Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread part 2½

Savvybuyer

I can always notice what I see as a departure from some supposed policy or catch somewhere out on what I can claim to be an inconsistency from what has been applied previously elsewhere.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/deals/free-santa-letter-video/

Goes on to say "Technically this isn't 100% free". So why is the word "Free" printed in the headline just as the word and why are quotation marks around the word not used this time?

I think the clue may be the word "Technically". However, if technically it's not 100% free, then it isn't free:rotfl:. As a pedant, I get that correct again and can't be disputed (without at least any dispute being factually wrong). I'm insisting - no matter how "technically" it can't be claimed to be what it is not! Because, however supposedly "technically", I am right. (I even dispute, or suggest I am disputing, that it is technical - but then again I take issue with almost everything. And usually refuse to drop the matter or change my view until I am shown to be wrong. Which almost no-one ever can "show", as virtually everything is based on human opinion.) Whether technically or not, this isn't, as is admitted, 100% free. Therefore the quotation marks around "Free" ought to be used according to me.

Actually, as a pedant, something that isn't 100% free can still, at some times, be considered to be free for some purposes but not others, so that this could be said to be free. I do have to point this out. As a pedant. It's complicated (as everything is with me) but basically historically under one statute it was but under another it wasn't - at least according to different courts that were given the authority to interpret such things - so "for some purposes but not others". The rules have long been changed and combined since then however, into one general scheme. Separately this would still normally be free under advertising codes where the only charge for a "free" item is ordinary postage (and the cost of an envelope). However, they have a different view of "free" to what some of us have. Moreover, where the postage cost is going to Royal Mail/The Post Office itself, it may be questioned whether "free" should still apply in that circumstance.

davemorton

aau1 wrote: »

Same here.

I'm really nervous they take them back though, I'm tempted to cash out enough to cover my actual spend or at least enough to soften the blow :think:

I had the same idea. I went to buy some amazon vouchers today, but they dont sell them, so got a sainsburgs gift card and a B&Q gift card. Also had argos ones...wonder if argos sell amazon vouchers.

Savvybuyer

aau1 wrote: »

25% off Christmas Decorations @ Sainsbury’s
https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/25-off-christmas-decorations-sainsburys-3121535

That's some more stuff I need to return/re-buy!

I've just seen this and my first thought was it sounded good. Then, a few seconds later, I have had a rethink and I now think this looks better than what it is. It is of course just a quarter off, nowhere near even half price. Reword it as "Pay 75% of the cost" and, suddenly, I don't think it looks so attractive. I think I expect to pay a quarter of the price not get that amount off:rotfl:. 75% seems well dear to me:eek:. So I might wait till after Christmas and hopefully a far bigger deduction.

You bought some at even more expensive that you are now proposing to return?:eek::eek: I suppose needs must, however: sometimes we have to buy at "wrong times" because we ran out or didn't take up a much better offer that we should have done months earlier:o. I regretted, months later, not going for some kitchen clearance item at the time because I wanted to save money rather than be caught into buying something simply because it was reduced. I didn't expect the item I already had to fail. Unfortunately, months later, it has now done so and I've had to buy a replacement at full price:eek:. It's now cost me £2 instead of the 50p clearance, although I bought from another place - had I gone to the place that was clearing before, it would now have cost me £5:eek:! I could also now do with having something else that I turned down and failed to buy when I saw it on excellent clearance price out months ago (most unlikely to come across that ever again) - again, I thought I was saving money by buying nothing at all but, not the case, as it would now be useful if I had the stuff and will probably now have to pay regular price:( as it won't ever be clearance again anywhere near me soon.

gocat

aau1 wrote: »

Same here.

I'm really nervous they take them back though, I'm tempted to cash out enough to cover my actual spend or at least enough to soften the blow :think:

davemorton wrote: »

I had the same idea. I went to buy some amazon vouchers today, but they dont sell them, so got a sainsburgs gift card and a B&Q gift card. Also had argos ones...wonder if argos sell amazon vouchers.

So how many did you both do to be so worried :eek: :rotfl:

Picasso7

Bubbs, very sorry about your leg and your toes. Pain can be exhausting, so go gently.

Anon wrote: »

Free Hive hub and plug for BG customers:

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/free-hive-plug-pack-with-british-gas-rewards-3120507

HTH

Anon

Thank you so much, Anon. I got one to go with my free Hive light which came some time ago. The light is great as it comes on 40 mins before sunset, saving me the hassle of having constantly to re-programme the manual timer I used to have.

Anon wrote: »

For those who haven't received the email, does this work from Reddit:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/bristol/comments/9zj21a/gwr_black_friday_sale_single_to_paddington_1550/

Hth

Anon

I haven't got round to getting another Nectar card yet but that link worked brilliantly for me, thank you. I used the normal booking to find the Nectar fares (little icon showed) and then using the accessible booking link, bought a ticket for my child. I may try it again at some point but have heeded the warnings about not going OTT with this one. I'm assuming everyone is saying they will pick the ticket up at the station?

Picasso7

aau1 wrote: »

I didn't take full advantage of this last year. Looking at the map there are a few "businesses" that I know are definitely residential properties.

If we phoned up to tell Amex this wasn't a walk-in business location do you think we'd get the credit? Did anyone claim for these kinds of errors before?

Last year RL was very bad so I didn't do very well with small shop. But the year before I found a few places which were closed using Google and reported them. I got my £5 for each one. I think we shared info on here too, didn't we?

Goodnight everyone.

aau1

gocat wrote: »

So how many did you both do to be so worried :eek: :rotfl:

Savvybuyer

"(note the deadline's a week earlier than Royal Mail's above)"

For the benefit of those people that fail to notice the different date, unlike me:rotfl:. It seems: yes, you do need to point this out, as most people, I suspect, would fail to notice it:doh:.

Meanwhile, do I like being patronised about something that is obvious to me and that I could not miss? Fortunately I don't even care about it being underlined, even though for, it seems, 'everyone else's' benefit rather than mine.

Actually, it's not even a week earlier, as the date is six days earlier, not one week earlier. So, yet again, even on that, they are incorrect:p:rotfl:. So, I don't note that the date is a week earlier at all, despite being told to do so, as that is untrue, instead I note correctly that it's six days earlier and I am right and correct once again. Everywhere else - just not accurate!!:p

davemorton

gocat wrote: »

So how many did you both do to be so worried :eek: :rotfl:

I dont need no Robins now...

Anon

davemorton wrote: »

Points are in :beer:

Ours aren't in yet :eek:.

Still missing 2k sign up and others .

Anon