Acer One A150 Atom Netbook 1gb Ram 120GB HD £129.00! In store @ Tesco

TehJumpingJawa

italiastar wrote: »

Thank you for the helpful advice, but people like you really annoy me. You've prevented two people who genuinly wanted these (like me) to make a quick buck - to be honest for £24 I wouldn't have bothered.

Oh I agree, what I did was unreasonable & almost certainly not worth the effort.

However, you make it sound like there is a nationwide shortage of these netbooks, and by exploting this deal I have somehow deprived those in need.

Just as I have saved myself £24 by profiting from this venture, you could do the opposite and buy from a different supplier; probably spending ~£24 more than the Tesco price.

alphazulu

I don't think you can buy these for only £24 more than the tesco price. I've been looking for one for a while, was just about to splash out £230 before this deal. I've seen the 110 for £135 but not the 150. Has anybody else seen these for about £155 (excluding ASDA a few months ago)? If you have, where? I doubt you can or this wouldn't be so hot on Hotdeals. That still sounds like a bargain to me!

TehJumpingJawa wrote: »

Oh I agree, what I did was unreasonable & almost certainly not worth the effort.

However, you make it sound like there is a nationwide shortage of these netbooks, and by exploting this deal I have somehow deprived those in need.

Just as I have saved myself £24 by profiting from this venture, you could do the opposite and buy from a different supplier; probably spending ~£24 more than the Tesco price.

TehJumpingJawa

alphazulu wrote: »

I don't think you can buy these for only £24 more than the tesco price. I've been looking for one for a while, was just about to splash out £230 before this deal. I've seen the 110 for £135 but not the 150. Has anybody else seen these for about £155 (excluding ASDA a few months ago)? If you have, where? I doubt you can or this wouldn't be so hot on Hotdeals. That still sounds like a bargain to me!

It's a refurb, but grade A1.

http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/Grade_A1_Acer_Aspire_one_A150L_-_1GB_-_120GB_-_White_A1-LU.S040A.074/version.asp?PID=

blondie81_2

alanjuk wrote: »

Loads of the A150 boxes on display at Tesco Longton, Stoke on Trent, but when I asked if they had any in stock she said no and that they were now discontinued. (I did check the box i could reach but they were empty)

same happen to me this afternoon at this store the girl wasn't having any wouldn't even check the price, went to the meir park tesco and they had some left got the blue 150 and when i left they still had 1 white 110 4 £99 and 2 150 for £129 1 white 1 blue they weren't on the shelf but the ticket was in a game/dvd case with the price reduction on, they were on the end shelf with the other laptops opposite the garden stuff hid a 110 and a 150 behind some boxes in case someone i knew wanted 1 no one did so still may be there is anyone wants to see

butterflymum

Anyone who got the 150 could they check the following for me, please:

on Connection Manager page, does it already have a line in the white box starting "3G...."?

Spikey_2

still full price online?

anyone tried West Yorkshire stores?

italiastar

TehJumpingJawa wrote: »

However, you make it sound like there is a nationwide shortage of these netbooks, and by exploting this deal I have somehow deprived those in need. Mmmm - have you read this post - there certainly does appear to be a nationwide shortage of these at this price - probably because people like you bought them to make a profit.

Just as I have saved myself £24 by profiting from this venture, you could do the opposite and buy from a different supplier; probably spending ~£24 more than the Tesco price.I haven't got a clue what point you are trying to make here

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italiastar

blondie81 wrote: »

same happen to me this afternoon at this store the girl wasn't having any wouldn't even check the price, went to the meir park tesco and they had some left got the blue 150 and when i left they still had 1 white 110 4 £99 and 2 150 for £129 1 white 1 blue they weren't on the shelf but the ticket was in a game/dvd case with the price reduction on, they were on the end shelf with the other laptops opposite the garden stuff hid a 110 and a 150 behind some boxes in case someone i knew wanted 1 no one did so still may be there is anyone wants to see

Were the blue ones reduced to £129? - I did find these in my local store last night but they were coming up at the original price and they said that it was only the pink and white which were reduced, which were sold out.

RICARDOMINSKI

My wife bought a blue A150 for £129 yesterday

TehJumpingJawa

italiastar wrote: »

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The latter point being, you pay as much or as little as you can.

I bought 3, kept one, and used the other 2 to make the one I kept hold of even cheaper. (effectively £105).
Why should I forfeit a £24 reduction in the price, for the benefit of some hypothetical random stranger who I will never meet?

This site is about saving & making money, and sharing the advice with others so they can have a shot at it too. As far as I can tell, i've done nothing against that ethos, and actively support it when I can.
Do you think activities such as stooging with credit cards; switching banks & utility suppliers to chase good rates; exploiting bank promotions; Tesco DTD policy; or the miriad of other money making schemes on this site are all victimless?

Ofcourse not - everyone NOT exploiting the system ends up paying higher rates/charges/prices to compensate.
However friendly and helpful everyone is toward one-another on this board, you must realize that as consumers we are competing against one-another for ever-so-slightly bigger pieces of the same pie.

Ergo, I don't think it's right or fair to criticize anybody for exploiting a deal to it's maximum potencial.
Afterall, what comes-around goes around; there will always be other deals.