Ministry Of Sound DAB Personal Radio BARGAIN

whitelabel

shropslad wrote:

Thanks to the original poster for this great bargain. I did a bit of calling around this morning and found one of these in the Co-op in Shrewsbury. The item scanned at £49.99, but after I spoke to the manager on the phone and told him that this item was mentioned in MSE and was obtainable for £24.99 they put the item through the till at the lower price. I printed the initial post of this thread off and took it as proof of the lower price and I had no problem. ( I think I have converted the manager to the benefits of the MSE forums)

I see this item is selling on Amazon for £64. My initial findings on the radio are very good.

you were lucky

given there is no official link or positing information from Coop itself

i can see sainsburys, tesco pcworld, etc dropping their prices just because i brought in a print out from a forum lol

sparkymarky

There do not appear to be any Ministry of Sound DAB radios in the Co-Ops in York (We have "Late Shop"s and a "Food Market"). There are Ministry of Sound CD players. There are Alba and Crown DAB Radios. None of these are reduced. Anyone else in North Yorkshire found any?

I used the coop website and phoned the stores from the local numbers on the coop website. Searching for stores on the coop site is a 2 stage process - the first landing page is so complicated it really looks like you aren't getting anywhere, but you need to choose "Food Stores", not "Non Food Stores" I guess.

Sui_Generis

Tesco sold this for £29.99 (only in the v. large stores) some months ago - don't know if they still have it may be worth checking?

Pseudo

Hi all,

I work for the Co-Op, and have not seen these players personally in store.

I would think they were a christmas line, and are now at the low price to clear stocks.

Let me give some advice though.....
Many of the Co-Op stores are quite small, and will never stock any non-food items such as these. Your best bet is to try some of the (relatively) larger ones. Even they will probably have limited stocks.

A similar thing happened with Remmington hair straighteners we had in at £14.99 before christmas. They were advertised in the leaflet drop, and our only batch of 6 were snapped up within days. Unfortunately, they were a one-off line of limited stock and were very hard to come by!

Good luck!
~ §tu ~

catnatlady

To the person who thought that the Co-op is the Co-op no matter where you live. In fact, the Co-op is run by different Societies depending on the area in which you live. The largest Co-operative Society is the Co-operative Group and covers most of England and Scotland. There are smaller independent societies, for example Clydebank Co-op and Scotmid, both in Scotland. Check with your local Co-op before you make the trek.

photome

catnatlady wrote:

To the person who thought that the Co-op is the Co-op no matter where you live. In fact, the Co-op is run by different Societies depending on the area in which you live. The largest Co-operative Society is the Co-operative Group and covers most of England and Scotland. There are smaller independent societies, for example Clydebank Co-op and Scotmid, both in Scotland. Check with your local Co-op before you make the trek.

Exactly what I was thinking...Our co-op has changed a few times over the years (norwich) and will be changing again shortly to be the Colchester co-op

rappius

I'm interested but have tried the co-op website and get 6 shoefayre stores near me and no non-food non-shoe stores. I live in finchley north london so any help would be appreciated.

evertonfan_2

Why did you not state on your site at the beginning we could not buy the low price DAB from the Co-op online? This is not a good start to using your site.

Morxx

It very clearly says in the insert from Martin in the first post that you can't buy this online!

jaden02uk

for those that want a boombox with DAB argos are selling the bush dab/fmradio/cd/cassete for £34.99 in their sale
the blue one only cat no 512/9539.the silver one is the normal price