Everyone lost in the Ether II

rockyrose

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Why would we want to do that?:eek::rotfl:
Ought to be £1 each instore not 2 for £3. And then I'd buy 2 at £2 but have £3 vs £2:laugh:. No point, to me, buying at 2 for £3 if it appears at 2 for £3! And no point, really, buying two here when you can just buy one for 10% cheaper than S price. A mbuy simply has people buying more than necessary (although this person did not) - whereas, in comp. terms, if you were at Sains. would you buy two?



Savvy
Buy 1, cost 1.58, apg 68p, cost 90p
buy 2, cost 3, apg 1.20, cost 1.80p
different flavours so yes I would buy 2 as fillers for a vs S shop and because I want them

Tinyshoes

fairclaire wrote: »

Thanks for all the wishes today.

The deed itself was pretty unremarkable. My type of cancer doesn't use intravenous chemo as it causes nerve problems, so it was a quick jab and 2 oral pills.

I did have a meeting in a floral room with comfy sofas and tissues on the table with the bloke who will be my dedicated cancer nurse. He's with me now until he either gets a new job or I check out. I wasn't really in the mood for that as my appointment was late afternoon and the stress had been building all day. I'm sure I have plenty of time to make it up to him lots of questions about the kids and do we have family support and stuff. We are well aware we don't. It is nice to know someone else is aware of it, if it becomes an issue.

He's an ex soldier and was far too busy talking to OH about regiments and stuff anyway

Then I got home to a letter 'inviting' me for an MRI scan next week. I don't get out enough.....an invite :j The NHS seriously need to overhaul their letter templates in my opinion.

Glad you're ok Squigs. I too never suffer any ill effects from GA. Don't drive too soon :A

Sorry I wasn't around to wish you well this morning FC.

It's good to hear you will have the support of a dedicated nurse, I know my mum benefited greatly from seeing the same one to talk through her worries with. The continuity really is a great support make sure you have your questions ready next time, it's not often they don't have a reassuring answer. :A

Savvybuyer

rockyrose wrote: »

Savvy
Buy 1, cost 1.58, apg 68p, cost 90p
buy 2, cost 3, apg 1.20, cost 1.80p
different flavours so yes I would buy 2 as fillers for a vs S shop and because I want them

That's fine, I've no issue with that!:T

All I'm saying is buying 1 costs 90p net. Buying 2 costs £1.80, so you save 90p by buying only one. However, if you need them as fillers...

But, then, buying a 10p Haribo instead of the second pack would cost a total of about 99p net (if the Haribo itself compared for an extra penny) so would "save" 81p compared to buy two different packs of Pom Bear. But...if you want them.

It's possible that two Pom Bears might compare against 2 for £2 for M, but no guarantees and not sure about it. They were 2 for £2 in M - but M may not stock all versions and would have to get only versions that compared against M if doing an M comp. - but they may have gone back to full price in M. I'm not sure, as (:rotfl:) that £1 price for that weight of crisps isn't getting anywhere near my guide price (:wall::question::rotfl:). Could be back at full price in M now. I know - sometimes people are banging their head into the wall with me as I miss stuff, that they think is okay, because it's not good enough priced for me. I really really trade down to extremity sometimes(:wall:) - in my quest for money-saving!:rotfl:

Savvybuyer

We are better than muggles though that buy Pom Bears at 2 for £3 and just pay that price... (don't bother checking receipt etc.).

Maybe was £1, now 2 for £3:rotfl::wall: (yawn - your yawn, that is, at me saying this yet again). They certainly don't shop around or have any awareness of prices - when all of the stores are available in my city, there really is no excuse. If the store isn't nearby anyway, you could do a price comp. shop vs the place that has them cheaper. It doesn't take two minutes to find Pom Bear is available somewhere (in this case, S) at £1 - and yet most shoppers in A, who are clearly unaware of that, buy them at 2 for £3 or even at £1.58! It's throwing money away isn't it really - one item, overpaying like that - do that on most items, and it adds up to huge expensive weekly shops! The ones that stand out most to me are branded lollies packs. They are often £1 "everywhere else" but always 2 for £3 in A! Why, if people regularly see branded lollies packs at £1 or £1.24 in M or S, or at £1/£1.24 'half prices' in T, do they continue to go for 2 for £3 mbuy pricing in A?:huh: Obviously some people must just shop at A, assume it's cheaper, that they can't get any better pricing or can't be bothered to check elsewhere, buy them at 2 for £3 and assume that 2 for £3 is a good price for those!

I had it once though with a woman in T when I tried to explain the T DTD giving all your shopping bill back way back when. I don't bother even trying these days. She insisted that the price on the shelf, which she pointed to me, was the best I/she could get:wall:. She was of course totally wrong - I got, in effect, far better through T Price Check:T - she insisted on buying the T mbuy number:wall:, when I pointed out that if she missed it by one and then checked the Price Check website, she would get far more back! "You can't get them any cheaper than that" she insisted:wall:. "Wrong!" I thought (I did not bother to say), "yes I can!" I bought one fewer than her - and was laughing afterwards!:rotfl::rotfl:

So, ignore others whose facts are totally incorrect - and who have no knowledge of the full situation or how things work - and be quids in maybe!

In fact, if I remember it rightly, I think on the product in question, T were pricematched to A already if you bought the mbuy (as it then worked out same price as A's straight price in that number - hence zippo voucher on Price Check) but, if you bought nice full prices of 45p each more per can, by missing the T mbuy, the difference was then doubled to 90p on each of the four you bought (mbuy in T was "5 for..." and A was half price), so you paid, I think, something like £3.60 (mbuy 5 for £3!:laugh: you failed to buy) and got £3.60 onto Price Check voucher back!:D I think this is just lost on most people, they don't understand it! To them it makes no sense to pay £3.60 instead of £3. But the difference is, if you paid £3, you got nothing back; if you paid £3.60, you got a £3.60 voucher back! I know which I'd prefer! (The last one!:laugh: As that voucher then acts like real cash in my pocket and can be used off my next shop that I was going to do already, without which I would have been paying £3.60 more on that shop and, if shopped in the way she does, would also be getting nothing back in any voucher from off of that second shop! And thus the next shop beyond was also more expensive and so on. Obviously, such a great scheme could not last! For the woman, it really was more expensive; for me it was more expensive with A being much cheaper and thus the whole lot, and sometimes more, back again in voucher from that: so my "expensive" shops were getting all my money back!:money: Her more expensive shops - because she had no Price Check vouchers to part-pay towards them as she wasn't bothered to understand or to do that - were simply, more expensive.)

You did not even have to buy 10 different items back then - so could have just bought all four this one item and got the whole amount you paid back in a voucher form which you could then use as your next shop to realise that saving. What could be simpler than that? Just buy those in a separate transaction (nothing else in it), one fewer than the mbuy and claim the Price Check online. What could be more simple? She just didn't understand it. They just don't get it. The extra £3.60 next time was not coming from my own pocket, instead was the voucher I got back by nicely buying a little less on my earlier shop!

gymbo

TrulyMadly wrote: »

For the NE coven the mags are in at Durham T.

All intact:cool:

They're also in the Stockton T's

fairclaire

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Sorry I wasn't around to wish you well this morning FC.

It's good to hear you will have the support of a dedicated nurse, I know my mum benefited greatly from seeing the same one to talk through her worries with. The continuity really is a great support make sure you have your questions ready next time, it's not often they don't have a reassuring answer. :A

Don't be daft, I'd rather have been chomping PD cupcakes as well

* that's not a euphemism PD :rotfl:*

The hospital staff are great. So great that today in the waiting room OH and I were asked twice if we were waiting on a relative. it is honestly Gods waiting room and we looked very out of place

I have a disease that typically affects the over 70s and usually affects men I'm neither. I'm just unlucky. !!!!!!

Tinyshoes

Sarahdol75 wrote: »

Sorry, not good, he has some sort of growth in his throat, needs it operating on and sending off for a biopsy, said that they want him in for op within next couple of weeks

Fingers crossed its nothing nasty.

Will say goodnight as been on my feet all day.

Sending positive thoughts your OH's way. You must be worried sick. Sending some hugs for you. x

Tinyshoes

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Ooh....when did you sneak in.......have you had a good day?:D

I was still on the train, signal in and out, but wanted to make sure I caught E before she sailed.

Tinyshoes

hornetgirl wrote: »

Hope all those undergoing treatments have had a good day.

Great fun at the IHS, couldn't have asked to meet a lovelier bunch of ladies. Now sitting down with sore feet, a cuppa and one of PDs cupcakes and my goodness, that girl can bake :T:T:T
Thanks so much everyone, it was a fab day. Hope you all got home safely (and the reindeer lol)

We did and so did Rodney.

It was lovely to meet you too :A, we did have some good fun didn't we. Can't believe your white wine taster got stolen while we were taking a pic of our fizz, I bet it was DM! :eek: :rotfl:

Tinyshoes

MKS wrote: »

Lovely to meet you, hornetgirl. It was a good day, or should we say :beer:, :beer: and more :beer:?

Glad that you got back ok. My journey was awful, it took nearly two hours to get to Earls Court. :eek::eek: Haven't been in long. Hope that TS, Dodo, friend and reindeer had a good journey back. Wonder if the rose hip whiskey and plum and sloe drink made it as well.

Have never had toffee, mango crush, cucumber (yuk) or marshmallow vodka, (have I forgotten any?) chocolate wine, apple and blackcurrant brandy or blueberry whiskey before. Some of these were lovely.

Thanks very much for the champagne, TS, it was very kind.

We will leave it to you to put the photos on.

Lovely to meet purpledonkey as well, very generous lady. :beer: to everyone that I met today.
A good awayday for me.

:shhh::shhh::shhh: Everyone will think I smuggled some in. Would not have looked good at the bag check if I had. :eek:

We mustn't leave it so long next time.

I think you covered everything except the chocolate liqueur. :rotfl:

Sorry you did not have a good journey back must have taken you as long as it did us to get back to B'mth. :eek: Everything got back in one piece including Rodney. :T