Tesco Cottage

A question about : Tesco Cottage

Welcome to the new, not-quite-as-good-but-still-a-respectable-grabbit, Tesco thread, based around their revised war of words, T&Cs and promises against ASDA.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...s-cash-in.html

This story broke on 28/04/11 as Tesco pulled their Double The Difference campaign. Many people thought that was the end of it all but we've found there are still loopholes to exploit and as long as that is the case, MSE's cottagers will continue to win the war!

COUPONS!

Take the following as an example:

Day 1 - Buy two Fairy Fabric Conditioners, total Ј3.40, use two Ј1 off coupons:(https://www.supersavvyme.com/fairycoupon/home.aspx), No photocopies
total to pay Ј1.40 in cash. Input details into Price Check, get voucher for Ј1.40 back.

Day 2 - Buy two Fairy Fabric Conditioners, total Ј3.40, use two Ј1 off coupons, total to pay Ј1.40, use voucher, pay nothing in cash.
Input details into Price Check, get voucher for Ј1.40 back.

So far, you have four bottles for Ј1.40.

Day 3 - repeat Day 2.

So far, you have six bottles for Ј1.40.

Day 4 - repeat Day 2.

Continue until offer expires or you find a new product and printable voucher to try

Pros: easy, once a product has been found; shouldn't take long to do a shop as it's one item at a time, essentially clearing the shelves; good way to utilise vouchers and coupons to minimise cash spend; the above is just an example, there may be dozens like this.

Cons: items need to be cheaper at ASDA and have coupons available, as well as be priced to effectively be paying pennies (e.g. a Ј1 off coupon for a product that costs a tenner is never going to work as well as the above example); reliant on coupons being allowed per item rather than per transaction, avoiding minimum printing T&Cs of websites and not getting a trout.

This method is simply a way of getting ASDA special offers in Tesco - thus increasing the number of offers available to you at your local Tesco if you don't have an ASDA nearby.

Link to the tesco misprices thread:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=1656271

Tesco 1p finds thread:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=2711727

MISPRICES!

As most of us know, Tesco staff have been running around like headless chickens changing the SELs for a large number of products over the last few days. There's bound to be mistakes: in the last 48 hours alone on the old DTD thread, Patak's sauces have been going through at Ј1.48 rather than the Ј1 advertised on the SEL and those fruity strawberry things have been going through at 43p each, rather than the SEL advertised Ј1. These are on top of the normal errors that occur in Tesco on a weekly basis.

Got vouchers left over? Spend them on these mispriced products. Get the Double the Difference back at Customer Services in cash, immediately. If you're really cheeky, then enter your receipt to Price Check = Triple the Difference!

Pros: Potentially better than DTD, 1.5x better in fact; finding the mispriced items could be very easy collectively, use the Tesco Misprices thread here on MSE and instore scanners; get more for your voucher and at least cash back at CS.

Cons: Time-consuming, finding those mispriced items; no guarantee of 3x difference if receipt is marked by CS, although certain people didn't have problems during the DTD promotion

The link to the coupon thread (thread 17): https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3134500

The new thread is here (thread 18):

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=3202004

Okay, so there's no spreadsheet, no lovely updaters and no editors but we still have the camaraderie, the desire and the difference to fight for!

Let's show Tesco they can't beat us so easily!

Best answers:

• ist it this over the top exploitqtion of loopholes thqt eneded the DtD scheme in the first place?
• where's the spreadsheet?
• Thought this may be handy
  https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3134500
  find your coupons here to do some math
  Nice one Adam
• Fail to see attraction as all tesco do is make price same as asda. Coming in with no vouchers it wo you ld be simpler just to use coup at asda.
• Thanks for this thread
  May it produce good finds for us all!
• is it me or is supersavvyme hard to navigate round, found the fairy fabric softner, cant find a coupon thou?? any help?
  (I use loads of this and was waiting for it or comfort pure on dtd, it never happened)
• found it , hi everyone
• Found it also , thank you adam
• Hi all - I've found my way here too. Unlike the Tesco lambs, I reckon this might just have legs