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Buyers'
Guide
Philips
Spot The Gift
There's
a free gift with every purchase: Philips iron with a colour TV; cassettes,
CDs and VCDs with an audio system; a multi-media speaker set or a pc camera
with a monitor. Buyers are also entitled to take part in the Philips Festival
of Gifts contest. Prizes include four cars, six bikes and 100 cd systems.
Sansui
Watch and Wash Offer
Essentially
an exchange offer where you can swap your colour TV, pay Rs 14,990 and
pick up a new Sansui and a 4 kg Videocon semi-automatic washing machine.
Homemaker
Offer
Buy a 51cm
colour TV for Rs 21,990 and walk home with a washing machine and a refrigerator.
This bundle offer saves the consumer Rs 4,000 and offers a choice of three
brands: Whirlpool, Godrej and Videocon for the washing machines and fridges.
Sansui also
has the regular discount and financing schemes for its products.
Bodyline
Winter Bonanza
This upmarket
shop in Ahmedabad has a prize-based scheme every winter. It goes on for
two months at the end of which 11 prizes are offered every year, right
from a luxury car and a foreign trip to a flat, besides smaller prizes
like two-wheelers and a TV set.
BPL
famili 2001
Discounts
of up to Rs 3,000 on colour TV sets, Rs 5,000 on refrigerators, Rs 1,500
on washing machines and a free personal stereo with every music system.
Buyers who write a slogan with every purchase could win up to Rs 10 lakh
every week through the raffle.
Shoppers
Stop Diwali Promotion
Every purchase
of Rs 500 and above at the store qualifies you for three draws where you
could win diamond jewellery worth Rs 5,000, Rs 50,000 or Rs 1 lakh depending
on whether the draw is daily, weekly or monthly. There's one draw for
each of these periods.
Thomson
Shubh Utsav
Offers include
up to Rs 2,000 off on all colour TV sets and GE cordless phones with an
Altima music system. Thomson also provides 0 per cent interest finance
and a five-year warranty on all TV sets.
Westside
Festivals Of Delights
Every shopper
spending Rs 1,500 and more at the store walks away with an assured gift
from Tropicana, Heinz, Elle 18 and Mattel Toys and is also eligible for
a scratch card contest. Prizes include: Tata Safari, four Tata Indicas,
two scooters (per store), refrigerators and air conditioners.
Manikchand
Tea
51+51 Prizes Every Week
Buy 250
gm of Urmi (Rs 52.50) or Parimal (Rs 45), return the wrapper to the dealer
and wait for the weekly draw. Prizes range from Kenstar super mixers worth
Rs 2,395 and BPL two-in-ones worth Rs 1,695 to hair dryers, wrist watches,
cameras and dinner sets.
Godrej
Luckpati Offer
A sure gift
with every purchase of any Godrej product. The prizes include thermos
systems, toasters and watches. You also get a coupon with the products
which entitles you to a lucky draw.
Kenstar
Double Offer
Buy a Kenstar
microwave of 26 litre capacity worth Rs 15,990 and get a Kenstar mixer
grinder worth Rs 3,395 free.
Vimal
Utsav Gold Scheme
Every purchase
of Vimal fabric worth Rs 500 gets you one sureshot gift. Plus every shopper
gets to participate in a lucky draw and could win any of the 7,500 gifts
that include 1 kg of gold, a Maruti 800 and cordless phones.
Bajaj
Value For Money
Buy a Bajaj
2,300 MTV microwave oven worth Rs 9,990-on a 0 per cent interest loan-and
get a Black&Decker Bajaj steam iron and a Bajaj toaster worth Rs 2,570
free. Plus: attend free cookery classes and get a recipe book.
Hawkins
Cooker Pack Offer
Buy the
10-litre Hawkins pressure cooker worth Rs 1,550 and you get a 1.5-litre
one worth Rs 525 free. You could also buy two cookers (a 3-litre worth
Rs 710 or a 4-litre worth Rs 850) and get a 1.5-litre cooker free. Alternatively,
you could buy a 5-litre one worth Rs 980 and a 6.5-litre one worth Rs
1,075 and get a 3-litre one free.
Planet
Planet Jhatkas
The purchase
of four Planet chairs of National Plastics qualifies you for a scratch
card contest. On offer are one lakh giveaways which include fridges, colour
television sets, washing machines, music systems, irons and consolation
prizes. Scheme open only in Mumbai and Gujarat.
Four
Square Power Of Four
Buy a pack
of Four Square Special or Premier cigarettes. You could win anything from
a gold coin or Philips CD player to a Ford Ikon or an Akai home theatre
system. The booty is encrypted on two crore Four Square packs.
VSNL
Two for One
Every time
you take a new Net account, you get one account of the same duration free.
This is also available for all advance renewals. If you subscribe for
250 hours or more, you are eligible for two gift accounts, at no extra
charge. New subscribers of 250 hours also get a copy of an encyclopaedia
(CD) free. Participants of the festival package also get free Internet
access between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. and on Sundays for three years.
Standard
Chartered Festive Privileges
Every Stanchart
card holder is entitled to special discounts on different brands, including
Zodiac and Daewoo. Discounts run up to 15 per cent or more. Every time
you spend, you accumulate reward points which can be exchanged for gifts
within the season. Scheme ends on November 15.
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