Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

Anon

Wheres_My_Cashback wrote: »

Must have been a good few dozen of those at 60p at my local M&S today. I resisted any whoopsies today as am trying to relieve myself of far too many AP vouchers. Still have 34 to use tomorrow Not easy trying to get each shop to £3 exactly !

That is why I suspended my Elite bargain chip and just went for items we will use - it is harder than you think to spend £3 a time! On Sparks I had cod and trout 20% off offers, so packs around £4 worked out at around 60p cash if I recall. Extra V Olive Oil £4, so £1 cash.. Chicken fillets, burgers, gammon likewise, ketchup is 62p a bottle so paid 20p for 5 after the voucher - the Little Anon use it like it is going out of fashion! I found it difficult to spend them as stock levels were all over the place too.

All spent now . I got as far as 4 coke vouchers per transaction without issue as there isn't an offer on at the moment apart from the meal deal.

I am sure I could have got better deals and could have bought clothing etc but they were such a pain to use at the till I settled for food so I could use self scan myself to speed up.

I don't have much fridge or freezer space which limited my options too .

Hth

Anon

P2TKL

davemorton wrote: »

Dependent on the service. It says on their site retired Police Officer or Fire Fighter can sign up.

TM, did you ever get a re-delivery of that can of stuff that was a missed delivery on Monday, as mine never came back

That's ok then...hubby is retired police officer :j

scamps1966

Evening peeps.

I'm finally getting to the end of using the Robinsons vouchers in T's! I have 36 left!!

I've been getting 4 to 8 bottles a day since it started! Family, friends and neighbours have all had lots (thank you Yopmail )

But the kids around here think I'm a shop giveaway and keep knocking on my door asking for stuff, especially 10p sweet fillers!

On another note, as my local A's seems to have the cleanest car park around for reciepts, :cool: , I've taken to looking in T's. I've managed to get over 2000 points in the last two weeks added to my clubcard.

Silly peeps that don't own a card!

Shame that they only convert to 3X now,
Better than nothing though.

Wheres_My_Cashback

Anon wrote: »

That is why I suspended my Elite bargain chip and just went for items we will use - it is harder than you think to spend £3 a time! On Sparks I had cod and trout 20% off offers, so packs around £4 worked out at around 60p cash if I recall. Extra V Olive Oil £4, so £1 cash.. Chicken fillets, burgers, gammon likewise, ketchup is 62p a bottle so paid 20p for 5 after the voucher - the Little Anon use it like it is going out of fashion! I found it difficult to spend them as stock levels were all over the place too.

All spent now . I got as far as 4 coke vouchers per transaction without issue as no offer on at the moment apart from meal deal.

I am sure I could have got better deals and could have bought clothing etc but they were such a pain to use at the till I settled for food so I could use self scan myself to speed up.

Hth

Anon

Was much easier getting the current store offers when using a £5 and £3 together, but I've now used up all the £5s so just left with £3s. Think I had nearly 250 to use :eek:

I've too much fresh/frozen food already, fridges and freezers full so now concentrating on non-perishables or long life products...tinned, pastas, sauces, chutneys, honies, vinegars, marmite, cleaning products, loo rolls, baking trays/tins/jugs etc.
Most are working out at £3 with some having to pay a few pence. Takes a lot of shuffling in the trolley and mental maths though to get it to work.

Anon

I am still amazed that the Droid promo was running from July last year and most of us only discovered it in October/November when they opened it out to other V1sa :eek:.

Imagine what we could have won if we had spotted it earlier ... or would it simply have run out of vouchers sooner, like we experienced in the final few weeks? Imagine how many phones some people would have had ...

It was a very generous promotion - even the HesBC card on my first play, where I only had the one account, paid dividends with plenty of C0sta vouchers .

Anon

michaels

Wheres_My_Cashback wrote: »

Was much easier getting the current store offers when using a £5 and £3 together, but I've now used up all the £5s so just left with £3s. Think I had nearly 250 to use :eek:

I've too much fresh/frozen food already, fridges and freezers full so now concentrating on non-perishables or long life products...tinned, pastas, sauces, chutneys, honies, vinegars, marmite, cleaning products, loo rolls, baking trays/tins/jugs etc.
Most are working out at £3 with some having to pay a few pence. Takes a lot of shuffling in the trolley and mental maths though to get it to work.

Wow, I think we probably only had about 60 altogether, ratio 3 to 5 was probably 2:1. We only had 2 cards on the go whilst they still had the m&s and only did 1 HSBC. Had we got the card reader and a dozen androids at the start we could have done even better...still I reckon over 700 nominal of vouchers was not bad.

Weather is carp and tomorrow may be worse

Sunshinemummy

scamps1966 wrote: »

Evening peeps.

I'm finally getting to the end of using the Robinsons vouchers in T's! I have 36 left!!

I've been getting 4 to 8 bottles a day since it started! Family, friends and neighbours have all had lots (thank you Yopmail )

But the kids around here think I'm a shop giveaway and keep knocking on my door asking for stuff, especially 10p sweet fillers!

On another note, as my local A's seems to have the cleanest car park around for reciepts, :cool: , I've taken to looking in T's. I've managed to get over 2000 points in the last two weeks added to my clubcard.

Silly peeps that don't own a card!

Shame that they only convert to 3X now,
Better than nothing though.

Bloody hell I missed that one!

Love your generosity to the neighbours x

pacifica9

bubbs wrote: »

Hello
How are you?

Good thanks bubbs. I'm using you as inspiration and trying to lose weight.

matty17r

Anon wrote: »

Interesting response, thank you. What prompted you to notify TCB rather than just accept the cashback? I wonder whether TCB would then return it to the merchant ... ?

For TSB, I think this rate rise is in addition to any compensation for people who have genuinely been inconvenienced. They seem to have made a real mess of it - hopefully they can get it sorted as it will apparently cost them millions in compensation (and the IBM recovery team, who have been brought in to help sort it, won't be cheap!).

Anon

we notified tcb about the payment as our case was in the middle of being looked at by the ombusman. Didn't want vodafone saying that we had accepted the cashback and messing up our compensation claim. Doubt if they would have linked the two but did not want to take the chance. TCB thanked us for our honesty. Hope they were honest too and give the money back to vodafone even though their customer service was abysmal!

bubbs

pacifica9 wrote: »

Good thanks bubbs. I'm using you as inspiration and trying to lose weight.

Awww thanks, if i can help one person thats good:D pop over to the slimming thread, they are a friendly bunch