The Elite:The Good, The Bad and the Glitchy

asset2004

I've also used wowcher with no problems
HTH

Savvybuyer

Just looking at the multipack Pot Noodles and it appears the Original Curry version is showing out of stock for A on msm. Is it on a.com (I haven't time to look there) and, if not, is it therefore a trigger?
Meaning 3 for £8 but other two varieties might give a total of about £4.29 back, vs M, therefore meaning £3.71 for 12 Pot Noodles. Which isn't that bad is it? 30.9...p per pot! :eek::eek::eek:_pale_That's pretty expensive isn't it?:rotfl::rotfl:

asset2004

Fb code for shopitize this week is £1 off coconut water, still pretty expensive so might give it a miss this week

janed9388

Hi, does anyone know if the tesco Hipp Organic coupons scan against the jars rather than the pouches - I know we used to be able to use coupons against anything or is this frowned upon these days ??. I'm just trying to compile a list of what they do scan on and what compares against asda as they are usually cheaper there - will post it later when I am complete.

xxlouisexx56

I cleared our holiday A's out of toilet roll !

They have the reduced candles so I'm just about to order a cc for tomorrow and hope to squeeze in another on Saturday morning when we leave!

Mse won't let me post me a PIC of my stash

Savvybuyer

LEJC wrote: »

I think whether something is expensive or not is possibly a personal view geared towards your own expectations...I guess what one person feels expensive the next might not...

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Yes possibly so but I also think there is an objective basis to it too and it's not merely personal opinion - for example whether something is not at its "lowest price" - or "a reasonable low price that you can get in the most recent years/current times" - and, anything above that, "it's too expensive". It's about having the information and being able to make the best decisions to ensure that everything is the cheapest we can get. Just my two cents (...even though I would never pay that:rotfl:!).

There is, you're right, something about "expectations" as well, in other words what general prices different types of items are fixed at in our society and, therefore, what we see as "reasonable" to pay for them. For example, we might pay much more for a meal out at a restaurant, even though the same items of food, bought from a shop, would be much much cheaper elsewhere. Really, it's prices that are determined by society and what we call "money" just being pieces of paper or metal that we generally accept in return for goods or services, to which different what we call "prices" are affixed that then alters how perceptions as to how much types of items "should" generally cost. Who decided that fishfingers were less valuable than cars? And, had we had another view, then we might all be driving around in brand-new cars for nowt!:rotfl::rotfl: (That would be fun.) But, then, you can see the point about perceptions...if someone allowed us to have a car for the price of a pack of fishfingers (and prices of those vary by brand, that alters people generally's perceptions about how much they are "worth", or "willing to pay") - if car salesrooms sold cars for fishfinger prices, we (i.e. people generally) might then think that the salesrooms were totally daft to do so. However, really its the price or "value" we affix to things - as well as the amount of labour perhaps needed to produce a brand new car as opposed to a pack of fishfingers - and determines how much we think something is "worth". If the world was one in which cars went for 60p, then people in it would not think there was anything strange about that at all.

My attempts at cheapest prices (and therefore not expensive) are efforts to be rational based on my wide knowledge of what I have seen things for in the past (which I don't always achieve - e.g. the compost that was £2.98 on my list:(, then went down to £2.00 then £1.00). Money-saving is achieved through rational decision making in shopping. Which of course none of us do - for one, we don't have perfect information (see the compost example) and really most people's shopping is virtually all irrational - this point will go right over people heads! - most purchases are not made on the basis of searching every possible retailer and source - for one, we do not have unlimited time - and eventually we just give up and "what the hell, just buy that here", we haven't got time to keep checking - the assumption of rational actors in economy theory and the marketplace (zzzz....:rotfl:).

I hope my information is useful and helps us to shop a little more rationally as that's the key to money-saving! Even though I don't always know the cheapest price and :eek:put compost on at its first offer when that wasn't any good and should really have waited for it to be much lower. Maybe it will go even lower than £1 now?:think:

However, I think that, objectively, we can say that some things are "too expensive". For example, anyone that pays over £4 for a Ben and Jerry's tub of just 500g...

I do not see how £4 could possibly, rationally and objectively, be considered to be anything but "expensive" when prices of £2 odd are regularly available in the market place and anyone that pays £4+, which is much higher than a price that is quite often available, is paying too much. Of course, that's in my opinion - but then so it's everything that anyone ever thinks. At the end of the day, it's all opinion. However, given the information and forming a rational view based on it, I do not see how any person other than one whose opinions were totally unreasonable (and therefore should be ruled out as being completely beyond reasonable possibility of argument) could conclude anything except that, in relation to paying £2 for something, a price of £4 for the very same thing is "too expensive". How could anyone think otherwise? I think (I hope) you'll all agree with me!

Mumto2monkeys

asset2004 wrote: »

Fb code for shopitize this week is £1 off coconut water, still pretty expensive so might give it a miss this week

I saw that this morning.... Doesn't sound right... Coconut Water, was wondering if it's a none alcoholic version of Malibu;)

Well Mr sunshines finally gracing us with his presence. It's glorious at the moment so I'm topping up my tan;)

Mumto2monkeys

xxlouisexx56 wrote: »

I cleared our holiday A's out of toilet roll !

They have the reduced candles so I'm just about to order a cc for tomorrow and hope to squeeze in another on Saturday morning when we leave!

Mse won't let me post me a PIC of my stash

Loo roll shaped car seats on the return journey then;)

purpledonkey

Interesting discussion...

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5295274

Mumto2monkeys

LEJC wrote: »

I think whether something is expensive or not is possibly a personal view geared towards your own expectations...I guess what one person feels expensive the next might not...

I can only comment on the fact that whilst we were out last night we decided to "eat out"...no deals on and no vouchers to hand we headed for a chain place where once seated and in possession of the menu I did feel the need to get up and leave before ordering...

4 burgers with varying toppings and fries...with 4 diet pepsi's non refillable...would have come in at over £60....

I'm sure other in the restaurant were enjoying their meal...but I felt a tad uncomfortable about how much we were going to spend and what we were receiving for it...
I'm not against paying for something of quality or indeed if it's a treat but a quick meal after the cinema wasn't in my mind supposed to attract that price
We finally ate somewhere else....

I really find eating out tricky... Your comparison of £60 :eek:for one meal out against nearly a months worth of shopping just shows how expensive lots of places are.