Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

josie_ann57

aau1 wrote: »

when we got ours done we went through Windows Advisory Service. They provide you with up to 10 different quotes......

We went with a local supplier not on their list for half the price of the cheapest quote they gave us :eek:

Wrong quote, sorry, meant to be the one who was asking for advice.

We are having doors & windows replaced on Monday, going with a local company with good reviews. It isn't the cheapest quote but 5 weeks sooner than the others. Don't go with Safe Style UK, even for a quote, as they constantly pester you with phone calls and their after service is appalling as my dd can attest to. Next I will need quotes for blinds, thinking of looking at Perfect Fit. You can get blinds that are inside the double glazing and work with a magnet but are incredibly expensive!

Savvybuyer

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Well my Froctober took a dip yesterday. Due to a family bereavement my usual hairdresser was unavailable and I visited a new salon after work, one that I'd never been to before.
I realised at the end that they only accepted cash and I had none on me. The nearest cashmachine was miles away:o I had to visit a nearby shop and buy something AND pay £1 to draw out the cash:o

However, I did get free Weetabix and cat food with APGs so I can't complain:D

That's falling into the line of thinking that it is free. In reality, it's probably not 10% cheaper Weetabix and not 10% cheaper cat food either. The cost is the loss of that - the currency, having had production discontinued, has now been devalued before all of it expires in the next month, as now more of it has to be used to make purchases like this and none of it gives any more currency back, so costs more. I assume you mean standard Weetabix cereal. There appears to be no Weetabix cereal in A that is 10% cheaper than every of the four supermarkets, the 12 pack is cheaper at Poundstretcher and about half the packs are cheaper at some other of the four supermarkets than at A. They seem to be overpriced Weetabix on all of them compared to previous 10% against somewhere else on a specific targetted shop against the other place and overpriced outright on half of them that can be bought straight from somewhere else for less than the price in A.

My total loss so far is... arguably four pence, because my plasters that, wherever they compared were (and still are) much more expensive elsewhere, used to be 40p in A but have since gone up to 44p. That's just an A slight price rise in the last few months on an item that couldn't have been compared to anywhere not 10% cheaper than... and certainly nowhere else cheaper. I am all set by what has existed in the recent past:rotfl:.

(The trouble is you can hardly put your APGs against much else, as I think there is almost no grocery item worth buying in A when so many of them have now, in effect, had their price increased - and sometimes now very greatly - for us in A, at least until or unless A brings its price on straight from the store down. There seems almost nothing worth buying elsewhere, as every supermarket seems expensive on nearly everything except what it has on good offer.)

I would have made a greater loss if I had bought Milk & Cereals Breakfast biscuits instead of another flavour, as Aldi has its own Milk & Cereals at 75p. However, as I wanted a different flavour that Aldi doesn't have, A seems best price on that as its own current "stayed back" price of 84p.

I shall doubtless make more 'losses' by not being able to get 10% off anything, such as price-matched items that are £1 elsewhere whose price in A has gone up for me from 90p net. However I might previously have sometimes bought some of them by themselves anyway, and lost the 10p of 10%, so won't be losing anything more than I was before and I'm not buying what would have been enough items anyway. I shan't be having to buy any more 10p Haribos so I will be saving their cost there. I might get instead tempted into buying 6 of them at T:o; however as that is now 5p (I know - all of 5p, small and rather trivial:rotfl:) more expensive than A could have worked out at, I may be more hesitant about that - which may be clever on A's part as, if we go elsewhere, we'll have to pay more anyway (than the 10% cheaper net. previous obtaining from A) so might be more reluctant to pick them off a competitor's shelf - and, after our vouchers are used, A have got rid of us, that were taking money from them anyway.

curl_girl

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Don't mention any matching stuff, as nothing compares anymore. There is nothing to match to anything else. You're free to mention previous long-ago glitch items now: when people were doing so in the dying days, I was thinking they were new glitches that were on right then:rotfl:.

I have possibly got my receipt somewhere that goes to a voucher for 39p. I shan't push myself out to look for it. I forgot to do a comparison against Waitrose and, of course, thought about one again at ten to nine on the night of closure. Fortunately it didn't matter as there was nothing worth comparing - and nothing worth buying from Waitrose now:rotfl: I thought earlier about using A's Lime Juice as a filler but then thought what's the point as I can just buy that by its own later anyway.

Savvy I meant the matching fragrance body spray to the Yardley hand cream crackers that emerald and I purchased from Boots. As in the same smelly items.

Savvybuyer

curl_girl wrote: »

Savvy I meant the matching fragrance body spray to the Yardley hand cream crackers that emerald and I purchased from Boots. As in the same smelly items.

I know you did - I took advantage of the ambiguity in the word "matching":D (in the context in which you were using it).

Or actually I don't know, because I never 'know' in a case where there is an ambiguity. There is in such a case a very slight chance that it could mean the alternative meaning. (This does not concern most people, as they just assume the obvous meaning and probably don't even think about the alternative that it could unlikely mean.) However, I suspected that you did mean what you really meant.

izzy65

diluvsdiscounts wrote: »

I thought the exact same thing. If DH empties the dish washer he leaves everything bar mugs and cutlery on the work top because he doesn't know where anything goes :eek: we've only lived here for 18 years :rotfl:

Good afternoon, what's this you speak of a dh who empties a dishwasher, :eek: my dh still has not mastered putting dishes into the dishwasher, . I visited asda today and they had lots of stationary reduced, packs of pens for 20p and pencil sets for 25p , clip folders for 10p.

Savvybuyer

josie_ann57 wrote: »

Wrong quote, sorry, meant to be the one who was asking for advice.

We are having doors & windows replaced on Monday, going with a local company with good reviews. It isn't the cheapest quote but 5 weeks sooner than the others. Don't go with Safe Style UK, even for a quote, as they constantly pester you with phone calls and their after service is appalling as my dd can attest to. Next I will need quotes for blind, thinking of looking at Perfect Fit. You can get blinds that are inside the double glazing and work with a magnet but are incredibly expensive!

I heard bad stories about them over 25 years ago. If indeed they are correct there seems no need for them to change as consumers will still continue to go to them regardless. Speaks volumes about the lack of information on the part of the general public and how they will still buy at whatever price and, speaking generally and not in relation to double-glazing or anything, get ripped off. Possibly because most people are emotionally influenced by advertising some of which is misleading or pushes biundaries at the rules.

Enterprise_1701C

I got some makeup bags in superdrug today, a couple of different types with writing on, hadn't realised how cheap they were (don't do makeup) but they were £1 each, I bought 4 (presents for kids of a friend) and got 40p multibuy discount, no idea what that was about lol.

Savvybuyer

Following on from the start of the third sentence of my last post, I now notice

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2018/10/regulator-investigates-whether-rail-firms-gave-passengers-enough/

Speaking rhetorically, and maybe in the style of Watchdog:

What do you reckon?

Savvybuyer

Lack of information abounds again - also there when people generally go to A and see that a couple of things have come down in price but that, so far, everything else seems to be continuing at the same price as before - important point is it doesn't seem to have increased in price though - when they are unaware of any background APG that might have been available on many many of the items before.

I doubt many people would be struck by any change between Wednesday and Thursday. They would not have the date of the APG ending in their mind or even think about it. There has however been, in effect, possibly the largest range of price increases in A ever even if all the shelf prices have remained the same. Just that the vast majority of people shopping there have been paying those increased prices for some time (and not shopping in the way that would give them a refund and never claiming anything back). It's probably the way that, in hindsight, there was the largest set of price decreases down in A that occurred when the PG was introduced, even if I didn't realise it at that time - that occurred as there would be potential for them to better the prices of any cheaper included competitor on any comparable item by 10% but not available unless you shopped in a targetted way and bought what were enough items etc.

I think prices have definitely gone up for us. And it won't be reflected in the official inflation figures as the inflation price collectors look at what it says on the bold print of the shelf prices, and don't see the light pencil of a potential 10% cheaper price that I also saw there (imagined to be there, in my mind) before. (I also imagined red higher prices standing out with bells of warning on them - higher than the shelf price, in cases, especially rollbacks, where item more than 10% cheaper than elsewhere:rotfl:. Now those have also gone - but it's still no good if that was simply the wrong time to buy and the item would have come to have a light cheaper price than the shelf bold print when a competitor inevitably went back onto offer, sometimes cheaper or even at the same price as A which would then make the shelf price of before too expensive as it later, staying unchanged, became not 10% cheaper.)

Anyway, having stuck on this specialist subject like the record that I am:o, I'll move on now... Hope it was, um, of interest.

aau1

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

Do you think gweggy has replaced Costalot?
I see it’s gwegg again coming next week on Wonton.

The survey that I did didn't mention free costa, they asked for opinions on £1 Costa though. It might switch to that