More Tesco Bargains [No Off-Topic Chat - See Post #1]

markc1184 · 12-11-2013 1:08pm

Just seen medium Cadbury selection boxes for €1.85. Max 10 per customer. In Tesco Drogheda but I'm sure it is in all stores.

cena · 12-11-2013 1:24pm

shuffles88 wrote: »

There were Beats by Dre in ear headphones in Tesco Maynooth for 35/6 euro down from 130 something. None left I just saw the price tag and thought it might be worth letting people know to look elsewhere if they're on any present lists for crimbo.

Did it say solo beats

msg11 · 12-11-2013 6:10pm

cena wrote: »

Did it say solo beats

There must be loads of electrical stuff been reduced. I heard a rumor yesterday someone bought two reduced to clear TV's.

Crazy Eye · 12-11-2013 7:37pm

got a large 46 inch adjustable tilt tv bracket for 13 euro 50 cents in tesco clearwater today it was reduced from 50 euro .

whiteshorts · 12-11-2013 8:04pm

There must be loads of electrical stuff been reduced. I heard a rumor
yesterday someone bought two reduced to clear TV's

Anyone confirm this?
Need a new TV for a bedroom.

Mycroft H · 12-11-2013 8:10pm

whiteshorts wrote: »

Anyone confirm this?
Need a new TV for a bedroom.

Nothing in edenderry

shuffles88 · 12-11-2013 8:11pm

cena wrote: »

Did it say solo beats

I don't have a clue, sorry. I only caught a glance at the price tag walking past

ShaneU · 12-11-2013 8:23pm

3 for 2 on all health and beauty products

LingLingLove · 13-11-2013 11:51am

Anyone seen mummy clips reduced to clear?? Just seen there £1 on hukd

msg11 · 13-11-2013 4:21pm

ShaneU wrote: »

3 for 2 on all health and beauty products

As ShaneU said. Just don't get caught out, it's 3 for 2 with the cheapest one free. So if you pick up 3 bottles of shampoo at 5 euro each and have your toothpaste in there you'll get the toothpaste free and be paying for 3 bottles of shampoo. My advise would be; do your normal shop then go back and do your 3 for 2 shopping in a separate transaction.

CH3OH · 13-11-2013 4:33pm

ShaneU wrote: »

3 for 2 on all health and beauty products

Some of these items would be part of the normal Half Prices offers that Tesco constantly change.

Instead of a customer buying one tube of toothpaste at half price, Tesco will now get you to buy 3 tubes and give you a third off!
More money in the till

At times, their concern for the customer amazes me!

msg11 · 13-11-2013 5:13pm

CH3OH wrote: »

Some of these items would be part of the normal Half Prices offers that Tesco constantly change.

Instead of a customer buying one tube of toothpaste at half price, Tesco will now get you to buy 3 tubes and give you a third off!
More money in the till

At times, their concern for the customer amazes me!

In fairness, it's not a bad offer if you consider some of the products included in it may not be on offer at all. Usually the cycle is Shampoo, Shower Gels and Mens etc.. Everything is on offer. It is to compete with the likes of Boots and Superdrug. I got 3 Alberto Balsam Hair Gel tubes 2 euro each this product is never on offer (as far as I can recall) so I bought 3 and got one free so 3 for 4 euro is not bad at all. Considering the best deal is usually the chemist doing Wella 2 for 5 euro at 200ml a tube.

Crazy Eye · 13-11-2013 5:41pm

got a 22 inch tv swing tilt and swivel wall bracket for 13 euro 50 cents today , it was reduced from 45 euro . same tv bracket is 24 euro in aldi stores.

CH3OH · 13-11-2013 6:16pm

msg11 wrote: »

As ShaneU said. Just don't get caught out, it's 3 for 2 with the cheapest one free..

As you rightly pointed out, because you could have a lot of items that are in the 3 for 2, the online store seems to just discount the lowest price.

Haven't tried instore but the online price guide shows the following:
This might be an extreme example, but hopefully will show the problem and how this might not be the deal it claims to be.

3 Elnett Hairspray Extra 400Ml @ € 8.49 each total €25.47

3 Tesco Cotton Wool Balls 100'S @ 66 cents each total €1.98

When I put the above into my basket it just knocks off the price of 2 packs of cotton wool balls
I get:
Total MultiBuy savings €1.32
Guide price (6 items) €26.13

I would think that most customers would expect to get 1 hairspray free and 1 cotton wool balls! discount €9.15
Big difference

In Boots when they do 3 for 2, they tabulate all the prices in descending price order and every third item is free.

(Might just do this later to see how it works)

Edit 20:25
Went and did a shop in Tesco
Picke up 3 shampoos and 3 of the cotton wool balls
It actually did take off the price of 1 shampoo and 1 cotton wool balls

So the online shopping basket is wrong

msg11 · 13-11-2013 6:49pm

CH3OH wrote: »

As you rightly pointed out, because you could have a lot of items that are in the 3 for 2, the online store seems to just discount the lowest price.

Haven't tried instore but the online price guide shows the following:
This might be an extreme example, but hopefully will show the problem and how this might not be the deal it claims to be.

3 Elnett Hairspray Extra 400Ml @ € 8.49 each total €25.47

3 Tesco Cotton Wool Balls 100'S @ 66 cents each total €1.98

When I put the above into my basket it just knocks off the price of 2 packs of cotton wool balls
I get:
Total MultiBuy savings €1.32
Guide price (6 items) €26.13

I would think that most customers would expect to get 1 hairspray free and 1 cotton wool balls! discount €9.15
Big difference

In Boots when they do 3 for 2, they tabulate all the prices in descending price order and every third item is free.

(Might just do this later to see how it works)

Your right. But as I said pain in the arse but do seperate transactions for groups of products if your planning a buy 2 get a third free.

vicwatson · 13-11-2013 9:22pm

CH3OH wrote: »

Some of these items would be part of the normal Half Prices offers that Tesco constantly change.

Instead of a customer buying one tube of toothpaste at half price, Tesco will now get you to buy 3 tubes and give you a third off!
More money in the till

At times, their concern for the customer amazes me!

Completely agree, deoderants I used to get were always on special at 2.00 a go so for 3 it was 6 euro, today they are on 3 for 2 at 2.95 per item = 5.90 - pretty much the same ! No deal

Crazy Eye · 13-11-2013 10:04pm

so dove for men 250ml reduced from 4 euro to 99 cents a can or loreal men expert 250ml reduced from 4 euro to 1 euro 94 cents a can isnt a deal no ?
trick is to buy in bulk when they have these deals on the smelly stuff . buy around 20 cans each time theres a deal on .
same with the colgate plax mouthwash deals 500ml for 1 euro 50 cents . buy a load of them in 1 go .

A2LUE42 · 13-11-2013 11:47pm

Little Tikes Police Cruiser for €42, In all stores.

Cantona's Collars · 14-11-2013 3:04pm

Crazy Eye wrote: »

got a 22 inch tv swing tilt and swivel wall bracket for 13 euro 50 cents today , it was reduced from 45 euro . same tv bracket is 24 euro in aldi stores.

For anyone looking for tv wall mounts & find Tesco is out of stock,I spotted tilt ones for tv's from 22" to 42" in Euro General for €15.

ecomac · 14-11-2013 4:01pm

To the moderators. Initially merging all Tescos bargains in one thread was a good idea, but as we all know now, Tesco is watching this thread closely. This means, that if someone would post here a good bargain (or even worst - a missprice), Tesco would pick it up immediately and the deal will be over. So my proposition is - close this thread and post all new Tesco bargains in separate threads as it was before. This will not make their job impossible, but at least a bit harder. It's just a proposition. What do you think?

mudxfxa · 14-11-2013 5:04pm

ecomac wrote: »

To the moderators. Initially merging all Tescos bargains in one thread was a good idea, but as we all know now, Tesco is watching this thread closely. This means, that if someone would post here a good bargain (or even worst - a missprice), Tesco would pick it up immediately and the deal will be over. So my proposition is - close this thread and post all new Tesco bargains in separate threads as it was before. This will not make their job impossible, but at least a bit harder. It's just a proposition. What do you think?

good idea!

tatli_lokma · 14-11-2013 5:11pm

I think a merged thread is better. You can subscribe to it and then know about any bargains without having to trawl through numerous other threads. I think it works fine as it is. If Tesco are watching boards they will still know if a missprice occurs as they only need to use the search facility to see what threads have been started about Tesco so having a single thread for each and every bargain won't make any difference other than to make it more awkward for boards members to know what bargains are on offer.

snubbleste · 14-11-2013 5:13pm

Och, you did not have to spell that out

NetNinja · 14-11-2013 5:31pm

I think it was better having seperate threads as well. I'm only interested in the wine deals, the 25% off for 6 bottles.

It's a pain having to go through all the posts each day & easy to miss what you are looking for.

Crazy Eye · 14-11-2013 5:51pm

ecomac wrote: »

To the moderators. Initially merging all Tescos bargains in one thread was a good idea, but as we all know now, Tesco is watching this thread closely. This means, that if someone would post here a good bargain (or even worst - a missprice), Tesco would pick it up immediately and the deal will be over. So my proposition is - close this thread and post all new Tesco bargains in separate threads as it was before. This will not make their job impossible, but at least a bit harder. It's just a proposition. What do you think?

tescos new way of greeting their customers at the door ?

Crazy Eye · 14-11-2013 5:53pm

zerks wrote: »

For anyone looking for tv wall mounts & find Tesco is out of stock,I spotted tilt ones for tv's from 22" to 42" in Euro General for €15.

nice find , is that all euro generals or just a specific one then ?

14-11-2013 6:14pm

CH3OH wrote: »

Some of these items would be part of the normal Half Prices offers that Tesco constantly change.

Instead of a customer buying one tube of toothpaste at half price, Tesco will now get you to buy 3 tubes and give you a third off!
More money in the till

At times, their concern for the customer amazes me!

Completely agree, no real offers on coffee really, instead they have 3 for 2 on it, and tesco frozen salmon was €6.99 half price, it is now €12.99 buy one get one free arggghhhhhhh

Glenbhoy · 14-11-2013 6:15pm

ecomac wrote: »

To the moderators. Initially merging all Tescos bargains in one thread was a good idea, but as we all know now, Tesco is watching this thread closely. This means, that if someone would post here a good bargain (or even worst - a missprice), Tesco would pick it up immediately and the deal will be over. So my proposition is - close this thread and post all new Tesco bargains in separate threads as it was before. This will not make their job impossible, but at least a bit harder. It's just a proposition. What do you think?

Missprices are one thing, but surely bargains in general are not mistakes and Tesco are happy to publicise them, just because the price looks good to us, doesn't mean they're not making a profit in some way. Most likely it's the poor supplier who is taking the hit, but....

Anyway, my preference is to keep it this way.

Crazy Eye · 14-11-2013 7:01pm

prince charles rekons that big chain supermarkets are taking complete and utter advantage of farmers . thats whe he said today on his 65th birthday .

vicwatson · 14-11-2013 7:09pm

Crazy Eye wrote: »

prince charles rekons that big chain supermarkets are taking complete and utter advantage of farmers . thats whe he said today on his 65th birthday .

Wow, imagine what he'll say on his 66th

Davy · 14-11-2013 7:15pm

Can I remind posters of the title of this thread. Off-topic chat ruins the thread for people who follow it get the bargains.....

Not sure they are interested in what prince Charles has to say, even if they are its not the place for it!

siber · 14-11-2013 7:15pm

There were lots of reduced TV brackets in a variety of sizes in Athlone last night.

Cantona's Collars · 14-11-2013 8:56pm

Crazy Eye wrote: »

nice find , is that all euro generals or just a specific one then ?

Spotted in Wexford but I reckon they're nationwide.

msg11 · 14-11-2013 10:06pm

I propose a Tesco sub forum !

snubbleste · 14-11-2013 10:08pm

msg11 wrote: »

I propose a Tesco sub forum !

They are not worthy

mjv2ydratu679c · 14-11-2013 10:09pm

Keep one thread

The_Conductor · 14-11-2013 10:11pm

Keep one thread- but make it invitation only? Keep Tesco and their representatives, the hell out of it.

Jimdagym · 14-11-2013 10:21pm

The_Conductor wrote: »

Keep one thread- but make it invitation only? Keep Tesco and their representatives, the hell out of it.

And how do you prove you're not an employee?
People need to calm down. Things are fine as they are.

brian ireland · 14-11-2013 10:27pm

Jimdagym wrote: »

People need to calm down

People need to start posting Bargains and take this conversation elsewhere!!!

mrs vimes · 15-11-2013 12:06pm

msg11 wrote: »

As ShaneU said. Just don't get caught out, it's 3 for 2 with the cheapest one free. So if you pick up 3 bottles of shampoo at 5 euro each and have your toothpaste in there you'll get the toothpaste free and be paying for 3 bottles of shampoo. My advise would be; do your normal shop then go back and do your 3 for 2 shopping in a separate transaction.

I bought 3x3 items this morning and said it to the check-out person that I didn't want to get all the cheapest one for free. I had left all the items to the end of the trolley. She scanned the first 3, totalled the receipt, scanned the next 3, totalled, then scanned the last 3, and each time she totalled it allowed the deduction. I don't know if this was necessary but it did work.

May be helpful if someone is buying a load of stuff on debit card and doesn't want to be racking up the bank charges

msg11 · 15-11-2013 1:18pm

The_Conductor wrote: »

Keep one thread- but make it invitation only? Keep Tesco and their representatives, the hell out of it.

What ? I work for Tesco and post bargains up here FFS.

ablelocks · 15-11-2013 2:27pm

ffs, this thread has been going since 2011, there's no need to change anything about it except stay on topic.

coldfire1x · 15-11-2013 11:03pm

I was in Tesco today to pick up a refill for 3volution. The refills are usually €6.89 but saw that there was an offer on cotton fresh ones for €4.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) cotton fresh ones were out of stock.

There were others, saw a new one called 'bright new morning'. The fragrance looked nice, checked the price on the till and it scanned only for €1.72. Happy days, picked up three of them and now enjoying the new fragrance at home with a beer

Cantona's Collars · 18-11-2013 7:42pm

3 For 2 on all Health & Beauty products in Tesco.

snubbleste · 18-11-2013 8:36pm

I witness that the monolith chain has festooned its web presence with garish celebratory indications of the pending mid-winter spend spend festival

pajoemccracken · 18-11-2013 8:48pm

Hi,
Searching for good deals on French wine and came across this nice Bordeaux for only 2euro.
Who said Tesco did not give bargains.
Pajoe

Crazy Eye · 18-11-2013 8:52pm

snubbleste wrote: »

I witness that the monolith chain has festooned its web presence with garish celebratory indications of the pending mid-winter spend spend festival

could be worse , oh wait