Bargain!

[tigermoth]

I was in Baby Gap today and saw a great bargain - a large canvas baby change bag, three different pattens to choose from,( plain, pretty and stripe) complete with changing mat, down from £48.00 to £6.99. I don't know anyone - in the real world at least - who has just given birth, or would need a baby changing bag, but I thought it was such a good bargaian, I'd tell you about it here. These bags were in the Bluewater branch of Baby Gap, but are probably availablr elsewhere.

Here's a suggestion, news of any other bargains we see could be posted here as and when.

Being TK Maxx's No1 fan I guarantee everyone of loads of bargains everyday of the week, fantastic
childrens clothes at a fraction of the price compared to designer shops and they just keep sticking those red tickers on every six weeks an reducing things even further, great underwear, shoes and house 'bits' - not to be confused with Matalan or Macro - happy shopping ...

that's STICKERS - no wine tonight either ...

all this free littlewoods stuff - I'm not sure how it works, but does any one else think this is just plain cyber shoplifting? Sorry to sound sanctimonious - don't mean to be as it's not exactly Brinks Mat style - but I am genuinely intrigued to see if I'm the only person who wouldn't do this? Isn't it interesting that all these clearly concious, thoughtful women who make so many thought through choices about their life / children etc. don't think about this in the same way? Or is it just the idea of getting something for nothing from a big company who can afford it? I will post this under my own name - please don't all hate me, I'm just genuinely curious.....

Rhubarb, where did you get the code? Are you a regular customer? Companies like Littlewoods always have promotional codes etc and give great offers, just to entice us onto their site/catalogue and hopefully buy more.

Think how many more hits their site has had from mumsnet this week! I for one had never been to their site, nor did I now how much stuff they actually did and toys etc. I will go back and use it to compare prices etc, now I know that it is there.

I had already spent my Littlewoods £15 before this thread started - I received the code in the post. I am not a regular customer of theirs and neither are the 6 other people I know who also received the same mailing.

So if Littlewoods are seemingly sending it out to all and sundry it must be a promotional ploy to gain extra customers.

My bargain of the day: Colourplay ready mixed kid's paint (big 500ml bottles) buy one (£1.25) get one free at Woolworths!! My little Woolworths only had pink, purple, black, white and green but bigger branches may have all the colours...

oh, so it's an offer then, not a scam discovered by someone? sorry - I seem to have got completely the wrong end ofthe stick - internet skills were never my strong point! sorry - you are an honest bunch after all......

I'm probably guilty of cybershoplifting manna! I didn't know that Littlewoods knew of this, I thought it was a scam and have been feeling terribly guilty for a couple of days, even thought about sending the shirt back. Now I know it's ok I feel so much better and will cancel my appointment for confession!
Still, it's a good deal though as you can get stuff delivered to different houses so you can use the code again and again! Not that I would use Littlewoods normally, I don't find their stuff that cheap - apart from now that is!

BTW, finger paints are £5 in Early Learning Centre but Wilkinson's do near identical paints for 99p!

When you request a mail order catalogue they always give you £15 off your first order, but if you don't order right away and sit tight, they will eventually offer you 20% off your first order (usually with a credit limit of about £500) and you will get another 10% commission off on top.
If you need a large appliance it will be well worth it - they are a bit dearer than Currys etc but not that much. I just got a £320 Dyson for £256 - buy now, pay October - and when it is eventually paid off, over 5 months, interest-free, it will have cost me £230 - it's £290 in Argos.

And, I forgot to say, they put a "time limit" of 1 or 2 weeks in the letter, but it's never dated, and as long as you keep the letter with the order code, you can use it weeks later.

Dyson uprights are on sale in Tesco for about £189, which is cheap, I think?

Oh, I'd have no qualms about 'stealing' from Littlewoods. Used to work for them. For every minute that you were late after being 3 minutes late, you lost 15 minutes pay!

Only allowed 45 minutes for lunch. I was 'caught' by the boss once reading at 13.45 and it was mentioned to my line manager as a point to be raised with me. Got threatened with the sack for having a spiky fringe (1986 here), too big earrings and for wearing clothes suitable for my position in the company. I resigned! (Did have another job to go to!)

Steal, steal away.

Next have a one day sale on Saturday, starting at 7am I think. Gap sweatshirts for £9.99 are only in Olive green and bright yellow, others are £15.99 (navy,red, pale blue and I think there was grey). Rather wild swim shorts for £3.99. This is for older kids, couldn't see much in Baby Gap but there were reductions.

Laura Ashley has 30% off some duvet sets, 25% off all bespoke furniture and a rather stroppy manager at Brent Cross that refused to exchange a jumper with a hole in it today! R

Suedonim, I have the red and spangly purple one, with the HEPA filter and the extra brush-head for going under furniture. £290 at Argos...their cheapest is under £200.
GUS's cheapest (upright) is £230 - minus 20%, then minus 10%, that's £166...

Ooh, Tinker, I do sympathise. I work for Sainsbury's, not quite as bad but if you clock in early, that's "early start" - no credit. If you clock in late, that's a deduction. If you total over 8 minutes late during the week, that's 1/4hr deducted.

BUT if you stay 10 minutes late to finish a job off, that's "walking time". I was once 10 minutes late in the morning, having to ring somebody in connection with the death of my father - that was "late start" and I had to make it up - but numerous 10-minute-late finishes were "walking time" and didn't count...

Screw the buggers!

God, Janh and Tinks, it's enough to drive me towards a revolutionary communist position when I hear stories about how these big companies behave. I was sacked from my paper round- I was 17- by Martin McColls- quite a big newsagent chain- when I couldn't go in the day after my Mum died. I was too numb to care much at the time but in retrospect it makes me absolutely furious.

May not work, but try code 9911 at la redoute website and you should get a tenner off your order.

snag is you have to spend £50.00

Thanks, Scummymummy, who shall we line up against the wall first???

I think the individuals concerned would not behave like that by themselves but when they have their company hats on...

Have you heard any of the lines issued, in D Blunkett's name, to asylum seekers fleeing repressive regimes? Simon Hoggart has been quoting them in his column in the Guardian - eg

"Diary

Clowning around with 'socialism' in the States

Simon Hoggart
Guardian

Saturday April 20, 2002

Speaking of David Blunkett, two weeks ago I mentioned the refugee who was told by the Home Office, specifically in his name, that she couldn't have asylum here because she had been publicly flogged only once.

(This is the bit referred to (from April 6th) :· Here's something else to make you angry. Glenys Kinnock has forwarded me part of a letter sent by our Home Office to a Sudanese woman who has been refused asylum: "With regard to your final arrest, the secretary of state would point out that he does not condone such actions. However, he notes that your public flogging has occurred on only one occasion, and therefore he does not accept that this in itself would constitute persecution."

I'm sure David Blunkett wouldn't write that himself. But it gets send out in his name. )

Now Alasdair Mackenzie, the co-ordinator of Asylum Aid, has written to me with a few more hideously choice examples. One man was rejected because his claim that he had escaped by crossing the Congo was plainly false, since the river is full of crocodiles. But he crossed in Kinshasa, which is a big city and crocodile-free. One independent adjudicator sent a man back to Turkey, where he had been tortured, on the ground that he had borne the torture "with little fortitude". But the grisliest was the letter to a Bosnian Croat who had received death threats while living in Sarajevo at the height of the war: "The secretary of state notes that the threats made against you were not carried out" - in other words you had to be dead already for them to count.

As I said earlier, I am sure David Blunkett doesn't think these things or write these letters. But they go out in his name, as if they conveyed his personal judgment."

Must say, I have trouble believing that the people who write this kind of stuff (or who make the rules for Sainsburys or Martin McColls) really think like that. But you do wonder...

Janh, what a change of subject. One minute this is a frivolous thread - the next we're talking big company petty time keeping policies, then the inherent evil of big government organisations. What a world we live in.

In view of this, the next bit of my message doesn't sound at all right, but since this is a 'bargains'`thread, I'll go back to the original topic for a minute.

Rhubarb, I tried your littlewoods suggestion. It rejected the promotional code so I couldn't get the £15.00 discount. Since I already get the catalogue, they have my details, so re-registering in my own name was a long shot. What a great offer, though. Enjoy your denim blouse.