Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

izzeyb

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Me too:)

I feel cleansed:rotfl:

I'm hoping I find wombles today like I did yesterday:)
And then, if I'm successful getting them printed, they will stretch into November, leaving me with gift cards to use up in December and Jan.

I didn't bother posting any good comparisons yesterday. It doesn't really seem worth it....or does it......the APG machine may just chug along nicely now:)

It would still be nice to go out with a glitchy bang though......you listening Iz the bizz:D

LOL as long as it doesn't require any freezer space :rotfl:

hornetgirl

Morning all

Will have a go at printing my apgs in a minute. Off into London later to see the final stage of the Tour of Britain

diluvsdiscounts

izzeyb wrote: »

LOL as long as it doesn't require any freezer space :rotfl:

Izzeyb you have been busy this weekend thank you for all the links.

Are you really the glitch fairy?

izzeyb

diluvsdiscounts wrote: »

Izzeyb you have been busy this weekend thank you for all the links.

Are you really the glitch fairy?

Sadly not Di, or I would be a rich fairy

diluvsdiscounts

izzeyb wrote: »

Sadly not Di, or I would be a rich fairy

Or would you? Maybe you would just have a very full house :rotfl:

mhoc

Yesterday I had an email from Groupon - next thing I buy put a code on the promo box and I will get a John Lewis £5 egift card

They sent me a similar one a while back but it was buy anything get £5 Costa and then recently one I couldnt use - might have been £5 Geezer???

So I went trawling through Groupon yesterday looking for cheap and cheerfuls and I tried all of my listed towns but I couldn't find anything but something was reminding me - since the original offer I've kept an eye open for £1 deals

Then I found/remembered this which was £1 for a childs ticket
Selly Manor entry - Selly Manor

and paid for with paypal (so twice spend money as its mainly cashback money in there)

The £5 evoucher will appear in a few weeks but when I checked my account it was the same account I'd had the £5 costa evoucher offer back in July

So its worthwhile having a dormant groupon account - maybe one that you have used once with your spare email address and the new subscribers discount code and then never used again.

mhoc

Belvoir Presse is on offer in Mr T for £1.22 with 60p cashback on GJ making it 62p in real money - very useful for putting away for the non drinkers at Christmas - very classy looking bottle so it looks like you have got them something nice as an alternative to the demon drink.

Sadly my store didn't have the baby cereal for shopimum :mad: and it does not even stock the Lenor for using the ssm coupon
I've also been watching the price of the Harringtons dry cat food but I cant bring myself to pay full price for it when its on offer in Asda - then I noticed my store only does one of the flavours anyway

Savvybuyer

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Me too:)

I feel cleansed:rotfl:

I'm hoping I find wombles today like I did yesterday:)
And then, if I'm successful getting them printed, they will stretch into November, leaving me with gift cards to use up in December and Jan.

I didn't bother posting any good comparisons yesterday. It doesn't really seem worth it....or does it......the APG machine may just chug along nicely now:)

It would still be nice to go out with a glitchy bang though......you listening Iz the bizz:D

In fact I'd say it's probably the opposite. Even though, I agree, psychologically the fact the system is ending is making me just shop to get rid of APGs at A's prices, without any comparison being done, rather than doing APG shops for another APG. This is even though I'd still have time between now and 3rd October to check the receipts and use another voucher by its expiry:huh:. If anything we should perhaps be using the APG even more during the time left. We should now be going to A more often, to try to get far more wombles (hoping that the percentage that offer vouchers remains around normal and that getting more receipts gives more vouchers) - then allowing us to claim and have more vouchers by 3rd October that we can then have available to use during the rest of the month. As we can't claim for new receipts on 16th October (or whenever) to get vouchers to spend around that time and to the end of the month, we need more receipts by 3rd October, to claim them early and then be able to use them during the same period.

In fact, it seems the APG site has been down/has been slow/difficult at times to log into and it has made me wonder whether more people are starting to use the APG. For the first time in many months, we have had promotion of the APG through the past week. I suspect most customers, if a few weeks ago, had been asked about the APG, they would have been likely to have replied "Is that still going?" Because of the lack of advertising and promotion of it, as A 'paused' doing so several months ago, I think it would not be regularly in the mind of people generally. They weren't being reminded of it by advertising. It's likely that, while the scheme continued and was never dropped, people generally forgot it exists. Now, however, this has been massive promotion of the APG, and advertising of it in places where money cannot buy, due to all the internet media coverage of A stopping the scheme. (For example, the APG site has now been linked to from the BBC's UK site, that doesn't carry advertising. And if more people than would have been the case before are now landing on the APG site due to clicking on the link and being referred from the BBC, maybe that is part of why the site is seemingly a bit more slow at times?) You cannot fail to draw attention to something by mentioning it. The stopping of the scheme has created promotion of the scheme, and I wonder now whether we might see slightly more people claiming on the APG, now that they are aware of it once more, and trying to do so before the scheme ends (assuming A doesn't have a change of mind if it sees a last minute spike in people using it, due to the media coverage of the scheme being dropped itself giving coverage of the current existence of it).

For me, too, sometimes the lack of mention of something mentions it - and often does so even more than actively mentioning it (by drawing more attention to it than if it was simply mentioned). It is not what is said, but what is not said that says things. Silence speaks louder than words. It speaks volumes what is not included in some statements sometimes.

mhoc

Waitrose - having not got very far with my list in Mr T I then went to waitrose to be disappointed as well.

I was just going to get a couple of items but there was an empty space where the galbani cheese (free on shopimumms) once was so that ruined my list altogether

It did though did have the pink Sure for GJ on offer at half price so I got that and the other blue deodorant on GJ - not on offer but at least it bumped my shopping up. I've no deodarants in my stock pile - long ago ran out of the dove.
(incidentally OH as his is a mens GJ does not have the ladies deodorants on his list)
(annoyingly I'd used my simply venus MOC the previous weekend, typical for it to go onto the GJ list this week)

Also looked for the JW tuna fillers but not stocked.

Then I found the Allways liners on offer for £1.33 so I could use my sssm 75p MOC :T

and that was about it apart from a few bananas - so not the best shop but at least I got a few essentials

pandoraskids

Savvybuyer wrote: »

In fact I'd say it's probably the opposite. Even though, I agree, psychologically the fact the system is ending is making me just shop to get rid of APG at A's prices, without any comparison being done, rather than doing APG shops for another APG. This is even though I'd still have time between now and 3rd October to check the receipts and use another voucher by its expiry:huh:. If anything we should perhaps be using the APG even more during the time left. We should now be going to A more often, to try to get far more wombles (hoping that the percentage that offer vouchers remains around normal and that getting more receipts gives more vouchers) - then allowing us to claim and have more vouchers by 3rd October that we can then have available to use during the rest of the month. As we can't claim for new receipts on 16th October (or whenever) to get vouchers to spend around that time and to the end of the month, we need more receipts by 3rd October, to claim them early and then be able to use them during the same period.

In fact, it seems the APG site has been down/has been slow/difficult at times to log into and it has made me wonder whether more people are starting to use the APG. For the first time in many months, we have had promotion of the APG through the past week. I suspect most customers, if a few weeks ago, had been asked about the APG, they would have been likely to have replied "Is that still going?" Because of the lack of advertising and promotion of it, as A 'paused' doing so several months ago, I think it would not be regularly in the mind of people generally. They weren't being reminded of it by advertising. It's likely that, while the scheme continued and was never dropped, people generally forgot it exists. Now, however, this has been massive promotion of the APG, and advertising of it in places where money cannot buy, due to all the internet media coverage of A stopping the scheme. (For example, the APG site has now been linked to from the BBC's UK site, that doesn't carry advertising. And if more people than would have been the case before are now landing on the APG site due to clicking on the link and being referred from the BBC, maybe that is part of why the site is seemingly a bit more slow at times?) You cannot fail to draw attention to something by mentioning it. The stopping of the scheme has created promotion of the scheme, and I wonder now whether we might see slightly more people claiming on the APG, now that they are aware of it once more, and trying to do so before the scheme ends (assuming A doesn't have a change of mind if it sees a last minute spike in people using it, due to the media coverage of the scheme being dropped itself giving coverage of the current existence of it).

For me, too, sometimes the lack of mention of something mentions it - and often does so even more than actively mentioning it (by drawing more attention to it than if it was simply mentioned). It is not what is said, but what is not said that says things. Silence speaks louder than words. It speaks volumes what is not included in some statements sometimes.

I'm a little nervous about doing target shops in case I can't print the vouchers but, as you suggest, I may go to A a little more frequently during the next few weeks as I did manage to collect more wombles last week than I have for a long time. So, small, frequent shops for me, I think