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We are after a new Tv, 43”. Got a 20% off code on eBay and it would apply to this, which brings the price down by another £60, so tempted, but should I keep my powder dry and wait for Black Friday, or new year sales. More often than not, limited products seem to be halved in price,
That panni is a Hitachi unit 7/10 sound is poor on them
Oh and if anyone sees a decent offer on a small Chromebook (like really dinky, very lightweight), please let me know!
Just ordered one of these :-
Reviews are pretty positive (actually most of the reviews are for the first flip cm3 with a less good processor, so hoping a bit better again). I was after a dinky 2-in-1 and decided a 3:2 ratio screen was the thing to have. I'm not expecting rocket ship performance at that spec/price but it seems like it should tick all my modest boxes.
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That panni is a Hitachi unit 7/10 sound is poor on them
Ah, right. I’m not that clued up on tvs so how about this.
Or
Both will benefit from another £60 off.
We are sort of restricted by the stand type as it will sit on a sound base so one big foot, or quite a narrow stand is needed. Cant really accommodate stands with individual legs at each end.
Worx 40V cordless mower with 2 x 4ah batteries and dual fast charger for £150. Will do nicely as a replacement for my aging LIDL one and the batteries will double up duties with the other Worx things I have.
Spec of the Samsung below https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/6e202c06
50/60 Hz
Not bad for normal telly again the sound won't be amazing but if you have optical in on your sound system no issues.
What are you watching your tv through?
Stb or digital roof antenna
We’ve got a denon sound base with optical in. Sounds great.
Signal is just from a roof aerial. No sky, subscriptions or what not. Fire stick currently used which may be redundant.
A set of Santoku knives to replace my Global ones which keep breaking.
Where did you see a deal on these ? About the only thing I’m interested in this years Black Friday, is replacing our global knives.
Rockhopper, the 20% off on eBay comes round all the time. I've bought a couple of things this year using it. I reckon once a month maybe.
yep, i also grabbed a set of Vel wheels from sigma sports
23mm alloy gravel allroad thingies.. was after comfort not speed so much 🙂 look nice, considering the money
Anyone seen any deals on Tado radiator valves?
I just saved $1200 on a Commencal Meta TR Essential. Glad I waited as I nearly clicked the mouse 10 days ago when they discounted $600
All this discounting does make me wonder what the mark ups are as presumably there is still a significant profit on the cost price.
76projects sent out a 30% off code for those already on their mail list… Was working on already discounted items earlier so I managed to pick up a pair of Exposure Trace / TraceR Lights for just over £50
£49 at Exposure's own outlet store.
Bikester one's worked great for me, I wanted another dynaplug so nabbed one of the kits, and they've got my favourite odi grips in it too so I've bought, er, 5 sets.
All this discounting does make me wonder what the mark ups are as presumably there is still a significant profit on the cost price.
yep the bikester 70% one is an eye opener.
(The woho bikepacking kit is actually very nice,you can never have enuff bags 🙂 )
That Bikester PSA is one of the best ones I've seen for a while.
Ordered a WTB Volt titanium rail saddle from them when it was 60% off but now they're down to £30 each with the 70% That's an insane price.
All this discounting does make me wonder what the mark ups are as presumably there is still a significant profit on the cost price.
Funny you mention as the distributers are sending email with "70% markup" in their titles.
Funny you mention as the distributers are sending email with “70% markup” in their titles.
As above, reports of overstock.. so probably trying to liquidate as much as they can before things really tighten.
Example:
Tifosi Offers - Up To 65% Margin
Discounting stuff by 70% doesn't mean there's necessarily enough markup in there to make a return on it at that.
It could very easily push it to below cost.
Anything sat on a shelf is costing money, especially if you're in the volume game. It's better to sell at a loss than not sell at all, and it can be better than throwing it away depending on how you account for it.
Tifosi Offers – Up To 65% Margin
Yes but no.
Sure the glasses cost eg £10 and have an rrp of £29 but you've got to pay rent, power, wages, tax, shipping, packing and so on. So by the time you've sold that pair of glasses at rrp (or more likely rrp -20%) you may only actually make £0.50, so yes the headline numbers sound big (and 65% Margin for a retail rrp is about right, historically it was about 200% markup to rrp back when retail meant highstreets) but the actual profit/return on that can be very small.
dangeourbrain
Yes but no.
Well exactly.. hence I haven't even opened the email 😉 just copied the subject line.
if you look at the 70% discounts on bikester, most of it is on odd sizes, colours, etc. stuff that's been sitting on the shelf for a while.
if you look at the 70% discounts on bikester, most of it is on odd sizes, colours, etc. stuff that’s been sitting on the shelf for a while.
Didn't stop me placing 2 orders though! (one at only 50% off though the rotters)
if you look at the 70% discounts on bikester, most of it is on odd sizes, colours, etc. stuff that’s been sitting on the shelf for a while.
I went through 30-odd pages when it was a mere 50% off, seemed to mostly be ladies' swimwear past a certain point.
if you look at the 70% discounts on bikester, most of it is on odd sizes
Luck of the draw as to whether you find something useful. I ordered 2 Dynaplug inflator kits, 2 spare (bare) Fidlock bottles and a couple of Magura bleed syringes. With the discount it was worth having them spare for when needed.
I went through 30-odd pages when it was a mere 50% off, seemed to mostly be ladies’ swimwear past a certain point.
Your personalised ads might be interesting for a while
Brand X Ascend droppers are £70 on CRC. Good price for a reliable budget post.
Garmin Varia 40% off. Light version has 20% off too. thought I'd give it a try to add to the Fly6
For random day-to-day stuff; as an immaculately groomed, almost Beckham-esque metrosexual I just popped in to boots to pick up some smelly stuff and their Black Friday offer is half price on lots of deodorants and shaving stuff, so I’ve just bought about 2 years worth of toiletries and shaving whatnots. Result! 😃
Climate change is terrible, why won’t somebody DO something??’
‘Oooh, shiny gee-gaws! Take my money!’
This.
However, any Whisky deals, Speyside, then let me know
However, any Whisky deals, Speyside, then let me know
Master of Malt has some deals but to be honest the best discounts are usually on Amazon. I've had plenty of decent mid-priced stuff from them before.
This one is worth a look:
so I’ve just bought about 2 years worth of toiletries and shaving whatnots. Result! 😃
Dear god! What a combination! 😳
Form an orderly queue please laydeeez
76projects sent out a 30% off code for those already on their mail list…
If anyone is willing to share this code it would be appreciated...
@freeagent 76projects sent out a 30% off code for those already on their mail list…
This is what I was sent
This year we're not doing Magenta Weekender, instead we're doing a whole fortnight (or fornite for our American cousins or gamers)!
Newsletter subscribers get 30% off all products on basket spends of £30 and over.
Enter Magenta22 at checkout.
Offer runs from 12 noon GMT 16th November - 23.59 GMT 30th November
so I’ve just bought about 2 years worth of toiletries and shaving whatnots. Result!
For me that's a bar of soap and set of new blades... don't use shampoo except when I get grease in my hair from working on the bike/van, minimal soap so a bar lasts 2 yrs and can get a set of blades to last until they rust using the electric hair/beard jobbo.
Good deal on these Mavic wheels. £300 for crossmax XL 29.
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/mobile/mavic-x-max-xls-mtb-wheelset/rp-prod212186
minimal soap so a bar lasts 2 yrs
2 years out of a bar of soap? Are you sure it's not been swapped for a stone?
@freeagent
If you're name's not on the list, you ain't coming in.
If you are a subscriber then Magenta22 will work 😁
biketart has some half decent discounts on plenty of bits...
https://www.biketart.com/pages/black-friday
Anyone seen any good deals of wool duvets?
Amazon as usual dropped the prices of Firesticks. 4k one is now £27.99.
seen that, are they much better than a standard stick? ours is pretty old now
v7 and anybody else interested, be wary of Biketarts BF sale , they say 50% off every TLD product , not strictly true 🤔 Resist trousers and hoodie depend on size and colour , so not exactly everything 🙄
Amazon as usual dropped the prices of Firesticks
I wonder if anyone has ever bought one at RRP..
Anyone seen any good deals of wool duvets?
35% off here
https://www.thewoolroom.com/bedding/wool-duvets/
We have one, it's great
Amazon as usual dropped the prices of Firesticks
You’ll be telling us DFS are having a sofa sale next 😉
2 things I've just bought that I've been after...
Weeride £44 at Wiggle
Bose Quiet Comfort Earbuds £140 at Amazon
20% off at one up. That's that 240mm dropper I've been debating then.
Seeking a laptop for son to do coding. He recons he needs the best, I have no idea.
If you're on the mailing list I think Sigma Sports are offering a further 10% off. That would make the carbon wheels I fitted last night £360 if I hadn't bought them two days earlier.
That's a steal in my book
He recons he needs the best, I have no idea.
That shouldn't be a comma it should be because
dangeoubrain, ah, you’ve met The Teenager then.
I literally have no idea if he makes stuff up or is incredibly intelligent or both.
on the lookout for some kind of Ninja Foodi BF deal now... bit of a minefield due to the millions of different types but think I've settled on the 15-in-one OL750 as that does the most stuff so will be able to clear out the biggest amount of other kitchen gadgets 😃
dangeoubrain, ah, you’ve met The Teenager then.
No no, I just remember being a teenager.
"I need a new pc to play quake" was never going to wash but "I need a new pc to do my science homework, oh and I'm doing 3d rendering for Art so need something that's up to that too".
I literally have no idea if he makes stuff up or is incredibly intelligent or both
If they are that smart they can work out how to do it on a remote machine that has all the spec and none of the cost for you, welcome to the world of working in software kid 😉
toby1 that’s what I thought but he wants to do some projects before he applies for Uni.
He Was looking at around £1k, I found an i7 with 8gb and I thought would do for £500
Could I set up a powerful home desk top for the kids to use remotely?
If you can stretch do. Hardware becomes obsolete relatively quickly and it really is a case of but cheap buy twice, the cheap stuff already being old.
That said, there's little need to spend on things like gfx cards for a "work" computer, if he wants to add those to an existing good system it's easy and let him do it from his own pocket.
One to open up the marmite can of worms...
London Road Gravel Rival1 for £975 with code at DFS.
Is this good?
Daft question, does it need to be a laptop? Common wisdom (decades ago admittedly) was a good desktop and a cheap laptop, as laptops tend to be used for actual work, in the library and the like so don't need to be spectacularly powerful, and they're also prone to being nicked, dropped, left in the SU and so on.
A similarly specced desktop is usually significantly cheaper add a forgettable laptop and you're still likely to end up with better hardware and lower cost.
Back on bike stuff… TF Tuned have current model year Lyriks @£699 & some sizes of Cane Creek Kitsuma & Inline shocks very cheap … https://www.tftuned.com
Bought a cheap 50” tv and Sonos beam sound bar from Currys for a mate who’s had a rough few years, gonna hopefully get most of my Xmas presents bought over the weekend.
biketart has some half decent discounts on plenty of bits…
<£250 for power meter cranks isn't bad..
Amazon fire tablets on sale as they are every year, 10" for £90 is ok, the 8" for £35 is so cheap I've bought one even though I don't really know what I need it for.
Bought the eldest a 24" wheel nukeproof frame half price from Wiggle. Just need the rest of the bits, anyone seen any good 24" fork deals?
seen that, are they much better than a standard stick? ours is pretty old now
They are but the picture always seems crap on ours compared to a Skybox or Virgin.
anyone seen any good deals on sony cans ? Specifically the WH-1000XM4s ?
If you’re on the mailing list I think Sigma Sports are offering a further 10% off. That would make the carbon wheels I fitted last night £360 if I hadn’t bought them two days earlier.
That’s a steal in my book
Gotta love sigmasports, I had a pair of brooks adreanline GTS wide trail shoes ordered when they last had a sale on, from August - down to £80 or so and bargain at the time. They've finally come in in the last few days and they've even given me the extra 10% off from the e-mail voucher code thing. Their customer service is pretty damn good.
@walowitz
Richer sounds have the xm5's for about 30 quid more than the xm4.
Worth checking amazon i think
@snownrock I can confirm I have. It mentions being a valued customer sommaybe it's only if you've ordered something recently. Says it's sitewide 10% off
is that the Argos one? It’s the previous gen (current gen is not a lot more from JL) and they’re a bit crap (slow) vs. an iPad etc but you can’t really grumble for the money! I bought a load previously to act as touch-screen wall panels for home automation. There’s some software (Fire Toolbox IIRC) to make it more functional as it comes with their custom (shite) version of Android out-of-the-box 😀Amazon fire tablets on sale as they are every year, 10″ for £90 is ok, the 8″ for £35 is so cheap I’ve bought one even though I don’t really know what I need it for.
On the hunt for 29er magic Mary and big Betty super gravity addixs in black if anyone spots some.
I’ve got an inkling that you might pick up the kindle 10hd for about £49, come Boxing Day.
Yay. Needed four new tyres for the Hilux. Halfords have a black Friday thing if you order four Goodyears you get 20% off and free fitting, as long as you join their Motoring Club. Joined and got a £5 voucher, then bought them through Quidco for 6.6% cashback, on the Santander card which gives another bit of cashback. Reckon I've saved getting on for £160
https://www.wiggle.co.uk/fox-suspension-34-float-factory-grip2-boost-fork-2022
£599.99 for a 130mm Fox 34 Factory Grip2 (44mm offset / 29" Boost) at Wiggle if anyone' after a bargain fork. Only one left so be quick!
I bought one of those above, it’s a fairly hard to find spec at the moment. In fact, I had THAT particular fork, it has a small chip under the crown, missing hose clamp and wrinkled graphics and I paid £649, so I returned it and bought another for £599 to avoid missing out whilst they refunded. I got notice they’d got it back yesterday.