Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

Savvybuyer

3Dogs wrote: »

Not updating any fillers lists tonight, as done enough with all those updates to glitch list. Will catch up tomorrow

Need a very early night tonight after that early start this morning, so will say goodnight now, feed the dogs, tidy up and get to bed by 11pm

OK DM?

Feed the dogs! Do you have dogs?:rotfl:

No need to reply as this would be unintentionally delaying you - I bet you aren't updating any lists now I've given you the Baking Potatoes to do:rotfl:. All cool, go and get your sleep - you are right to catch up tomorrow! You've rightly been with the glitches:T.

As for myself - yeah back to that old image again:rotfl: - boring about me and going on and on about me all the time:o - I have actually managed to get onto the items in M for the potential soup glitch (bet it's already off now:rotfl:) so I have given myself more items there - my own enemy all the time:rotfl: - and there will be those to add to the M list, with everything else, from this update. Oh, and the 6 pack Walkers crisps (standard packs, those that M has) have gone back to straight £1 in M, so - this needs to wait to later in the week - they may come on if the trigger is still available. M also have both of the Kettle Bites that A has online in the offer - they are 2 for £2 in M (don't know if M would be picked up as these may be new products? Did anyone manage to do vs W and did the APG show any pricing for M for the one that W has? TIA, These two would have been available in M before today - it's just Savvy not doing a proper job last time, as the M offer, an mbuy offer, came to my attention later). M also has a third version that is the one showing online for them - is that version, which is not showing for A, available in A on the offer and is it a second trigger? Do A have all three Kettle Bites but only two of them showing on a.com?

Savvybuyer

marmitelovemehateme wrote: »

Adding to this...If you are looking for the cheapest beer packs...Ignore the multibuy offers..They're never normally cheaper than single packs...Just looks like it when stores post their gimmicks...Buy three for £21 or suchlike....

This is currently the best prices for beer packs...unless, you know otherwise..:D

Stella 18 x 440ml cans £1.26 ltr...Best price Asda £10
Budweiser 24 x 300ml bottles £1.39 ltr...Best price Asda £10
Kronenbourg 18 x 440ml cans £1:77 ltr...Best price Sainsburys £14(Unless you buy the same product in Asda to compare against Sainsburys..Then it is slightly cheaper)
Becks 20 x 275ml bottles £2:27ltr...Best price Asda £12:50
Magners 18 x 440ml cans £1:26ltr...Best price Sainsburys £10(Can work out 10p cheaper if bought in a shop comparing As £11 to S £10)

I do know otherwise on one of these items.

This one (in England and Wales at any rate, probably Great Britain but not Northern Ireland) is not best price at S. M has Magners 20x440ml at £10. Therefore, two extra cans for the straight price that S has. S, in that sense, therefore shortchanging by two cans.

Sadly A do not seem to have 20 pack. They have 18 pack and, there, that 10p is all-important and absolutely makes the difference as 10% cheaper than S, but only if the APG fully works and picks up the £10 price for S, means exactly the same price per unit as M.

Therefore, Magners is best at M or - but only if it works - Avs S. This is all already on the M list:rotfl:, and has been there for more than a day:rotfl::rotfl::).

On larger cans packs of alcohol, it may make sense to buy on Avs competitor (whichever competitor is cheapest) as the 10% is a more significant value on the one item. Here, paying £10 for 18 is an overpayment as it's getting fewer than what M sells (at places wherever it has its product available) for the same price - but £9 for 18 works out the same (and indeed, in one sense, if it works, saves you £1 - but then you have to buy 7 other items at least:wall: - but then you would already have a shop in which you were doing that so would not be buying more than you would otherwise - as not having to pay the £1 for the extra two cans that maybe you don't need. But you can't just buy the 18 pack in A on a shop with nothing else and get it for £9).

Added to the above, there is Carlsberg Lager 20x440ml currently at £10 in whichever stores have that (I have lost it from two of my stores:rotfl: - don't worry about that, as I had another chance to find it and did so) - should continue to be Avs M for £9 net. best price (but needs other items vs M for APG) assuming it is comparing correctly at the moment; otherwise if APG did not work, then it would be best bought in M straight at £10 (or £9 with staff discount).

If you have M staff discount, then staff discount off 20 pack Magners in M would be the best. And Carlsberg could be purchased in M with M discount to equal Avs M assuming the latter works.

EDIT: Actually the Kronenbourg 18 x 440ml, in Avs S if it works, 10% is £1.40 on that - which is not insignificant. I would therefore say it would not be merely "slightly cheaper", it would be significantly cheaper (due to the higher cost of booze making 10% more of value). Magners 18 (assuming you don't have M staff discount) and Kronenbourg, on the same shop in A, seem to be good - assuming your APG is not too great already - as then leaves only 6 other items to find rather than 7 if the two alcohol cases products are bought separately. Depends on how much you would spend in travelling to A instead of to a nearby S etc. - or method of payment whether you are paying with APGs. We ought to factor Nectar points into this as well and say - is it 12p:( for shopping for one of each of the cases in S? Worst way of all, it seems, of collecting points is usually by actually buying:eek: stuff in S:rotfl:! 12p that you can't spend until you have collected another £2.38 - and, until you can and actually then do spend it, is an interest free loan from you until that point (that also declines by inflation over the time during which you are giving them your free loan that they then keep forever on any goods you further buy from them). I suppose APGs are also interest free loans to A, from the person that did the original shopping at any rate, and you never get the amount in cash - instead is given to A in more purchases from A. For those receipts that would have given an APG but are never claimed, effectively the APG amount is not a loan - instead it is then equivalent to giving a gift to A of that amount. But then they don't have to offer the APG. But, for as long as they do and it is available, it's like giving them something you could have got.

Picasso7

Di, very sorry for your loss.

Picasso7

aau1 wrote: »

My Nectar app has 500pts on each of the east and west coast routes (expiring today)

Thank you aau. I thought i’d checked recently but I have these too. I need a West coast ticket too!

Later: I’ve just booked for a January meeting and there is a sale on as well. I could have got a 2nd class ticket back to Manchester for £11 but decided to get a 1st class one for £30 instead!

Lima-India

emerald21 wrote: »

It looks like a card with a bar of chocolate inside it. No idea of size though.

Thanks. I've got this offer - £1.99 for p&p and I'd not heard of the company before - thortful

simone10

Arthien wrote: »

Has anyone been to Bletchley park and the national museum of computing? I'm thinking of buying tickets and a cheap hotel as DH's 'main' present, as he always said he likes having things to do and having weekends away.

I've no idea how long to plan to spend, or if there are any nice hotels nearby that I should look at. It'll be almost a 2 hour drive so I'm also wondering if there is anything else in the area worth visiting on the same weekend.

My husband & I went to Bletchley park last year as tickets were given to us as a Christmas present 6 months earlier. We just travelled there and back in the day as its about 2 hours away, so I can't comment on accommodation.

I think we spent about 4 hours looking round and had tea and cake in the coffee shop.

It was interesting, though once you've seen it you've seen it so the free return ticket within the next 12 months we gave to a friend.
Maybe someone else who reads the thread has been recently and won't return in the next 12 months

Anon

aau1 wrote: »

I just had a look and my east coast offer says it needs to be a 50% discounted Advanced Single ticket. This isn't an option between Edinburgh/Haymarket (at least as far as I can tell) so I'm not going to book

If anyone has an East Coast deal that doesn't require you buy a 50% off ticket then buy a child's ticket from Waverley to Haymarket at 10:28

For West Coast journeys you want a child from Waverley to Haymarket at 10:51

Haymarket to Waverley 10.13 is valid too as just booked - 1000 West Coast points deal ends at midnight.

HTH

Anon

hampydoodums

Body Shop glitch, code in link - 40% Off everything, even stuff which is not usually discounted. From the dark side

https://www.hotukdeals.com/vouchers/glitch-the-body-shop-40-off-incl-spa-of-the-world-range-1320-major-black-friday-saving-see-post-for-info-2835297

Don’t forget 10% Quidco and activate the extra £2.50 if you haven’t already

Nite nite x

Picasso7

Anon wrote: »

Haymarket to Waverley 10.13 is valid too as just booked - 1000 West Coast points deal ends at midnight.

HTH

Anon

They have only promised me 500 points! (Goes away and sulks...)

Night all.

Saversue

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Sorry to hear this Sue:o

Are you still ok going in store?

Thanks, TM, yes fine going into store, just online account for home delivery/C&C suspended.
Don't ever use the suspended account for in-store shopping apg's or wombles.