Woolworths half price sale 5th Dec

wookie_2

betterbargains4u wrote: »

Don't waste your time with this so called sale!!
Lots of people queuing outside my local woollies this morning, waiting for them to open up. I bet they've never seen so many customers!!
Anyway, as other people on here have already stated, there is very little at 50% off. Nothing worth parting with my cash for..anyway.
A lot of people were leaving empty handed, which is not what should happen in a sale.
The staff all seemed quite chipper...considering.

Your right, not worth it despite the internet hype Only uoto 50% off.
We have just come back from our local store and yes virtually nothing but xmas cards that were 50% off. We were also in the same store yesterday and the prices seemed cheaper, example Gituar hero yesterday was £64, no discount . today it was £74 with 10% off, :mad: and this was the case accross our store with many ranges. Do these people think we are complete numptys. Yes the store was packed out and our local store to had many people leaving empty handed. What a total farce:eek: .
Hope the staff keep their chinns up

red

stebiz wrote: »

I think it should go without saying that you should be nice to ALL retail staff not just Woolies staff. As for the discounts, it isn't coming out of their wages. Any good member of staff will find a job very quickly, or be kept on by the buyers. It may even help some people, in a strange kind of way, who are stuck in a rut.

As for a Vulture. Yes I guess you could say that is me. Like when I bought cakes last night at Tesco, after they were discounted.:rolleyes:

Stebiz

i think there is a world of difference between picking up a bargain in a shop that has gone under...I think it is the glee and lack of sympathy that is going along with the bargain hunting...there are going to be a lot of good people out of jobs as the whole point is that our economy is shrinking. There are so many reasons why we can only hope this is short-lived, and if not out of sympathy for those that are going to be in serious problems as they face unemployment, I honestly think it is worth a mention that all of us as consumers are going to find it a lot harder to find competitive options out there the fewer choices are left...tesco's, argos, and others are all great for picking up a bargain but their build-quality will start to lower (even more) and prices will creep up the more they can get away with it.

soblivion

Could someone offer some advice please?
If I bought a game console or TV or whatever from woolies and it broke or was faulty in some way and woolies is? closing how would you get it fixed.
I ask because of a problem dishwasher with comet recently and first port of call for repair/replacement was obvioulsly comet.
I don't just mean buying item in sale but just in general.
I don't need to buy any of the above but was just wondering how you would stand with all this.
Thanks for any advice.

maryelle2

Ive just got three chad valley soft teddy bears on stands dressed as ballerinas priced £9.99 went through at 80p.
The man in woolworths said all the soft toys were about a pound so worth a look as these one are lovely:)

mardatha

Well people need to realize we're all in this together & its the height of ignorance & stupidity to gloat over other people hard times, because what goes around definately comes around doesn't it !
I think that's a huge difference between life now and life in the big bad recession of the 1920s..then people really did stick together and help each other. Now there seems to be so many vultures.. it's sad.
EDITED to add--this was in agreement to Red's post sorry if its OT.

foxymum1977_2

soblivion wrote: »

Could someone offer some advice please?
If I bought a game console or TV or whatever from woolies and it broke or was faulty in some way and woolies is? closing how would you get it fixed.
I ask because of a problem dishwasher with comet recently and first port of call for repair/replacement was obvioulsly comet.
I don't just mean buying item in sale but just in general.
I don't need to buy any of the above but was just wondering how you would stand with all this.
Thanks for any advice.

to be honest i wouldnt buy from there now, on things like you mentioned anyway, i had a kitchen from MFI (& appliances) in April & now they've gone!! luckily the gaurantees are done with an extra care team & not MFI directly, soory to go off topic!
anyway i would steer clear of purchasing anything like this from Woolies now.

Nessa

The Birthday and Christmas cards are all 50% off. They were worth buying.

zenseeker

wookie wrote: »

Your right, not worth it despite the internet hype Only uoto 50% off.
We have just come back from our local store and yes virtually nothing but xmas cards that were 50% off.

Hate to say "I told you so" but I did try to calm the fevered speculation over the last few days. The trouble with places like this is that people work themselves up into a frenzy, and 90% of the time they end up disappointed. A lot of people seemed to miss the "Up to" part of the 50% sale, and you know that always translates to "Very little at 50% off".

In the actual final few days of this store, sometime in Jan/Feb, we may see some genuine reductions....but don't bank on it because the administrators may prefer to sell of the electricals to other companies for a higher price. Even as part of a closing down sale it will all be crud on offer.

To the people who actually believed that you were going to get half price TV's and Xbox's I have this to say........:rotfl:

Aidy

soblivion wrote: »

Could someone offer some advice please?
If I bought a game console or TV or whatever from woolies and it broke or was faulty in some way and woolies is? closing how would you get it fixed.
I ask because of a problem dishwasher with comet recently and first port of call for repair/replacement was obvioulsly comet.
I don't just mean buying item in sale but just in general.
I don't need to buy any of the above but was just wondering how you would stand with all this.
Thanks for any advice.

I would have thought the the manufacturer should be able to help if the original retailer no longer exists? Just make sure you keep proof of purchase to confirm age / price of product.

stebiz

mattersdorff wrote: »

really people, haven't we had enough of the talk about the staff at Woolworth. I'm sure everyone, minus heartless bast$rds, feel sorry for them but this is not the forum to enter 100 posts about it. Can we please get back to discussing what is supposed to be being discussed - bargains!

And having popped down to my local Woolies this morning, I was utterly disgusted to see that virtually nothing was 50% off - except for a whole lot of crap.

Ok, to be honest, I didn't have a look at all the toys cause I'm not a parent so perhaps there's loads of 50% off that stuff but I didn't notice much.

Even the Christmas trees and stuff was a maximum 30% off so you'd be better off buying most of the things via normal sales elsewhere where it's normally even cheaper.

For example, their 3ft fibre optic christmas tree was £20 down to £15 then take the 30% off and it's still over £10 and Argos and B&Q both sell similar/better trees for less than £10.

A bounty chocolate bar costs 51p at Woolies and costs 40 or 41p at Tesco and Sainsburies....take off their AMAZING 10% and they're still more expensive than non-sale items almost EVERYWHERE else. Even the struggling local corner store sells them for 40-45p.

Woolies has always been a rip off, selling absolute junk at prices almost always higher that the supermarkets (including electricals, music, dvds etc which the supermarkets now all sell too)... and they're stuff really is JUNK.

I bought an in-car power charger from them last year and it overheated and blew up during a recent road trip.

This is an complete and disgusting marketing gimick and even though it would obviously do no good at all, the gigantic and flouro yellow 'EVERTHING 50% OFF' plastered over every inch of the store with 'up to' in tiny print at the bottom.... really should be reported to ofcom or whoever looks at FALSE ADVERTISING.

I know Woolies are going under and need to try any trick in the book but they're wasting the majority of people's time with these dishonest desperate graps trying to lure people to shop there.

Just because a company is going under, doesn't give them the right to use deplorable gimmicks like this.

Still, maybe it's just my local store.

I know some of you will obviously disagree with what I'm saying and point out everyone can make up their minds as to whether the deals are good at not but I know for a fact that SOOOOOO many people get lured in by these so-called incredible store-wide sales and buy stuff that's probably cheaper elsewhere.

Most of the time, the stuff that's got the highest discount ie 50% is the worst of the crap you could possibly buy... they're on sale in the first place because NO ONE BUYS THEM... or worse yet, they've got serious flaws with the way they're manufactured.

If you ever get into doing some decent research about LCDs and PLASMAS, the TVS that end up with all the horror stories are always the ones with the biggest discounts out in the marketplace.

It's not rocket science, it's crap.

But uninformed people end up buying them thinking they've stumbled across some incredible bargain.... they take the TV home, it breaks down in the same way as hundreds of other people before them have foretold in the forums (many of those paying full price) and so they return the TV, a new one gets sent out and that also develops a fault, but maybe this time the fault occurs after the warranty expires and the owner says, 'to hell with it, this time I'll buy a good tv' and perhaps they do the necessary research and simply buy stock based on 'superceded model discount' instead of 'this is on sale because it's a piece of crap but we can't simply throw away millions of TVs, better to offload them onto unsuspecting people for heavily discounted price'.... which of course still makes them huge profits.

And people wonder why Woolies is going down the toilet.

I agree with a lot you say. Even after the discount I can buy cheaper elsewhere. Hence although I went to the store with an empty credit card - I didn't spend a penny.

Stebiz