Everyone lost in the Ether II

Picasso7

99p wrote: »

Evening mad squad, thought I'd try and join the barilla pasta/sauce fun but seems like I can't do it on my iPad as I think it must be done on a laptop, I was able to use ten minute mail to get the voucher sent but couldn't print as not connected to a printer via cable

I had the same issue with the LKK voucher - I'm on the iPad and you have to print instantly or you lose the voucher. Will e-mail them! But next time I won't click the link in the email!

miss_corerupted

Hmmm I'm not sure what just happened I just got DS a fishtank for his birthday £108.50

This is what it showed on lightening deals on Amazon when I clicked though the link etc http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00D7AWXX2?keywords=Ferplast%20Dubai%2080%20Aquarium%2C%2081%20x%2036%20x%2051%20cm&qid=1447887273&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

Sorry don't know how to do short links. However that is not what has just been confirmed as me buying! It's a much smaller tank!

I'm not sure which way around the y are meant to be now

Savvybuyer

Here we are - it's taken me just over a month to get there -

http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/tried-out-tescos-new-automatic-6618930

The thing is she seems quite happy with her "saving" too, even though she says she didn't get all the discounts she was aiming for (and it seems doesn't fully understand why). Or I'll let you decide how she looks in the photo as I of course don't really know these days:rotfl:. I'd have thought she looked quite happy - nowadays, knowing my own condition, I wonder about it more and aren't so sure anymore...

Anyway...

She has, of course, mixed her shop up (from our POV) and seems to think that she will get the lowest price of any competitor on all the brands in her shop, rather than it being a comparison against the total comparable bill at each.

She lists a number of "lessons" of her own. And let's have a look at them, following her numbering and see where she might be wrong/confused or have misunderstood.

Lesson 1 - She seems to think that all the 10 items you have to buy have to be brands:rotfl:.

Lesson 2 - "You probably don't just buy brands"
She would probably have spent less if she had stuck to buying the own brands, rather than attempting to compare more expensive T prices on brands against cheaper (but still more expensive than own brand) prices for the brands elsewhere.

Lesson 3 - "You can't actually even find the brands"
Despite appearing to think you had to buy 10 branded items, she then, once in the store, ignores her own "rule" and puts own brands into her shop anyway:rotfl:. If her own apparent understanding had applied, then she would have failed to buy 10 different branded items and would not have qualified for a TBG "discount" at all. Fortunately, her own understanding does not apply (as it's not correct) and therefore her basket does get compared.

Lesson 4
She doesn't know what "groceries" are:rotfl::rotfl:.

She seems to think Original Source shower gel and Fairy washing up liquid are not groceries:huh:.

I have no idea where she is coming from. To me, shower gel and washing up liquid have always obviously been groceries along with other items such as food. I acknowledge there may be issues at the margins - for example, I did not fully know whether the Yutaka Bamboo Rolling Mat, that I bought at Sains last year, would qualify as a brand match item, but I hoped it would match and it did - I thought of it as some home item perhaps - as a "mat" or kitchenware item - rather than part of the section in which I found it, which was rice I think or something odd to me like that?!?:huh: I didn't know that Cocktail Sticks were excluded as home items from the APG. I wonder whether Silvo Wadding classed as a grocery item - it probably does since Brasso Metal Polish and the like would be covered. I assume:rotfl:.

However, these are issues at the margins - and I think probably more "obscure" items, such as the Rolling Mat - it's hardly part of everyday grocery shopping is it? - rather than misunderstandings over what I consider to be fundamentals, such as common shower gels and Fairy washing up liquids being obviously grocery. But not obvious to her:rotfl:.

Lesson 5.

She admits: "The discount is really confusing":rotfl::rotfl:.

It's quite clear that she doesn't understand how the BG works (which is probably what the supermarkets would want) - and she admits to as much herself I think there! She says:

"The good news is, I managed to save £2.24 on a £19.91 shop. That’s an 11% discount."


She seems to think that such an amount of "discount" is good:rotfl::rotfl:. In fact, I'd be aiming for nearer 50% or more. She seems pretty pleased about that small percentage despite admitting:

"The bad news is, despite all my research, I didn’t get all the discounts I was aiming for."


In fact, in my view, the 11% "discount" isn't a discount at all - it's simply paying the cheaper prices of the competitor - and, in her case, she hasn't even managed to do that. She's targetted all competitors in one shop. Clearly, to us, that was never going to work. She doesn't seem to realise that, if she wanted the prices of A, S and M, she would have to have done three separate shops at T and bought fillers to each one to make ten items on each. And, even then, would not have paid the prices of A, S or M as she would have paid the extra cost of the fillers on each shop.


She thinks that the pizza she bought at £4.75, as well as being cheaper at Sainsbury's at £4, was cheaper at Morrisons at the same price (I have no idea as I would not notice such expensive prices as the £4 she was aiming for:rotfl:).


She may have targetted Sains price of £4 for that. However, her bill overall was cheaper at Asda (on its comparable items), so she has not got the £4 Sains price on the pizza at all - instead has paid T its full price of £4.75 for it! She seems to realise this ("My pizza still cost £4.75") but seems to think that she would have got a price match to £4 at Morrisons if the M price for the item had registered on the system. However, even if the M price which she thinks applies had appeared, she still would not have got that price but would still have paid £4.75 as her overall shop was cheaper at A. She would probably be confused if I tried to explain all this to her:rotfl:.

She knows her Aubergine cost more at T, at the time, than some other places. And yet she still buys it from T and pays them more!

She also paid T £2.07 for her Mango Slices despite them being £1.75 at Sains. Despite this, she seems to be happy at having got a "discount" and "...love the idea the discount is taken off without any effort at all":wall:.

That's the whole idea, I think, that the supermarkets want people to have. They want people to think that they can get discounts, or price-matches, with no effort on their part at all - whereas, as our shopping shows, in my view, the price match schemes actually increase the need for customers to shop around and check prices and not the reverse.


She thinks it's an improvement on vouchers we'd scrunch up and crunch in the bin:rotfl::rotfl::wall:. Well, not us, but I don't like the fact we don't get vouchers instead an instant "deduction" that prevents use of cond spends. My conclusion is that, judging by this, it's obviously a "good" scheme from the general public's POV, who may think, like she does, that it means no effort on her part and she'll always get the best price on her brands, whereas we know you have to target individual shops very precisely for the best result.

And now, at T, unless you are one of the limited exceptions such as I mentioned earlier, would probably be best if you were buying a shop of ten different brands to compare against the same competitor, cheapest on all of them, but then why would you need to buy so many brands? It does not seem MSE to me. Or else found a shop of lots of different non-comparable whoopsies (own brand certainly, about branded whoopsie groceries you'd need to know in advance) and decided just to chuck in a brand you were already going to buy at the competitor otherwise in order to pay the same as the competitor's price on that (just to save you the extra journey later). Otherwise, really, I think it's a case of shop around as always and, if you can't compare from A or S, buy at the cheapest place. No help spending cond.spends at T there either, as they are so cheap:(:rotfl:.

miss_corerupted

Picasso7 wrote: »

I had the same issue with the LKK voucher - I'm on the iPad and you have to print instantly or you lose the voucher. Will e-mail them! But next time I won't click the link in the email!

It knew I was on my phone so it asked me to fill in my email address again. I won't click on it until I have a printer now

Picasso7

ilovetoshop wrote: »

This was posted on another thread thanks to op

Latest Dec Tesco mag has the 100 bonus clubcard points coupon again when you spend £20 on gift cards. Remember this is in addition to the 150CC points earnt on branded gift cards per £50 spent.

Thank you! I need book tokens...

gocat

Silly question time. You know the Stella coupons we got last Friday. It says they expire on the 20th. Does that mean we can still use them this Friday, even though there will be some new ones out?
tia

fairclaire

scamps1966 wrote: »

Can I shoot Lady C. :cool: :rotfl:

I'm loving it mostly because it's the one programme all year that DS2 gives me the privilege of sharing with him. He's addicted :
Every single rude word in the world makes him giggle uncontrollably at the moment so last nights eating trial nearly made him fall of the sofa.......his tipping moment was spaghetti bollocknese :rotfl::rotfl: he so often doesn't 'get' humour and I'm loving that rare moment when we can share it.
He has even renamed our nightly nibbles 'nipples' to fit with the theme :rotfl: I'm not sure if I'm ok with him saying 'get the nipples out mum' :eek: :rotfl::rotfl:

I have had a terribly bad day today and it was made a whole lot better by him and a very special lady here who took some time out of her day to put a very big smile on my face :A there are some truly lovely people around.

scamps1966

miss_corerupted wrote: »

Hmmm I'm not sure what just happened I just got DS a fishtank for his birthday £108.50

This is what it showed on lightening deals on Amazon when I clicked though the link etc http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00D7AWXX2?keywords=Ferplast%20Dubai%2080%20Aquarium%2C%2081%20x%2036%20x%2051%20cm&qid=1447887273&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

Sorry don't know how to do short links. However that is not what has just been confirmed as me buying! It's a much smaller tank!

I'm not sure which way around the y are meant to be now

Cancel it. There are much better ones out there!

miss_corerupted

scamps1966 wrote: »

Cancel it. There are much better ones out there!

Can you advise me which ones. I have max £100 to spend. It will be his 1st tank

durham05

Just logging in to say a quick hi especially to fc while your online. Hugs to those feeling blue or poorly, and hi to any newbies and happy birthday to those I have missed inc the new babies. Keep safe all.