Free Items Worth £5 from PCWorld/Currys...

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lauren79 wrote: »

and some more:

Others available:
Irons £3.90
Toaster £3
Kettle £4.80
Hand blender £4.20
Webcam £3 (low quality ones, better ones for £6)
Mice too I think.
PCW had no DVD+-RW for a fiver but advertised online, didn't check Currys
Software was mostly £5 upwards not the cheaper ones online.
Various internal cables e.g. SATA data ones in case you forgot to order one when you got a new HD.
Some internal jobbie for connecting SATA drives to IDE ones (not sure if in store but was on PCW site)

jamespir

MDstalker wrote: »

What about hitting the spam button on those posts requesting codes?

Got a little haul of items now... the staff are beginning to recognise me in PC World which is funny :eek:

Anyone got the coffee maker for £6.99, is it worth spending £1.99 on it?

Thanks for everyone's help in highlighting the freebies...

they sell coffee makers at pc world?

sirmarcus

MDstalker wrote: »

Anyone got the coffee maker for £6.99, is it worth spending £1.99 on it?

Thanks for everyone's help in highlighting the freebies...

I thought that I saw an essentials coffee maker priced at less that £5 today but I could be mistaken ?

MARTINS_DOLL

MDstalker wrote: »

What about hitting the spam button on those posts requesting codes?

Got a little haul of items now... the staff are beginning to recognise me in PC World which is funny :eek:

Anyone got the coffee maker for £6.99, is it worth spending £1.99 on it?

Thanks for everyone's help in highlighting the freebies...

Done! and hit ...

jamespir

MDstalker wrote: »

Cheers Martins Doll... :beer:

Be interesting to see if this goes in the weekly newsletter and if so what might happen to the promo...:eek:

on the other thread some people have been grabing 100s of catalogues and its been noticed but currys head office

MARTINS_DOLL

MDstalker wrote: »

Cheers Martins Doll... :beer:

Be interesting to see if this goes in the weekly newsletter and if so what might happen to the promo...:eek:

sirmarcus... found the essentials coffee maker online for £6.99 but suppose it could be cheaper in store?

Darn good chance me thinks.... :beer:
Great freebie... :beer:
Thank you!
xxx

jamespir

i presume they were hoping that people would use the voucher towards the cost of a more expensive item

sirmarcus

MDstalker wrote: »

Be interesting to see if this goes in the weekly newsletter and if so what might happen to the promo.

Good point...I'll pop in the store early tommorrow to pick up what I want !:)

sirmarcus

MDstalker wrote: »

...yep suppose that would be the ideal from their perspective, just wonder why they didn't put a minimum spend on it?

Who cares ? After all....it is PCW !:rotfl:

Freebeez

MDstalker wrote: »

...yep suppose that would be the ideal from their perspective, just wonder why they didn't put a minimum spend on it?

1) Anything that costs £5 or less in PC world / currys is usually way overpriced. a £5 giveaway is probably a £2 or £3 giveaway at the most. Plus on top of this include the fact that all retailers (the normal priced ones) mark up the cost significantly in the first place.

2) PCW are probably overcharging by more than £5 on more expensive purchases anyway, compared to the cheapest available offers.

3)They probably presumed most of these vouchers would be spent by people (existing customers, as they had been in the store to pick up a gift guide) who'd taken a copy of the gift guide to actually see what they could buy in it.

4) Many offers like these go unused because people don't spot them or realise what they are. I have to confess to already having a copy of the gift guide before I found out about this, but I didn't even look at the back cover (usually the place for adverts) until I read it on MSE. Even when you look at the back cover, it just looks like a competition and not a surefire winner (apart from the "everyone's a winner" line which just sounds like rhetoric). I bet most genuine customers don't bother to enter it. In other words PCW weren't expecting to giveaway that much.

5) After the apparent spate of £5 offers in various stores, I'm really questioning whether the stores are actually being damaged to the extent that it's thought. We may think it was "kind" of them to "honour" the generous offers but the big wigs will have their eyes on the figures at the end of and probably during each day.
If they spotted their margins being even slightly eroded, I doubt that they would be so charitable, unless the person with their eye on the ball was completely inept. Plus, with so many stores following suit, I'm guessing that these offers are actually making them money in some way (new customers, increased footfall, more impulse buys) OR they have a lot of stock to shift (that's costing them more in storage). I mean £15 million may sound like a lot, but how much would a TV ad that's on at prime time cost, compared to the free publicity this generates?

When I read the PCW threads, my initial reaction on those who were taking handfuls of guides was that it would be a shame if a genuine customer (who wanted the guide to look at gifts) didn't manage to get a copy. Not to mention all those trees that were needlessly chopped down.

I don't understand why some people happily take something that they don't even need or want, just because they are able to take it. Why not just leave it for someone who has a use for it? *puzzled*

I wonder how many brand new (value range) hand blenders, kettles and sandwich makers will appear on ebay over the coming weeks...

(Just an opinion, no offence intended )