Just be aware that if you buy 3 expensive plants for say £15 each and 3 much cheaper plants for £3 each it will only take 2 lots of £3 off so £6 instead of £18 so watch out for that, so if you are buying quite a few plants varying in price group them together into price bands and get them to put through the till in separate batches. I just got overcharged by nearly £30 before I made them refund the whole lot and put through in separate batches.

To be fair, you weren't overcharged. You've even written in the deal 'cheapest free' and that's exactly what they gave you. It isn't the norm for stores to discount items in the way that will save the customer most money, although I know a few do it (Tesco?).

I always ask people to put products through as separate transactions if the prices vary and it's a 342 offer. Atleast they did it for you in the end though and maybe you'll save some other people having to go through the same palava.

I had been after two baskets of sweet peas growing up wicker trellis . They were priced at £12 each or two for £20 . I couldn't justify paying that . Got there today and they were reduced to £6 each . With 3 for 2 I ended getting three for £12 . I was most happy and my garden will look much nicer as a result . I live in a brand new house on a half finished development . Everything is so bland . My mission is to add some colour to the place

This year I'm finding homebase to be cheaper than B&Q must be Bunnings making it more competitive - plants have been made cheaper and better choice too.

Just be aware that if you buy 3 expensive plants for say £15 each and 3 much cheaper plants for £3 each it will only take 2 lots of £3 off so £6 instead of £18 so watch out for that, so if you are buying quite a few plants varying in price group them together into price bands and get them to put through the till in separate batches. I just got overcharged by nearly £30 before I made them refund the whole lot and put through in separate batches.

Once upon a time it was bogoff this time of year.

Your store was obviously more customer focused. The store I used wasn't bothered at all that I felt I was overcharged. I bought over 30 plants so they could have mentioned it before they scanned all of them. Let's hope they change their attitude when more people start complaining ;-).

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I've been waiting for 15% off everything in homebase...They didn't do anything for the bank holiday

Mine were lovely . Is quite a small store but it was busy

This year I'm finding homebase to be cheaper than B&Q must be Bunnings making it more competitive - plants have been made cheaper and better choice too.

To be fair, you weren't overcharged. You've even written in the deal 'cheapest free' and that's exactly what they gave you. It isn't the norm for stores to discount items in the way that will save the customer most money, although I know a few do it (Tesco?).

I always ask people to put products through as separate transactions if the prices vary and it's a 342 offer. Atleast they did it for you in the end though and maybe you'll save some other people having to go through the same palava.

I had been after two baskets of sweet peas growing up wicker trellis . They were priced at £12 each or two for £20 . I couldn't justify paying that . Got there today and they were reduced to £6 each . With 3 for 2 I ended getting three for £12 . I was most happy and my garden will look much nicer as a result . I live in a brand new house on a half finished development . Everything is so bland . My mission is to add some colour to the place

Not at all . Is an opportunity to improve and add a bit of colour .

​Staff have been told to ensure customer gets the best deal by putting expensive plants through seperatly, your store must not have read their comms

Well it wasn't quite like that. I had to wheel the large trolley containing over 30 plants out the store, then go back in and queue for customer services to get a full refund (she couldn't put them through again as a sale apparently), and then I went to the self service till to scan them through separately myself. The only issue I had then was that my credit card was declined after the first 4 transactions. I imagine it locked out due to the multiple sales on the one card. Luckily I had another card with me so used that for the rest. The lady on the self scan understood what I was doing and why. She said that a few people had complained already. Just a pity that the other checkout staff couldn't be bothered. Either that or they hadn't been told .....

Aw . That's cruel !

How does this offer works if they already have an offer of say:

£10 each or 2 for £15

if you buy 3 of these do you get 3 for £15 or 3 for £20 cutting out the 2 for £15 or to get both offers do you have to buy 3 lots of 2 for £15 costing you £30 for the 6 plants?

I'm assuming you would get three for £20 but can't say for certain. They worked it out manually when I bought three items as they were already reduced to below the offer price

Buy multi packs, 3 for 10, 4 for 20 etc and the double discount is applied at the till. this should go mega hot.

both discounts work together, i used it yesterday : ))

I thought so to! :disappointed:

They dont seem to offer the 4 for £10 and 3 for 2 at the same time. When I put the 4 through the 4 for £10 only seemed to work so did not knock off the 3 for 2 at the same time otherwise would have got anther £3.20 knocked off the £10.