Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

pandoraskids

Just back from A

Well, that was the quickest trip - only had to get 30 min parking as no car park wandering required, it felt strange walking past trolleys with receipts left in :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Milk, bread, couple of whoopsied items - job done

pandoraskids

Picasso7 wrote: »

Is this the pork please?

Counter Tesco British Pork Leg
Half Price Was £4.00 Now £2.00
Offer valid for delivery from 19/09/2018 until 09/10/2018

Yes that's the one

pippo

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Good morning all, cloudy but mild here again

I can see a lot of the richer part of society taking full advantage of this. We often go to large houses to sort out IT or telecom issues, and the owners will generally leave us to it, we are in this massive house with all sorts around and they go out to a meeting :eek: Obviously, we would never dream of doing anything nefarious, but it really does amaze me sometimes. If they are willing to leave people in the house that they have never met before, then I am pretty sure they will be willing to let a delivery boy in, I guess they have contact points for both if it comes to that.

Yep E,
The grumpy one has been a self employed handyman for the last 15 years, it has never ceased to amaze me the number of people, and as you say, usually those with money, who not only leave him to it, but also give him keys and at times the alarm code. I think this is OK for people he has worked for for years, but at times it is on his first visit!

I always stay in if we have workers in the house.

PS I think nefarious may be my word for the week!

Savvybuyer

Some good news - don't forget that we have one extra hour to decide what to spend our longest-dated APG vouchers on, and to spend them, as the clocks go back later this month. Not that we can shop during the hour of the clock change in most places.

Savvybuyer

pandoraskids wrote: »

Just back from A

Well, that was the quickest trip - only had to get 30 min parking as no car park wandering required, it felt strange walking past trolleys with receipts left in :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Milk, bread, couple of whoopsied items - job done

Did you actually spend less on your parking because of this? The cost of wombling of before:rotfl::eek:.

Also - no need to buy (go to the extravagance of buying) eight items - quicker shops there too:j!* (Would have been two jump-arounds but removed one as not too good due to the loss of the APG.)


*But don't go buying a small number of high-priced items to spend the higher value APGs:(. Need to get as much as you can at cheapest cost:money:.

pandoraskids

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Did you actually spend less on your parking because of this? The cost of wombling of before:rotfl::eek:.

Also - no need to buy (go to the extravagance of buying) eight items - quicker shops there too:j!* (Would have been two jump-arounds but removed one as not too good due to the loss of the APG.)

*But don't go buying a small number of high-priced items to spend the higher value APGs:(. Need to get as much as you can at cheapest cost:money:.

Up to 2 hours parking is refunded by A by spending £5 or more but there was just no need for more than 30 mins today :rotfl:

No, just a few bits from the reduced counter and some milk, just over £5 total, paid for with APGs

pandoraskids

Even though refunded by A, I always keep the parking receipts as they are claimable on tax return

pippo

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

We last had our windows done about 15 years ago.

We had a couple of bigger companies to quote and a couple of local ones.

With the bigger ones, one of them took 4 hours of our time, started off with a massive quote which was promptly cut in half if we would sign there and then, was very unwilling to leave without a contract until we threatened to call the police. Can't remember who it was, think I have blocked it out, The other big one was Brackenwood, this annoyed me more. I made the appointment, explained that my husband would not be available and was told that would be fine. Come the appointed time the rep arrives and absolutely refuses to do anything without my husband. Told him that was how it had been arranged but still would do nothing. Threw him out and refused to make a further appointment as they requested. They will NEVER get any business from us.

The local ones were great, they came at the appointed time, measured up, showed us the options, drank tea, left us the quotes that were far less than the big companies, we went with the one that had the shorter timescale,

I think if we are still here when they need replacing again, we will be going nowhere near the big nationals.

How blinking dare they!

We had a similar thing with a bathroom refit - just popped into a local showroom to look and grumps agreed they could come and quote:eek: This[STRIKE] suave guy[/STRIKE] guy who thought he was suave pitched up and went on and on. I said no and went upstairs to get ready to go out - I could here him working on grumps who, fortunately, saw the light and came upstairs. By this time, even though the price had been reduced by £2k (if we gave him a deposit then) we agreed to tell said guy to go forth!

Local plumber, cover in tatts, drinks tea and gossips, but did the job £2k less than that - if owt goes wrong we give him a ring, put kettle on and jobs a good un,

pippo

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Some good news - don't forget that we have one extra hour to decide what to spend our longest-dated APG vouchers on, and to spend them, as the clocks go back later this month. Not that we can shop during the hour of the clock change in most places.

Lol, I thought about that too Savvy

pippo

pandoraskids wrote: »

Just back from A

Well, that was the quickest trip - only had to get 30 min parking as no car park wandering required, it felt strange walking past trolleys with receipts left in :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Milk, bread, couple of whoopsied items - job done

And no constantly counting the number of different items in your trolley as you shopped!