Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

hornetgirl

TrulyMadly wrote: »

That might be my pretendy one where I'm 105:o:)

:rotfl: I've got one of those too

Savvybuyer

Morrisons doesn't have Savoy Cabbage does it?

1x ASDA Grower's Selection Savoy Cabbage (each) £0.69 N/A

M's product showing 68p online and, from M earlier in the week, I think that is what price it is.

The best comp. overall on the shop turned out to be against M. So, it seems another 8p lost:(:rotfl::(.

curl_girl

Dylon colour catcher 24 pack.
£3 A v £2 T Try for £1 on smium.
I like these for the occasional mishmash wash when I cba!!

Untested but I'll try tonight.

Afternoon peeps.

Savvybuyer

silvercar wrote: »

I know there are some coin collectors amongst us.

I've had an email from the London Mint Office offering me a "free" special edition coin to mark the 70th anniverrsary of the Queen and Duke of E. All I need to pay is £2.50 P&P. Could this be genuine?

I remind you that, under the Advertising Code regulations, at least as they were a decade ago (I am out of date with what current is but probably unlikely to have changed), packaging charges should not be made for a "free" item.

It could be genuine, although I'd check on the real Royal Mint website (aren't they based in Wales rather than London though?). Private businesses might offer coins and be genuine, but I don't know. I'm no use as ever:rotfl:. However, it seems to me to be in breach of the Code administered by the Advertising Standards Authority. It's surprising how often businesses, even reputable ones, can breach rules like this one (assuming it still exists like it did years ago and it probably does).

EDIT: Here we are: https://www.asa.org.uk/type/non_broadcast/code_section/03.html

Rule 3.24.1:

Marketing communications must not describe items as "free" if:
...
the consumer has to pay packing, packaging, handling or administration charges for the "free" product.

Seems to be an immediately clear, obvious and blatant breach of this Advertising Code rule to me. Forward the email to the Advertising Standards Authority quoting this rule that packaging charges must not be made for a "free" item and maybe also ask them if the offer is genuine and sees what comes back, perhaps in age's time away.

There we go - breach of the Advertising Standards code as soon as I see the "&P". Next...:rotfl::rotfl:

Tinyshoes

Serendipitious wrote: »

Thanks. I haven't bought squash in years, decades even, and when my DD was little it was all E-numbers we had to look out for.

But I am most alarmed to see all these sweeteners everywhere, the sweetener manufacturers must be rubbing their hands with glee after the sugar tax.

I feel strongly that our choice is being taken away . Sweeteners is something I tried to keep out of the girls diet while they were growing. After reading there were some links to cancer and both grandmothers having had breast cancer and my dad prostate.

I felt bad teeth was preferable, I am joking, but good dental hygeine having full sugar versions none of them had fillings. I always made squash a lot weaker than directed too.

I've signed a petition to bring back Real Ribena

silvercar

Savvybuyer wrote: »

I remind you that, under the Advertising Code regulations, at least as they were a decade ago (I am out of date with what current is but probably unlikely to have changed), packaging charges should not be made for a "free" item.

It could be genuine, although I'd check on the real Royal Mint website (aren't they based in Wales rather than London though?). Private businesses might offer coins and be genuine, but I don't know. I'm no use as ever:rotfl:. However, it seems to me to be in breach of the Code administered by the Advertising Standards Authority. It's surprising how often businesses, even reputable ones, can breach rules like this one (assuming it still exists like it did years ago and it probably does).

EDIT: Here we are: https://www.asa.org.uk/type/non_broadcast/code_section/03.html

Rule 3.24.1:

Marketing communications must not describe items as "free" if:
...
the consumer has to pay packing, packaging, handling or administration charges for the "free" product.

Seems to be an immediately clear, obvious and blatant breach of this Advertising Code rule to me. Forward the email to the Advertising Standards Authority quoting this rule that packaging charges must not be made for a "free" item and maybe also ask them if the offer is genuine and sees what comes back, perhaps in age's time away.

Thanks. To be fair they made it clear that postage would be charged. I am still curious whether the coin is a genuine one in itself.

I've followed the link and got to a website titled freeweddingcoin. so maybe it isn't actually linked to the Mint. It does say copyright the London mint office. On the Royal Mint website the coin is for sale for £13, so this is a bargain if it is genuine.

Savvybuyer

SP Fish Fingers picking up ages old M price:huh:. I have no idea how or why - it seems the system seems to go back several weeks or months on M prices sometimes.

1x ASDA Smart Price 10 Fish Fingers (250g) £0.75 £0.60

However I don't get the full benefit as some of that is taken back on my shop as my still water - I had to buy two bottles to make up the amount as another item wasn't available - is now comparing against M at old 18p:(. And the 6 pint milk, which I needed and could not wait for, I knew would pick up M at £1.50 each. So, in short, it may as well have come back with roughly 70p believed-to-be-real price for the M Savers Fish Fingers on my shop as the other items would make up about that compared to what they "should" be:(:(.

(Lost more than half of the glitch on fish fingers by the what seem to me to be incorrect prices on the water and milk. And it's not 10 pence gained on the fish fingers by it returning 60p for M instead of 70p, it's 9p instead due to the lower 10% on a cheaper price - so the difference between the two 10% cheaper prices is 9 pence, of which I have lost about 6p:mad:. 3p gained for me, due to what I think is the other incorrectness - hardly worthwhile:mad::rotfl:!)

Savvybuyer

silvercar wrote: »

Thanks. To be fair they made it clear that postage would be charged. I am still curious whether the coin is a genuine one in itself.

I've followed the link and got to a website titled freeweddingcoin. so maybe it isn't actually linked to the Mint. It does say copyright the London mint office. On the Royal Mint website the coin is for sale for £13, so this is a bargain if it is genuine.

Who is "the London Mint Office"?

Seems too good to be true...?

(On the 'technical' point, it isn't even a "freeweddingcoin" due to the packaging charge that appears to be made, assuming it did say £2.50 for P&P, so the website title is misleading.)

izzy65

Serendipitious wrote: »

Thanks. I haven't bought squash in years, decades even, and when my DD was little it was all E-numbers we had to look out for.

But I am most alarmed to see all these sweeteners everywhere, the sweetener manufacturers must be rubbing their hands with glee after the sugar tax.

Good afternoon, most if not all sweeteners also have an E number , aspartame is E 951, sometimes manufacturers will only put the E number in the ingredients list .

izzy65

A list:D
Show entriesSearch:
E-Number Name of Additive
E965 (i) Maltitol, (ii) Maltitol syrup
E420 (i) Sorbitol, (ii) Sorbitol syrup
E950 Acesulfame K
E951 Aspartame
E952 Cyclamic acid and its Na and Ca salts
E968 Erythritol
E966 Lactitol
E953 lsomalt
E421 Mannitol
E959 Neohesperidine DC
E961 Neotame (as a flavour enhancer)
E954 Saccharin and its Na - K and Ca salts
E962 Salt of aspartame-acesulfame
E960 Steviol glycoside
E955 Sucralose
E957 Thaumatin
E967 Xylitol