Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

Savvybuyer

mrsmac10 wrote: »

Hi. You have missed the main glitches, as far as I know. All the main supermarkets have closed their price/brand matches

Best at the moment may be to go with the cash back site but stick around and you will learn quite about the way others shop which may help

I think we are just shopping the flamin' cheapest place now (and paying the price we see in front of us) but we are trying to identify those places for all the items on here. Looking at mysupermarket website may help - it shows you the prices of various places all at once, so you can see the cheapest. In theory - unfortunately, if you're outside of Northern Ireland, it misses a lot of Morrisons prices that are not online - I therefore have a list on page 18 of this thread, which is still incomplete, but which new updating of has been abandoned now the Asda guarantee has gone (which was one of the main reasons for the list). Prices are a little old and will now have changed on more items - nonetheless I am finding, I am still finishing this off slowly, that the Morrisons prices I got on 24th September are still largely valid offers according to online (where they are online).

There is cashback on discarded receipts. However I don't quite know how people find that productive myself - for the sake of 10p back on some product by submitting the receipt online (but copying and scanning it will cost more than the amount back?). Before, I'd collect all receipts I could see (that looked to have 8 different items that were required for the now obsolete Asda guarantee) - I don't know how you'd identify the few that have the very item you need for a specific cashback offer without spending the time to collect them all or at least discard many that won't have the item, seems much like a waste of time to me (and therefore I'm not bothering with it unless others enlighten me) as spending the time (to then have to go through the whole lot and discard many of them that won't have the items that have cashback) for very little return. Doesn't seem productive.

My list is old prices up to including 24th September. It will alert you to at least some prices in Morrisons though that are cheaper than everywhere else online and that are not shown on mysupermarket. It will also tell you where Morrisons was (and probably still is) cheaper than Asda - these items should, IMO, not be bought in Asda as they are cheaper in Morrisons (unless Asda was merely not 10% cheaper). It may be different if you are a staff member of Asda and if a discount card gets lower than the Morrisons price - if it is equal though, I would buy in Morrisons! Asda's dropping of the PG has effectively put up the price on those items for us and I would not be rewarding price-matching price increasers. Assuming that nowhere else has gone cheaper than Morrisons since - that still needs to be checked (by yourself online).

Many of the items on my list you may not find in Morrisons - because it shows the full range of different product sections not all of which are in each store. I had to visit at least six different Morrisons stores, some of them separated by a 50 mile distance, and even then I am not even half the way through. (There may be sections in stores in Morrisons of which I was never even aware of:rotfl:, but I digress.) There are also items on the list that are reduced to clear items in Morrisons from a while back (sometimes nearly a year) that have remained on the list due to my past experience that, even if they have gone from many stores, they may always be one store in the country (different one on different items unfortunately) in which they may still exist months later. Alternatively, some of these items may still be in some Morrisons store in the country, or small number of such stores, and may now be even cheaper - which may happen to be, at a long stretch, your Morrisons. So go through the RTC items (they are marked) on my list and have a look to see if they are still around in your Morrisons folks! They may not necessarily be good - air fresheners at £5:eek: spring to mind - no better than mere half price offer - but you may find some items for 28p months later that were on my list at £1 (I managed this myself once and then changed the price to 28p:rotfl: - item would probably have been as rare as hen's teeth at that stage though - I pulled one bottle out from the back of a shelf, no shelf label for it and found it was a different flavour that had been on clearance - still was on clearance, only now it had gone down - given that I visited around 14 stores over those two days, my chances were of happening upon it were greater slim ones than yours). I have not yet completed my updating to my final list - I have lost some heart on it due to the price comparison systems no longer being available - but I have added some Beauty & Health products to the buy in M part that were on RTC/still are (as it's only a few weeks later - in fact some are online, have gone down a bit more) that are much cheaper than Boots - a couple that Boots is showing online and is the only price showing but I have them in Morrisons much cheaper on the RTC there - item and the price I believe it was on 24th September is showing on my list. They may still be further ones to add.

Just to explain, the Morrisons RTC items are to be found both on the buy in M part of the list and in "A M" (Asda Morrisons) under RTC sections. The ones I find online in Asda will be added to the A M part of the list rather than buy in M, so that you may now be able to see how expensive Asda is - and if that's not changed since 24th September and if nowhere else has changed lower - they are now buy in M too.

davemorton

Jeremiah_T_Stone wrote: »

I did DM = a few weeks ago, and I was a bit disappointed. After all the time and effort into making it, expectations were high, but it tasted like a good supermarket cheddar
To be fair it was only 6 months old, so I've revealed it and put it away to mature further.

Have you tried making any yet? When I get time, I must try making something a bit more adventurous

Not yet, I might put a kit on my xmas list for Santa

Jeremiah_T_Stone wrote: »

Good morning TM :A

Sadly no I'm not up to your standard of fantastically prolific cooking/baking :A

I am making some bacon though - it's curing nicely in the fridge

Ooo, now that I have done, used to make a load every xmas, so much better than bought,

emerald21

pandoraskids wrote: »

Happy to help, I am off on my hols tomorrow though so may not be able to do it for the next week/10 days

Ohhhhhhhhhh lol

Savvybuyer

I will start this fully, with my competitor shopping, from 1st November. I am just trying to get the best I can out of Asda until immediately before then. They will not be having a single penny more than my vouchers.

They can take some solace though: I will, unfortunately, inevitably cave in at some point in the future when they do have something that is the best value. I disliked Tesco after they dropped their previous vouchers-back price comparison and shopped with them as little as possible for several years. I still dislike Tesco to some extent even now:rotfl:. Pains me a little to be telling people to shop in Tesco! However, if there is anything of best value in Asda at the moment, I will be buying it there with or as part of my APG voucher. If it is "with", however, it would have to be exact value and for me to have catered for that eventuality.

Tinyshoes

Anyone got an advice please...

We got car insurance quote for DD3 last Wednesday to start today through Compare the Market, she has clicked through link today and it's gone up over £120 :mad: We put down the deposit for the car based on the insurance quote.

She has unbeknown to me clicked through to provider couple of times will that have made any difference. She said it went up about £20 first time and then another £100 today. It goes down a little bit if we add more voluntary excess and change the date to start tomorrow which looks like the more realistic date of picking up car.

Anyone know any tricks to get it back down again, the quote is through Hastings Direct and there is a surcharge if you ring and arrange over phone.

Freewheeling

Hi TS,


Can you clear your cookies and then generate the quote from scratch? i.e. don't retrieve a saved quote. If if Hastings doesn't have a cheaper quote than you've currently got then another provider might have.


I know that in the MSE newsletter a little while ago it mentioned that car insurance quotes went up when you got closer to the date you need it so this could have something to do with it too :-(.

Savvybuyer

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Anyone got an advice please...

We got car insurance quote for DD3 last Wednesday to start today through Compare the Market, she has clicked through link today and it's gone up over £120 :mad: We put down the deposit for the car based on the insurance quote.

She has unbeknown to me clicked through to provider couple of times will that have made any difference. She said it went up about £20 first time and then another £100 today. It goes down a little bit if we add more voluntary excess and change the date to start tomorrow which looks like the more realistic date of picking up car.

Anyone know any tricks to get it back down again, the quote is through Hastings Direct and there is a surcharge if you ring and arrange over phone.

She didn't have the original quote saved and locked in as valid for the next 28 days or whatever period? Her additional requests for further quotes from the same place have overwritten that:(? Otherwise, would a new comparison now come back with another insurer cheaper? (I'd listen to everyone else before messing with it further though - but nothing it seems to me to stop you doing other comparisons on other comparison sites beyond the extra time needed to look around for insurance again and filling in infomation needed for the quotes.) Beyond that I don't know; I am sorry not to be of much help.

If you are having to go for extra excess, then you are paying for that as technically if she has an accident (and we all hope we never have accidents when we buy the insurance) obviously she may end up paying out more (it won't be a mere technicality at that stage).

EDIT: I thought about clearing cookies - didn't want to lose anything that might be saved in cheaper though. Will still have to go through her correct name and address details that link back to her, as same person who requested a quote before, but clearing cookies may try to remove any direct landing to their website that may be pushing the price up rather than going though comparison.

Enterprise_1701C

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Anyone got an advice please...

We got car insurance quote for DD3 last Wednesday to start today through Compare the Market, she has clicked through link today and it's gone up over £120 :mad: We put down the deposit for the car based on the insurance quote.

She has unbeknown to me clicked through to provider couple of times will that have made any difference. She said it went up about £20 first time and then another £100 today. It goes down a little bit if we add more voluntary excess and change the date to start tomorrow which looks like the more realistic date of picking up car.

Anyone know any tricks to get it back down again, the quote is through Hastings Direct and there is a surcharge if you ring and arrange over phone.

As others have said, clear cookies or even use another computer/phone/tab.

Tinyshoes

Freewheeling wrote: »

Hi TS,


Can you clear your cookies and then generate the quote from scratch? i.e. don't retrieve a saved quote. If if Hastings doesn't have a cheaper quote than you've currently got then another provider might have.


I know that in the MSE newsletter a little while ago it mentioned that car insurance quotes went up when you got closer to the date you need it so this could have something to do with it too :-(.

Thanks. Think this might be the problem, I've just been on chat to Hastings and they said we should have bought the insurance day quoted but we were using the quotes to make sure the insurance was affordable for DD before putting deposit down on the car. We originally put today as the start date but the dealer is putting couple of things right first and looks like it won't be ready until tomorrow now anyway.

This seems really unfair as you can't buy a new (well new to you) car and insure it before you own it can you?

I'll give it a go clearing cookies but she has set up a compare the market ac with her email so I guess getting more quotes through them would have same outcome. I've told her not to look anymore until we know definite day of pick up and we will try the other comparison sites first.

Such a shame as the original quote was so good with no voluntary excess just the under 25s compulsory one. And seeing it's going to be her first car and a decent one I thought keeping excesses as low as possible was the best option...

Tinyshoes

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

As others have said, clear cookies or even use another computer/phone/tab.

She originally used my laptop, the more expensive quotes were when she clicked through from her emails on her phone.