Boots 70% off sale

balletshoes

peacellily wrote: »

on line the shelves are also bare think we have been rumbled

stock goes unavailable and then available (and new items show up in the half price gifts link) fairly regularly at the moment online (i've certainly noticed this over the last couple of days).

Nobody is going to know how good their local store, or their online basket, will be, until Tuesday evening .

Storck

balletshoes wrote: »

stock goes unavailable and then available (and new items show up in the half price gifts link) fairly regularly at the moment online (i've certainly noticed this over the last couple of days).

Nobody is going to know how good their local store, or their online basket, will be, until Tuesday evening .

Or even Wednesday morning if they get overnight delivery. One of our local stores got a big delivery the day after the 70% sale started last year.

Desperado99

Stuff is still coming online...


This has only appeared today, for those that remember the big French Connection sets from last year, the contents are almost identical but the box is a different colour.


Alas, I have no need of one (because I got last years!) so here is the link:

http://www.boots.com/en/French-Connection-Luxury-Line-Up_1687882/


Except it's now OOS

peacellily

indeed its on line as many items are but when clicked they oos

nibs

malebolge wrote: »

I'm going to get booed I'm sure for this.... I can't see why the Boots sale is anything special, even at 70% off. I know some people get all their birthday presents etc from it, but the brands on sale are rarely anything special, and I'm sure some recipients will be thinking - 'Oh am I going to get 70% reduced Champneys again from X'. With not too much effort, you can find better brands at sale prices throughout the year. You can also tailor the gift to the individual, rather than getting them something because it's been heavily reduced. For example, I've bought Urban Decay, bareMinerals and Mac kits in sales that to me are much better than No 7 stuff. I've found Elemis sets at excellent prices from sites such as feelunique. Debenhams is often good for decent brands, too. I don't want to be too much of a killjoy, but I really do think that a little searching might get better presents, still at very good prices.

Thats me lol. Every year I get sale stuff for my birthday which is in January. Hate the toiletry sets personally

pinkcalculator

Pipikie wrote: »

I done a recky last night in Norwich city stores and there's not much left there either. Any other Norwich ladies or gents on here?

yes i am in norwich but we live so far away its not worth the diesel and parking for the empty shelves

lilmissworry

Katgrit wrote: »

For those of you new to this heres what happens, by law, every single year:

1. By day of sale in Jan this thread will be up to approx 157 pages.
2. Every other post is a newbie asking which Wed the sale starts on.
3. Loads of people swear blind that last year it started a week earlier than it
actually did.
4. Each Tuesday's posts on this thread contain details of someone's sister's neighbour's friend's boyfriend's Mum, who knows someone who works in a Boots store, who swears blind its DEFINITELY starting THAT Wednesday.
5. A few hardcore MSE'ers stay up til 3am on the website just incase it does start.
6. THAT Wed morning: sale doesn't start. A few individuals who didn't know are still
sitting outside their local branch refusing to believe it in the vain hope the staff are still "putting the signs up".
7. There's always ONE store who c0cks up and accidentally DOES start a week early. And the tills don't knock the discount off but the enthusiastic SA's overrides the til to give the discount, until the manager re-reads a fax from head office. So one lucky forumite always gets lucky by accident.
8. The Tuesday evening before it DOES actually start theres always at least one grumpy git store manager who swears blind they "won't be having a 70% sale at all as they haven't sold enough at 50%". And he's been told this on a fax from head office, so he knows for definite. Honest guv.
9. Someone's dog's sister's collegue's friend's Mum overhears 2 SA's chatting
about the need to put the signs up that evening after the store is closed. She asks SA1 who gives her an icy stare and denies all knowledge. SA2 later sidles up to her in the shampoo isle and gives her a knowing wink and a whisper of "Are you a friend of Martin? Don't let on I told you but it IS tomorrow".
10. Boots stores are full of MSE'ers casing the joint, sizing up whats left and
deciding on their route round the isles/plan of attack for the morning.
11. The lovely MSE'er sale_me_up whos flat overlooks a Boots store does a reccy in her pyjamas around midnight to double check the signs are up.
12. Half of us stay up to buy online. About 2am Boots put up "the holding screen"
which is a picture of Skeletor with a bad fake tan, and giant white teeth, in a ski
hat. Everyone gets excited. Website crashes completely.
13. 4am Site back online, complete with Mr FakeTanTeeth. Those who are able (and still awake) fill their baskets ready for when 70% discounts kick in. Website crashes, holding screen back up.
14. 6am. Website back, discount applied, sales goes live but all baskets back to
being empty. People start frantically refilling baskets.
15. 6.01am. Website crashes.
16. 7am Queues start forming outside Boots stores. Always a fat chav in leggings accompanied by 2 shopping trollies who is first in the queue. She wants everything "for the kiddies charity party next year, you cant say no at such a good price". Translate this as "it'll be going on ebay or at the boot sale".
17. 8/9am stores open. As doors unlock staff look a bit disgusted that people have been desperate enough to queue. Stampede into store. Everyone gets seriously pee'd off with the ignoramous with the trolley who is sweeping entire shelves of goodies off in one fell swoop, having blocked off the isle at both ends.
8.Think all female rubgy scrum.
19. Bemused husbands/dads stood at ends of isles to recieve full baskets/trollies/bags and act as guardian while wife goes back for more.
20. Small child crushed under weight of FCUK sets placed ontop of pram while
Mother scrabbles under shelving for dropped advantage card.
21. Innocent passing elderly couple who just called in for some fibogel get caught up crush but too overcome with amazement of discount to complain.
22. 9.30am Queues at tils bigger than the 8am queues outside. People staggering out of stores laden down with bags, like a heat of Worlds Strongest Man.
23. 10am. Boots run out of carrier bags.
24. 11am. Website back up but everything sold out.
25. 1pm. Stores everywhere sold out. Shelves empty like desecration after a swarm of locusts has decended, bar some Yardley gift sets and half the contents of a joules hatbox.
26. A lucky MSE'er who forgot all about it just happens to wander past a local Boots store on her way back to work from the a dentist's appointment. The 75% sale is on, but they have stumbled upon the only Boots in the country that no-one else has been to. Rows and rows of No7 gift sets and plenty of Soap & Glory bags left. No pushing, no shoving, the whole Boots store to herself, with SA's kindly holding her bags for her.
27. Thats it. Done and dusted. All over for another year!

That is brilliant,you legend!!!! I've actually taken a screen shot of this as it makes me laugh out loud every time I read it. :rotfl::rotfl::T

paulaschute

Love this, especially the bemused husbands bit!!

:rotfl:

Pipikie

toni_ wrote: »

Yea i think we've spoke before :beer: I think me and my mum are going to go just for a laugh lol and get a few bits, I'm after kids bits too, I might pop in the mall Tuesday night as there open late and have a look around, if I do I'll let you know how it looks did you see the lady last year that was in her wheelchair, got out and stacked in piled high with soap and glory gift sets.... I had to laugh, might do that this year with my pushchair only kidding....

Hahaha that's funny but annoying at the same time LOL
There were loads of S&G sets as I bought 3 and still have one in my wardrobe, which is mine all mine!
I have this vision of loads of woman all scrambling to get in and finding only 3 shelves of items - Eek!

Pipikie

pinkcalculator wrote: »

yes i am in norwich but we live so far away its not worth the diesel and parking for the empty shelves

If it wasn't for the yearly shopping trip with mother, I wouldn't bother this year. I far prefer the Tesco Christmas/chocolate aisle reductions :rofl: