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

Claire1972

Well I've done 2 biscuit shops today, wasn't going to bother but thanks CouponKathy got me sorted and kept me right.

Thanks also for the boots bag of goodies you brought round from the boots sale, much appreciated.

Does anyone know how long the biscuit glitch is likely to work for??

Volbeat_

Donaldweight wrote: »

Thank you for welcoming me Bubbs, Munqui and Hillbern. Here is the result of one shop today;

Due to the ASDA Price Guarantee, you're entitled to a voucher of £10.54:

Why £10.54?
« Back to comparison results
10 items on your bill qualify for comparison Sainsbury's
+£9.83

1 x ASDA Chosen by You Minestrone Soup (400g) £0.45 £0.55
1 x ASDA Chosen by You Sliced Carrots in Water (300g)£0.30 £0.30
1 x Haribo Maoam Giant Strawberry Stripes £0.10 £0.10
1 x Nivea Men Active Age Night Regenerator (50ml) £12.00 £2.00
1 x Imperial Leather Classic Bath Cream - Hydrating (5..£0.87 £0.90
1 x Crosse & Blackwell Marrowfat Peas (145g) £0.24 N/A
1 x Warburtons Soft White Sandwich Thins (6) £1.00 £1.00
1 x Candyland Flumps Mallow Twists (12g) £0.10 £0.10
1 x Haribo Starmix £0.10 £0.10
1 x ASDA Chosen by You Giant White Mice Bar (15g) £0.10 N/A
1 x ASDA Chosen by You Giant Rainbow Buttons Bar (15g)£0.10 N/A
1 x ASDA White Chocolate Moments (3x120ml) £1.00 N/A
1 x ASDA Milk Chocolate Almond Moments (3x120ml) £1.00 N/A
1 x Weight Watchers from Heinz Chicken Curry (320g) £0.98 £1.00
1 x Weight Watchers from Heinz Spaghetti Bolognese (32... £0.98 £1.00

Comparison total (compared products only) £16.88 £7.05
And the next......

Hello Everybody,

I am a student who is just starting to try all these neat ways to save a bit of money on this forum!
I have probably a silly question, but I am a bit confused with all these numbers!

When you guys do posts like this, is the first price what you paid, and the second price what it was somewhere else? Or do they represent how much you will get in a voucher?
Or neither of those options?
I'd be very grateful if someone could give a numpty's explanation for these lists!

Savvybuyer

I might buy Ibuprofen in Morries next time:rotfl:.

I know someone said earlier (no time or real ability to go back and ever locate where that post was) that they always bought bread separately in M as does not compare well. Do you mean that, for example, Savers Brown Loaf (720g) does not compare favourably vs A? Is that a no-go?

Otherwise I would have thought Kingsmill 50/50 800g would seem currently to be an M £1.35 vs Aldi item, as Aldi 78p. A is 79p, and more than 10% cheaper than everywhere to which it compares, so would seem best M vs Aldi. That's if anyone has ever done, or can ever do, a good shop with proper comparables vs Aldi - whilst M often trumpet "Aldi and Lidl", it doesn't seem much in our use as I'm unsure if anyone ever really has managed a good shop and got a good result vs Aldi or Lidl?

willowwispy

Hi All,

Does anyone know when Mr Shoes is likely to have 90% off sale ? TIA x

littlebluebird

Volbeat_ wrote: »

Hello Everybody,

I am a student who is just starting to try all these neat ways to save a bit of money on this forum!
I have probably a silly question, but I am a bit confused with all these numbers!

When you guys do posts like this, is the first price what you paid, and the second price what it was somewhere else? Or do they represent how much you will get in a voucher?
Or neither of those options?
I'd be very grateful if someone could give a numpty's explanation for these lists!

Welcome! :wave:

In a post like that the op has copied and pasted what was on the apg site. Most people put v S, T, W or M above it so you know who it compared with.
First price is the price in A, second is the comparison.

N/A means there is no available comparison for that product in that shop.

That's the basics. Read on for the more interesting.

Claire1972

Savvybuyer wrote: »

If you paid 3 for £3 on the Kellogg's then, yes, it worked! You ended up with £1.84+£1.84+92p = £4.60 instead of £3.:T

Take that Ibuprofen out of your shop next time though!:D:eek::rotfl:

Thanks savy, Was in a bit of a rush and my head was banging so needed ibuprofen!!!!

tweets

Goodnight cya all tomorrow :wave:

Anon

Sakura10 wrote: »

Forgot to say when I did my 2nd biscuit shop there was a £5 till spit voucher waiting which I noticed as I went to get purse to pay. I used it towards my bill assuming it was mine. But then I realised I hadn't scanned my match n more card yet so it couldn't have been mine and must have been left by person before me. I felt a bit bad!

Then I went to Halfrauds for some car bulbs using my trade card. The chap serving was so busy chatting about my free de-icer that he only charged me for 1 bulb. So paid £1.25 instead of the full price of around £14 for them. :j

Top tip - in T they sell an emergency car light bulb kit for £4 which contains a range of standard bulbs - I had paid £9 odd for one headlight main beam from Halfords two weeks previously :eek: then when a second bulb went I spotted this .

Worth getting even if you never need the other bulbs just for the headlight one .

HTH

Anon

Savvybuyer

littlebluebird wrote: »

Thanks For re plying. I was just thinking that the reason it glitched is because it went through the till at less which it wouldn't for online. Well, it would but the apg wouldn't know would it?

I do think that this has found something though - that, where an item is on a lower price than the mbuy, the system thinks they were bought at non-mbuy pricing and doesn't pick up the mbuy - unless presumably you are hitting the mbuy on that one item as in system has individual price £1 and any 2 for £4 mbuy (during transitional stage in between price change updating), e.g. the Doritos last week.

Presumably you need one at 'cheap' price (below the mbuy price equivalent) and other items at high price (why would you do it any other way?) and only hit one store mbuy across the mix, and none on the APG system, i.e. must miss the mbuy number on the higher price ones taken alone and must miss the mbuy number on the 'cheap' item taken alone, cannot get for example 3 at high price then a further 2 high price and one cheap as would hit 3 for £3 on one set of 3 of the higher price items.

Savvybuyer

Claire1972 wrote: »

Thanks savy, Was in a bit of a rush and my head was banging so needed ibuprofen!!!!

Ah, impulse shopping!:D:T:T