A bit council (Vol 3)
Discussion
SpeckledJim said:
Integroo said:
Fair play to them IMO.If the supermarket is happy to give the discount voucher to customer A, I don't think they can reasonably grouse about customer A freely choosing not to use it, and customer B collecting it.
Not without looking a mealy-mouthed, anyway.
The core marketing message to these discounts, after all, is "we'll help you with low prices". Ignoring the fact that if they know their product is cheaper elsewhere, they could actually 'help' by dropping their price very easily.
The supermarkets really don't want to get into a public conversation about this - their carefully designed system of 'rebate' on expensive prices, instead of simply lowering them, is predicated on the customer almost always not claiming that rebate.
Wombling holds their feet to the fire. Good on them.
Integroo said:
SpeckledJim said:
Integroo said:
Fair play to them IMO.If the supermarket is happy to give the discount voucher to customer A, I don't think they can reasonably grouse about customer A freely choosing not to use it, and customer B collecting it.
Not without looking a mealy-mouthed, anyway.
The core marketing message to these discounts, after all, is "we'll help you with low prices". Ignoring the fact that if they know their product is cheaper elsewhere, they could actually 'help' by dropping their price very easily.
The supermarkets really don't want to get into a public conversation about this - their carefully designed system of 'rebate' on expensive prices, instead of simply lowering them, is predicated on the customer almost always not claiming that rebate.
Wombling holds their feet to the fire. Good on them.
If it was £2 coins instead of receipts worth £2, would that make it any different?
kiethton said:
mattyn1 said:
V8mate said:
Old story. Check the date.
Saw this off that page though
http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/23/inside-uks-first-sex...
funny that - i clicked there too!Saw this off that page though
http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/23/inside-uks-first-sex...
Article said:
‘Some men keep them for 24 hours and sell them straight back
SpeckledJim said:
Well, it was £40, not 34p, but thrift isn't in-and-of itself council. It can be, but I wouldn't see it as necessarily so.
If it was £2 coins instead of receipts worth £2, would that make it any different?
I wouldn't say thrift is council... hell Bill Gates is still said to buy his vests from K-Mart. If it was £2 coins instead of receipts worth £2, would that make it any different?
But thrift without deriving any value is council. There's no point in spending a lot of time to save a few quid unless your time is worth less than a few quid. I'm all for getting a good deal, but I'll do a rough cost/benefits analysis in my head first. Some deals are not worth the time (and some are deceptive to begin with... like buying £3 worth of chocolates in a filling station to save £0.04p a litre, you need 75L to break even). Councilistas rarely do the numbers, being bad at maths is also pretty council.
captain_cynic said:
SpeckledJim said:
Well, it was £40, not 34p, but thrift isn't in-and-of itself council. It can be, but I wouldn't see it as necessarily so.
If it was £2 coins instead of receipts worth £2, would that make it any different?
I wouldn't say thrift is council... hell Bill Gates is still said to buy his vests from K-Mart. If it was £2 coins instead of receipts worth £2, would that make it any different?
But thrift without deriving any value is council. There's no point in spending a lot of time to save a few quid unless your time is worth less than a few quid. I'm all for getting a good deal, but I'll do a rough cost/benefits analysis in my head first. Some deals are not worth the time (and some are deceptive to begin with... like buying £3 worth of chocolates in a filling station to save £0.04p a litre, you need 75L to break even). Councilistas rarely do the numbers, being bad at maths is also pretty council.
Worrying about whether your bikini area has been waxed/shaved before having a smear test = council
The nurse isn't going to be interested in whether or not your hair is trimmed to perfection, she is going to be concerned about your wellbeing.
When/if you're giving birth you'll have to get over your inhibitions anyway and besides, just like the nurse with the smear test, the midwives will have seen unshaven areas many times before.
I appreciate the second part of my post may come across as uncaring - I'm fed up of people who are so obsessively precious of their appearance (I'm not so much about mine - I have a lazy eye and slightly ginger stubble with blond hair (colour clash!), plus I'm supposed to be a vegetable/pining for the fjords anyway - as long as I look smart/professional that's fine).
The nurse isn't going to be interested in whether or not your hair is trimmed to perfection, she is going to be concerned about your wellbeing.
When/if you're giving birth you'll have to get over your inhibitions anyway and besides, just like the nurse with the smear test, the midwives will have seen unshaven areas many times before.
I appreciate the second part of my post may come across as uncaring - I'm fed up of people who are so obsessively precious of their appearance (I'm not so much about mine - I have a lazy eye and slightly ginger stubble with blond hair (colour clash!
), plus I'm supposed to be a vegetable/pining for the fjords anyway - as long as I look smart/professional that's fine).captain_cynic said:
SpeckledJim said:
Well, it was £40, not 34p, but thrift isn't in-and-of itself council. It can be, but I wouldn't see it as necessarily so.
If it was £2 coins instead of receipts worth £2, would that make it any different?
I wouldn't say thrift is council... hell Bill Gates is still said to buy his vests from K-Mart. If it was £2 coins instead of receipts worth £2, would that make it any different?
But thrift without deriving any value is council. There's no point in spending a lot of time to save a few quid unless your time is worth less than a few quid. I'm all for getting a good deal, but I'll do a rough cost/benefits analysis in my head first. Some deals are not worth the time (and some are deceptive to begin with... like buying £3 worth of chocolates in a filling station to save £0.04p a litre, you need 75L to break even). Councilistas rarely do the numbers, being bad at maths is also pretty council.
If our wombler is a normal person (!), and he spent less than 4 hours to collect his £40 of vouchers, he's done ok. My guess is it took less than 15 minutes to find his £40 vouchers in the car park.
I wish my hourly rate was £160.
I hope wombling takes off big-time, and inspires the supermarkets to cancel their cynical and snide bulls
t marketing schemes and replace them with more genuine price competition. SpeckledJim said:
So if you're buying 75 litres anyway, you can have some free chocolates? Doesn't sound terrible to me. Does your cost-benefit tell you otherwise?
Considering my fuel tank is only 51L... I cant be buying 75L. Few people will be buying 75L.The petrol stations have done the CBA's themselves... if they weren't making money off it they wouldn't be doing it.
SpeckledJim said:
If our wombler is a normal person (!), and he spent less than 4 hours to collect his £40 of vouchers, he's done ok. My guess is it took less than 15 minutes to find his £40 vouchers in the car park.
LoL. 15 minutes?It must be a grand life that you've never visited a car park. To collect £40 worth of vouchers likely would have taken multiple trips over several hours. For an standard ASDA car park it takes 3-5 minutes to walk from one end to another.
The article said they spend 30 mins a week... they neglected to say how many weeks it took but that's par for the course for MSE (which given the quality of advice is pretty council).
SpeckledJim said:
I hope wombling takes off big-time, and inspires the supermarkets to cancel their cynical and snide bullst marketing schemes and replace them with more genuine price competition.
Something I agree with... but it wont. Same with the £3 quid of sweets to save £0.04 a litre, its making them money. I've always hated these scams, but sadly they're making enough money out of people to justify them.t marketing schemes and replace them with more genuine price competition. V8mate said:
Digga said:
The Spruce goose said:
Where did all these stupid 'unique' names comes from?
Seemed to arrive around the same time as the proletariat decided they were spushul, and deserved white cars (on PCP), orange tans, and sex ponds in their low maintenance (read, not a shred of greenery) gardens.
Surnames for first names. An instant, reliable sign of an undesirable/council/chav/scumbag family. Mitchell, Brand, Tyler, Hendrix, Lennox, Finn etc. And they've normally got husky voices at 4 years old because all they know is full-volume screaming in order to be heard/given attention by Ma when she raises her eyes from Facebook.
captain_cynic said:
I wouldn't say thrift is council... hell Bill Gates is still said to buy his vests from K-Mart.
But thrift without deriving any value is council. There's no point in spending a lot of time to save a few quid unless your time is worth less than a few quid. I'm all for getting a good deal, but I'll do a rough cost/benefits analysis in my head first. Some deals are not worth the time (and some are deceptive to begin with... like buying £3 worth of chocolates in a filling station to save £0.04p a litre, you need 75L to break even). Councilistas rarely do the numbers, being bad at maths is also pretty council.
It's 40 quid for a whole bunch of receipts. Each one is probably worth about 34p.But thrift without deriving any value is council. There's no point in spending a lot of time to save a few quid unless your time is worth less than a few quid. I'm all for getting a good deal, but I'll do a rough cost/benefits analysis in my head first. Some deals are not worth the time (and some are deceptive to begin with... like buying £3 worth of chocolates in a filling station to save £0.04p a litre, you need 75L to break even). Councilistas rarely do the numbers, being bad at maths is also pretty council.
EDIT: I quoted the wrong post, but it should be obvious who I was replying too.
Integroo said:
captain_cynic said:
I wouldn't say thrift is council... hell Bill Gates is still said to buy his vests from K-Mart.
But thrift without deriving any value is council. There's no point in spending a lot of time to save a few quid unless your time is worth less than a few quid. I'm all for getting a good deal, but I'll do a rough cost/benefits analysis in my head first. Some deals are not worth the time (and some are deceptive to begin with... like buying £3 worth of chocolates in a filling station to save £0.04p a litre, you need 75L to break even). Councilistas rarely do the numbers, being bad at maths is also pretty council.
It's 40 quid for a whole bunch of receipts. Each one is probably worth about 34p.But thrift without deriving any value is council. There's no point in spending a lot of time to save a few quid unless your time is worth less than a few quid. I'm all for getting a good deal, but I'll do a rough cost/benefits analysis in my head first. Some deals are not worth the time (and some are deceptive to begin with... like buying £3 worth of chocolates in a filling station to save £0.04p a litre, you need 75L to break even). Councilistas rarely do the numbers, being bad at maths is also pretty council.
EDIT: I quoted the wrong post, but it should be obvious who I was replying too.
It's not something I'm keen to do, but it's money the supermarket was apparently happy to give away, and money the customer was happy to throw away, so I'm happy that if someone has the energy to pick it up again, they should reap the benefit.
Not council for me. Enterprising.
SpeckledJim said:
Integroo said:
captain_cynic said:
I wouldn't say thrift is council... hell Bill Gates is still said to buy his vests from K-Mart.
But thrift without deriving any value is council. There's no point in spending a lot of time to save a few quid unless your time is worth less than a few quid. I'm all for getting a good deal, but I'll do a rough cost/benefits analysis in my head first. Some deals are not worth the time (and some are deceptive to begin with... like buying £3 worth of chocolates in a filling station to save £0.04p a litre, you need 75L to break even). Councilistas rarely do the numbers, being bad at maths is also pretty council.
It's 40 quid for a whole bunch of receipts. Each one is probably worth about 34p.But thrift without deriving any value is council. There's no point in spending a lot of time to save a few quid unless your time is worth less than a few quid. I'm all for getting a good deal, but I'll do a rough cost/benefits analysis in my head first. Some deals are not worth the time (and some are deceptive to begin with... like buying £3 worth of chocolates in a filling station to save £0.04p a litre, you need 75L to break even). Councilistas rarely do the numbers, being bad at maths is also pretty council.
EDIT: I quoted the wrong post, but it should be obvious who I was replying too.
It's not something I'm keen to do, but it's money the supermarket was apparently happy to give away, and money the customer was happy to throw away, so I'm happy that if someone has the energy to pick it up again, they should reap the benefit.
Not council for me. Enterprising.
SpeckledJim said:
Integroo said:
captain_cynic said:
I wouldn't say thrift is council... hell Bill Gates is still said to buy his vests from K-Mart.
But thrift without deriving any value is council. There's no point in spending a lot of time to save a few quid unless your time is worth less than a few quid. I'm all for getting a good deal, but I'll do a rough cost/benefits analysis in my head first. Some deals are not worth the time (and some are deceptive to begin with... like buying £3 worth of chocolates in a filling station to save £0.04p a litre, you need 75L to break even). Councilistas rarely do the numbers, being bad at maths is also pretty council.
It's 40 quid for a whole bunch of receipts. Each one is probably worth about 34p.But thrift without deriving any value is council. There's no point in spending a lot of time to save a few quid unless your time is worth less than a few quid. I'm all for getting a good deal, but I'll do a rough cost/benefits analysis in my head first. Some deals are not worth the time (and some are deceptive to begin with... like buying £3 worth of chocolates in a filling station to save £0.04p a litre, you need 75L to break even). Councilistas rarely do the numbers, being bad at maths is also pretty council.
EDIT: I quoted the wrong post, but it should be obvious who I was replying too.
It's not something I'm keen to do, but it's money the supermarket was apparently happy to give away, and money the customer was happy to throw away, so I'm happy that if someone has the energy to pick it up again, they should reap the benefit.
Not council for me. Enterprising.
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