Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

bubbs

Sarahdol75 wrote: »

Bit better, waiting for biopsy now was supposed to be today but didnt for some unknown reason.


:eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Glad he is a bot better but Grrrrrr at no biopsy

Savvybuyer

No additional squashes are getting to the list. I think they looked good in the light of the Robinsons 1L at 4 for £3 - therefore own label effectively at same price 2 for £1.50 but only needing to buy two. I prefer the option of buying less to save money. I suppose any 0 for £0.00 in any event with every product every store has:rotfl:. But seriously we do need stuff to survive and do need to buy something occasionally. It's the Fruit & Barley at 2 for £1.50 in M but I think they went up from 2 for £1.20 some months ago. I also have details of the Double Strength 1.5L - M 2 for £2 on five flavours that A also has. However, according to msm, that is 6.7p per 100ml - and 2 at £1 each vs 2 for £2 price match should be 10% off that unit price. It works out at 6.7p x 0.9 for the "pay 90%" (they say "10% cheaper") that the APG offers = 6.07p per 100ml. The 'problem' is that the SP Double Strength at 750ml 42p are, according to msm, 5.6p per 100ml. Some of those are the same flavours as those offered by the standard range Double Strength. Therefore, the 750ml SP bottles work out cheaper (should be Avs T on some of them in any event for 10% off 5.6p per 100ml) and none of the standard range will make the M list.

bubbs

matty17r wrote: »

Sorry zippy - what is 'the deal' here think I missed this one?

TSB on line banking still unavailable. Can't believe this is going on for so long. wonder what compensation we can expect with no access to online banking.

Hubby ding his nut about TSB:mad:

matty17r

bubbs wrote: »

Hubby ding his nut about TSB:mad:

The CEO said anybody out of pocket will be compensated. Should think so too. Don't know how they are going to cope with the flood of complaints. According to one newspaper it has only affected nominee accounts which I had to google to find out what this is. It is when someone else is linked to your account. Still cannot get on to online banking and do not have one of these accounts so dont know what is going on.

Savvybuyer

zippydooda wrote: »

still good v m&a

3x COLGATE MAX WHTE EXPERT COMPLETE TOOTHPASTE 90ML £36.00 £18.00 £30.00 £18.00

do newspapers count as an item in ts bg. they appear on results but always n/a

If they appear on the results, I would have thought they'd count as an item. It was bag for life that didn't count - or initially did and then stopped counting, but did that continue to appear on results?:think:

What time was this, with £6 price for M?

curlgirl wrote: »

I think they do count as 1 of your 10 (11 or 12 to be on the safe side) for brand guarantee

There's no "safe side" on this point for me - if you are buying 11 or 12 items, and therefore 11 or 10 others in addition to the newspaper, that's enough items for me and therefore is then no need to buy the paper. Defeats the point of whether the paper counts or not. In order to be of value, it has to be the paper counting as an item and as the final item needed in order to get the 10 - no more than absolutely necessary. If the paper counts, then there is no need to buy any more than 9 other different counting items. If it doesn't, then there is no point buying it and spending any money whatsoever on it - as I am strict money-saving - and only 10 different items that all count should be bought (if anything at all is bought:rotfl:).

bubbs

matty17r wrote: »

The CEO said anybody out of pocket will be compensated. Should think so too. Don't know how they are going to cope with the flood of complaints. According to one newspaper it has only affected nominee accounts which I had to google to find out what this is. It is when someone else is linked to your account. Still cannot get on to online banking and do not have one of these accounts so dont know what is going on.

Well we are not actually out of pocket as such, just want to move money about, we are linked i guess as joint account if thats what you mean?

bubbs

How much do the mullers work out please? and do we need to buy doughnut one?

curl_girl

davemorton wrote: »

Awww, thats good of Zippy to let you rummage in his box

:rotfl:Trust you to be helpful.
Is that a Sierra Saphire?
I had one in burgundy, load of junk that was.
Rear wheel drive, broke down loads and that was brand new! :eek:

Savvybuyer

matty17r wrote: »

Sorry zippy - what is 'the deal' here think I missed this one?

TSB on line banking still unavailable. Can't believe this is going on for so long. wonder what compensation we can expect with no access to online banking.

The 'deal' is that there is an MOC in T's mag. for April and, on a targeted TBG comp. shop, therefore effectively money off A's or, for the moment and if you shop in Great Britain, M's price.

I thought about TSB yesterday when I heard they were saying there were "intermittent issues" with their online banking. In my view there was no valid complaint to be made about the weekend as the downtime was made known on its website and people were asked to plan in advance. It was after it remained down for some or maybe many (I have no idea how many) people after 6pm, when it was suggested it would be back up, that to me valid complaints start arising.

It seemed they had problems where people could not access their accounts or, if reports are to be believed, that some people were able to see other people's accounts (including all the functions including the ability to transfer money) that these were reported to TSB and, as would be expected of any responsible organisation facing such a situation, they took the online service down.

I heard that yesterday they were just repeating their line that there were "intermittent issues".

The meaning of "intermittent", according to an online dictionary, is
"occurring at irregular intervals; not continuous or steady". However, to me, by taking a service offline in order to try to sort out its problems thereby makes it unavailable to more people - or, indeed, to everyone - and the "intermittent" problems, at the point you take the service down altogether, cease to be within the meaning of the word "intermittent" and instead seem to me to be continuous and also to be steady - in other words the total opposite of "intermittent"! It seemed to me that TSB were using an unusual sense of the word in which it carried the complete opposite meaning that it has to anyone else - a feat often found with organisations generally where words seem to mean the complete opposite of the facts or the truth.

Despite these allegedly intermittent issues, it would seem to me that taking a service down, even if to sort out its problems, would make the issue of not being able to access it continuous (during the period of downtime at least) rather than intermittent. Even so, during this period yesterday (which was now quite some time after the service should have been back up), I managed without problem to log into my account and saw both my TSB bank accounts and no problem with them at all. It therefore may have been a problem for other people and therefore intermittent issues after all. I do not know - because I have not tried and have no need - unfortunately I followed the advice as I always do and planned ahead and catered for a situation of the service being off for far longer than it stated - whether I am able to log in if I tried now - it seems they took it offline at noon and have been trying to sort it out.

I have experience in the past with new computer systems, and my experience is that they never work, are always doomed to failure, operate slower in every way and are an inferior system to whatever they replaced. I am not at all surprised that the migration didn't go entirely the way they might have wanted it to. Was that not what happened, in part, with the new delivery service to KFC and the computer system on which that relied? It was so bad that they had to go back at least in part to the old supplier.

Savvybuyer

bubbs wrote: »

Well we are not actually out of pocket as such, just want to move money about, we are linked i guess as joint account if thats what you mean?

If you wanted to move money to an account that gives you interest, or at least gives you more interest than it gets from staying in its present account at TSB, then you are out of pocket.