Samsung 46'' LE46C530 LCD TV

Soarer

Soarer wrote: »

Just rang HN at the Kinsale Road Roundabout there, and the guy said they don't even have the C530 on their system.

Will still call over later though.

I know I'm having this conversation with myself, but I've finally settled things for myself.

The one Omerin is talking about, from what I could see anyway, was the LE46C580. They have this for €680 on it's own, and it's €990ish with the stand and a 5 year warranty.
The LE46C530 is further up the back, up towards the Philips stand, and is retailing on special offer of €830 ie. €60 off.

RasTa

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Anyway, back OT...
Its €679.95 in Powercity:
http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-14-46C530&pages=1&prod=46C530&brands=SAMSUNG

It's €529 in powercity going by that link

ScrubsfanChris

RasTa wrote: »

It's €529 in powercity going by that link

That was the correct price at the time I posted it, looks like there just price matching with Argos now.

t125

RasTa wrote: »

It's €529 in powercity going by that link

It's true ,powercity have been force to Match ARGOS, now will CURRYS do the same??? come on Declan Match it

event

t125 wrote: »

It's true ,powercity have been force to Match ARGOS, now will CURRYS do the same??? come on Declan Match it

Do you work for Argos?

Zardoz

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

That was the correct price at the time I posted it, looks like there just price matching with Argos now.

Free Nationwide delivery too,so its actually cheaper than Argos.
I'd buy it but for it being 50Hz.

madmoe

Mine being delivered the 14th, can't wait!!

t125

event wrote: »

Do you work for Argos?

efb

Argos confirmed delivery Wednesday week

Currys PC World: Declan

Have spoken to and sent an email to Argos today. With a bit of luck my contact will be back to me tomorrow. He's talking to the TV category managers to check the status. I'll bring some humble pie in with me tomorrow just in case

efb

And cream

t125

Currys: Declan wrote: »

Have spoken to and sent an email to Argos today. With a bit of luck my contact will be back to me tomorrow. He's talking to the TV category managers to check the status. I'll bring some humble pie in with me tomorrow just in case

http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-14-46C530&pages=1&prod=46C530&brands=SAMSUNG

Rsaeire

Currys: Declan wrote: »

Have spoken to and sent an email to Argos today. With a bit of luck my contact will be back to me tomorrow. He's talking to the TV category managers to check the status. I'll bring some humble pie in with me tomorrow just in case

Isn't the offer in Argos over tomorrow though?

event

event wrote: »

Do you work for Argos?

t125 wrote: »

its a rather simple question

is it not considered advertising, which is banned by the charter, if you work for a company and post up items that they are selling?

Gerty

Is there a reason for the slash price?

Is the quality of television good?

Rsaeire

Gerty wrote: »

Is the quality of television good?

We only really have this review of the 32" version to go on and the user comments from this and other forums but, from reading them, the answer is yes.

ScrubsfanChris

Couple of owner's reviews here and pointers about the best picture settings and other general questions resolved.

http://www.avforums.com/forums/lcd-led-lcd-tvs/1246980-samsung-c530-owners-thread.html

micks

t125 wrote: »

http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-14-46C530&pages=1&prod=46C530&brands=SAMSUNG

Comes up with your link but not option to "buy" and when you go thru the menu on the site the tv is not there

Is it gone from powercity?

omerin

event wrote: »

its a rather simple question

is it not considered advertising, which is banned by the charter, if you work for a company and post up items that they are selling?

He has done me and a lot of others a favour by advertising it, he has saved me a packet, let it go

t125

event wrote: »

its a rather simple question

is it not considered advertising, which is banned by the charter, if you work for a company and post up items that they are selling?

I DO NOT WORK FOR ARGOS OR ANY ELECTRICAL RETAILER BUT I DO WORK BESIDE ARGOS
REGARDS
T125

THANKS OMERIN FOR THAT COMMENT

The Lone Ranger

had ordered online put cancelled it. nipped into powercity last night(fonthill) and picked it up for 529.95. they still have a few in stock but sales guy said price would be going up very soon.

got it home and must say very happpy. picking up rte on dtt, perfect picture. media player is great, just plugged in my 1tb hd and away it goes.
also played a bit of ps3, was worried about the 50hz, but it was perfect.

must say all in a great tv. major bargin:D

madmoe

Hi all,
Can't wait to get mine. I have a 1TB external HDD full of movies, mainly .MKV 720p and some 1080p as well, will this TV be able to play them do ye know?

Cheers,
M

The Lone Ranger

madmoe wrote: »

Hi all,
Can't wait to get mine. I have a 1TB external HDD full of movies, mainly .MKV 720p and some 1080p as well, will this TV be able to play them do ye know?

Cheers,
M

it has played everything i thrown at it, including mkv.the media player is very easy to use aswell. really happy with it.

Golfusr

Back in stock in Argos. Just ordered mine:)

t125

The Lone Ranger wrote: »

had ordered online put cancelled it. nipped into powercity last night(fonthill) and picked it up for 529.95. they still have a few in stock but sales guy said price would be going up very soon.

got it home and must say very happpy. picking up rte on dtt, perfect picture. media player is great, just plugged in my 1tb hd and away it goes.
also played a bit of ps3, was worried about the 50hz, but it was perfect.

must say all in a great tv. major bargin:D

Powercity have now but the price back up to 679.95

Eddie Ere

"Suitable for wall mounting with a VESA 400 x 400mm bracket (bracket not included)."




Can it only be wall mounted with this bracket? Can anyone recommend a good cheap wall bracket please?



Edit: Just ordered this anyway! The woman on the phone said they have sold hundreds of these over the last week or so. I asked her was it a mistake and she said no it was as is advertised to the best of her knowledge. Sweet!

cgarrad

Just picked up one now, thanks OP ;-)

netnerd

Just received an email from argos stating that:

"for the time being, the price is confirmed correct".

madmoe

The Lone Ranger wrote: »

it has played everything i thrown at it, including mkv.the media player is very easy to use aswell. really happy with it.

Oh happy days! Might actually get rid of my media streamer then if this can play my 1080p .MKV's....

Soarer

So is it actually on their system at €529.99 now, or are they still overriding it?

I'm just wondering if the (very quiet) Declan from Currys should be pricematching?!

netnerd

Currys will throw in an extra set of batteries for the remote control so they can claim its not the exact same product.

Just Google 'currys high court price match'

cgarrad

I ordered 15 mins ago and she said she was over riding the price without me even asking.

529.99 plus 9.99 delivery to Dublin

oscarBravo

cgarrad wrote: »

I ordered 15 mins ago and she said she was over riding the price without me even asking.

Same here. Roll on delivery, woo!

efb

Got my delivery date (next weds!) and sister got hers (next thurs)- they kept ringing me for her delivery!!!! Don't even want them that soon!

Currys PC World: Declan

Soarer, I'm not being quiet, just doing what I said I'd do and awaiting a reply.

Soarer

Well if you keep waiting long enough, the offer will be over.

They're still honouring this "mistake" a week down the line. Surely ye should be pricematching at this stage?
I reckon ye've missed out on a few dozen sales this week.

efb

saved themselves money. I'm not a fan of currys anway, the only thing they seem to want to sell is extended warranties IMHO

Currys PC World: Declan

I've no problem missing out on sales if we were going to lose a shedload of money on them. I've got staff to pay and negative margin doesn't pay the bills. You're giving retailers more credit than they're due to say that an error would be picked up immediately. We manage thousands of products and trading managers would not necessarily pick this up, especially if the trading teams are based in the UK. I may well be wrong of course, and I've no problem in admitting that, but that would of course be followed up with the supplier.

I'm still in the space where customers have benefitted enormously from a mistake. I'm enjoying the challenge too, whichever way it works out

Currys PC World: Declan

We haven't sold an extended warranty for as long as I've worked for Currys & PC World, which is just about 7 years

Soarer

Fair enough.

So you reckon they're losing money on each of these so, yeah? Can they not haggle a better deal from the supplier once they've secured oodles of orders?

efb

Thinking it was 9 years since I was "offered" one in Currys, when were they did remove ir?

Currys PC World: Declan

Oodles of orders in Ireland wouldn't make a blind bit of difference to the buying price in a combined UK & Ireland buying platform. It just wouldn't register. If Argos had secured a buying price that allowed them to generate a margin at €529 they would not be selling the product in the UK, where 95 % + of their sales come from, at £ 649. All of this of course with the proviso that I could be totally wrong, at which point Samsung and I will be having a conversation.

Currys PC World: Declan

Efb, you're going back into ancient history there. There are still "extended warranties " on offer in the Irish market, but certainly not by us. Things have moved on a fair bit since then. An extended warranty, as it says, is an extension of a normal manufacturer's warranty for a specific period of time after the expiration of a normal warranty period ( usually 12 months ) to protect consumers against any fault that will develop with the product. We got out of that years ago. We sell a customer support product called Coverplan, which ( to my infuriation ) people can still refer to as an extended warranty. " Insurance " is even worse. If I take the example of a laptop, Coverplan covers the " extended warranty " part of the equation, which is protection against a manufacturing fault. But the issue with laptops is that the vast majority of repairs are due to user generated faults rather than product faults. We have a service infrastructure which repairs in the region of 30,000 laptops per year and about 3/4 of these are not product fault related. The figure is 10,000 for TV and I'm not sure how the percentage splits there. On top of this, Coverplan gives an annual service in store to customers, theft protection for a year and replacement if a product can't be repaired. Taking domestic appliances as another example, any ladies out there probably have a better understanding than men about the effect of wire on a washing machine drum or tights that disappear. All the kind of stuff that we have engineers to cover, or couriers to collect product and bring it to a service centre. We developed a reputation years ago for being more interested in warranties than customer product needs, but that stuff is very old hat. Not that we're not evangelical about Coverplan, it's a good product for what it does and will be explained to customers when they're purchasing hardware. But aggressive selling is a definite no-no. It does no good in the end

efb

Currys: Declan wrote: »

Efb, you're going back into ancient history there. There are still "extended warranties " on offer in the Irish market, but certainly not by us. Things have moved on a fair bit since then. An extended warranty, as it says, is an extension of a normal manufacturer's warranty for a specific period of time after the expiration of a normal warranty period ( usually 12 months ) to protect consumers against any fault that will develop with the product. We got out of that years ago. We sell a customer support product called Coverplan, which ( to my infuriation ) people can still refer to as an extended warranty. " Insurance " is even worse. If I take the example of a laptop, Coverplan covers the " extended warranty " part of the equation, which is protection against a manufacturing fault. But the issue with laptops is that the vast majority of repairs are due to user generated faults rather than product faults. We have a service infrastructure which repairs in the region of 30,000 laptops per year and about 3/4 of these are not product fault related. The figure is 10,000 for TV and I'm not sure how the percentage splits there. On top of this, Coverplan gives an annual service in store to customers, theft protection for a year and replacement if a product can't be repaired. Taking domestic appliances as another example, any ladies out there probably have a better understanding than men about the effect of wire on a washing machine drum or tights that disappear. All the kind of stuff that we have engineers to cover, or couriers to collect product and bring it to a service centre. We developed a reputation years ago for being more interested in warranties than customer product needs, but that stuff is very old hat. Not that we're not evangelical about Coverplan, it's a good product for what it does and will be explained to customers when they're purchasing hardware. But aggressive selling is a definite no-no. It does no good in the end

Thought that. Really left a poor taste in my mouth. As an regular Apple purchaser I expect a very high level of CS. Havent bought in Currys/PC World in such a long time.

Currys PC World: Declan

Cheers. I don't want to paint us as God's gift to anything as we're as fallible as any business and we can get it horrendously wrong too. But that overhang on warranties is a real source of frustration to me. If you're out Airside or Blanchardstown way, or over in Jervis, have a squint at how we're trying to make technology come to life for customers. Hopefully you'll encounter someone in sales who knows their stuff and knows it well enough to serve customers well. In those stores you'll see Apple trained personnel on Apple dedicated units doing their thing ( and talk about evangelical ! ). I can't talk for Apple but they seem to have faith in what we're trying to do.

efb

Was in PC World Jervis - "Would you like Eircom broadband?"
If I max my order do I get more chips!!!!

Currys PC World: Declan

Only if it's 24 MB

netnerd

These extended warranties/coverplans, call them what you will, sound great on paper but they are only as good as the aftercare you receive. Currys, in my experience are on of the worst - disputing faults, 30+ minute waiting times on the helpline, 3-4 weeks waiting time for goods to be replaced, replacement loan items not being available. Youre better off getting your own appliance insurance from a 3rd party to cover all appliances in your house.

paddydriver

Show is over - back to €1092.99 - very precise; bet they didn't get that wrong!!

Phewww... every day that went by I was getting more and more tempted.

All I can say now is wait till Crimbo and we'll be getting 46" LED 200hz 3D's for €529 - and a bluray player thrown in too...

We live in hope:rolleyes:

ralphie

I bought a laptop from PC World in Limerick a couple of months ago and I had a sales assistant get very nasty to me when I refused to take out an extended warranty/coverplan.I wonder why! Would have walked only the price was right.