Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

TrulyMadly

I didn't have time to read back but took a chance anyway.

I can't bear to spend a £6 womble without getting something back:rotfl:

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Savvybuyer

LANGO1966 wrote: »

The techie wizards need to get their fingers out. PAG site acting up

Interesting, wondered if the whole thing was ending with it being timed at the end of the month. The idea being that people can't log in so prevents people claiming vouchers and in effect the scheme ends. If it does end, it may end quietly this way. I suspect I'm thinking a conspiracy theory however.

I've claimed all the remaining vouchers I have just in case, as it was also convenient to use an account at the end of the month, except for one that I claimed in the early hours of this month (a minute or so after the month would have ticked over at 1am). On the last set of vouchers, yesterday evening, I did get "the tech wizards are busy" (or whatever the actual message is):eek: and just tried logging in several times, hoping that it would not lock the account completely on several unsuccessful attempts and then stop the password being used, but it did let me in on about the fifth attempt. I got the tech wizards message on the attempt this morning - again, I made several attempts to log in (this was on Firefox) and it did let me in and produced the voucher after a few attempts. So maybe try again if it gives the message. Or try Chrome. Until the whole system locks:rotfl:.

Fwiw, I will be spending the vouchers, some of them, today and much easier, I think, when they are produced and I have expiry date near end of September on vouchers in my hand - so, just in case the entire APG gets taken offline, I still have the vouchers. I'll be seeing if I can get some more receipts this afternoon (Saturday, usually one of the best two days) and, when I get back, if they work, they work and if, for whatever reason, they are stopping the APG in accordance with the rumours (that may be completely wrong) and it doesn't work, then I haven't lost anything I would not have got. The trouble is, if this eventually does end, we are bound to be left with some voucher to spend that then can't get another voucher as the scheme would be over by the time we tried to claim - so there's no way of going out big with a bang as - unless they introduce some other method - we wouldn't be able to get another voucher off the final voucher we use just before the thing closes.

I was coming to the end of my outstanding vouchers anyway as there have been very few receipts I have had of late. The trouble is that, on most of my essential items, A can be quite expensive and there is no equivalent to compare to at a competitor. For example, I can't find any cheap potatoes in A and I am buying, and rebuying, from Home Bargains, where I am continuing to get the £1 apples packs as again, A's, even against T at 88p, still seems to be quite expensive to me with fewer apples (and of course a comparison against T requires seven additional items, which I often don't have, and money to be spent on those to be able to get 10p back off the apples so just better to buy the single item I need elsewhere). I also can't find any frozen pies at A except at expensive £2 prices and still expensive mbuys. I am therefore buying Minced Beef & Onion from M at £1 and Chicken from T or S at £1. The APGs are like cash, but it's no good using them on expensive items at A (that don't have comparisons to much cheaper), paying A's own prices and then having less in vouchers to spend and then having to pay cash:eek: to A. So I'm paying cash to elsewhere:wall: but that is leaving me to buy items that are actually good value (often only via the APG:wall:) at A - A is such an expensive supermarket! - and then having vouchers at A and buying some items elsewhere and in total, whether it's vouchers or cash, it's all the same pot and isn't being wasted on either part of it.

Other places are capable of being very expensive too. M can be very expensive on items that are not on offer or reduction and T and S are expensive or capable of being too. When I go to Aldi/Lidl these days, I am always seeing items and thinking how expensive Aldi and Lidl are, on nearly every item except the few that I am buying. They are - or can be - apples have gone up through the roof and the "Essentials" (perhaps equivalent to value, or supposed value) now more expensive than ones that are on offer there this week - but most weeks they have not had ones on offer and just had the expensive ones.

Aldi and Lidl - such expensive places to shop:eek:!

:rotfl::rotfl:

I do - I find lots of things there, like every supermarket, that I think are really pricey and don't know why some or many people, never clear about exactly how many, seem to have the idea that they are discounters. I have no view on the matter:rotfl:. As usual, I am impartial and, supposedly:laugh:, objective and therefore don't subscribe to any assumption that they are, or are not, discounters, which I think is probably just a perception that they are, it's good for the shops to create that perception as perception and not reality is everything. If people think you are discoutners, they will buy from you and will think they are saving money and feel good, when in fact - it seems to me anyway, whether or not it is factually correct:rotfl: - the prices are much the same as everywhere else, except on a few things on which there are offers that week. There are some products that are cheaper at Aldi/Lidl though and leaving the M products off the M list after discovering that, at M, or A vs all major supermarkets, they are still more expensive than Aldi or Lidl.

Anon

Why does my stupid Wontu keep logging me out and asking for verification? I am even a 333 customer for heavens sake!

The other phones in our family stay logged in .

Anon

emerald21

Anon wrote: »

Why does my stupid Wontu keep logging me out and asking for verification? I am even a 333 customer for heavens sake!

The other phones in our family stay logged in .

Anon

Oh they are a pest lately .You may find it happens to all phones sooner or later.

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Sarahdol75

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Morning all, lovely sunny day here.

Been raining here this morning in North Wales, clearing now

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On going to A just now, my first impression was that they are expensive - the first thing I saw was the fuel station and that the price of unleaded, which affects me, has gone up (not today but recently, just like everywhere else) - it's certainly more expensive than it was, although it's also less expensive than it was 10-15 years ago (time flies!...). However, it turns out I was out of touch with the latest prices in A and apples were a bad example of use, of expensive items. I found the Kids 6 pack of Gala Apples is now 79p in A, somewhat cheaper than what it was. Therefore, it seems just better to buy that on its own rather than compare 500g apples at 90p against T at 88p as they ow still work out more expensive. Not that I want to act as an advertisement for A (or anywhere else) - it also seems to me that A has gone down in price on its Gala:wall: (always Gala - we need something else) apples because Aldi currently has an offer on some of its apples, which is a bit cheaper than A's 79p if I recall correctly...

I left A having managed to pick up a disappointing single womble:(. Pipped to the post by another customer (who probably isn't going to be checking the receipt in the trolley they took anyway) who took the trolley a few seconds before I nearly reached it. Generally however I think I would have been better going later in the day than I have - I think I have arrived too early - many trolleys depleted outside, so people still in the store and not emerging. However, if I had gone later, I would have risked the item I wanted going OOS. I made a flying visit to a relative, who was going out anyway, so I didn't need to spend much time with them - I don't really like social things anyway:rotfl: - and went back to the same store on the way back and picked up... another single womble (possibly the one that escaped the previous visit).

So, that's it - just two. I won't be making another journey as I don't see much point going out again and trying to find some more. Anyway, although there clearly are people shopping as the car park is fuller than a normal weekday daytime, I think people have gone for the nice weather today and generally out there rather than shopping. I've had larger number of wombles on midweek evenings.

bubbs

Afternoon all
What a beautiful day:T:T:T

josie_ann57

Anon wrote: »

No idea, sorry. Have you received the email? When did you apply? I applied on Thirsdsy and received that message on Friday.

HTH

Anon

I applied yesterday but no email today. Says case will be delivered in December so I guess I've got time to cancel if email arrives next week. Thank you for reply.:)

curl_girl

Well.....
My player scored a blinder.
Won a collectable.
Only consolation is that they have carried over from last season!
Only another 5 needed to win a prize. :mad:

Evening peeps.