iRiver 5GB Mp3 player was £199 now £99

Suggs

Have a nightmare :mad:

This is a good looking mp3 player, Im sure my daughter would love it for Christmas and cant seem to reserve one for the Milton Keynes store!

Online click and reserve, shows delivery for next wednesday, it allows me to enter my details then turns around and says it is out of stock! I even get an email

Subject: Argos - thank you for your reservation

Thank you for using argos.co.uk

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Unfortunately these item(s) are now temporarily out of stock.


I rang them, they say it is a system error, that will be fixed, but advised me to go to the store. The store cant complete the process either and could only advise to try again in the morning :mad:

Is it just me? or is anyone else having similar problems? I have missed out before on a nice little mp3 player and would hate to miss out again.

Thanks

Enterian

Just had an email from a colleague, he managed to get a silver one, and his also had the tuner.

Seems like pot luck whether you get one or not, I guess Argos had a job lot, some with and some without, hence the fact that they were a bit vague in the listing.

Perhaps you'd better all try Argos branches in Norfolk! Maybe we got all the ones with tuners!

Enterian

Gameplayers

Enterian wrote:

Just had an email from a colleague, he managed to get a silver one, and his also had the tuner.

Seems like pot luck whether you get one or not, I guess Argos had a job lot, some with and some without, hence the fact that they were a bit vague in the listing.

Perhaps you'd better all try Argos branches in Norfolk! Maybe we got all the ones with tuners!

Enterian

u and ur colleague both got the tuner? how many Gb have u guys got then? is it 5 or 6?

Also does anyone know how long does it take to finish charging the battery up for the first time, cos mine is taking ages and still won't complete...

Cheers

aliasojo

Not sure exactly as I went off to do other things....but mine finished charging sometime within a 2 hour period.

Gameplayers

aliasojo wrote:

Not sure exactly as I went off to do other things....but mine finished charging sometime within a 2 hour period.

oh... mine has been charging for 20 hours now... the red light is still there for some strange reason??

how exactly do u know when u finished charging? please help

many thanks

beadysam

Yes I am having problems as you described, trying to reserve. I rang up and got the same answer. Said they were expecting stock after Wednesday though...
SAM xx

raeble

I picked up a gray one from the Nottingham Parliment Street branch and it has a radio tuner.

aliasojo

Gameplayers:...the red light on the cable went out so I assume that means it's charged.

I have a drill battery/charger that charges fully, but the light never goes out (as it should) when the charging cycle is finished. It's never bothered me as it does the job nonetheless. I wonder if your player is the same.

Do you know if the battery has charged or not? Suggest you exchange yours if you feel it's faulty. Looks like Argos may still have stock in a warehouse somewhere so it may be worth ordering another one in so you can exchange?

Brodel

Having used iRiver products for the last 3 years I recommend looking at this site for any help or just general interest about iRiver players. There is a very helpfull and knowledgeable forum too

http://www.misticriver.net

seaniboy

R&R has a standard announcement programmmed to this item, better checking instore, yo get the option on R&R to order in, then system says you cant