Targa 30GB MP3 player for £49.95 from 4.8.07 at Lidl 3 year warranty

mac1611

I managed to get one !! ,but!!!!!!!!! whilst it is a great little machine ,it only plays videos in 'mjpeg' format. I've loads of things to get a video to work but only managed to get picture no sound as yet ,bloody frustrating, but i suppose you gets what you pay for ah well!

Bernie

cfphoenix wrote: »

I would strongly advise you guys against buying any Targa product for the following reasons:eek: :

1. I have a 30 inches Targa TV which has been sent for repair three times to Germany (under a collect and repair warranty).
2. Targa would refuse to exchange a product no matter how many times you would send it for repair.
3. Liddl would refer you to Targa if you face problem (they made their sales and got their dosh).
4. It takes 1 month for them to do a repair job (including collection by DHL which takes 5 working days and DHL claims targa does not provide them with the relevant paperwork).

The decision is yours - as for me, I won't buy any Targa or electrical appliance from liddl, no matter how cheap.;)

Having lived in Germany for a total of 13 years, my family and I were well used to shopping in Lidl/Aldi/Escher/Plus/Grenzland stores there and their equivalents in Holland.

When the first two stores started to make an appearance across the UK, we were delighted. We now get their flyers emailed to us regularly and they are our first ports-of-call for shopping. Our house, which was already well stocked with their non-food items, has continued to fill with them. All my power tools are from them, cutter table, router table (and the router), angle grinder, sanders (belt and orbital) - whatever. The are so competitively priced, I pick them up just in case I'll need them sometime later.

Oh! and both our PC's are Medions (Aldi) too - used the 3 year, repair at your home, warranty once to have the Panasonic DVD burner replaced.

All the kit we've bought from these stores are still functioning perfectly donkey's year later. I can only think you were unlucky and got a bad one...

...off to Lidl's now to get a pair of worklights on a stand for £15, perfect for the loft board exercise I've got to do. Guess where the circular saw and power screwdriver I'll be using came from...

:beer:

ppg

cfphoenix wrote: »

I would strongly advise you guys against buying any Targa product for the following reasons:eek: :

1. I have a 30 inches Targa TV which has been sent for repair three times to Germany (under a collect and repair warranty).
2. Targa would refuse to exchange a product no matter how many times you would send it for repair.
3. Liddl would refer you to Targa if you face problem (they made their sales and got their dosh).
4. It takes 1 month for them to do a repair job (including collection by DHL which takes 5 working days and DHL claims targa does not provide them with the relevant paperwork).

The decision is yours - as for me, I won't buy any Targa or electrical appliance from liddl, no matter how cheap.;)

Had to return a cheap Targa item for repair - approached Lidl first but because i had lost the receipt they said i needed to go to Targa, fair enough.

Anyway Targa confirmed they would repair and were pleasant on the phone and reimbursed the postal charge after a while - but when I got the item back it was scratched and looked more second hand, (to be fair to Targa it wasn't scratched that bad just at the back mainly so no problem) they said return it again and they would look at putting a new cover if i remember correct. Considering they were reimbursing the postal charges would have been cheaper to just replace it would have thought. Had already waited a while for the first repair to be returned so never bothered the second time.

Rgs

luckyjasond

Last winter I cycled in the snow to the other end of town ,7am in the morning, just to get a TARGA external harddrive from LIDL. It lasted a few days, kept stopping and died completely. Never bothered to try to exchage it as it was full of family photos etc, didn't fancy to send it to Germany.

I've got a cheap satellite receiver+dish from LIDL, which I'm very pleased with, but it's not TARGA and this experience put me off to buy anything electrical from them in the future!!!

Sugarcubed

showman36 wrote: »

Sexier that a £20 note!

I wanted a pink one, so I got this instead :rotfl:

masterice

The main problem with LIDL is what I feel is fraudulent advertising.
Implicit in their flood of in store brochures and online mail shots is the appearance that items such as the Targa mp3 player are going to be readily available.
That's total bullsh*t!
I drove round and checked with 5 stores (more petrol than sense!) and discovered that the maximum stock by any store was a mere 4 of the things.
In one store a worker admitted that their stock of 3 had all been purchased by the staff and none by regular customers.
Personally I think this practice of advertising stinks when you can't phone a store to check stock and your nearest branch is around 15 miles away in any direction!
Also when their stuff is good it's normally very good but when it's crap (which is quite often) it's usually not worth the box it comes in

Idiophreak

Tessiebear wrote: »

Its obvious they were purchased by members of staff. what ever happened to putting the customer first.

What's wrong with that? Aren't staff customers?

Personally, when I used to work retail, one of the (only) perks was that we got all of the cool stuff when it came in...

It's not really the staff's fault that only two units arrived...

Freeness2006

I got one of the 30 gb MP3 players but can't seem to get my audiobooks to transfer from mediaplayer to it. Can someone help? I have never had an MP3 player before and am lost!!

parkside_stroller

showman36 wrote: »

if anyone is after a cheap mp3 for holiday

2GB White Colour Slim MP3 Player with colour screen - £19.99 delivered


HERE

Unfortunately this one is no longer available at the price quoted.
Now £45.16 - could be delivery on top of that as it is not direct from Amazon. Pity I was seriously thinking of that one at that price.

jaz_2

Tessiebear wrote: »

would like to know if anyone did actually get one. That is not Lidls staff

I imagine the people using the new Lidl at Halton, Leeds did. I was in there today and there was about a dozen of them if it's any use to anyone.