mad at myself!

[nessa23]

I went to Shoppers this afternoon to do a 20x points purchase. I thought I had done my math right, but when I got to my car to double check my receipt, i was in fact a little less than $3 away from a $50 subtotal!!! arrrggg. So mad at myself!!! I don't know how I managed to mis-calculate, but man, what a freaking waste!!!

Had to tell someone that would understand.. cursing at myself.

[sarajk]

I feel for you....

If you'd had time you could've ran back and and re-purchased.
Or some stores will let you buy something to make the difference and manually give you the points.

I haven't done that but I have had them enter the coupons wrong!

[nessa23]

I wasn't sure if I could do 2 transactions, or if they would hate me for having to manually return and re-purchase everything. I decided against trying it lol.

[alicia]

Yeah this sucks, but I think it has happened to a lot of us at one time or another.

I had a bad experience where my subtotal was over $50 but then it dropped with coupons (to $37) and she said I didn't get the points because of that though thy were entered as 2001. We looked at the receipt and I had 490 base points -I had missed the $0.60 in bottle deposits for those 6 packs of pops they always have on special. So they voided it reluctantly saying I still wouldn't get them even if I threw in a chocolate bar - but I did.

Since then I give myself a $5 buffer or so (if i am hovering around the minimum purchase) for when things ring in cheaper (who'd of thunk that'd be a problem, lol) and just really watch the bottle deposits.

[couponmummy]

Me, trying to be smart and clever one time and trying to get as little over $50 as possible. Miscalculated and was off by 1 cent. Was so mad at myself, and on top of that, DH had to make a remark like why do you do that and cut it so close? Kick me while I'm down. Never doing that again and always give myself a buffer.

[robin1234s]

I made the same mistake on an 18500 points day and was almost in tears (then I watched the news and felt REALLY REALLY shallow/sheltered/selfish/and really really lucky to live in Canada and not any other country in which there is turmoil). We are blessed to have these "shopping mishaps" as worries not life-threatening ones.

[coupongirl99]

I have yet to try a 20x the points event using coupons so I wholeheartedly thank you and others for posting your mishaps - as painful as they may be so others may learn.

[neelkamalll1979]

I feel for you. I bring a calculator with me but it doesn't help....I accidently hit keys and my OOP is always different. The buffer idea is good.

[Abby5]

I would have taken it back and redone it....but that is me

[Natalka]

Oh, that's too bad... but it has happened to me in the past, too.
I now just never keep it close, always go over.

[Jody22002]

Ugh. That sucks. I have had that happen to me as well.

Now, I also put a buffer of about of about 8.00 and buy 2 extra 4Ls of milk or something else we will use during the week. I use a calculator too, just to make sure, before I get to the till, and then I watch the screen like a hawk!!