Black Friday Bargains !

After using that £10 code, got sent a second 'welcome back' £10 off code!

Checking through our accounts again, found one had another offer (also had it a couple of months ago) of buy £30's worth of gift cards/e-codes and get an extra £6 credit, yet another 20% off.

Also got 2 x £5 John Lewis gift cards, one each from our 2 x JL orders, and when we collected from MK store we got 3 x free hot drinks and cakes on each of our two visits which were arranged to coincide with picking up and dropping off our daughtervat MK rail station.

All these little extras add up.

 

I was parked outside their MK Store when I read your post. Gone for us are the cheap Xmas present toys bought half price from Wilkos after 12.00 noon on Xmas Eve, our daughter was next door in Decathlon buying rock climbing gear, doesn't seem that long ago when a 2nd hand climbing frame was thought of as a wonderful present.

All too soon cheap toys become replaced by expensive school trips, D of E equipment/trips, new laptops, tablets, cameras, phones, phone credit, printers, ink, incredibly expensive uni trips, tents, walking boots, Goretex waterproofs, etc., etc. And despite her intentention to do a bit of work next year, she then wants to go back to uni for an MA, possibly followed by a PhD.



P.S. @Zigs Would one of these be useful?

USB C Portable Charger RAVPower 20100mAh Built-in AC: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

Click on 'Promotions' and the last one is "Only Pay £52.79 for RAVPower 20100mAh Power Bank with AC Outlet"

 

Didn’t want or need anything so we saved ourselves a lot of money by not buying anything

 

That philosophy has always served me well, and not just confined to shopping

 

Same here @Kandy, not interested in Black Friday or come to that Christmas.

 

Got another gift card offer on one of our Amazon accounts, but only £5 credit when buying £50's worth of gift cards/e-codes. Only a 10% saving , although it combines nicely with £10 off £50 codes to encourage re-use of dormant accounts, achieving a whopping 30% saving actually only a 25% saving as £15 off £60.

The message only appears at the very last stage of ordering before hitting the Buy Now button, so whatever deal they offer can be selected, gift cards/codes purchased, account credited with promotional amount, then transaction completed using codes + credit to achieve the saving.

N.B. These codes/credit is only for stuff sold by Amazon. So I've just paid £70 for a camera battery sold by Amazon and got £15 off, rather than buy one from another seller on Amazon who wanted £69.90.

 

Me!

I bought another lot for myself to get a free £5 code to go with another free £10 off £50 code and used all of them when placing an order for stuff for my in-laws and made £15 to use on something of my choice at a later date.

 

You can save a fortune if you don't send these Harrods xmas cards - £45 for 8 !

 

Where I used to work. Everybody sent everybody else xmas cards. There were piles of cards left on the staffroom table. It was a farce. It was much easier to write one card to everyone. That's what started to happen towards the end. Instead of cards I took in cakes or biscuits. I even made my own one year.

G.