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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: TheBoy on 25 February 2014, 14:33:59
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I'm sure all our inboxes get filled with such junk.
Go Outdoors is the latest to hit my inbox, claiming their biggest ever sale, including their tent ranges.
Now, I looked at an awful lot of tents last summer, not just because I needed one for Newent, but also to get prices for the tents we lost in the explosion. So I have a pretty good idea of RRP and Go Outdoors prices.
So, if this is their Biggest Ever Sale, and the RRPs of tents and other camping equipment I have last years prices for have remained static, how come everything is more expensive that last summer, yet is in their Biggest Ever Sale?
Do people fall for this?
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Must do, else they wouldn't bother :-\
'Our permanently realistic and reasonable everyday prices' doesn't quite have the same ring to it, even though it should mean better value overall :y
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Was just reading the same mail.....decidedly unimpressed
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Must do, else they wouldn't bother :-\
That said, its reminded me we need to get some bits and bobs before our next camping trip. So I guess its sort of worked in a roundabout sort of way....
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Was just reading the same mail.....decidedly unimpressed
I just found something cheaper than last summer. Maybe that's the item they are using to call it the biggest ever sale!
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Just been offered a special deal - new Volvo XC390 for £240 a month on 4 year contract.
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Isn't that the place where they try to get you to pay a couple of quid for a loyalty card, and take all your personal details so they can stalk you, before they'll even sell you a gas cylinder for the price advertised in-store?
Yeah, there's a "little bit" of 235/45/17 on the surface of their car park. ::)
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Just been offered a special deal - new Volvo XC390 for £240 a month on 4 year contract.
Reasonable, if it includes maintenance & insurance and unlimited miles ::) ;D
Friend of mine works for Williams, lucky git is getting a Merc C63 Estate, for not much more than that per month :o
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Do people fall for this?
Yes ;D Just like the biggest ever sofa sales at crimbo :(
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lucky git is getting a Merc C63 Estate, for not much more than that per month :o
But will get his arse slapped by Messers Cameron and Osborne
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I would never buy anything expensive from Go Outdoors....even with the card you have to buy, to get the discount.....online sellers/other stores are cheaper....plus the salespersons arent very knowledgeable.
I went there last year to get a replacement wick ( i think thats whats its called, the mesh cover that goes over the burner) for gas lamp......they sold me a pack of three for a fiver iirc.....they are too small and as a result the gas lamp is dimmer >:(
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I would never buy anything expensive from Go Outdoors....even with the card you have to buy, to get the discount.....online sellers/other stores are cheaper....plus the salespersons arent very knowledgeable.
I went there last year to get a replacement wick ( i think thats whats its called, the mesh cover that goes over the burner) for gas lamp......they sold me a pack of three for a fiver iirc.....they are too small and as a result the gas lamp is dimmer >:(
Mantle, TD, its called a mantle....
Yeah, they're mongrels. They have a place in life if you have a nearby store, but then so do PC World, Maplin, etc.
That said, I couldn't get my tent any cheaper elsewhere, but then, it was an awful lot cheaper by over £200 than it is in their Biggest Ever Sale ;D
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Prices may be higher, but more items on sale...biggest ever sale ! :y
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Isn't that the place where they try to get you to pay a couple of quid for a loyalty card, and take all your personal details so they can stalk you, before they'll even sell you a gas cylinder for the price advertised in-store?
Yeah, there's a "little bit" of 235/45/17 on the surface of their car park. ::)
Is it possible to give them false details?
I'm a firm believer in using "alternate" postcodes and phone numbers where I think there's a risk of junk - this includes giving the staff in a certain catalogue retailer I used to work at, their own postcode when they ask me for my home address...
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Was just reading the same mail.....decidedly unimpressed
I just found something cheaper than last summer. Maybe that's the item they are using to call it the biggest ever sale!
Was it a SheeWee? :D
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Is it possible to give them false details?
I'm a firm believer in using "alternate" postcodes and phone numbers where I think there's a risk of junk - this includes giving the staff in a certain catalogue retailer I used to work at, their own postcode when they ask me for my home address...
Yes, me too, but I decided a rapid exit to a supplier more worthy of my money was more appropriate in this instance. ;D
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I would never buy anything expensive from Go Outdoors....even with the card you have to buy, to get the discount.....online sellers/other stores are cheaper....plus the salespersons arent very knowledgeable.
I went there last year to get a replacement wick ( i think thats whats its called, the mesh cover that goes over the burner) for gas lamp......they sold me a pack of three for a fiver iirc.....they are too small and as a result the gas lamp is dimmer >:(
Mantle, TD, its called a mantle....
Yeah, they're mongrels. They have a place in life if you have a nearby store, but then so do PC World, Maplin, etc.
That said, I couldn't get my tent any cheaper elsewhere, but then, it was an awful lot cheaper by over £200 than it is in their Biggest Ever Sale ;D
Thats the thingy :y
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I filled a trolly the other year,
the advertised prices didnt mention a loyalty card,
so I left a couple of hundred quids worth of stuff for them to re stock, and went to towsure, who were cheaper.
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Round these parts, the only 3 independent places I know of are horrendously expensive, with poor stock levels :'(
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Round these parts, the only 3 independent places I know of are horrendously expensive, with poor stock levels :'(
Should have gone to the Camping and Caravan show at the NEC last week, lots of bargins to pick up ;)
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Round these parts, the only 3 independent places I know of are horrendously expensive, with poor stock levels :'(
Should have gone to the Camping and Caravan show at the NEC last week, lots of bargins to pick up ;)
Did you get any custard?? ::) ;D
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Round these parts, the only 3 independent places I know of are horrendously expensive, with poor stock levels :'(
Should have gone to the Camping and Caravan show at the NEC last week, lots of bargins to pick up ;)
I'd rather eat your testicles. In custard.
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Round these parts, the only 3 independent places I know of are horrendously expensive, with poor stock levels :'(
Should have gone to the Camping and Caravan show at the NEC last week, lots of bargins to pick up ;)
I'd rather eat your testicles. In custard.
They're very small these days, probably get stuck between your teeth. ;D
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Round these parts, the only 3 independent places I know of are horrendously expensive, with poor stock levels :'(
Should have gone to the Camping and Caravan show at the NEC last week, lots of bargins to pick up ;)
Christ. One imagines plenty of people will have turned up with theirs, so as to have somewhere to stay overnight...
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Round these parts, the only 3 independent places I know of are horrendously expensive, with poor stock levels :'(
Should have gone to the Camping and Caravan show at the NEC last week, lots of bargins to pick up ;)
I'd rather eat your testicles. In custard.
Well, you missed out, 2 halls were completely taken over by tents and camping equipment.
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Well, you missed out, 2 halls were completely taken over by tents and camping equipment.
A missed opportunity then:
(http://www.imcdb.org/i076962.jpg)
;D :y
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Well, you missed out, 2 halls were completely taken over by tents and camping equipment.
A missed opportunity then:
(http://www.imcdb.org/i076962.jpg)
;D :y
That's the correct way to treat tents, other than setting fire to them :y