Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Tinyshoes

altojack wrote: »

Mine was long but I took 2 or 3 pics. They need to see the whole receipt. I did mine on ipad and it was easy to do, if I remember rightly they give provision to do more than one photo xx

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Arthien wrote: »

All of it, take a photo of the whole thing at once, providing it's not too long/small to read.

Well see what happens next thanks for your help

Receipt is too long too read straight off, you do have to do zoom in to read the where the president bries are and date at end of receipt is so hope that is ok. I sellotaped it to a dark background to try and keep the creases flattened out. Only problem is once uploaded it turned the receipt sideways. :eek: Nothing I could do to stop it...

You never know this could be me entering the realms of sloppy tights or similar. :rotfl:

freebird65

I think I might have found a glitch on the Boots website. I have various Xmas gifts in my basket (Xmas points event on today) and total should be £63 after 342 discounts and any other reductions......but if checking out with points, it's only asking for 4,300. I've played around with it and whatever the total, it's taking an extra £20 off. Sadly I only have £3.26 in points so can't test through checkout process....

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I even managed to visit a Poundstretcher store yesterday for the Nestle Variety pack at 50p but - no luck:(. I'll visit a difference one today (now I've discovered I have one within walking distance:rotfl:). I doubt they will have it - they are a smaller store and the main City Centre store did not have any (they did have a gap on the shelving at one point that I felt could have been where the Variety packs had been but obviously no way to tell). However, perhaps I will find it as it's those small stores again;).

Whilst looking for the Nestle Variety pack online (to see it if still says 50p), I notice that somewhere Poundstretcher have Yorkie Biscuits at 25p:D. Probably have us spending pounds and far too much on chocolate items we would not have bought otherwise:rotfl:. It does seem meanwhile that the supermarkets are the most expensive places to buy from, unless it is proper clearance items, whoopsies and glitches. I now think it's typical as more people get their groceries from supermarkets - typical that where most people shop is probably the worst possible option and that what most people do is probably incorrect - they buy more at the worst time too such as tending more to buying seasonal items before the relevant season instead of afterwards or at any of the year except! Buy any season except Hallowe'en and Christmas at the moment;):money:.

I think again it's best not to follow the herd and instead to behave in a completely counter way.:money::money::rotfl:

I will just mention one of the changes in M yesterday was that the frozen 1Kg Mushy peas have gone up in price from 90p last Wednesday to £1. I do not know how they go from 90p to was £1.07 now £1! Nor do I know how the Pork Shoulder - the 'fresh' one rather than the frozen 1.5Kg one at £2 RTC - went from £2.22/Kg (a little expensive) the previous week to crossed out £3.77/Kg and £2.65/Kg. It seems like it went up from £2.22/Kg to £2.65/Kg to me, but what do I know? They almost always have prices crossed out that are higher, except on the rare one occasion that I felt was an error - I did once see some crisps that had £1 and crossed out 75p but had indeed gone up - it was on one Monday although I didn't see the label again two days later:rotfl:.

Other than that one time that was an error - and the only occasion that I have encountered in four years:eek: of price collections:rotfl: - it seems, when the products go up in price, they have "previous" higher prices stated. Given the previous price that I have collected, almost always within the last week, the crossed out price, which is always (barring that one anomaly) higher, surely cannot be the immediately previous price or been charged for a consistent period of the last 14 days. Only me ever concerns myself with this of course:rotfl:. They might argue that is "only" guidance anyway and not strict law. Indeed, perhaps I don't know and they have subtly different products and different BCs that might be said to make them different products even if they do not fully maintain this distinction themselves?

Often they have no previous price stated at all, and that's how you can sometimes tell an item has gone up in price - even if the label has been changed to a yellow background! However, if I had the item on my list immediately before, when it was cheaper, then you don't need to worry as I will cross it out/remove it from the list and you can just go by the list! After all, the list is the entirety of what should be bought, other than clothing/newspapers etc. that are excluded, and nothing else whatsoever should ever be brought from them as it's too expensive:rotfl:. However, I can be prone to falling for the yellow background price myself, if I have not previously had the product - and, for all I know, it could have gone up and I then have the higher price, unaware it was cheaper immediately (it seems) before. The ones to watch for in particular I feel are those that say "Previous price charged between..." which can be an indication that, outside of that period, it was cheaper than it is now.

I have my doubt therefore about items that have yellow labels on now - particularly yellow background (it used to be red!) but white can be a problem too (never assume anything with a supermarket!) - but which give "Previous price charged between..." as it causes me to wonder, even if the price seems 'good' now, whether the item, which I didn't see before, was in fact cheaper immediately before, in the interim between the stated period and today, and has just increased in price in order to go onto a yellow background label with a more expensive current price that some or many people take to be an offer price when it is not. Sometimes I know they have increased in price (from what I had them before), but sometimes I don't. And then sometimes I see a shelf of items and most of them have crossed out previous price and the current offer price (sometimes the previous pricing was the higher price but a mbuy of same unit price as the current offer - so no change in price then:wall:) - but there will be one item that just has a price and no previous price, which may be on yellow or white label, and that item is the one whose price has just increased:rotfl::(. So, you can also tell by that means too - or more so it's probably only me that implies or sees the transparent text of the invisible previous price, from which it's just gone up, as I'm monitoring the prices.

I do see items that come off offer prices and then go to yellow label with a higher price (and of course no mention of the previous cheaper price at all) so yellow label, just with a price, is most probably to be avoided. Yellow label with an offer valid until... may be good or - particularly if it's an mbuy - it may not be and could be a much more expensive offer than before. Then there are also yellow labels, with just a price on them, there's no "valid until..." offer, and I wonder if the price is a price increase as I did not have the item and its price before.

To be fair, the frozen Mushy Peas - one of the few changes on yesterday's collection - just have a yellow label with the name and £1 in the stores I've seen, with of course no indication that they were 90p before - the £1.07 'previous' price is coming from msm online - however the fresh Pork Shoulder is one from instore and I don't know how these things have higher previous prices that seem to me to have been lower and gone up (maybe there is some "Previous price..." period stated somewhere, that I haven't noticed:think:).

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Tinyshoes

freebird65 wrote: »

I think I might have found a glitch on the Boots website. I have various Xmas gifts in my basket (Xmas points event on today) and total should be £63 after 342 discounts and any other reductions......but if checking out with points, it's only asking for 4,300. I've played around with it and whatever the total, it's taking an extra £20 off. Sadly I only have £3.26 in points so can't test through checkout process....

I just tried this with a £2 item I only have £3 (300) worth of points and even though it says total 200 points when I click to check out with points the total at the top of page changes to 400 points. Hope I have made sense, it does actually want the full amount from you in points even though it shows reduced.