portable dvd player (Toshiba) for £9.99

Lickul_miss

johnnywishbone wrote: »

No honestly it was a good spot on my behalf!

We were looking for cheap portable dvd player for our bedroom we are just doing up in our new house!

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i saw the original post and printed it if any1 wants it 4 proof?

withabix

They don't have to sell it to you, so 'proof' wouldn't be any use.

withabix

dreamlife99 wrote: »

ive noticed somebody on another site has complained to the trading standards about this deal, and a few other 97p deals from pc world that never seem to arise :rolleyes:

I got a Sapphire ATI X1950GT graphics card yesterday reduced from £130 to £29.97 and an HP Media Vault from approx £250 to £79.97 so these items DO usually exist somewhere, but normally only IN STORE.

The reason products stay listed on search engines right down to £0.97 is that there will be a branch somewhere who's stock control system says they have one in stock, but it will either have got damaged, stolen or wasn't there in the first place.

You won't normally find these products direct from the DSG website, only via search engines due to caching.

dc

dreamlife99 wrote: »

ive noticed somebody on another site has complained to the trading standards about this deal, and a few other 97p deals from pc world that never seem to arise :rolleyes:

(Nothing personal dreamlife, just using your post to clear up a few misconceptions about so called non- existent "bargains")


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Slow down folks, 97p items are clearance end of line items they want to clear from their system..
So it is logical that not every store will have them, and as time progresses even fewer stores will have stock.

Ultimately only ONE store will have it, maybe in a tatty box in the back, or the store stock numbers may have at sometime been corrupted because a returned item was entered onto the system twice. Maybe some stock got nicked even

Regarding OPs "find" it is just another example of human error/ or downright lazyness by computer operators, and thus is a " Virtual Grabbit". Why the fuss and even anger, I expect it is down to the blame culture and greed society that has sadly developed in the UK

PS My computer stuff is made up of 80+% .....xx.97p items, but this requires store visits, and you cannot get that by just browsing, as Withabix knows too.
And it seems that he beat me, by editing his post whilst I spent too much time typing mine with one hand as usual!!

greedbay

PC World love advertising non existant goods plus they also like to not honour reserved items.

I reserved an item and when I went to pick it up they told me it had been stolen!

Probably by the staff.

dc

greedbay wrote: »

PC World love advertising non existant goods plus they also like to not honour reserved items.

I reserved an item and when I went to pick it up they told me it had been stolen!

Probably by the staff.

So shoplifters do not exist? DSG are sloppy, but they cannot sell you something they dont have due to their "new"/ latest/ dodgy Microsoft based stock system ( Eclipse),saying the contrary. Which by the way the staff do not like. I think the word microsoft may give you a clue as to why stock problems occur .

stephen25uk

johnnywishbone wrote: »

No honestly it was a good spot on my behalf!

We were looking for cheap portable dvd player for our bedroom we are just doing up in our new house!

PC world was the first place i thought of to look.

I did do a bit of looking around on the forums after a couple of you guys said it was bogus and apparently there are a lot of these phantom items that crop up on PC world (usually ending in 97 pence)

If it helps we have just ordered a new dining table and chairs from debenhams for the new kitchen.

Table

http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_10001_10001_62192_399202_-1

Chairs

http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_10001_10001_62192_399204_-1

ordered and on its way - 4 of the 6 chairs we ordered arrived today - ill post this in a new thread as well - dont forget to go thru nectar to the debe e-store to get the nectar points !

nice table and chairs but not much good for watching a dvd on the move.......:rotfl:

gromituk

dc wrote: »

I expect it is down to the blame culture and greed society that has sadly developed in the UK

You're letting PC World off far too lightly: the company has already been found guilty of advertising goods which do not exist - twice. Blame greedy society for encouraging them to behave in that way, of course, but don't claim that they are innocent victims of it.