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Snap-ant

EMMAP wrote: »

Afternoon Snap

It's a bit overcast here now. Rain is expected I think.

What stuff did you take to the Raffle? It always gives me a little buzz to know

Darth Vader Mug
Mr Messy Mug
Body shop stuff
Boots Gift Sets
Earphones
Ts Lip balms, nail files, Body butters
LED torch
Wind up torch (pig one)
A pen set

aau1

Saversue wrote: »

Scamps, can't see this at Morrisons on MSM signed in or out
Am I missing something ? thanks

Yup

The part of post 1 that says not to rely on MSM for M comparisons :cool:

oozy

Has anyone reached the cap yet?

Just wondering that if the More points are not included in the £10 cap per shop, could it be a possibilty that they are not included in the £100 cap too, thus allowing £200 worth of vouchers?

Saversue

aau1 wrote: »

Yup

The part of post 1 that says not to rely on MSM for M comparisons :cool:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Savvybuyer

Swad12345 wrote: »

Good find thanks :T do u happen to know how much the peppers are on sel I could only find jar of red chargrilled & They were £1.79:eek: thanks x

Chargrilled Mixed Peppers in Sunflower Oil (280g) were 25p on Wednesday, although I have no idea whether they have changed since then. They've been 25p on every check since at least three weeks ago though. There are some good items like these - you can find them in the "Tins, Jars & Cooking" section of the 'buy in M' part of my M list. I've even put them into ascending price order for you (cheapest first). It's not by price per g. or ml., it's by straight price. Good afternoon btw:rotfl:. I wouldn't put them on M&M shops with the biscuits but they may be good to trigger vouchers to print out later on.

Meanwhile...

I'm canning the M&M scheme. Not caning unfortunately, as in beating the living daylights out of and making absolute maximum use of, but canning - as in putting the lid on it and shutting the whole thing down for myself in order to stop me having to spend yet more money to get the next £5 hit. I've figured that just a couple of more packs of biscuits will help me hit a further £5 amount bang on, rather than buying later when it's all gone and getting just the next £5 - and have gone for the ones I really wanted that I failed to buy last time because I believed that they did not work - only to buy a different one instead and have that fail to work:(:rotfl:. I can confirm that Jam n Cream (Raspberry & Vanilla) and Malted Milk Creams worked on my shop today. I don't need more than the few packs I've got - they are just enough, with the others, to last the distance to September and bit beyond (their BB) and no more than that:T. That is eminently sensible and, as ever, rational shopping I feel. Hopefully, by the end of today I'll be at an exact £5 amount in points. I'm not getting any more M&M shops.

When I have the £5 vouchers, I'll spend on items cheapest in M and not worth buying or having no equivalents elsewhere, whenever the opportunity arises. If they do a F&V, I might do a £15 M&M shop to get more, and fortunately I am not going to have to spend any substantive real cash.

I've decided I may as well have got the biscuits for free from Mr A at 50p in effect by using a womble. That would have given straight same thing and I would not have had to buy so many. Again I would have seen the benefit straight away and not had to tie anything up into anything. As it is, instead of a womble, I've seen over £20 go out of my bank account:eek: and, whilst I've stretched it and made things good (or better) value, it's still £20 more than would go by using wombles. I may be wrong - people here have got quite a lot out of it, but, apart from the biscuits, I could have just bought the cheaper items separately in A and not had to risk an almost inevitable not 100% complete perfect comparison and therefore possibly losing money again and again (even though M may be amenable to rectifying it) - whilst the wombles would then be used up far more quickly, neither would I necessarily need to buy £7 worth of "A cheapest" goods (as approximate half the cost of a £15 M&M shop) all at once and, to be fair, with wombles, you never completely run out.

Maybe I am having more sense recently. I did used to buy the £20 Sains BM shops and sometimes simple price match - but to be fair I did usually use a cond.spend. Yet they gave the voucher amount (whatever the system calculated) immediately and there was none of this tying things up until the next £5 is reached. Unless you hit an exact £5, you never get an actual price match until you do (and then, as you probably overshoot it slightly or somewhat more than slightly, have never got an actual price match off the latest shop, until the next £5 point etc.).

Even at T, whilst the vouchers didn't always give you the difference if something returned N/A (or even more expensive at the competitor:eek:) that 'should' not have done, at least the value of what they gave you was available to spend (the day after) and, indeed, if it was shortchanged, was sometimes a benefit in not having to buy as much next time - occasionally T would make up the difference but always seemed to me to be the ones who were less likely to do so, in any event 'losses' were often less than the cond.spend amount I'd used so could be written off (I still made better than a price match) and on a couple of occasions I got £5 on a moneycard as a result of the PP failure and therefore ended up with more!:D I still, as many of you will know, disliked them totally and the whole exercise felt like drawing teeth - and they still have several pounds of my money tied up in the CC until they come up with a better offer on their days out deals (been waiting since last summer, no way I am redeeming for that little) but nonetheless I'll can it - I have exact number of pounds there too!:):rotfl:

(Obsessive yes, but essential so that I don't spend hundreds of pounds:eek: merely just because I have a few pence of the next £2.50 or whatever (see, can't even remember the redeemable amounts:rotfl:, that's how long I've not used it), so I don't spend, and then have me spending a lot of money, just to try to get the next redemption amount.) The benefit with A is that it is all instant!:D I like that, it works for me:). (Well, instant except when the system is down till 6 o'clock the following morning:( - nevertheless, I can live with that:D:D!)

I actually like M (over T and even, these days, over S) - some of their offers can sometimes be extremely good - and this M&M thing doesn't reflect my feelings of them - though it does seem a very careful scheme that helps in getting more money put into them to keep it going, of course the Elite here use it very differently - and most of you, as usual, are far better than me at getting these things out of it!:T

I think that's part of the 'trick' though - the trick is to be able to walk away without tying much, if anything, at all into it!:D:rotfl::cool:

aau1

oozy wrote: »

Has anyone reached the cap yet?

Just wondering that if the More points are not included in the £10 cap per shop, could it be a possibilty that they are not included in the £100 cap too, thus allowing £200 worth of vouchers?

Is there a limit to how many Match and/or More points I can collect in a time period?
Yes, to help us manage Match & More and to ensure all customers are treated fairly, there is a limit of 100,000 points during a calendar month.

The key word being "calendar" so if you really are desperate for £200 worth of biscuits :eek: wait until Sunday

lookinforabargain

aau1 wrote: »

you should be able to view your latest CC mailing MOCs online now

I've got 9 right duds

Thanks for the heads up

Mine are quite good this time, will go nicely with the PP and conditional spend that I've been saving up for a special occasion

Savvybuyer

aau1 wrote: »

The key word being "calendar" so if you really are desperate for £200 worth of biscuits :eek: wait until Sunday

I suppose I got my shop in today, so that I can leave more of £100 left available for me next month!:D In the event that I should have a rethink or something really good comes on.

Picasso7

Thinking about my next CC, I can see a spreadsheet may be needed! Columns for 'charged by website', 'actual price' and 'likely APG'. That way I might not end up paying for too much with APGs and also keep an eye on my totals. Up to £88 for January -- the date is when we claim, isn't it please?

I think I missed a reply to my next question. If I say no subs and there are no Udis, does it still show on the APG please? Sorry to have to ask again.

Westvleteren

Not sure if it has been mentioned but the new Tesco magazine is out and has the following coupons:

£1 off When you buy two Holy Cow sauces.
£1 off all Udi gluten free bagels :rotfl:
50p of Imperial Leather Foamburst 200ml.
£10 off when you spend £75 at Tesco opticians.
40p off Tesco finest Cornish Clotted Cream, Madagascan vanilla custard and Thick Chantilly Double Cream.

And on page 70, 40p of Lotus Biscoff Biscuits.