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fairclaire

Behind_The_Sofa wrote: »

Wouldn't surprise me if the SA that took her voucher took it to spend herself.

Might be a bit difficult without the receipt? it would in my stores. She still has the receipt so it's scrap paper really.

perkypam123

Hi
How do I get old apg back pls

cjj_2

Claire1972 wrote: »

Evening everyone

Hope everyone is well. :grouphug:

Havnt been around for a while as I am really busy, I was away at the weekend so I missed a lot of the recent glitches. Well done to everyone.

Just wanted to say a massive Thank You to CouponKathy my lovely friend I came home on Monday to find 3 huge bags of shopping left at my house full of dove, fairy and wipes. We work well as a team sharing glitches with each other. Thank you so much.

Well It's an early night for me, in a couple of weeks I will get back into it all.

Claire xxx

I want CouponKathy to be my friend xx

Coupon_Kathy

Claire1972 wrote: »

Evening everyone

Hope everyone is well. :grouphug:

Havnt been around for a while as I am really busy, I was away at the weekend so I missed a lot of the recent glitches. Well done to everyone.

Just wanted to say a massive Thank You to CouponKathy my lovely friend I came home on Monday to find 3 huge bags of shopping left at my house full of dove, fairy and wipes. We work well as a team sharing glitches with each other. Thank you so much.

Well It's an early night for me, in a couple of weeks I will get back into it all.

Claire xxx

Oh you are very welcome, you have kept my stash sky high over the years x

Behind_The_Sofa_2

Behind_The_Sofa_2

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Savvybuyer

poppypopster wrote: »

Talking about voting.. I saw this on facebook


63 reasons not to vote Tories:

1.Food bank use up.
2.Tuition fees trebled.
3.Ema scrapped.
4.Zero hours contracts.
5.More people in part time employment.
6.Suicide rates up.
7.Benefit sanctions targets meaning 90,000 people a month are sanctioned for little or no reason.
8.A and E in crisis.
9.Longer waiting times to see GP.
10.Selling off Royal Mail.
11.Stagnant wages.
12.Closures to police stations.
13.Closures of fire stations.
14.Increasing the national debt.
15.Creating more new debt in 5 years than labour created in 13.
16.Increasing vat.
17.Scrapping meaningful statistics collection.
18.Cutting university funding by 80%
19.Cuts in public transport grants, 20% rise in rail and bus fares.
20.Making councils in poorer areas cut more than councils in wealthier areas.
21.Housing benefit cuts as rents continue to rise.
22.Reneging on curbing bankers bonuses.
23.Loss of 'AAA' credit rating.
24.Double dip recession.
25.Treasury lieing about what income tax is spent on.
26.Universal credit mess, this has cost the taxpayer over 200million.
27. The unlawful Workfare program.
28.The health and social care act, a top down reorganisation of the NHS.
29.Trying to scrap our human rights.
30.Atos.
31.Bedroom tax.
32.Cuts to social care.
33.Cuts to library services.
34.Cuts to the disabled students allowance.
35.Cuts to local council disability transport.
36.Changing DLA to PIP meaning thousands of people are no longer eligible. (Disabled people make up 10% of the population but face 25% of cuts).
37.The IFS says the average household has lost £1,127 a year thanks to coalition policies.
38.The IFS also say that the biggest group to loose out are single jobless parents.
39.Child poverty increased by 13% (after labour cut it by 50%).
40.Removing legal aid.
41.Privatising NHS direct.
42.Tax avoidance up by 13% according to HMRC.
43.Homelessness up 26% (despite labour cutting it by 41%).
44.Closure of sure start centres.
45.30% increase in childcare costs.
46.Childhood obesity up by 16%.
47.Privatisation of the East cost mainline.
48.Stamp price hike by 50% since 2010.
49.Closure of 410+ schools.
50.Cutting the funding for conexions careers advice service for young people.
51.Overcrowded classrooms have trebled since 2010.
52.The Tories have presided over the closing or downgrading of 33% of NHS walk in centres, 66% of A and E/maternity wards and 16% of A and E's.
53.477 fewer GPs surgeries.
54. Mental health provision has been cut by 25%.
55.Closure of prisons
56.The number of millionaire bankers has climbed by 11%
57. 1,368 people died after work capability assessments wrongly found them fit to work.
58.Withdrawal of the subsidy for remploy that saw the closure of 34 remploy factories (that employed disabled people).
59.Water charges up 20% since 2010.
60.Raising the retirement age.
61.David Cameron decided to "cut the green crap" from policies.
62.Fracking.
63.The uk statistics authority has repeatedly warned the Tories to stop lying over immigration, unemployment, benefits cap, debt and NHS spending.
Doesn't count if you're well off or privileged I suppose

Um, tell me about it!
To be fair though they were proposing to do something about some zero hours contracts, but certainly not as much as Labour are. I know zero hours can be of benefit to some people. But the point was - I'm sure it's been made already (zzz...:rotfl:) - that if you were on zero hours, you'd have the right to set hours and a contract after x number of weeks. If you did not want that, and wanted to work on 'zero hours contract', then you do not have to invoke that right, so can continue as before. Some could then argue it's cop-out, but in my view it does protect working people as Ed Miliband says.

The Lib Dems supported the sell-off too. So they are also at fault there, even though some of us did benefit, in the short-term, from it.

Closures (11&12, &32, 33, 34, 44 etc.)... public sector cuts in general. They have had effects on people. Nicola Sturgeon is right again here in my view.

Increase of VAT - another broken promise. And, of course, affects many people including those on incomes low that they don't pay income tax.

I was hinting at the private companies brought in, at cost to the public sector, that seem to me not to deliver their contracts and take money for them and yet never been penalised by the DWP etc. - and that leaked report earlier (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/17/atos-fit-for-work-tests-contract), and reports ad. infinitum - about wanting to get out of their contract early and the government saying standards had declined unacceptability (well, it's on their watch, in my view, and they decided to award the contract so, as public custodian, they have the responsibility for that poor service that the government itself admitted):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26287199

They can't even keep to their own caps anyway and deny their own reports:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/20/dwp-disability-benefits-welfare-spending-cap

Oh, yes,:idea: (:eek:) the one I forgot in my OP, meant to mention the incident yesterday about Nick Clegg saying that all Conservative politicians that he has spoke to privately told him there would not be a majority Conservative government. And the Conservatives response of "That 100% did not happen":rotfl:. Yes, indeed, pull the other one - I have no idea how such a blatant lie can be allowed.

Mr Cameron said - and in fact it was George Osborne that annoyed me: claiming that they only needed another 23 seats. That is blatantly not true:mad: - that relates to the figure that they got in 2010 - it bears no relation to what they have now, which is a lower public opinion support than back then, according to all polls, and therefore they need a lot more than another 23 seats from their current polling position to win outright!

fairclaire

rockyrose wrote: »

well I just love this new system sada have got..its not working very well..."teething problems " they say...more like they need a full set of dentures...its all over the place

It will settle down. All new systems in any of the stores have their blips. And remember it's those blips that stay around that we rely on they try and fix the things that are wrong and end up creating a different type of something else that works in our favour. That's how the game goes

Reading about a lot of troutings on my skip through. It's inevitable whilst there is change going on. Maybe if folk don't react well to troutings just lay low for a bit? The old APG will be something we all reminisce about soon

And not a bad time to just say.......there's no entitlement to glitch and have it go your way. It really is a game and like all games, you don't get to win all of the time.
If you play the game whilst the rules are changing then you stand more chance of losing. Probably best to bear that in mind whilst changes are afoot. :cool:

asset2004

lookinforabargain wrote: »

Evening all

So tonight I decided to do my first APG shop since the 22nd April. Had a voucher for £9 odd to use, went to put it through, SA came to see it and said it had to be authorised. Fair enough says me. I stood waiting for 20 minutes :eek: to be told that I couldn't use it. She had spoken to HO and they weren't honouring any large vouchers as there is a glitch in the system. I asked how long it had been going on she said 3 days, I then pointed out my receipt was from the 22nd She then tried to tell me there wasn't 8 items on my receipt... and that the times didn't match as on the voucher it ended 00 whereas the receipt was 22. I did ask her to open the til and look at any other vouchers she had to see that they were all the same, but she wouldn't.
She then told me I had to phone HO and they'd explain. She kept my voucher as well and wouldn't give me it me back :eek she tried for the receipt as well, but she got told in no uncertain terms was she getting that.

And breath :rotfl: I'm laughing, but it was a tad stressful and highly annoying. I will be phoning HO tomorrow morning to see what they say about it.

IZZY65 have you been up recently and had any issues? I know you did before, but I don't think it was as bad as that?
Just wondering how many lurkers we have up here :rotfl:

gosh that sounds like the store I was in yesterday ...:o :eek:

Wheres_My_Cashback

Behind_The_Sofa wrote: »

If there ever was a picture worth a thousand words...

Yea, just goes to show how low some people will sink to use their kids for political aims. Wholly inappropriate really forcing a young child to carry a banner !