Price Rises in the New Catalogue

MEMBER02

Now woolworths has gone argos may see it as a oppurtunity to raise prices as there is less competitiuon now on the high street.:mad:

bluesru5

I noticed a hotpoint washer WMF760 has risen from £369-99 to 391.99, allowing for the vat adjustment thats quite a rise, we bought it from Sainsbury's where it's £279

davethorp

A drill I'd reserved at £19.56 is now £22.49

I went to sainsburys and got one for £12.99 instead!

robyn6cp

yep hold back on argos purchases for a few months nearly everything has gone up..i got my new zanussi washing machine for £211 delivered on Jan 5th.. the same machine in the new book is £313 ..unbelievable £102 more for the exact same machine, they do this so they can pretend to be giving you great deals throughout the year, when all they are doing is bringing products down to a reasonable price again..getting very hard to find real bargains now a days, most retailers completely overprice the item in the first place and then in their pretend sales, they bring it down to almost a reasonable price..all bloody con artists.
:mad:

skint-student-nurse

i had a whole list of new items i was going to get with my vouchers i got for xmas but i cant justify getting some of the items now...the price of some of the toys shocked me tbh.

robyn6cp

is it really such a shock to find that prices have gone up in the 6 months between catalogues.

i did expect them to rise a bit but definitely not by as much as they have done..the washing machine i bought was in a sale at £211 a week before Christmas, when i ordered it OK. now last week when i was looking at the price of a machine for my daughter it had gone up in price to £268. and when i got the new book yesterday it is now an amazing price of £313. which i think is ridiculous and a rip off from a supposedly reputable company like argos...

samhardy

"supposedly reputable company like argos"

Nothing you have said has made the company any less "reputable" a retailer!

cathys1_2

I am glad others thought stuff had gone up a lot too!:eek:

I worked for Argos many moons ago - and was surprised to see "new" prices (I mean with suppossed VAT cut) as I thought they were printed more in advance than when they came out?????

I suppose the huge increases are to pay for the reductions over xmas?:p

foxymum1977_2

we also noticed the price increases when we picked up the new catalogue on sat, a dinner set i bought last spring for £28 is in the new catalogue for £34! you have to be really careful with Argos as they seem to change somw of their prices daily :rolleyes:

i only get bargains from there! i got some Tressemme Hair straightners over xmas from Argos that were reduced from £65 down to £19.99! over the next few days after i purchased the price went back up to £34.99:rolleyes: wierd!

poppy_f1

opposite happened to me
reserved a camera at 195 on friday evening
went and paid for it, as i was walking out the shop all the new catalogues were being put out, looked for the camera out of nosieness, was £99
straight back into the shop for a refund and went the next day and got it at the cheaper price