Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

silvercar

pandoraskids wrote: »

Quids In

Walt Disney World
Booking.com

https://www.quidco.com/guess-2-win-september-2018/

https://www.nectar.com/competitions/autumn

https://www.dorsetcereals.co.uk/collect-and-win/spin-to-win/

Thank you.

My running total is £1.60 + 7 PDEs, though I have missed a few days.

diluvsdiscounts wrote: »

Can anyone recommend somewhere to stay only for one night anywhere between Lancashire and Stratford upon avon?
Does anyone know what Stafford is like? Is it worth a visit?

Beautiful if it's a sunny day.

michaels wrote:

Thanks, on 4 of 6 cards - can it be used to purchase gift cards?

I've always done that with Amex/ Amazon deals like this without a problem.

Dizzy_Ditzy

Forgetful wrote: »

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/free-quaker-porridge-to-go-or-breakfast-drink-at-co-op-with-todays-metro-3073691

free from coop...

Shockingly my local co-op actually had both of these in stock :rotfl:

She let me use two vouchers in two separate shops. Also did the Cadbury dairy milk offer on their app and cane away with two bars of chocolate, a porridge to go thing and a breakfast drink for 50p

Not often I can get a good shop in co-op

I have to go back later and my bank are giving me 5% back on a card transaction :cool: I’ll give Misery Guts a couple of vouchers and hopefully we will be able to use them all.

These will make good allotment breakfasts :rotfl: thanks for posting, I wouldn’t have known to grab some papers as I was getting off the bus otherwise

davemorton

Nio Amex/amazon deal for me

Savvybuyer

Not Scotland. There may be no need for go for the Tesco offer (and certainly not for the individual purchase) if you have an M, as this was £4.50 RTC in M:


Bulmers Original Cider (6x330ml)



£5.00 any 2 for £9.00
25.3p / 22.7p / 100ml Valid until 01/01/2019


However, Bulmer Original Cider bottles (500ml) are currently cheaper in M at £1 each than the 6x330ml cans would work out to be on the offer. If you don't have a staff discount, A will charge you £1.81 and 4 for £6.00 on the bottles:eek: - and, even if you have a staff discount, you'd still be better off in M. The prices in A on this have not come down and have not come down to anything lower let alone 'even lower' despite the ending of the APG. I am finding numerous items, which appear still to be on offer in M or I've seen offers now at other stores, that are unchanged price in A (in other words much more expensive now an APG comparison for 10% cheaper isn't available). Almost all I have seen so far have not come down in price and certainly none as even lower as 10% cheaper. I have seen that Air Wick air freshener mediterranean sun 250ml is now £2 in A. However I have it on £2 in M as at 26/9 and soon afterwards it should have been Avs M = £1.80. If so, was £1.80 Avs M before, now £2 A. I am not rewarding A for going from an offer of £1.80 (via the APG) for me to £2 A offer price! If you don't have a colleague discount and if it is still £2 in M, buy in M:p - or else wait for a competitor to go back to £2 and buy at the competitor.

You could have got £1 for Bulmer bottles from T at the time (with nine other different items:eek:) if T had still had its Brand Guarantee. Now T will charge most people £2.00 each and an also expensive mbuy price.

Albeit that I am looking at the offers of M, as I got prices from there. M will doubtless seem similarly expensive on items found to be on offer in T (and obviously not offers that we need to reject such as these). I have also looked through the 'Savvy Buys' for A on msm - and found almost nothing worth buying from A. Every price is, or seems, much more expensive than a competitor was or is. I have found some Vanish stain remover powder on offer from A for £5. However it is hopeless as T's offer on that is now 'only' £4.50. So, whereas before it could have been a target shop in A (obviously they don't really want us doing those), now it is buy in T. Except that I thought I had overpaid - but, no, I managed to get a better offer - alhough that probably not bought at the most optimum time and instead towards the end of the APG - as I bought some Vanish powder in A when T were £6 or £6.50, whatever it was. That was the bigger size at 1.35Kg and clearly works out better than an 850g at £4.50. I think A were £8 "not rollback enough as T was cheaper*" on 1.35Kg (about a couple of weeks ago) - they are now £11:eek:(!) and Waitrose is now cheapest at £7. I certainly do not recall having £11 in vouchers on my shop to spend an initial £11 in A! So it now seems to be an even higher price, not an even lower. T are now more expensive with their offer ending, although maybe not if you can find a T with the expired offer price on display. However, with or without an APG comparison, and particularly without, A's price has gone up. I've said goodbye to the APG. I would be saying hello to even lower prices, if only I could find or see them. As this is something being said by supermarkets, words sometimes or, even, often appear to mean the opposite of what they are. For "lower", read "higher":p. Perhaps the truth is that A always was, very often, much more expensive on quite a few of its mbuy offers than competitor offer prices and was only able to be made cheaper via the APG. Now the expensive mbuy offers on Bulmers and 2 for £3 on yoghurt that is £1 elsewhere remain. It seems the 2 for £4 yoghurt at £1 elsewhere has gone down to £1 in A and that's where our 'even lower price' is:wall:. Was 90p through the APG before (when bought correctly as, with us, it would have been).

*"would have been cheaper and, therefore, A cheaper by 10% under the APG" at that time.

mhoc

Stoke on Trent has its merits but as a tourist hot spot its not recommended.
It is though right on the edge of the peak district so a few miles away its a very different and very lovely place place.
We were just outside Macclesfield on Saturday - it probably has some ugly bits but we were driving through villages on the outskirts and they were lovley
Having said that if you just need an overnight stop over there are plenty of premier inns and travelodges quite close to motorway junctions.

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Stoke on Trent seems slap bang in the middle of that (at least if I am starting at mid-Lancashire, Preston) and I suppose you could find a hotel for the night but are you talking straight line? If not, somewhere like the Peak District Park or, at the other way, Shrewsbury could be ideal. Unfortunately the Staffordshire Roaches had a wildfire at the end of August - but maybe a bit farther east: perhaps Bakewell or somewhere like that, or maybe somewhere in North West Derbyshire or Tideswell, maybe there is a B&B somewhere in the Peak Park although summer is now over. I'm a city dweller, so I prefer to get out into the countryside, but, if you are in the country and want to stay in a city, you can find somewhere to stay there and I suppose they'll be things to do in Stoke.

EDIT: Alton Towers has a hotel but I was trying to do it a cheaper way, through B&B:rotfl:. In fact, looking at the prices - "Hotels near Stoke on Trent" - it looks like Alton Towers, perhaps unsurprisingly, is the most expensive one:eek:. It'd be much cheaper staying in Stoke and then driving out. Crown Hotel, Longton (Stoke not Longton Preston) £24 a night, no frills apparently, don't know what it's like but you're only staying for a night. 13 minutes from Trentham according to the map.

mhoc

Freewheeling wrote: »

The Tuk Tuk Chai is back on COS and CS for me, today only :-).

As usual its only available from the biggest stores.

But we got the beef jerky thingis from Sainsburys for shopimumms - its in the section with the salted nut snacks

The only other RTC my store had were some bags of vitamin sweeties for 20p but they were quite close to date. Pity as they would have been perfect for the Christmas shoe boxes.

MY COS had a rrp offer for the Richmond sausages from Asda but only a one day offer but it was on both my phone and OHs

Picasso7

SweetnSavvy wrote: »

Thanks Picasso,

I’ve spoken to them today and they are going to send a new card with all the points reinstated plus a 2000 point bonus. :T so alls well.
The only down side is that I’ll have to link my new card to Amex, virgin etc.

SnS

I'm so pleased that was sorted for you.

Did anyone else get the Morries offer by email to get 4000 points when you spend £40? I bought Amazon vouchers as usual but this time it didn't work. Just me or have they closed the loophole please?

Savvybuyer

The only grocery items I have found from A on which I am obtaining them for an even lower price than I would have had before are Cheese Slices and Jaffa Cakes. The Cheese Slices are non-comparable (or what would have been - everything is now non-comparable:rotfl::() and the Jaffa Cakes technically different pack size elsewhere so Morrisons price of 30p doesn't count. I have found nothing that is even 10% cheaper let alone lower than that.

fuzzgun19

Picasso7 wrote: »

I'm so pleased that was sorted for you.

Did anyone else get the Morries offer by email to get 4000 points when you spend £40? I bought Amazon vouchers as usual but this time it didn't work. Just me or have they closed the loophole please?

I shopped on Sunday (clothing), no points yet but sometimes I’ve found they take 2-4 days to go on.

Savvybuyer

mhoc wrote: »

[1] Stoke on Trent has its merits but as a tourist hot spot its not recommended.
[2] It is though right on the edge of the peak district so a few miles away its a very different and very lovely place place.
We were just outside Macclesfield on Saturday - it probably has some ugly bits but we were driving through villages on the outskirts and they were lovley
Having said that if you just need an overnight stop over there are plenty of premier inns and travelodges quite close to motorway junctions.

[1] I suppose Stoke on Trent Tourism won't be happy. However, perhaps, as "tourists", we should be choosing the "non-tourist " places as the "tourist" places will be more expensive:rotfl:. I had looked at Premier Inn and found £35 instead of my £24 for the hotel in a non-tourist place, although, equally, cheap doesn't always mean best. It's horses for courses and you pay your money I suppose...

[2] Totally off the topic (as if that ever stopped me going off tangent), that's interesting - I was reading recently about brain puzzles, how old is your brain?, what's wrong with this picture? etc. and couldn't get many of the things that weren't obvious - but one of the things I got was - potential spoiler alert - they showed a series of numbers shown in different colours and a sentence above them. It wasn't the numbers that were the mistake: the sentence contained a repeated word. I immediately noticed it and it was totally obvious to me as I was reading it, and then kept rereading it every time, with the word twice and it was obviously wrong. Apparently people generally miss words in sentences when they are repeated though. I mention it because, obviously, I suspect everyone else would have missed "very lovely place place" (and perhaps they have missed it again now - read and reread and look in front of your nose folks!:p:o:rotfl:) that is total, immediate stand-out to me. I do think this has something to do with my autism and, while everyone else has doubtless missed it or passed over it - somehow, quite how it is possible not to notice such a thing is completely a mystery to me - and failed to notice whereas I just circle it and end up pointing it out:o:o(:rotfl:).