ASDA the store who dont want you to save money

likelyfran

LilElvis wrote: »

You take it home and enter the details onto the Price Guarantee part of their website. This then compares 'your' shop to other supermarkets prices and gives you a printable voucher if Asda aren't 10% cheaper. You can even get a phone app to scan the receipt, though you still need to print the voucher. You then take the voucher, and the receipt, and hand it over to the cashier where the value of the voucher is deducted from your shopping bill - ready for you to take your new receipt home, enter details on website and repeat. Or throw away for OP to find and use against his next shop.[/QUOTE

Ah, right. First phrase that springs to mind and that I would imagine applies here is 'non transferable' - like with travel tickets.
HOW much grubbing and bother would you have to go through, though, to make this worthwhile - what OP says he is doing - if it was ok?
It doesn't seem ok to me, not sure why some Asda reps appear to have told OP it was. He needs to get something in writing.
Asda always strikes me as being stingey with this system - other supermarkets do it for you at the till and only time I tried the Asda thing, because I'd spent a lot of money, computer said no (not eligible for some reason that wasn't explained).

janiebquick

I am afraid I gave up at line 5 after struggling to read your post, so I may have got the wrong end of the stick. What you describe sounds very much like fraud, perhaps that why Asda don't like it?

tomtontom

Something doesn't add up here, according to previous posts the OP was banned in August 2012 after doing it for three months?!

tomtontom

smod123 wrote: »

dont know if people can help . basically this is my problem. I am always on the look out for a bargain . what i did do was I shop at asda and i always do there price check to see if I save money on my shop.while doing this I also look in the shopping trolleys and see if people have left there receipts. when i started doing this i asked security and also customer services if i was allowed to do this and basically they said yes no problem .i started 3 months ago and there was no problem .......until friday when i was doing what i normally do and basically a security guard came to me and said i was needed to come to the security office with my 8 year old son .when in there they said it was illegal and I would be banned for life for what i was doing . when i argued my case they totally ignored my pleas and i asked why couldnt i have been told when i started this .I hope someone can help .

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antrobus

visidigi wrote: »

Three years since the article....

Current T&C's don't allow for it.

And in what way are the current T&C's different from those of three years ago?

Back in 2011 an ASDA spokesman said "We love it when people save money. And some people are savvier than others." Step forward to 2014 and our OP "brought this to the attention of head office" and was informed that they "could return to the asda store and could collect asda receipts that people had threw away and could continue to apply the saving to the cost of my family shopping". Doesn't look like much has changed, does it?

I'd suggest that the OP has a shufty at the current version of the long-running MSE Elite thread - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4946356 - where wombling is regarded as more of religious rite.:)

geordie_joe

antrobus wrote: »

And in what way are the current T&C's different from those of three years ago?

I don't know, but if you look at them now you will see it clearly says "Your Shop" several times.

antrobus wrote: »

Back in 2011 an ASDA spokesman said "We love it when people save money. And some people are savvier than others." Step forward to 2014 and our OP "brought this to the attention of head office" and was informed that they "could return to the asda store and could collect asda receipts that people had threw away and could continue to apply the saving to the cost of my family shopping". Doesn't look like much has changed, does it?

You are assuming the asda person spoken to actually knows. I bet they just spoke to a call centre person who knows nothing but what is written on the script in front of them, so just said what they thought at the time.

You have to remember that just because someone works for a company it doesn't mean they know the law and all the company rules and policies.

I'd hate to get arrested for it and my only defence being "Well, a man on the internet said Tesco and Asda said it was legal".

antrobus wrote: »

I'd suggest that the OP has a shufty at the current version of the long-running MSE Elite thread - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4946356 - where wombling is regarded as more of religious rite.:)

Oh goody, I can also use the time honoured playground excuse "Well other people do it".

System

The thing which I don't understand is how on earth do Asda know if the receipt is actually yours? Your OH, (adult)child etc could have done the shopping to receive the APG voucher then gave you the voucher.

marliepanda

ScarletMarble wrote: »

The thing which I don't understand is how on earth do Asda know if the receipt is actually yours? Your OH, (adult)child etc could have done the shopping to receive the APG voucher then gave you the voucher.

Cos she was seen scrabbling around picking them all up on multiple occasions.

Plus it says you can do it ten times a month, sounds like she was breaking that limit per transaction...

System

marliepanda wrote: »

Cos she was seen scrabbling around picking them all up on multiple occasions.

Plus it says you can do it ten times a month, sounds like she was breaking that limit per transaction...

OK the OP took the p*ss with the receipts she picked up, checked and used coupon.

But with the likes of me that wombled £10 in 6 receipts over 2.5 years, how does Asda know if these coupons/receipts are mine or I found them and discovered they have a voucher?

marliepanda

ScarletMarble wrote: »

OK the OP took the p*ss with the receipts she picked up, checked and used coupon.

But with the likes of me that wombled £10 in 6 receipts over 2.5 years, how does Asda know if these coupons/receipts are mine or I found them and discovered they have a voucher?

They don't.

So don't take the pee and it could be a little bonus.