Grattan catalogue printing error - E900 pink bargain!!!

antiville

stressedoutmum wrote:

Thank you - I would never have gotten that - have been through the box and contents about 3 times looking for it. Doh !!:rotfl:

That's okay - it took me a while to work it out too lol:rotfl:

Road_Hog

wlfc1 wrote:

Take my word for it, they will still make a profit, you would be surprised at what the mark up is !

Grattan/freeman are not a registered charity and you can be sure that they wouldn't honour these at a loss.

Afraid not, as an area manager who works for a manufacturerv(not in the phone industry) and calls on the retail distributors, margins are not that big.

And I will say again, if they are, then people see potential for undercutting them and making a profit.

Also, as a sideline I buy and sell phones and if there was this much margin to be had, I'd order a container straight from the manufacturer.

stressedoutmum

This gets better and better. Bought a £20 top up from my local coop who were selling them with 25% off so cost me £15. Topped up my old O2 sim card first then used the information in this thread Up to £50 free credit for existing O2 payg users using my new telephone number from my bargain phone and got another £15 credit! I am an existing O2 customer so will just swap my swim cards so phone cost me £79.99 and £15 worth of free credit. This really is the moneysaving forum :j :j :j

Road_Hog

tonydee wrote:

The technology is already there so you will be amazed at what shops can bulk order these for.

No I won't, I know very well, what retail margins are.

Also, R&D costs are high plus marketing. You don't take a phone that you are selling for £200 which is for sale at the very cheapest of £150 and make a profit.

At the average selling price on this "offer" after discounts and Quidco of about £90 plus the cost of interest free credit for some of the buyers, it is not a profitable exercise for Grattan/Freemans.

Anyone who thinks that this is not a loss leader and that they're still making loads of money is either naive or kidding thenselves.

antiville

stressedoutmum wrote:

This gets better and better. Bought a £20 top up from my local coop who were selling them with 25% off so cost me £15. Topped up my old O2 sim card first then used the information in this thread Up to £50 free credit for existing O2 payg users using my new telephone number from my bargain phone and got another £15 credit! I am an existing O2 customer so will just swap my swim cards so phone cost me £79.99 and £15 worth of free credit. This really is the moneysaving forum :j :j :j

Yay, I did the upgrade thing too and got £15 extra credit as well.

The savings all add up to quite a deal:j

durham_girl

Does anyone know if they are still accepting orders for this phone at this price?

Cheers!

wlfc1

durham_girl wrote:

Does anyone know if they are still accepting orders for this phone at this price?

Cheers!

yes they are

Goldust

Great stuff thanks for all the help everyone - my order for two came up as £160 from using the great advice posted a few pages back. Does this mean I actually have got two of these for this great price? Is everyones orders going through?

Thanks a lot again I really need a new phone!

MATT

vij1366

hi just ordered mine again and would you believe it i even got 20 % of and will be here on 1 st week in dec.
whaye
:T :beer:
thnasks for the advice everyone but especailly to
antiville

mmoo2k

Can you use the 20% on-line or do you have to telephone your order

Thanks