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Posted by Roberto Pirezzi on 10/21/06 18:15
"P Pron" <paulatspambegone.pron@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4pusu9Fktsb1U1@individual.net...
> Roberto Pirezzi wrote:
> || "Clem Dye" <bite@me.com> wrote in message
> || news:Qon_g.12789$gO3.765@newsfe7-win.ntli.net...
> ||| P Pron wrote:
> |||| Roberto Pirezzi wrote:
> |||||| "P Pron" <paulatspambegone.pron@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
> |||||| news:4prtsiFjt1uvU1@individual.net...
> ||||||| Roberto Pirezzi wrote:
> ||||||||| "POD {ҿ}" <DONT.EVEN.TRY.IT@DEADSPAM.COM> wrote in message
> ||||||||| news:Xns98626A8F5DA47WeLovePOD@212.23.3.119...
> |||||||||| Not for Pre-orders, use this code
> ||||||||||
> |||||||||| SQ1515
> ||||||||||
> |||||||||| as many times as you like.
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> ||||||||| If HMV had a site that didnt resemble a dead snail, maybe i'd
> ||||||||| have chance to use the code!
> |||||||||
> ||||||||| In 30 mins, I'm still waiting for a search to
> ||||||||| complete...meanwhile, over at play, sendit and cdwow - i've
> ||||||||| just made several orders.
> |||||||||
> ||||||||| They can shove their 20% off up their arse!
> |||||||||
> ||||||||| l2oberto
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> ||||||| That'll be because they're busy shoving their 20% up others
> ||||||| people's arses, then...
> ||||||
> |||||| I'm just glad i'm in no hurry....at this rate, the code will
> |||||| expire...
> ||||||
> |||||||
> ||||||| Thank you, Mr POD - you've just saved me 46 of your splendid
> ||||||| English pounds - on stuff that the excellent billybargain told
> ||||||| me was pretty cheap to start with.....
> |||||||
> ||||||| paul
> ||||||
> |||||| Only 46....I see you are not making full use of your 20% code!!
> ||||||
> |||||| :-)
> ||||||
> |||||| l2oberto
> ||||
> |||| Pathetic, isn't it? 183 on useless fripperies - but every single
> |||| one of them is between 2 and 9 cheaper than elsewhere. So it's
> |||| not that I spent 183, it's that I saved more than 46....
> ||||
> |||| paul
> ||| Yes, same here. I managed to spend 127 but I convinced myself that
> ||| it was OK because I'd saved ~30 *and* I was going to buy the DVDs
> ||| at some point anyway. Sigh.
> ||
> || Congratulate yourself, for saving 30. Think, if you had not taken
> || up the offer, you would be 30 out of pocket. Find a item at 30 -
> || it's yours - you earned it.
> ||
> || That said, when I keep seeing things I once considered CHEAPEST to be
> || ridiculousy cheap now, I cringe. So, in theory, the savings are
> || really just compensation for previous overspends.
> ||
> || Example: NCIS season 1 - CDWOW, cheapest initially at 25. NOW, in
> || their pre-xmas sale, 15. Bastards.
> ||
> |||
> ||| Slight aside: it seems that on many DVD titles (promotion aside)
> ||| that HMV are quite a lot cheaper than my normal web supplier, Play.
> ||| Anyone agree, or have suggestions for a cheaper supplier?
> |||
> |||
> ||| Clem
> ||
> || Swings and roundabouts.
> ||
> || I can find some things cheaper on play - BUT, I don't spend as much
> || there as I used to. I don't think they are getting more xpensive,
> || just others are getting cheaper. If you see my meaning.
> ||
> || I frequently use sendit now, BUT, that might not apply generally, in
> || terms of price. I am selective (very) in what I buy.
> ||
> || cdwow - ups and down with them, but what I buy from them, is
> || cheapest (see above, at the time)...but I can search for other items
> || and they are way over priced.
> ||
> || The problem is, if I wait for a item to "go cheaper" - sod's bloody
> || law, it doesn't. (worse case scenario, it gets deleted).
> ||
> || But back to point, those dvd comparison of price sites
> || www.find-dvd.co.uk) are a good guide to getting what you want at the
> || best price. Just ask on here for any supplier reviews should you be
> || in doubt of their reliabilty.
> ||
> || Also, depends if you want R1/R2(etc). I don't like customs charges
> || :-)
> ||
> || Cheers
> ||
> || l2oberto
>
> I tend to use www.billybargain.co.uk - I'm lazy, and there's a Firefox
> plugin available for it, which you can use it by right-clicking on any
> highlighted text on a website, and get the search without typing
> anything...
I'll check that one out - definetley suits the lazy approach to bargain
hunting!
>
> Also, once the search has been done, clicking on the retailer's name takes
> you straight to the page for that DVD. Just tried a couple of searches on
> find-dvd, and that only seems to take you to the retailer's home page, so
> you have to search again for the title you're after. But I'll keep
> find-dvd in my back pocket, because it seems to check more sites - and
> works for R1 as well.
There are 2 options on find-dvd - one for the shop, one for the product
(links at either side of the text in the middle).
>
> I always double-check on Amazon uk as well, as the price check search
> doesn't extend to Amazon merchants, where there can be bargains to be had
> from time to time. I've said this before, but Caiman (Amazon uk merchant
> based in Florida) are excellent - really quick, and prices very good,
> especially bearing in mind the p&p charge is only 1.24.
I've never (as yet) used a amazon merchant - other than the "daft" amazon
jersey 3 times, before I realised the 1.24 a time was starting to mount up.
>
> I agree with your comment on HMV prices - they can be startlingly good -
> and they are as quick as anyone else. Frustrating that the website and the
> shops seem to be completely unrelated, pricewise - several times, I've
> seen a bargain in the shop, come home to look at the website only to find
> that it's not reduced at all, online. And vice versa...
>
> paul
What I wasn't aware of till I saw the e-mail confirmation is hmv.co.uk is
HMV Guernsey - which would make them entirely seperate to the physical
shops - which I always found way overpriced, so I never paid much heed to
hmv.co.uk really as I figured we'd be looking at similar prices. That 20%
off was a good way to gain a new regular customer..and assumingly, many more
:-)
Cheers
l2oberto
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