Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Savvybuyer

izzeyb wrote: »

So Asda dropped the price from £1.80 to £1.50 - Just shows how they artificially inflate it for an offer

Thanks to :A bubbs :T :T for testing and marmite for the results :T :T

All the supermarkets do this - and, to be fair, as I've said before, if I was a supermarket, I would behave in exactly the same way. Items go from £1.50 and any 2 for £2 to £1 offers with 'was £1.50 now £1.00' - of course no saving at all if you would have bought two - and then from £1 to 2 for £2:wall:. It's just going from same price to same price every time, depending on what offer was on - and it works because people think 2 for £2 is saving when the individual price is more expensive, so gets people to buy more, which is the supermarket's job, and then when it's "£1.50 now £1" (really 2 for £2 to £1 but no need to mention the previous mbuy offer) people think that's good because they are "saving" 50p and, again, it's all about promotional selling that encourages people to buy.

More rarely do the items ever go to better prices than the 'offers' - for example, BE Chicken Grills in A and elsewhere regularly go from £1 to increase price and 2 for £2 and back to £1 again, very occasionally they go to sub-£1 but that's quite infrequent - the aim is to get you to pay full price and they hope that people, in a rush, miss the mbuy totally and buy one at £1.68 (or whatever the individual price is) - bearing in mind that people doing a big shop usually take around 45 minutes but have more items to buy than that - so that leaves seconds to decide whether to buy or not, so in that time you want people picking one up at full price and missing the offer or, else, if it's on straight £1, you want people buying that, on impulse, as an additional item to what they were already getting particularly as they won't stop to think what the reference price (the old 'was' price) really means - people are busy and have not got the time. And then we see items ending on £1 offers and going up to full price and 2 for £3 or even 2 for £4!:(:rotfl: Again, people - or some at least - who are generally not organised and don't buy at the best offer time but simply either when they run out or a promotion influences them to buy - will buy on whatever offer they are on at the time they need the item - so will end up buying twice as much and paying twice the cost on each item!

chocaholics

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13 items (7 different) on your receipt qualify for comparison Asda Tesco
2x ASDA Smartprice Spaghetti in Tomato Sauce (395G) £0.38 N/A
1x Boursin Soft Cheese with Garlic & Herbs (150G) £2.00 £1.00
2x Lurpak Light Olive Spreadable Butter (500G) £5.00 £4.00
2x Giovanni Rana Parmigiano Reggiano & Creamy Ricotta Ravioli (250G) £3.00 N/A
3x Gourmet Whole Chestnuts (180G) £7.50 £3.00
1x ASDA Linguine (500G) £0.55 £0.59
2x Jacob's Baked Cheddar Cheese Biscuits (150G) £2.00 £1.28
1x Evaporated Semi-Skimmed Milk (410G) £0.52 N/A
2x Fairy Original Washing Up Liquid Lemon (780ML) £4.00 £3.00
2x Ambrosia Low Fat Rice Pudding (400G) £1.00 £1.00
3x Giovanni Rana Handpicked Porcini Mushroom & Cream Sauce (250G) £4.50 N/A
Comparison total (compared products only) £22.05 £13.87
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Savvybuyer

aau1 wrote: »

Received my first Radio Times last week so phoned up today to cancel the subscription

Turns out they hadn't even taken the first payment yet so my account has been cancelled and all future issues cancelled as well because I've not paid for them

No idea how this will affect cashback but presumably I've lost it. So make sure you've paid your £1 before you call up to cancel. Don't assume (like I did) that they take it at the point of order placement or the date of the first issue going out

edit: i phoned back because I was worried they would come chasing for the £1 that I haven't paid and try applying default charges. The woman I spoke to this time said the first guy had done it wrong and he should have been able to set it up to cancel after the £1 was taken. He's about to get some retraining on the matter apparently :rotfl: and she's confirmed I don't need to pay anything

So cashback lost but I've got a free magazine. That's something I guess :cool:

You're far too efficient. I've been waiting for the £1 to go out of my bank account and now received in the post a letter telling me my first payment will be taken on 10th December, with the second payment going out on 10th February (that will not happen!). So I will ring up with time to ensure that the second payment doesn't get taken (and before 12 issues have been received - usually do it just after they would have been due to have posted the 12th one!). I usually leave this off until nearly at the end of the 12 issues and then ring to cancel. That's usually how it works on things like this, from my POV. For me, I've been checking and rechecking my bank account which has had £1 more than necessary in it for the past week:( and waiting for it to be taken, only to find :doh:that it is still not going out for some time yet:mad:. Think I might move the money away (all of £1:rotfl:) and time it to go back again on 9th December. EDIT: Actually I now see 10th is a Saturday, so it might go out only around that date.

That's it - it's all about saving money, but I actually want them just to take the money from me sometimes! Just take it!:mad: Have it! Go on. Now:mad:...!:rotfl::rotfl:

99p

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Any connoisseurs on here? Want to get OH a decent bottle of single malt scotch whisky to go with his watch for Christmas. I know he likes Jura, he seemed to like the Glenrothes I got him last year and I think he liked the Singleton when I got a free miniature some time ago, but I can barely get near enough to smell it let alone actually know what he likes in this, so has anyone got any ideas please for a different one please?

I personally like Glenfiddich, Glenmorangie and Highland park from the "reasonable price when on a bargain range" you can get them for approx £25, if you want "the extravagance never on a bargain range" for me it has to be Lagavulin at approx £48 :eek:

aau1

99p wrote: »

I personally like Glenfiddich, Glenmorangie and Highland park from the "reasonable price when on a bargain range" you can get them for approx £25, if you want "the extravagance never on a bargain range" for me it has to be Lagavulin at approx £48 :eek:

That could be a shock to the system going by what he likes!

My suggestion would be to stick with one of the softer island malts like Tobermory

aau1

aau1 wrote: »

2L Irn Bru Xtra for 45p at Tesco instore - Glasgow
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/2l-irn-bru-xtra-for-45p-tesco-instore-glasgow-2564101

:j :j :j :j :j :j :j

_party_ _party_ _party_ _party_ _party_

Forgot to say I got some of these tonight :j

izzy65

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Any connoisseurs on here? Want to get OH a decent bottle of single malt scotch whisky to go with his watch for Christmas. I know he likes Jura, he seemed to like the Glenrothes I got him last year and I think he liked the Singleton when I got a free miniature some time ago, but I can barely get near enough to smell it let alone actually know what he likes in this, so has anyone got any ideas please for a different one please?

Good evening, I would say the glenfiddoch 15 year old, a really lovely dram, even I like it

rhosynbach

evening all, hope the elite are well xx

after being on a high yesterday we came crashing down today after getting the news my uncle died yesterday from cancer, he had kept it quiet until a few days ago when his wife messaged saying he had a few months left,we where going to see him in london before christmas. sadly was not to be.
then dd phones to say her road is closed again after an accident so oh could not get throughto pick me up from work , sadly a local man dd3 friends uncle that we all know died after crashing his bike . so a sad day all round xxxxxx

Dizzy_Ditzy

MKS wrote: »

Picked the last of ours, last week. Today, DGS wanted more cucumber. I told him that we'd have to get some from the shop. No, Nana, he said, we'll go to the greenhouse and pick some more. :rotfl::rotfl:

I was eating raspberries off the plant last weekend

bubbs

aau1 wrote: »

Forgot to say I got some of these tonight :j

Did you get any chocs from sains?