Design a bear @ argos glitch

NAT14

Luckily I printed it off yestaday after I had reserved it. They um ed and arrr ed for 15 mins in Argos today, and phoned H/O. But they did put the Rabbit through at the £5 in the end, and the oufit and acc set, same resevation, total £12.99, !!!!!! Thank you VERY VERY much, my 9yr old very happy, she wouldnt of got this otherwise, but had asked before, I said no as to much money.

brudie25

they wouldnt let me do it boo still dont suppose we really needed it just got some of the outfits.

for whoever was asking if these fit build a bear workshop ones - not really lol. have forced it on dds -its rather snug!!

pig_let_cool

Just reserved after debating all day....Anyone had any more luck with collection? I only have the basket page saved with the total did i need to print the reservation screen? someone help lol ive never done an argos glitch!

froggy27_2

Just to say i tried to get this today. went with a print out of my reservation...but after lots of checking on various places, Manager refused to let it go at that price.... Hope some of you get it... Win some lose some ;-)

pipjes

:mad::mad: after getting all excited, they were incredibly rude..( and a bit dim to be honest;)) nd wouldnt honour it at all. in winchester.
wish they could pay for my petrol for the special trip !!

NAT14

I was VERY VERY lucky then, I printed the whole page showing, Rabbit/Pink dress/Hat rucksack £12.99, and also another of, Puppy/poka dot dress/hat rucksack £13.99 (then -£1 promo ?)= £12.99, we have lovely staff tho at our store, I mention its for my 9yr old !!

Bargain-Angel

I think I was very lucky aswell. I went to my local (Bedford town) and they didnt question it! I dont think they even noticed lol

debsdown

Took son and his friend to try - it was really difficult to sort out, but the member of staff and the manager couldn't have been nicer!
Got one each for the kids - they were thrilled!

hazelwoods

I reserved bear, raincoat and rucksack last night, for £12.99. I should have printed it out, but was being eco friendly.

I headed down to the store this afternoon, but when I put the reservation number into the Pay machine the cost came to £21 ish. As I didn't have a copy of the reservation email I was stuck. This store is the only local one to have the raincoat and rucksack in so I removed the bear from the order and bought the other 2 items. I forgot about Mrs Santa

I then went to the store in the shopping centre and tried various combinations. The only accessory they had in stock was the mobile phone. I eventually gave up and just bought Mrs Santa outfit.

After all that hard work I needed a coffee. Whilst enjoying the drink I logged on to Argos via my iphone. "I wonder if it will work on here?" I thought. Lo and behold, it did work. So I reserved honeybear, rock'n'roll outfit and another rucksack from the original store. This came up as £13.99. I kept the reservation page open on my phone, having had an email sent to an email address I can easily access from my phone.

So back to the original store. I tried the instant pay machine, but it wanted to charge me £21ish. I next tried the normal check-out. Again the till wanted to charge me £21ish. I produced my phone with the £13.99 charge. The assistant went to her manager who was quite confused. I was tempted to just give up, and go back with a print-out. He was willing to put the sale through with written proof that Reserve and Collect was allowing this.

He looked at the reservation page on my phone and couldn't understand how it had happened. The assistant brought a catalogue and they tried to find out what was going on. I tried to explain but he wasn't having any of it. He realised it was a "blip" that I was trying to use. After much scribbling on his notebook, and me explaining several times how it was done, he eventually understood that the reserve and collect system is set up to remove £8.26 from the price of the bear, making the bear £5.01. The instore system is set up differently. Having worked that out he agreed to sell me it for that price.

For some strange reason the till then decided to take a further £1 off, so I came away with the whole lot for £12.99

If you want to use the glitch and buy a reduced price outfit and accessory make sure you take a print out of the reservation details. That way you can show that the system takes the extra money off the price of the bear and leaves the other prices as they are. It's also helpful to show them p1640/1641 of the catalogue which says "Save £7.98" That partly reinforces the idea of that amount of money being taken off the total to make the £19.99 deal. The new VAT rate just makes the system take £8.26 instead.

Good luck!

Alligg

Thanks for that hazelwoods
I have just ordered bunny,fairy outfit and cap/rucksack to collect tomorrow. I have made sure I printed out the order conformation showing the price of £12.99.