Maplins Electronic Safe £7.98 (reduced from £29.99) FREE POST glitch?

Spennyk

Credit to howardevansgb for the original post on this over with HUKD;

Maplin's Electronic Safe was £29.99 now £7.98 + £2.99 delivery

£7.98

FOUND BY: howardevansgb 45 minutes ago


Electronic safe which doubles as a money box
Can only be operated with the security card
Ideal for jewellery, keys and other valuable possessions
Create your own pin combination and change it whenever you want
3 internal storage trays
Sounds when door is opened and buttons are operated
Coin and note counting feature
Money withdrawal and check balance buttons
Facility to set a savings target
Time and date display
Dimensions: 20(w) x 14(d) x 24(h)cm
Requires 3 x AA batteries

The kicker with this, is that they have a postage offer where you can order a specific item from a selection which has a 'free postage' discount along with it. I picked one of the cheapest items I could make use of (£5.99) rationalising the fact that I still reduce the bill by £2.99.

After changing my mind and removing it though, I retained the discount code which was showing in my basket, so still benefitted from the postage discount.

My final bill was £7.98 INCLUDING delivery. :j

Well worth a punt so that I am no longer collecting my coins in an old jar and having to guess/count everytime I want to know how much I have!

Hope this is useful to someone, I'm certainly looking forward to receiving mine!

Spennyk

Forgetful

too small
not gonna fit much in this

Spennyk

Surely 'too small' is all relative to what you want to keep in it?
I'll be keeping cash in mine, so the dimensions are plenty big enough for that.

Granted I won't be able to keep any gold bullion or priceless artifacts in it, but then why would you have that in the house...?

a11waysindebt

Forgetful wrote: »

too small
not gonna fit much in this

You must have too much money then.:rotfl:

Spikey_2

what happens when the batteries run out? can't get into it?

real1314

it's a plastic toy safe, not a proper security safe. one of my kids has a pink one.
and it can't really count notes, and does coins by the width of the coin afaik, so anything of the same width would be counted - buttons, tokens, etc.

thelurch

it seems its a childs toy safe made of plastic so not really any use for valuables!

mncollyer

From the faq on item description

Electronic Safe



Q) Is this a real safe or just a kids one? Thanks Billy - BarkingLad
A) This is a toy/novelty item.

Q) i have forgotten password is there a way of opening box - anthony jewkes
A) The unit can be opened by the security card.

Q) is the safe made from plastic - neil wiley
A) yes it is

puddings_2

I'm after something "moderately secure" to keep all my spare keys in. This looks like it could do the job.
Thanks

Spennyk

OK, so I am using it to keep coins in, rather than a jar as it is a little more interesting.

I realise that this represents a false economy (paying for something to keep your savings in!), but take it for what it is; a reasonably price safe in which you can store things that you may not want left accessible to the world.

siobhan2711

Noticed that sainsbury's have a metal safe for £14.99 looks good quality and it should be thirty, my daughter has the type above and the money gets stuck and its difficult to open at times. I wanted to get her this one but if she dropped it on herself it would be dangerous as it is not a toy