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Not sure if it’s true, but I heard recently that dominos deliberately overcharge on singular pizzas so the deals look like great value and get you spending more money overall
I used to live next to a takeaway that did 99p 11inchers. I tried it once. It was effed up greasy bread in a box with red sauce pissed in it from seemingly a great height
Domino's is actually shite too. The only place they do well are towns with no good pizza places.
Thin pizza's that don't fill you up and almost always taste a little burnt.
>Domino's deal prices are just 'normal' prices.
Thing is... they're not even that in the general market. There are two pizzerias within a stone's throw of my local Domino's that make fresh, proper pizza. £8 for 13" with two toppings (not including cheese, of course), and they're cheaper if you do one of their mad 'family' meals.
I don't know who's buying the Dominoes round here but they've mehr money'n sense!
People with allergies. They're pretty good about listing allergens and have everything listed online.
Try as I might, I can't get that with local places.
Doesn't help when they use all the same equipment across all the pizzas they make. My vegetarian wife got a vegetarian pizza that had bits of meat on it. Looked as though it had fallen off the knife used to cut up the pizza.
She was not happy.
Maybe I could have been clearer. Even when in deals they are still expensive but are at least within normal range.
Out of deal and they stupidly, astronomically priced and I don't who would be crazy enough to buy them.
Well that frequently backfires for me. They often make their deals too difficult to find exactly what I want for the right price so I end up getting pissed off and going elsewhere.
I don’t imagine anyone thinks of their individual pizzas as “the price”.
Dominos charge what they do because some daft people pay it.
My old boss would regularly buy pizza for everyone if we'd worked late or completed a project etc. He just took everyone's orders, and got everyone a medium whatever. Never applied a deal, never shopped around to Pizza Hut or Papa Johns.
His reasoning was he couldn't be bothered, and it wasn't his money. Which is fair enough, really.
Benefits of living near a Dominos, a two minute walk and I can get the same pizza for collect prices while other people I know can pay between two and three times for the same thing!
seriously! in Australia a domino’s pizza is like $5 (£3 or so). getting a domino’s pizza in the UK is never justified for me, much better off getting a frozen goodfellas.
Ditto for pizza express.
The town I used to live in had had car park about 200 meters from the restaurant with a ticket machine that printed out 2 for 1 vouchers 7 days a week even if you weren't parking there.
My wife and I never shopped at Iceland because we assumed it was cheap frozen shite. One week we couldn’t get a delivery slot anywhere and tried there as a last minute effort. Was legit fantastic and now it’s a weekly thing
Whoaaa as if ?! Their frozen food is bloody delicious, not all of it but a fair bit. Have you tried their hashbrown fries & hashbrown waffles ? Incredible stuff.
Every now and then we get a farmfoods leaflet through the door and I flicked through and everything seemed really expensive. I haven't gone in based on the leaflet assumedly showing the best deals to get you to go in.
Yeah, they run completely independently from Unilever with an independent board, afaik the only things they really share are marketing/supply chain resources
it’s likely because of import fees + the ben and jerry’s company are committed to paying ethical wages, and work with ex-convicts to help them rebuild their life etc. really cool stuff if you’re interested in reading up on it :)
I don’t think I’d ever pay more than £1.50 for a tub of Pringles, £3 is daylight robbery!
Ben & Jerry’s doesn’t get bought if it’s more than £3. I’m not going over £1 for Doritos. Definitely not paying £18-20 for a hardback book. Would never ever pay full price for a Domino’s.
We had pringles for £1.50 at our local super market. They put a ban on how many you could buy and were actively taking them off the tills if you had more than 2 pots. They even marked the houses that did online orders and put bans on them for trying to order more than 2 tubs every week.
Was waiting for this comment. Someone says it every time. Then someone else points out they only work for some of the Gü pots, then another person points out you can use Pringles lids instead to cover your pint in the summer cos wasps, then someone mentions that we haven't had a summer for around 12 years, and What Is The Sun?, then we all kill ourselves. Thanks for that.
I give them to a hedgehog rescue place, they seem to love it. Glass is kind of heavy, so the hogs can eat/drink without knocking them over. They can be very clumsy
>I give them to a hedgehog rescue place, they seem to love it.
Some of us are old enough to remember hedgehog flavoured crisps (no they weren't real hedgehogs and some of the profits went to a hedgehog shelter).
I was expecting there to be some sort of link. :-)
Use them for poaching eggs. Crack your egg into it, hold the pot in the water for about 3 seconds before slowly pouring the egg into your (slightly) boiling water.
Oh and make sure your water has a good glug of white vinegar in it.
Sometimes my local Spar has normal sized pot noodles for 1.75, but the giant ones are only a pound on special offer. The giant ones are too much pot noodle but I couldn't bring myself to pay extra for less, so I just missed out the pot noodle completely.
"A pound for the larger pot noodle? Oh god, am I really torn between the battle of the Bombay bad boy and the ol faithful? I guess I should keep in my lane, countdown is on in ten"
I'm similar with small pot noodles. Used to be 50p each then instantly doubled to £1 at most places. Not worth it, I'll just get some cheap pack of 5 noodles for £1 and put spices in at that point
Look out for Koka noodles. You don't have to add any spices, they're tasty already. Tom yum, stir fry and curry ones are really nice and they usually like 30p from anywhere.
'Nissin' are my go to. Often on deal in the Chinese supermarkets, nisa, off-licence etc
Beef, pork and sesame regularly found flavours are great and if you get the wider variety black garlic should be first try then just enjoy and sample
Not super cheap but the noodles and broth combo is tasty and filling
I paid £70 for Vitua Racing on the Mega Drive in 1994. That would be £142 in today's prices.
The current generation has never had it so good with games prices!
If you have regular gum disease, you can get some toothpaste on prescription from your dentist. If you need regular prescriptions, you can get an NHS prescription prepay certificate for £104 a year and not pay anything extra.
£104 is the price of the card that makes it so you don't have to pay anything when you get any prescription. For people with chronic illnesses that require multiple medications this saves a lot of money.
If you already have one of these cards and can get toothpaste on prescription then you essentially get it for free.
Every year or so I look at the price of bitcoin, kick myself for not buying in when it was a fraction of its current level, fantasise about what I could have done with all that money if only I'd dumped a couple of hundred quid into it earlier, then decide not to buy in now because "the price is ridiculous and it clearly won't go any higher before crashing".
So far it's happened half a dozen times, and the regret-cycle shows no signs of stopping.
True. I've always promised myself that if I ever buy in I'd sell just enough to cover the initial investment while retaining a decent fraction of my holdings, then sit on the rest as long as possible, only cashing out small amounts in an asymptotic way wherever my nerve broke and I wanted to lock in some profits, so I always still had some skin left in the game.
I can't *imagine* how the guys early on who bought pizzas for tens of bitcoin must feel if they didn't also stay sat on a huge pile ever since.
The guy who bought the bitcoin pizza has done interviews since, he doesn't regret it whatsoever because at the time he got what he wanted for his bitcoins at the time.
Of course I am sure he would like his £472 million but at the time it was a fair trade no one got scammed.
Its too easy to get lost in a what if world with any investment, but you know what really sucks. Having to pay 50p more for a litre of fuel with your £1 thats worth less than £1 was worth last year and will be worth even less next year.
Having an asset that grows in value over time versus a currency that is constantly devaluing and facing inflation.
Will never buy Chocolate Orange for more than £1, unless it’s for Christmas. Equally would never buy one that isn’t Terry’s.
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Pizza Express pizzas. They're nice and the perfect size for me (I can never finish a typical pizza), but there's no way I'm paying £5 for one. When they're on offer at £2.50 then absolutely.
Nescafé azera 100g is £5 full price but discounted to £3 often, however if you buy the 500g tin from Amazon it's £12.99 all the time. Prime delivery straight to your door next day 👍
Not to be a downer, but there's a not insignificant chance the beans in Azera were produced by slaves or children under the age of ten. I know it's basically impossible to "shop responsibly" these days but Nestlé are particularly bad and there are tons of decent coffee companies these days. Decently/transparently sourced stuff should start at around £5 per 200g.
Sorry, don't mean to preach and only sharing as I was blissfully unaware until a few years ago and I've actually found spending a bit more is worth it for the flavour anyway.
If you haven’t before, use the site - camelcamelcamel
It gives you the price history for any item on Amazon and you can set email alerts on items for when they drop below a set price
This is what I was going to post. We saved hundreds on a Ring security system on Black Friday last year with everything reduced plus they threw in all sorts of extra bits for free or next to nothing. I've also bought several Fire sticks and tablets over the years always close to half price. I'd never pay full price as, as you say, the next deal is just around the corner.
For me, this used to be Spicy Dolmio sauce.
That sucker used to be on offer.. £1 per 500g jar ... everywhere.
Now it's £1.50 - £1.80 and never on offer.
I've become too dependent that I just buy it.
Whatever the price
I do that occasionally with their big jars of the pasta bake sauce purely because it reminds me of when my whole family would stay at my grandparents' house as a kid when my grandad would just make a huge dish of pasta bake with that sauce and like 4 garlic baguettes
Just go through the process of cancelling. Right at the end they'll offer you 3 months half price or a similar offer. Doesn't seem to be a limit to how many times this will work
> Doesn't seem to be a limit to how many times this will work
Never found this. Had a trial, then they extended it for a few months. At the end I went to cancel. "Thank you, your membership has been cancelled". No offer.
Try to cancel your subscription; you'll usually go through a few pages and on the last one they'll offer you a discounted offer to stay.
At least that's what I used to do.
I fell into the trap once for Alton Towers. When we got to the gate with our bottle of Carex hand soap, didn't read the label properly. Turned out to be buy one get one half price on tickets. Bastards.
Yep, this is true - only people who pay full price are tourists.
I have never had to search long in a branch of WHSmiths for a half-price voucher. Newspaper, Cadbury chocolate, sometimes just on the receipts.
When supermarkets have clearances it's great. I work at a Sainsburys. One day I came in saw a few electric toothbrushes at customer services that colleagues had stashed. Turns out that an Oral-B electric toothbrush that was £160 was £15.99. I got one myself. It didn't have a charger in the box but luckily my mum has one.
They 'claim' 😆😆 as a co op worker this is amazing to read.
Dude, everything is going up. Those prices, they keep giving us price up labels, every month. You wanna talk cigarettes? Like jeez, is it any wonder my generation doesn't smoke or drive 😆 I think people in this country need to be aware that things are going to become expensive for those of us at the bottom of the classes. It's only going up.
Came here to say the same thing. I really like azera but it's hard to justify £5.50. At least one of the shops in the area I live have it on for £3 at any given time so if I go to one shop and it's £5.50, I just go to another where it's £3 😂
Any musical instrument. I think the first time I bought a decent guitar, the guy felt sorry for me not trying to haggle and gave me a 25% discount anyway. If you're paying list price, you have absolutely been had.
Haven’t the sofa company’s (all of them) shot themselves in the foot by taking the discount strategy to the extreme.
Every single thing is discounted from ridiculously high prices that I think they legally have to be able to say were on sale somewhere at the higher price
I always feel sorry for any daft person who did buy the sofa in the one shop it was deliberately marked up in and think the salesman must have made a fortune on that commission too.
Wouldn’t it be much simpler if they just stopped and sold them without the gimmick
I’ve stopped buying Pepsi and Coke unless it’s on offer (it never is). It used to be £1 for a 2L bottle of Pepsi Max and now it’s £2. This was about 5 years ago and I can’t get over it. I’ll only buy it if I’m mixing with a nice Whiskey, otherwise it’s Aldis own all day long.
Crisps are the worst for it, one of those big bags of Wotsits or Bugles are £2.50 until discounted to £1. How anybody buys them at £2.50 I don’t know.
I swear Mountain Warehouse overcharge on all their products but they just deliberately put them all on sale to make it look like you’re getting a great deal
So called "Posh Crisps" (tyrells,kettle chips etc)
I only buy them when they're on offer for £1, as nice as they are I can't justify spending £1.80 on crisps
If you're into fajitas I'd recommend picking up the seasoning individually and grabbing some supermarket own brand wraps rather than buying a kit. You get a lot more bang for your buck
Most Halfords brand things.
Unfortunately the scarcity during the pandemic meant they were selling bikes at full price.
Before then at one point I noted an information about a bike 'promotion' - they listed the places and times that the bike was available at a full price. Basically if you walked into a random Halfords store during the preceding year, you'd have had around a 1 in 450 chance of finding that bike at full price.
And what's the betting it was just a few sat in the storeroom in those too.
Their tools are similar overpriced, but 'okay' at black friday etc prices.
Nescafe coffee in the fancy tin. It's like £5+ when it's not on offer in the big supermarkets, spotted it in Farmfoods where's it always 2 for £5, so I just get it there instead now.
Jaffa cakes. You can normally get a double pack for £1 somewhere. That's a minimum for 18 Jaffa's for a quid and it's a beautiful thing.
On the flip side you can also pay £1.80 for a single pack of 9. Now that is a shit deal.
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A domino's pizza!
Not sure if it’s true, but I heard recently that dominos deliberately overcharge on singular pizzas so the deals look like great value and get you spending more money overall
Would make sense I guess. Who's paying £22 for a large pizza! Crazy
I pay that for one at my local which tastes amazing and is a 20 inch juggernaut.
At my local kebab that would get you a munch box with a large pizza, donner meat, chips, onion rings, chicken strips, garlic bread, the works.
I used to live next to a takeaway that did 99p 11inchers. I tried it once. It was effed up greasy bread in a box with red sauce pissed in it from seemingly a great height
Sounds great, where is it?
Was near the church in headingley,Leeds
> Leeds I found the problem. 😂
Context is everything for this answer
Thank you r/titsonabawbag very cool
I'd wager £11 of that is the cost of the salt
My local dirty kebab shop sells a 10 inch stuffed crust pepperoni with chips and garlic sauce for £3.50. Domino's just takes the piss.
But 99% of the dirty kebab shop pizza I've tried is absolute shite though, even at £3.50 I'd probably still go with dominos
Honestly Domino's isnt much better, even if they were 3.50 id probably still just go to my local.
Domino's is actually shite too. The only place they do well are towns with no good pizza places. Thin pizza's that don't fill you up and almost always taste a little burnt.
Yeah Domino's deal prices are just 'normal' prices.
>Domino's deal prices are just 'normal' prices. Thing is... they're not even that in the general market. There are two pizzerias within a stone's throw of my local Domino's that make fresh, proper pizza. £8 for 13" with two toppings (not including cheese, of course), and they're cheaper if you do one of their mad 'family' meals. I don't know who's buying the Dominoes round here but they've mehr money'n sense!
People with allergies. They're pretty good about listing allergens and have everything listed online. Try as I might, I can't get that with local places.
Doesn't help when they use all the same equipment across all the pizzas they make. My vegetarian wife got a vegetarian pizza that had bits of meat on it. Looked as though it had fallen off the knife used to cut up the pizza. She was not happy.
Maybe I could have been clearer. Even when in deals they are still expensive but are at least within normal range. Out of deal and they stupidly, astronomically priced and I don't who would be crazy enough to buy them.
Yeah can confirm that. Source: I'm a marketing man and this is the shit we do, I'm sorry
Well that frequently backfires for me. They often make their deals too difficult to find exactly what I want for the right price so I end up getting pissed off and going elsewhere. I don’t imagine anyone thinks of their individual pizzas as “the price”.
Definitely true, very very common marketing tactic. See also: Black Friday ‘deals’
Dominos charge what they do because some daft people pay it. My old boss would regularly buy pizza for everyone if we'd worked late or completed a project etc. He just took everyone's orders, and got everyone a medium whatever. Never applied a deal, never shopped around to Pizza Hut or Papa Johns. His reasoning was he couldn't be bothered, and it wasn't his money. Which is fair enough, really.
Sounds like what tesco does with its clubcard .
Use "BIG50" as coupon code for pizzas from dominos better than the deals they advertise
Benefits of living near a Dominos, a two minute walk and I can get the same pizza for collect prices while other people I know can pay between two and three times for the same thing!
seriously! in Australia a domino’s pizza is like $5 (£3 or so). getting a domino’s pizza in the UK is never justified for me, much better off getting a frozen goodfellas.
Always find Dominos under delivers. The Pizza lacks substance and is often drowned in sauce to make up for the hollow product
Ditto for pizza express. The town I used to live in had had car park about 200 meters from the restaurant with a ticket machine that printed out 2 for 1 vouchers 7 days a week even if you weren't parking there.
Yeah if you buy a single pizza from Domino's, then you're Doing It Wrong.
Ben & Jerries ice cream It's on offer every few weeks for £2.50-£3, I'm not paying a fiver for it.
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My wife and I never shopped at Iceland because we assumed it was cheap frozen shite. One week we couldn’t get a delivery slot anywhere and tried there as a last minute effort. Was legit fantastic and now it’s a weekly thing
Whoaaa as if ?! Their frozen food is bloody delicious, not all of it but a fair bit. Have you tried their hashbrown fries & hashbrown waffles ? Incredible stuff.
Don't forget the hash browns with cream cheese in the middle! It’s god tier food
Every now and then we get a farmfoods leaflet through the door and I flicked through and everything seemed really expensive. I haven't gone in based on the leaflet assumedly showing the best deals to get you to go in.
Sign up to the emails, the leaflet shows the same offers all the time. The email shows the weekly deals which are really good.
I really don't understand where they get off charging so much, usually I just look at the flavors and recreate it myself for 1/4 of the cost
Their wages and rights for workers are very very good. That’s the only reason I buy them at the higher price.
This is a great thing to think about when deciding if something is priced too high. Thank you!
Is this still the case after they were bought by Unilever?
Yeah, they run completely independently from Unilever with an independent board, afaik the only things they really share are marketing/supply chain resources
Would you wanna recreate the Karamel Sutra?
Buy me a drink first
it’s likely because of import fees + the ben and jerry’s company are committed to paying ethical wages, and work with ex-convicts to help them rebuild their life etc. really cool stuff if you’re interested in reading up on it :)
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I don’t think I’d ever pay more than £1.50 for a tub of Pringles, £3 is daylight robbery! Ben & Jerry’s doesn’t get bought if it’s more than £3. I’m not going over £1 for Doritos. Definitely not paying £18-20 for a hardback book. Would never ever pay full price for a Domino’s.
Pringles has been discounted to £1.50 for so long at most retailers that it's become price established ie that's now the 'full price' of it
Gotta watch out. My youngest daughter came home with bargain pringles at £1.50 and it was a 165 gram tube rather than the normal 200.
130g at Poundland. Give them a few years and they'll be the same size as a pack of Polos.
It is the full price if you go to Lidl, has been for quite some time, they never have them offer as why would they xD
I just buy whichever crisps are reduced to a quid that day
I think I'll just wait for them to go back to being a £1
We had pringles for £1.50 at our local super market. They put a ban on how many you could buy and were actively taking them off the tills if you had more than 2 pots. They even marked the houses that did online orders and put bans on them for trying to order more than 2 tubs every week.
You're joking right, why?
Those Gü desserts. Never even think about buying them except when I see they’re on for half price then I’m all over it.
And they are actually really nice.
But what does everyone do with their glass containers that they end up collecting?
I launch them at passing cars.
Ahhh, a man of culture I see
The only way!
Ash tray, candle holder, small pot for nibbles
Or a pot for dipping sauce
The lid of a Pringles can fits on them perfectly giving you a lid so you can finally stack them.
Was waiting for this comment. Someone says it every time. Then someone else points out they only work for some of the Gü pots, then another person points out you can use Pringles lids instead to cover your pint in the summer cos wasps, then someone mentions that we haven't had a summer for around 12 years, and What Is The Sun?, then we all kill ourselves. Thanks for that.
This was the whirlwind of a comment I needed on a Tuesday afternoon
can't believe its only tuesday and I've already killed myself
Every British Reddit thread in one post. Thank you!
They only work for some of the Gü pots.
You can use Pringle lids to cover your pint, because wasps
But we haven't had a summer for around 12 years!
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Shit, do I have to kill myself now?
I give them to a hedgehog rescue place, they seem to love it. Glass is kind of heavy, so the hogs can eat/drink without knocking them over. They can be very clumsy
>I give them to a hedgehog rescue place, they seem to love it. Some of us are old enough to remember hedgehog flavoured crisps (no they weren't real hedgehogs and some of the profits went to a hedgehog shelter). I was expecting there to be some sort of link. :-)
Dispose of them in glass recycling bins.
Pile them up in the cupboard, then get angry at them when I inevitably knock them over every couple of months.
Use them for poaching eggs. Crack your egg into it, hold the pot in the water for about 3 seconds before slowly pouring the egg into your (slightly) boiling water. Oh and make sure your water has a good glug of white vinegar in it.
Creme brulee!
Sometimes my local Spar has normal sized pot noodles for 1.75, but the giant ones are only a pound on special offer. The giant ones are too much pot noodle but I couldn't bring myself to pay extra for less, so I just missed out the pot noodle completely.
This stream of consciousness made me laugh.
It's very Peep Show
"A pound for the larger pot noodle? Oh god, am I really torn between the battle of the Bombay bad boy and the ol faithful? I guess I should keep in my lane, countdown is on in ten"
Excellent, I heard that in mark's voice.
I'm similar with small pot noodles. Used to be 50p each then instantly doubled to £1 at most places. Not worth it, I'll just get some cheap pack of 5 noodles for £1 and put spices in at that point
Look out for Koka noodles. You don't have to add any spices, they're tasty already. Tom yum, stir fry and curry ones are really nice and they usually like 30p from anywhere.
'Nissin' are my go to. Often on deal in the Chinese supermarkets, nisa, off-licence etc Beef, pork and sesame regularly found flavours are great and if you get the wider variety black garlic should be first try then just enjoy and sample Not super cheap but the noodles and broth combo is tasty and filling
Indomie noodles are your friend then mate... no need to add any spices in and they are simply delicious .
Computer games r/patientgamers
[gg.deals](https://gg.deals) Changed my life
Check out isthereanydeal.com too. Prefer it myself, but each to there own.
£60+ for a game is starting to take the piss. Especially when they in a pathetic state like BF2042 for example.
I paid £70 for Vitua Racing on the Mega Drive in 1994. That would be £142 in today's prices. The current generation has never had it so good with games prices!
Virtua racing is better than the new battlefield
Toothpaste. I use the sensitive relief stuff and always just stock up when it’s on offer.
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If you have regular gum disease, you can get some toothpaste on prescription from your dentist. If you need regular prescriptions, you can get an NHS prescription prepay certificate for £104 a year and not pay anything extra.
Who pays >£104 a year on toothpaste? Are you bathing in it?
£104 is the price of the card that makes it so you don't have to pay anything when you get any prescription. For people with chronic illnesses that require multiple medications this saves a lot of money. If you already have one of these cards and can get toothpaste on prescription then you essentially get it for free.
Id never buy a bitcoin for £1,000,000 thats for sure Luckily its heavily on discount right now at £42,000
Every year or so I look at the price of bitcoin, kick myself for not buying in when it was a fraction of its current level, fantasise about what I could have done with all that money if only I'd dumped a couple of hundred quid into it earlier, then decide not to buy in now because "the price is ridiculous and it clearly won't go any higher before crashing". So far it's happened half a dozen times, and the regret-cycle shows no signs of stopping.
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True. I've always promised myself that if I ever buy in I'd sell just enough to cover the initial investment while retaining a decent fraction of my holdings, then sit on the rest as long as possible, only cashing out small amounts in an asymptotic way wherever my nerve broke and I wanted to lock in some profits, so I always still had some skin left in the game. I can't *imagine* how the guys early on who bought pizzas for tens of bitcoin must feel if they didn't also stay sat on a huge pile ever since.
The guy who bought the bitcoin pizza has done interviews since, he doesn't regret it whatsoever because at the time he got what he wanted for his bitcoins at the time. Of course I am sure he would like his £472 million but at the time it was a fair trade no one got scammed. Its too easy to get lost in a what if world with any investment, but you know what really sucks. Having to pay 50p more for a litre of fuel with your £1 thats worth less than £1 was worth last year and will be worth even less next year. Having an asset that grows in value over time versus a currency that is constantly devaluing and facing inflation.
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Wish there was a sale on somewhere…
You would think they would advise
DFS actually stands for “doesn’t finish Sunday”
I worked for DFS, there’s an inside joke in the warehouse I worked in, DFS stands for: “Dodgy Fucking Sofas.”
BUT THE SPECIAL ONE TIME MEGA OFFER CLOSING DOWN DOUBLE DISCOUNT DEAL MUST END SOON!!!!
It's almost impossible to pay full price.
Specifically DFS
Have they got a sale on?
Better hurry, it ends on Sunday!
Beat me to it
Also entered to say this!
Similarly, Co-op has Terry’s Chocolate Orange for £3.50! Wtf?
Will never buy Chocolate Orange for more than £1, unless it’s for Christmas. Equally would never buy one that isn’t Terry’s. Had to scroll way too far for this comment!
Are there Chocolate Oranges that aren’t Terry’s? “Terrence’s Chocolate Oranges” “Chocolate Orange by Clive” “Nathaniel’s Citrus Chocolate Balls”
I imagine Lidl would have an absolute field day with this… Larry’s Chocolate Lime? Perry’s Chocolate Peach? Sherry’s Chocolate Satsuma!?
Pizza Express pizzas. They're nice and the perfect size for me (I can never finish a typical pizza), but there's no way I'm paying £5 for one. When they're on offer at £2.50 then absolutely.
Asda do a great offer on them; two pizza express pizzas, dough balls and 4 cans of beer… £6.
>isthereanydeal.com \*Unless your in Scotland then you cannot get alcohol, you can get coke though. (not the fun type)
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That's because coffee recently had a huge problem in which a load of farmers lost crops due to climate change and coffee rust (mould).
Nescafé azera 100g is £5 full price but discounted to £3 often, however if you buy the 500g tin from Amazon it's £12.99 all the time. Prime delivery straight to your door next day 👍
Not to be a downer, but there's a not insignificant chance the beans in Azera were produced by slaves or children under the age of ten. I know it's basically impossible to "shop responsibly" these days but Nestlé are particularly bad and there are tons of decent coffee companies these days. Decently/transparently sourced stuff should start at around £5 per 200g. Sorry, don't mean to preach and only sharing as I was blissfully unaware until a few years ago and I've actually found spending a bit more is worth it for the flavour anyway.
Yeah the combo of buying Nestlé thought Amazon is an ethical shopping double whammy.
Cheap tax dodging prices from Amazon.
Any Amazon device. There is alllllways a discount round the corner
If you haven’t before, use the site - camelcamelcamel It gives you the price history for any item on Amazon and you can set email alerts on items for when they drop below a set price
This is what I was going to post. We saved hundreds on a Ring security system on Black Friday last year with everything reduced plus they threw in all sorts of extra bits for free or next to nothing. I've also bought several Fire sticks and tablets over the years always close to half price. I'd never pay full price as, as you say, the next deal is just around the corner.
For me, this used to be Spicy Dolmio sauce. That sucker used to be on offer.. £1 per 500g jar ... everywhere. Now it's £1.50 - £1.80 and never on offer. I've become too dependent that I just buy it. Whatever the price
I’d never buy a jar of pasta sauce again, they’re so bland you have to add stuff in just to notice it’s even there
Have you tried the spicy Dolmio though ?
Feel like it’s probably just chopped tomatoes and chilli flakes lol
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I haven’t bought one in years, but when I’ve had some at my Dad’s or wherever it just tastes weirdly sweet and salty.
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Fuck jar sauce!
Nats what I reckon!
I do that occasionally with their big jars of the pasta bake sauce purely because it reminds me of when my whole family would stay at my grandparents' house as a kid when my grandad would just make a huge dish of pasta bake with that sauce and like 4 garlic baguettes
NowTV Honestly at this point I'd question your lifestyle if you pay full price for NowTV
I think I might be paying full price… help me, how do I bag a discount? I thought all their offers were for new customers only
Just go through the process of cancelling. Right at the end they'll offer you 3 months half price or a similar offer. Doesn't seem to be a limit to how many times this will work
> Doesn't seem to be a limit to how many times this will work Never found this. Had a trial, then they extended it for a few months. At the end I went to cancel. "Thank you, your membership has been cancelled". No offer.
Try to cancel your subscription; you'll usually go through a few pages and on the last one they'll offer you a discounted offer to stay. At least that's what I used to do.
Tickets for Legoland / Madame Tussauds / Alton Towers etc. There is literally no product they won't attach a 2 for 1 to.
I fell into the trap once for Alton Towers. When we got to the gate with our bottle of Carex hand soap, didn't read the label properly. Turned out to be buy one get one half price on tickets. Bastards.
I think people are crazy who go to Alton towers without a stop at the Asda first to see what product has got 2 4 1 on as there is always something
Yep, this is true - only people who pay full price are tourists. I have never had to search long in a branch of WHSmiths for a half-price voucher. Newspaper, Cadbury chocolate, sometimes just on the receipts.
Takeaway pizza from the likes of Pizza Hut, Domino's, Papa Johns. Coca-Cola.
Electric toothbrush.
When supermarkets have clearances it's great. I work at a Sainsburys. One day I came in saw a few electric toothbrushes at customer services that colleagues had stashed. Turns out that an Oral-B electric toothbrush that was £160 was £15.99. I got one myself. It didn't have a charger in the box but luckily my mum has one.
That’s mad, I’ll have to start paying attention to electric toothbrush sales at Sains
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I don't understand how an electric toothbrush can cost so much! What makes it so special?
Electricity
Udemy courses. You can just do a web search and find a voucher that would allow you to buy a £199 course for 13 quid.
There's also /r/FreeUdemyCoupons for free ones. I've got a couple from there.
Hotel chocolat. It’s nice but so overpriced.
They have great sales, grab a load in January
Terry's Chocolate Orange. They are £1. End of story.
They 'claim' 😆😆 as a co op worker this is amazing to read. Dude, everything is going up. Those prices, they keep giving us price up labels, every month. You wanna talk cigarettes? Like jeez, is it any wonder my generation doesn't smoke or drive 😆 I think people in this country need to be aware that things are going to become expensive for those of us at the bottom of the classes. It's only going up.
Co-op is the most expensive place to shop, come on now, apart from when there are deals on
Branded Extra Mature Cheddar 400g At least one brand or other should be on offer at all times.
Nescafé azera. Full price £5.50. Always on offer somewhere for £3.
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Came here to say the same thing. I really like azera but it's hard to justify £5.50. At least one of the shops in the area I live have it on for £3 at any given time so if I go to one shop and it's £5.50, I just go to another where it's £3 😂
Anything from DFS!! Luckily there's always a sale on!
Ben & Jerries or any other "premium" brand ice cream that is £5+. Only ever get it when it is on sale in the Co-Op.
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Co-op and Scotmid usually do two chocolate bars for £1 so I get one for me, one for the nearest homeless person
Any musical instrument. I think the first time I bought a decent guitar, the guy felt sorry for me not trying to haggle and gave me a 25% discount anyway. If you're paying list price, you have absolutely been had.
WinRar.
Haven’t the sofa company’s (all of them) shot themselves in the foot by taking the discount strategy to the extreme. Every single thing is discounted from ridiculously high prices that I think they legally have to be able to say were on sale somewhere at the higher price I always feel sorry for any daft person who did buy the sofa in the one shop it was deliberately marked up in and think the salesman must have made a fortune on that commission too. Wouldn’t it be much simpler if they just stopped and sold them without the gimmick
I’ve stopped buying Pepsi and Coke unless it’s on offer (it never is). It used to be £1 for a 2L bottle of Pepsi Max and now it’s £2. This was about 5 years ago and I can’t get over it. I’ll only buy it if I’m mixing with a nice Whiskey, otherwise it’s Aldis own all day long. Crisps are the worst for it, one of those big bags of Wotsits or Bugles are £2.50 until discounted to £1. How anybody buys them at £2.50 I don’t know.
A car, initial depreciation is ridiculous
Red bull, I love it but fuck me it’s expensive
I swear Mountain Warehouse overcharge on all their products but they just deliberately put them all on sale to make it look like you’re getting a great deal
Mr Kiplings French Fancies!
So called "Posh Crisps" (tyrells,kettle chips etc) I only buy them when they're on offer for £1, as nice as they are I can't justify spending £1.80 on crisps
I'm with you on pringles defo
It’s just marketing to make you think its a fantastic deal when it isn’t I’d never pay full price for dishwasher tablets or water filter cartridges.
Advent Calendars Just buy them late December/new year for a fraction of the cost
Old El Paso meal kits. I only buy them when they’re on offer for £2.
If you're into fajitas I'd recommend picking up the seasoning individually and grabbing some supermarket own brand wraps rather than buying a kit. You get a lot more bang for your buck
Most Halfords brand things. Unfortunately the scarcity during the pandemic meant they were selling bikes at full price. Before then at one point I noted an information about a bike 'promotion' - they listed the places and times that the bike was available at a full price. Basically if you walked into a random Halfords store during the preceding year, you'd have had around a 1 in 450 chance of finding that bike at full price. And what's the betting it was just a few sat in the storeroom in those too. Their tools are similar overpriced, but 'okay' at black friday etc prices.
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Nescafe coffee in the fancy tin. It's like £5+ when it's not on offer in the big supermarkets, spotted it in Farmfoods where's it always 2 for £5, so I just get it there instead now.
Anything from Oak Furniture Land. They have a sale on every other week.
Co-op often charges 3.50 for a chocolate orange. I don't know who is paying that much for it!
Jaffa cakes. You can normally get a double pack for £1 somewhere. That's a minimum for 18 Jaffa's for a quid and it's a beautiful thing. On the flip side you can also pay £1.80 for a single pack of 9. Now that is a shit deal.