bogof

The BOGOF is fab as long as you have the room to store all the bargains!!but I do buy the bogofs certainly ,but I have to draw the line as ive not enough room to store them...so thats where the half price thing is maybe an advantage..but you ahave to be very careful with these bogofs..being an experienced bogof operator...sometimes they arent what they seem and they are just wolves in sheeps clothing...this is where the ability to think on your feet steps in...to calculate the price against a similar product...But the stores are crammed with them!!...and the worst bogofs are the ones that involve chocolate...that is absolute hell....just because two bars are eaten instead of one...

I think the idea of getting something for free rather then half off appeals to people more. i know i would rather hear by one get one free. just the word free peeks your interested just a little bit more

I would prefer to get the goods at half price. But because we are a close family, the bogofs don't go to waste, it just means two of us get things half price.

One item at half price is generally fine with me. Just the other day I did my grocery shopping. They offered loaves of bread at buy one get one free...naturally I picked up two. Except both still sit there as no one seems to be eating it as quickly as usual and I still spent the same amount as I would have by only buying one loaf like I normally do. Buy one get one free on diapers would be really nice though...although half off would work too since I'd just get two packs and actually use them both.

It depends on what the item is. In my experience the only time you actually get half off is if they desperately need to get rid of an item becasue they need the shelf space or something. They sometimes get overstocked also.

A lot of our grocery stores rings up the items at the half price. So if you just buy one you get it for half price

I love buy one get onoe free deals I am always on the lookout for them to help save money. I just went to a store in town that was offering buy one, get two free. But I had noticed that they upped the price of the product also. But it was still a good deal if you bought all three because it was still cheaper then paying full price. I wish they did have a 50% off sale. If I don't use the items I buy when they are on sale I always use them the next month. I also use coupons which is a great buy when it is already on sale.

Either way works for me Pikey as long as I am getting some kind of discount!

There used to be a store that we shopped at that had "BOGO" meat. We loved it.

Well the way that my family eat the bogoff offers work well for us! We tend to stock up on basics when they have these offers on and keep them in the store cupboard - we save a fortune this way! Half price is a good offer too and I can see the point for people who live alone or perhaps without the voracious appetites of my other half and kids preferring that way but in my house bogoff reins supreme! lol xxx

I occasionally come across the "buy one, get one free" offer at the supermarket I patronize. Sometimes it is a promotion to entice shoppers to try certain products, especially newly introduced ones. I also do enjoy "buy one, get one free" offers from credit cards, and usually these are more confined to meals or buffets at restaurants. Why not just sell the item at half price, you ask. It is simply a marketing strategy that works. the "buy one, get one free" offer is simply an offer of a product at half the price only if you buy two. By using this strategy, sellers get to sell more of their products which they are willing to offer at half price, and that makes good market sense because it increases their sales. Also it is quite common to have "buy two, get one free" offers for buffets. By having this offer, the restaurant gets patrons coming in threes or more to take advantage of the offer. Of course, if you ask me, I'd prefer that the shop just price the product at half price, so that I can just buy one if I don't need two.

Speaking of BOGOF offers what are your thoughts on WIGIG offers. Do you believe them ?

One item at half price, I prefer. I don't know why but it seems cheaper that way.

hi pikefish I guess as they are really both the same I would be caught by the 50% off sign and end up buying enough to make it count.Its amazing how the wording ofa sale can catch ones eye and cause you to actually buy more than you ever intended. lol

Living alone, I'd prefer one for 50% off...but I'd probably buy 3 or 4. In Australia they are going the "2 for $5.00 - single price $2.95" which of course forces us to buy 2.

I guess it depends on how often I use the item - getting 2 for the normal price is 1 is a bargain if I know I'm going to use 2 fairly quickly and not have my fridge/freezer all full up with stuff like that. If it's a one off item and I have never tried it before I would rather have the 50% off so I can buy and see if I like it enough to go buy it again. Say you bought 2 items for the price of 1 and tried 1 and hated it, you're still stuck with the other one now, what can I do? Send it to you huh? LOL!

I suppose it depends on what the product is and particularly what it costs. If it is expensive then I would probably prefer the 50% off or if its something that will last awhile, but if its a product that is short lived then sure I'll take two for the price of one. Either way, if it means saving a bit of money, I'm all for it.

It doesn't matter to me as long as the deal is a good one. You can't go wrong when you have a two for one deal. Even with 50% off, can't go wrong with that. So many things are so high now a days that people jump on the chance of two for one or 50% off. They might not come around again. Then this would really be bad if it didn't. Have a good one.

"two items for the price of one, or one item at half price?" Ummmmmmmmmmm.............is this a trick question? ROFL

Last week I had to forgo the BOGOF,and just had the one item,I was buying some crumpets at the time,and the BOGOF issue came into it,well in the packet were eight fat juicy crumpets,and if I had taken advantage of the supermarkets kind offer then I could have had sixteen.But in this house there is one chief crumpet eater,and that is me,so had I had sixteen the onus would have fallen upon me to devour the lot,save wasting them.I could not justify eating that amount,so I did not take the offer,the girl cashier said.did I know about the offer? I explained,and she looked at me as though my lightbulb had gone out.But thats life.