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ARGOS - Huge price increases on beds

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  • 27-09-2008 7:24pm
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    redman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭


    I went to buy a bunk bed today and they have change codes on a number of their beds and upped the prices dramatically.

    e.g. one bed set we were looking at has gone from €340 to €520 and most of the others have gone up by at least €100.

    The shop couldn't give an explanation, other than to say that a lot of items have gone up by 20-30% in the new catalogure.
    Now I know of course sterling has adjusted, but I am shocked and dismayed by these price rises.

    I presume I have no come back? They wouldn't take my order from the summer catalogue as the codes have changed.

    Ironically the signs in the shop talk about 700 items dropping prices.


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    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Try Bargintown. For an extra 50 quid they deliver.
    We got bunks for our kids for 199 Euro, these ones: http://www.bargaintown.ie/natural-qd-bunk-bed-p-456.html?zenid=a72sgjjgs0uh6fqgqqpift1dv1

    Main Home Page: http://www.bargaintown.ie/

    This is just another example of the prices that Argos are ripping people off with.
    There is other threads about that show the huge over charging they are doing, on this forum.
    No question - they are no longer the cheapest around by far.


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    ScouseMouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭ScouseMouse


    You have just learned a lesson. You can have a hundred signs in a shop saying cheaper this and cheaper that, but the price of something else just goes up to cover it.

    Tesco is notorious for this. If you go in to get one thing which is cheaper then you will probably buy other things at full price so the shop still makes.

    You have no way of insisting on getting the cheaper price as you had no contract to purchase. Just because it was cheaper one day/week/month ago, the price can change and there is nothing you can do about it.

    You could try and have a quiet chat with the manager but as the codes have changed, he may just say its a different one and thats that.


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    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 24,075 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Biggins wrote: »
    Try Bargintown. For an extra 50 quid they deliver.
    We got bunks for our kids for 199 Euro, these ones: http://www.bargaintown.ie/natural-qd-bunk-bed-p-456.html?zenid=a72sgjjgs0uh6fqgqqpift1dv1

    Main Home Page: http://www.bargaintown.ie/

    This is just another example of the prices that Argos are ripping people off with.
    There is other threads about that show the huge over charging they are doing, on this forum.
    No question - they are no longer the cheapest around by far.

    They never were cheap, even in the UK. They just plant the idea in your head that they are. They charge ludicrous prices for most of their goods, photographic items being one example. Even when they "reduce" these items, you can still save a hell of a lot more by buying it elsewhere.


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    redman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭redman


    Thanks a lot for the comments

    Esp Biggins - Brilliant find - cheers - I'm off to bargaintown so!!!


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    Biggins
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    redman wrote: »
    Thanks a lot for the comments

    Esp Biggins - Brilliant find - cheers - I'm off to bargaintown so!!!

    Hope you get something. All the best. :)


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    jor el
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    redman wrote:
    Now I know of course sterling has adjusted, but I am shocked and dismayed by these price rises.
    The value of Sterling might be coming up slightly against the euro now, but when it was way down, earlier in the year, there was no reduction in the Euro selling price. They've been creaming massive profits off the exchange rate, and now that that has eroded slightly, there's a huge price increase on some items.
    Biggins wrote: »
    No question - they are no longer the cheapest around by far.

    They pretty much never were. Some things can be reasonable, and the returns policy is good, but a lot of prices are simply not competitive. I always found that electronics in particular, memory cards, computer bits and accessories, are always way over priced.

    Another reason to shop around.


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    parsi
    Site Banned Posts: 5,904 ✭✭✭parsi


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    They never were cheap, even in the UK. They just plant the idea in your head that they are..

    I have to disagree there. They have good prices for a lot of what was always their core products - household goods and the like.

    They are very poor for electronics and items that are constantly price-dropping or being renewed (much like other bricks 'n' mortar shops) but tell me where else can you get a toaster for 5.99 ?

    Once the items become commodities then Argos become competitive - look at flat-pack furniture, mocrowaves, DVD players etc.

    The catalogue was their strength but now with contstantly changing prices it must be becoming a hindrance for them hence the regular "updates".

    (I don't work for them or have anything to do with them)


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    eth0_
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    Don't bother buying from Argos, they take weeks to deliver beds/sofas etc!


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    parsi
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    eth0_ wrote: »
    Don't bother buying from Argos, they take weeks to deliver beds/sofas etc!

    Seems to be endemic doesn't it ?

    I wonder is it because all the UK-based chains have to get stuff from the Motherland but Mr Square Deal has it all out back ?


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    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 24,075 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    parsi wrote: »
    I have to disagree there. They have good prices for a lot of what was always their core products - household goods and the like.

    They are very poor for electronics and items that are constantly price-dropping or being renewed (much like other bricks 'n' mortar shops) but tell me where else can you get a toaster for 5.99 ?

    Once the items become commodities then Argos become competitive - look at flat-pack furniture, mocrowaves, DVD players etc.

    The catalogue was their strength but now with contstantly changing prices it must be becoming a hindrance for them hence the regular "updates".

    (I don't work for them or have anything to do with them)

    Okay, I'll give you the 5.99 toaster - and I might even buy one myself. I must have missed it when I was ploughing through the thousands of items on those hundreds of pages of that big thick catalogue. :P


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    daheff
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    Go up to belfast to IKEA. They deliver to Ireland and i'll bet you get a better quality bunkbed (and prob a lot cheaper) there than you do in either Argos or Bargaintown

    http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/10045381 189 stg
    http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/00102452 69 stg
    http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/60050290 99 stg


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    foggy_lad
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    redman wrote: »
    I went to buy a bunk bed today and they have change codes on a number of their beds and upped the prices dramatically.

    e.g. one bed set we were looking at has gone from €340 to €520 and most of the others have gone up by at least €100.

    The shop couldn't give an explanation, other than to say that a lot of items have gone up by 20-30% in the new catalogure.
    Now I know of course sterling has adjusted, but I am shocked and dismayed by these price rises.

    I presume I have no come back? They wouldn't take my order from the summer catalogue as the codes have changed.

    Ironically the signs in the shop talk about 700 items dropping prices.

    they are just making room for their price drops of 25% and half price later in the year! as long as they leave 28 days between price changes they can double or triple the cost of items and a month later offer them as being half price!

    check your local stores for the bunk beds as while they may be a bit more expensive the mattresses will be of much better quality.


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    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    daheff wrote: »
    Go up to belfast to IKEA. They deliver to Ireland and i'll bet you get a better quality bunkbed (and prob a lot cheaper) there than you do in either Argos or Bargaintown

    http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/10045381 189 stg
    http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/00102452 69 stg
    http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/60050290 99 stg
    delivery to the republic from ikea is still very expensive!

    Republic of Ireland
    Breezemount Transport offers a full home delivery service to all 26 counties in the Republic of Ireland. Pricing for this service is as follows:
    Dublin
    Donegal
    Louth
    Cavan
    Monaghan
    £100
    All other counties
    £150
    Prices quoted are based on 2 trolleys with delivery within 7 days. Additional trolleys are charged at £50 per trolley. Further information is available from home delivery staff.
    © Inter IKEA Systems B.V. 1999 - 2008


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