Everyone Loves Inacurate Transactions Everyday, (as long as they are in our favour)

hollieinbloom

Is there any good deals on Kitchen roll recently? or anything that compares well? i haven't got any left boohoo

Savvybuyer

But this is...:rotfl::mad::mad::rotfl:

Just bought the biscuits and... somehow I have managed to pay three pounds for them!:mad::mad::mad: Only Savvy could manage to do this:(.

I've no idea what happened. I was there, carefully buying only the ones that had been confirmed as working this morning. However, I have got 9800 Match points but only 7000 More despite, according to me, all of them being marked up with the More points offer in my store (though to be honest I picked what I thought had been confirmed as working). The Butter Crinkes is correct isn't it? Says "Fox's Crinkle Crunch Butter" on the packets - or is that something else?

So... I've paid £3 and it works out at 15p per packet:(. _pale_That's a horrible price! I really wanted Jam & Cream and Malted Milk more than any of the others, but couldn't see those as confirmed this morning so I had to have others instead. I may as well have bought a pack of Eday Value Nice Biscuits (400g) at 45p and not paid much more than what the Fox's have now cost me (works out at about 19.7p on Eday Value price). And I could have bought just one packet and not had to buy a lot more. Or some Eday Ginger Nuts 300g 25p = 16.7p for the 200g weight of the Fox's or, as I actually got, 14p for the 168g Ginger Crunch Creams. So, I've either 'saved' 1.7p:( by the Fox's but then bought 20 packs, or based on 168g packs instead of Eday Ginger Nuts, actually cost me 1p more. And I could have bought just one pack of Eday Nice and one pack of Eday Ginger Nuts from T and spent even less i.e. saved even more money.

I never even saw the biscuits at M as being a glitch in the first place. All you are getting is the More points for each, which is exactly what they are offering, although I don't think that I have even got that, together with a correct price comparison against the real price in A.

I would have liked a correct transaction, of the correct More points for each item and the correct price match (but seem only to have got the latter). Instead, :(I've ended with another inaccurate transaction again. One that is not in my favour - and I'm not happy. It seems that, indeed, there's been a glitch in some of the items I bought not giving the More points - and I'm not happy about such a glitch! But, thanks for getting me into this Match and More thing at last:D:D. (Although leaving me trapped into a scheme that forces you to spend more in order to get vouchers to redeem, and then yet more again. I don't need or buy any of the extra More points items anyway - they're just items I either never use or are surplus to my requirements and I have enough anyway - but now being caught into having to spend far more than I need to for a stupid price match. I'd have been better sticking with the wombles and paying no real cash, than having to spend £15 a time to get a simple match and, even then, I suspect I'm going to lose more and more. I don't spend £5 in M - if I need anything that's better there, I just get the one item, pay a couple of quid, and that's it. Now having to spend more and now unnecessary, expensive buying.)

In any event, I've ended up paying them £19.80 cash. At best, it's exactly like paying them about £20 for a £20 gift voucher, which you then have to spend with them - so they always get the money. Instead, I've paid nearly £20 for about a £16 voucher, of which £1 will never materialise without additional, extra spending, and which I've got the benefit of absolutely nothing at the moment. We don't need biscuits, we don't need cereal bars, shower gel, shampoo, handwash, JF oils or anything. We have enough food in our house to live on and don't need to buy anything else! We can live without biscuits and indeed it's getting us to spend more money on things that (whilst they can be 'enjoyed' as part of an overall healthy diet) make us more unhealthy. You know that really I am Savvy anti-buyer rather than Savvy buyer. The solution to saving money is to buy nothing at all!

I hadn't joined M&M. I still had a Miles card, that I'd registered and never really bought much fuel from M anyway, as they were rarely the cheapest petrol and I never got anywhere near being able to redeem anything. Guess what amount I have got from that Miles card now to go onto the M&M? Indeed... 30p:p.

So, £3 spent on 20 packets of biscuits:(. In fact, £19.80 spent and kept by them for then more buying from me from M than would have been the case had I stayed outside of the scheme altogether and just bought the cheaper items in A with wombles. So, they've now got me buying from M in future in order to redeem any vouchers or 'get back' any of the value of that £19.80 (the most I've ever spent in M for what must be over 4 years) - it's a very good marketing scheme and very good in managing to trap us in on buying those biscuits. And I've lost the interest on £19.80 for several weeks from my high interest current account.

All I can hope for is that Mr A gives me the compensation via a womble. And...here we are...as I stopped to buy Mr A's cheaper petrol (even if I could have 'saved' 0.8p:( a litre with Match & More but would never have amounted to a round fiver off and I wasn't any more of it today) - though I'm now filling up with very little as I feel prices may go down soon - I have another 68p to find to make back the £3:rotfl::

(But then have to find 50p or so more than that, since it will another journey and more petrol being used in order to get back to A - indeed, my journey to M today for the biscuits cost me petrol.)

Why £2.32?

Not happy however -

3 x Gallo Family Vineyards Summer Red (750ml)£21.00£20.97
1 x Princes Tuna Chunks in Brine (4x160g)£3.00£3.00
1 x Princes Tuna Chunks in Spring Water (4x160g)£3.00£3.00

as my idiotic shopper bought a day late - had they bought the Tuna Chunks the day before, they would have each compared vs £2.49. And if they had bought a different Gallo (maybe Summer White or Rose) the day before, they should have compared vs £3.99 each not the £6.99 the Red return today:mad::mad::rotfl:.

I suppose at least they picked a non-comparable Dr Oetker:

1 x Dr. Oetker Ristorante Pizza Margherita (330g)£1.48N/A

:(Not happy, gives no contribution to the APG!:p

Together with :(some expensive Dolmio:

1 x Dolmio Express Pasta Sauce - Creamy Carbonara (300...£2.40£2.15

Unhappy - just so unhappy:mad::rotfl: - as ought to be bought when on half price in M. Ought to be much more expensive in A and much cheaper in M.

2 x Weight Watchers Mature Cheese Slices (8 per pack -...£3.34£3.00

And OEP at £3 was good, but not at the best time...

1 x Old El Paso Fajitas Original Smoky BBQ Kit (500g)£3.00£3.19

poppypopster

tazmac25 wrote: »

Yay APG vouchers have started to appear I have a whole massive 1p to spend so far :-)

Got 1p and 2p's

cheer1eader

aau1 wrote: »

I think this might help some of you out :cool:

I can confirm that the first 7 varieties listed below definitely worked for me on one shop :j

Fox's Creams - Nice (175g)
Fox's Creams - Rich Tea (175g)
Fox's Ginger Crinkles (200g)
Fox's Butter Crinkles (200g)
Fox's Crunch Creams - Golden (168g)
Fox's Creams - Malted Milk (175g)
Fox's Jam 'n' Cream (150g)

ETA: This has been confirmed since I shopped :beer:

Fox's Neapolitan Jam Sandwich Creams 150g

Don’t buy any of these
1x Fox's Crunch Creams – Ginger (168g)
1x Fox's Crunch Creams - Double Choc (168g)
1x Fox's Coconut Crinkles (200g)

& the mint creams work if your store has them
Going back to rinse & repeat after ds2 comes out of school

Savvybuyer

In case you hadn't heard...

I'm not happy!:(:p

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

aau1 wrote: »

I think this might help some of you out :cool:

I can confirm that the first 7 varieties listed below definitely worked for me on one shop :j

Fox's Creams - Nice (175g)
Fox's Creams - Rich Tea (175g)
Fox's Ginger Crinkles (200g)
Fox's Butter Crinkles (200g)
Fox's Crunch Creams - Golden (168g)
Fox's Creams - Malted Milk (175g)
Fox's Jam 'n' Cream (150g)

ETA: This has been confirmed since I shopped :beer:

Fox's Neapolitan Jam Sandwich Creams 150g

Don’t buy any of these
1x Fox's Crunch Creams – Ginger (168g)
1x Fox's Crunch Creams - Double Choc (168g)
1x Fox's Coconut Crinkles (200g)

:(I bought the Crunch Creams Ginger. Three packs of them!:(
And...thinking I could have bought the Jam & Cream and Malted Milk all along:rotfl:.

cheer1eader wrote: »

& the mint creams work if your store has them
Going back to rinse & repeat after ds2 comes out of school

I'm not going back at all. I will only do more money:(. I will not get anything for several weeks yet, as only got the temporary card.

Lot of misinformation on here today:mad:, I'm not suggesting it's deliberate, but I going to have a lie down - none of it is accurate and precise enough for my liking:D:rotfl:. And I'm bound to mess it up again if I try!

cheer1eader

carolinabirichina wrote: »

I've not done any glitching for a few months due to real life getting in the way but I've been tempted out of "retirement" by this great biscuit glitch.

Many thanks to the OP and other posters - I went out this morning and got 15 packets to "test the water" and all went according to plan. This was the store in M*rg*te and there were lots left on the shelves at 12.30. Debating whether to go back again later on and do a repeat performance.

The packets are all long dated (Sept 2015) so it would be worth it.
I am now looking after my 91 year old Dad who lives with me and he has such a sweet tooth that they won't hang around long!

I need to get back into the swing of this glitch shopping again so I will try to join in more in future.

Hi :wave: I'm heading back there soon

poppypopster

cheer1eader wrote: »

& the mint creams work if your store has them
Going back to rinse & repeat after ds2 comes out of school

so once you paid.. can you just got back and use the card to get the next lot?

Shortfatscotsbloke

Shortfatscotsbloke wrote: »

Interesting Munqui, interesting.;)

How about this for a possibility..

You buy one item that is 98p and in the '3 for £3' offer. Because 98p is less than the overall average price of each item in the offer, i.e. £1, the apg has to compare that item at the actual price paid. Perhaps the apg cannot increase the price paid to match the offer average.

And how about because of the under average price of item 1, the apg cannot just guess the price that the others should be so that the average across the board is '3 for £3', thus forcing every other item in the offer to compare at full price.

So, in Donaldweight's case, how about the two items he bought being 98p each, forcing one other item in the offer to compare at full price. The fact that it just happened to be chocolate and raspberry is perhaps just a red herring, it had to be something after all.

So, if my instinct is right, it just might be that this could open up a whole new way of glitching for us. Look for ANY multibuy offer where you can find at least one item that is below the average offer price, thus potentially forcing the others all to compare at full price.

I will test this later, but if anyone else wants to try my theory before I post again, please feel free.

Afternoon all.

Sorry to interrupt your afternoon biscuit fun, but I just wanted to report that..

It blinkin' well worked!!:j:j

I managed to find the Honeycomb Crunch Squares at 92p instore and they were £1.84, '3 for £3' on msm. They scanned at 92p, but in the 3 for £3 offer and compared at 92p on the apg, forcing the other items in the offer to compare at full price.

Think we might be able to have a bit of fun with this guys..:D:D

1 x Haribo Maoam Giant Strawberry Stripes £0.10 £0.10
1 x Haribo Maoam Giant Sour Stripes (15g) £0.10 N/A
1 x Kellogg's Rice Krispies Squares Chewy Marshmallow ... £1.84 £1.00
1 x Swizzels Matlow Strawberry Refresher Bar £0.10 N/A
1 x Candyland Flumps Mallow Twists (12g) £0.10 £0.10
1 x Haribo Starmix £0.10 £0.10
1 x Kellogg's Rice Krispies Squares Totally Chocolatey... £1.84 £1.00
1 x Kellogg's Rice Krispies Squares Honeycomb Crunch (... £0.92 £1.00
1 x ASDA Chosen by You Giant White Mice Bar (15g) £0.10 N/A

tazmac25

hollieinbloom wrote: »

Is there any good deals on Kitchen roll recently? or anything that compares well? i haven't got any left boohoo

there were some in asda 6 pk xmas design asda own brand 86p
and 8 pk again asda own brand £1
might be still lucky if your has them xx

wendyak

Afternoon peeps
just popped on to see this biscwuit thingy !!!!"

Rang OH who has a paper card from last year.....he read me the number and I registered it ........its already got about 1800 points
So the very confused me is going to get a few biscwuits laters......wish me luck