Everyone lost in the Ether II

MatthewS_2

Sad_Dad wrote: »

Of course you can, I didn't think of that. It's given me food for thought, thanks for sharing.

It's a shame asda don't sell the 3V cards.

neither do Tesco, anymore.

MatthewS_2

henlans wrote: »

Its my very friendly group.. and we dont let any old riff raff in it

Nerfdad is our comedy guy.. he comes out when glitches ends to cheer us all up

thought he was in charge?
thats what he told me

Savvybuyer

Sad_Dad wrote: »

This wouldn't increase the amount on the gift card though would it?

I guess you could continually return stuff but I'm not sure I'd want to do this as there always seem to be long queues at customer services and you would soon get noticed.

The problem, though it's a good one, is that you spent the original £9 or whatever for the original shop, to get the £9 glitchy APG, but the next shop you've reduced the bill on that by £9 (nice problem to have!) so are spending less next time from the GC. I then had misprices too - that were refunding to what the SEL said and then a extra £2 and more back on the GC! I did get more GCs than what I spent in the year. After a year, I had two still left!:eek: I then spent the remainder of one of them over the next year, but must have had more wombles and APGs as I wasn't spending much. I still have one left, but has been run down to just over £50, so another one pound tonight, and then I'll try and get rid of it entirely in the next few months.

It's an excellent way of getting money off GCs by buying expensive APG shops. I had the nice expensive packs of condoms some time ago at £13 (or whatever they were) in A when S was on RTC £3, and they were getting quite a bit of money off of the GCs and putting it onto APGs to spend instead!:T I was wishing my wombles would buy those ones but :(they never did.

From my wombles from today, I thought they were going to turn out interesting. However, not as much interest as what I thought. I got one good one yesterday where they bought a Smokin' Hot gift set at £12:eek: in A that compared to T at £9:T, but sadly they deducted £1 off the APG by buying two tubs of Celebrations with it. If they had not bought those, my APG would be over £4. The gift set has gone down from £18 to £12 in A and I wish, of course, that they had bought it at £18 as that would have given me £6 more. If they had done that, and not bought the Celebrations, I would have had my first double-figure APG. So near and so close but they failed. I'm glad someone has claimed the APG back off that shop - A charging £3 more than T on the expensive set!:eek:

Now I have them buying, I think, this:

Glenmorangie Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky 10 Years Old (700ml)



£26.00 £3.71 / 100ml

• 
  [Strike]£35.00[/Strike]
  £25.00
• 
  [Strike]£34.00[/Strike]
  £26.00

which, you can see, is £25 in Sains:T. However, about it being Sains. as it means everything else in the shop will be a bit more expensive. I noticed they've bought lots of McVities cheddar biscuits:(:( at 50p, which will doubtless go vs £1.10 each:mad:. Six packs of 50p biscuits in total:(. So, of that potential £3.50 from the whisky, they then have probably lost most of it on the biscuits:mad:. They've also got a £5 Nescafe:( (but I see Sains is £5:)) but then also have the toiletries at £3.89 each but 2 for £4 pricing which is not a good idea!:( I suspect it'll have lost so much, it might even work out "best" vs M. And then I suspect it may lose there too, so I won't be surprised if their good purchase of the malt scotch (but not good as regards vs T) has not been totally wiped out by everything else they've bought!:(

henlans

MatthewS wrote: »

thought he was in charge?
thats what he told me

Who nerf? no way lol.. he cant even find his way home after a drink at a pub.. then has to ask the WA group how to get home lol

I think he got lost on a bus lol

miss_corerupted

TrulyMadly wrote: »

I picked them up in store miss c

Thanks TM. I might go in tomorrow to get the herbs when I work it out

MatthewS_2

henlans wrote: »

Who nerf? no way lol.. he cant even find his way home after a drink at a pub.. then has to ask the WA group how to get home lol

and what exactly is a wa group?

tweets

altojack wrote: »

Oh, while I think about it is there anyone from GRAVESEND or nearby?

Some one posted on here yesterday, can't find their post or who it was. It's about a poor lady with 2 children who had made a post needing help and advice as she is being evicted.

Does anyone remember who posted the link on here? Just wondered if anyone is in tonight that may be able to offer advice :cool:

silvercar posted the Gravesend link .......

mhoc

Sad_Dad wrote: »

Speaking of stoozing, I have a stooze pot of £40,000 :eek:

I wouldn't recommend this but it is quite easy to do if you are organised. There is an MSE article and forum about stoozing if you are interested.

I / we get as many interest free credit cards as possible and put the money into our mortgage offset account so don't have to pay any interest on the £40,000.

As long as you don't spend the money in the offset savings account and use it to pay off the credit card once the interest free period ends then you can save quite a lot on your mortgage payments.

Between me and my wife we have 19 credit cards. I would get more but I've been rejected on my recent applications so will have to wait a few months before applying again.

The mortgage offset account sounds like a good place to store stoozing money - how exactly do these work.

19 credit cards - do they all have DDs set up to pay the minimum 5% balance each month?
Did you have the off set mortgage before you started your cc collection?

I can imagine some advanced excel charts in operation

Sunshinemummy

buyitall wrote: »

I haven't even used the £9 APG from a couple of weeks ago yet!
Was going to get OH to use it this weekend, but got scared when people started talking about how the till system has changed and some were being rejected

During the big A glitch, a £9 APG quickly became significantly more! I am more confident and will happily hand over much much more.... in fact I if I had a £100 one I would take a deep breathe (as I push OH towards the till!!)

Anon wrote: »

I am not sure what discussing other groups will achieve. You are all likely involved in various communities in addition to this one where a variety of topics are discussed. This is not an exclusive group where you are not allowed to have friends elsewhere or be a member of other groups. Other groups do not have to let you be a member either ... any site/forum owner/admin or community in RL can allow in who they like.

No point stressing about this, just enjoy being here.

Anon

I agree totally. I will never have a nosey again, ever again!

Anon

Sad_Dad wrote: »

This wouldn't increase the amount on the gift card though would it?

I guess you could continually return stuff but I'm not sure I'd want to do this as there always seem to be long queues at customer services and you would soon get noticed.

Must have missed that bit, you would have £9s worth of extra stuff each time though .

Anon