (too interested again:rotfl::rotfl:) at the very focused interest of those people (seemed more interested by objects they had in their hands than interacting with any other humans) that suggested they are geeks. Bit like me now with my eyes focused on the computer screen here and seemingly oblivious to anything else, around me (but I assure you I do feel other things around me and very much more profoundly than most people). That's how I roll!:D;):D

Yours, Mr Geek!:j:D (Sadly not a savant, hence why I don't have 100% success with my shops and lists but, hey, [Strike]a bit(:rotfl:)[/Strike] - alright a lot - of a geek!!:D:D:j:j As for the shops etc., I'm working on it!)

Savvybuyer

shirley999 wrote: »

I was quite happy that as a result of buying a 'few' Whiskas at Tesco of late my petrol points have added up to 7p this month. However, when I went to buy my petrol tonight I found out I could not use this 7p until I had first used 2p left over from last month. I suppose the moral of this story is to swap Clubcards at the end of each month. Anyone else caught out by this built-in catch?

ETA just posted a comment on their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/tesco?fref=ts

:(What a catch!:( Should have used the 2p from last month up.

Of course I would not have been shopping at T at all last month as they are (comparatively) a complete rip-off IMO and I always lose out with them, I never have any success extracting out of them, more like trying to extract teeth, so I would have been abstaining completely and, if I had cats, would only have started buying from them now. So I'd have (presumably) have been alright Jack. But, yeah, it seemed a nice idea but pays to study T&Cs in advance of absolutely everything with these boogers:(.

Savvybuyer

Any Savings accumulated in month 1 and carried over into month 2 cannot be combined with any Savings earned in month 2, and those month 1 Savings will expire at the end of month 2 if not used. Any Savings earned in month 2 will expire at the end of month 3 if not used, etc.
http://www.tesco.com/fuelsave/tac.asp

In fact I was going to quote just this (above), then decided to widen it out to this as month is calendar month:

Clubcard Fuel Savings operate on a monthly cycle, starting on the 1st of each month and ending on the last day of the calendar month. Savings earned each calendar month can be used in that month (month 1) or the next month (month 2). Any Savings accumulated in month 1 and carried over into month 2 cannot be combined with any Savings earned in month 2, and those month 1 Savings will expire at the end of month 2 if not used. Any Savings earned in month 2 will expire at the end of month 3 if not used, etc.

Then I decided to quote the rest as well as it contains lots of things that may catch someone out:

Clubcard Fuel Savings operate on a monthly cycle, starting on the 1st of each month and ending on the last day of the calendar month. Savings earned each calendar month can be used in that month (month 1) or the next month (month 2). Any Savings accumulated in month 1 and carried over into month 2 cannot be combined with any Savings earned in month 2, and those month 1 Savings will expire at the end of month 2 if not used. Any Savings earned in month 2 will expire at the end of month 3 if not used, etc.

Savings from each month will remain separate, and cannot be used together. Savings must be used in the chronological order of their collection. For example, if you carry over a 4 pence saving from month 1 into month 2, and have collected 6pence in month 2, you must redeem the 4p from month 1 first in a fuel transaction, before then being able to redeem the 6pence earned in month 2 in a subsequent fuel transaction.

Savings from each month can only be carried over to the next month in even numbers. This means that if by the end of month 1 you had earned 7p, only 6p would be carried over for redemption in month 2. This is because once month 1 savings are carried over to month 2, you can no longer add to the month 1 savings, and because Fuel Savings must be redeemed in even numbers.

And now I've decided to quote the beginning too, as no use accumulating 7p - that counts as only 6p as has to be an even number and need therefore to accumulate one more penny before the end of this current calendar month (three or four more shops? - but what do I know as I don't shop at T and therefore don't study all their catch-out terms in detail beforehand and memorise them, and the main reason I don't shop there is because they have these catch-out terms all the time, as well as not having cats but I would have been shopping there now if I had cats):

Clubcard Fuel Savings can only be redeemed in 2p increments, ie, 2p or 4p or 6p etc. If your receipt balance shows that you have accumulated an uneven number of fuel savings, you will only be able to redeem the next lowest even number worth of Fuel Savings, for example, if you have accumulated 7p, you will only be able to redeem 6p of Fuel Savings in one transaction. The remaining 1p will stay on your Clubcard for use next time, once it can be redeemed as part of an even number of fuel savings. If, however, you do not reach the £50 threshold in that calendar month you will lose the 1p at the end of that calendar month.

They don't exactly mention any of this in the 'headline' promotion do they? This is, for me, normally a muggles promotion. But the Whiskas makes all the difference to me but, as I said, I'd have started only this month - and, now I've gone and looked at it even more, following the OP's warning, I too would be hopping mad if I had accumulated an odd number of pence. I'd like to have kept at the even number just below!:mad::mad: Yet again with their month carry-over, they are delaying payment the boogers!!

"Where is aau1 when you need him?" Just go and study the T&Cs page at the link folks, as I've mixed up and quoted different sections in different order;).

Booger as you filled your car up and thought you were getting 7p off per litre only to find it was only going to be 2p off a litre at maximum. Now they have 'captured' your custom for next month, even if it is 6p, as that's still 6p off which is probably better than the straight-price elsewhere:( - all that 'free' cat food, wasted and paid for by paying them more money on fuel:mad:. This is precisely why I detest T and refuse to shop there, even though I would have gone for the Whiskas if I had cats (and gone for the petrol promo. as an 'added extra' in these extreme, rare circumstances). Barstewards!:mad:

Savvybuyer

Speaking of T, we all know (on here surely) about the doubling of prices only to put back at the same level (some of the price graphs on msm show Mr T in particular as being up one week down the next, with sharp rises and sharp falls - another tactic of theirs) but it seems to me Mr Sainsbobs can nearly be as bad. Both T and S go in for '3 for 2' offers which cleverly see you (or muggles) buying in bulk and paying them far more overall - one set of 3 for 2s, at S, that I thought I'd draw your attention to as to ones to avoid - see for example the fresh spaghettis and fusillis and the like. Long been at 'just' 50p in A (price "lock") but on 3 for 2 in Mr S... at 95p each or 3 for 2. In other words, a very inflated individual price (compared to Mr A, to whom Mr S don't compare on own-brands:rotfl: - although not for that reason, I just thought I'd mention the point) and seeing you buying three:eek: in order to pay twice as much as the individual inflation of 95p. Even after that, A's price is still cheaper per unit. So, a near double price and then a 3 for 2 to spend even more. Buy just one in A - or, if you want to risk it, one ONLY in T(vs Mr A), no need to bulk-buy;).

That said the price-"locks" in Mr A have their own things about them and can sometimes or often (I haven't yet determined which of the two it is) now be more expensive than the cost elsewhere (although maybe not for us careful APG shoppers:T, but only when on the right shopping and in the right manner) - I already had a thought in the pipeline about a post about that (those now too-high-priced 'see how much you can save' "locks") - but that may now come later!:):cool: