Great delas Curry's /PC world

castle

https://www.curryspcworldcashback.ie/ie/en/pages/xmas/

codie

This is a bit of a dodge if you ask me.Why can't they just give the discount at the till.Why do you have to give them your bank details.With all the fraud in the news lately there with Supervalu customers I would be very slow giving my bank details

ThisRegard

It's a well established company, they're hardly going to sell your details to a Nigerian prince.

foggy_lad

ThisRegard wrote: »

It's a well established company, they're hardly going to sell your details to a Nigerian prince.

No but some person working for them might not be as honest.

Tippex

ThisRegard wrote: »

It's a well established company, they're hardly going to sell your details to a Nigerian prince.

lets all buy our tinfoil hats...

ThisRegard

Same applies to anyone working in an institution which processes financial transactions for you. The alternative is to keep your cash under you mattress and stay away from the evil internet which has the sole intention of defrauding you.

irishproduce

The problem is you may not be giving your details to Currys.
Like Supervalu, they could be paying some low cost outsourced outfit to capture and manage all the data for them.

ThisRegard

That's my point, the same applies to every financial activity you make no matter the company. And not just on the internet, but in store too.

codie

ThisRegard wrote: »

It's a well established company, they're hardly going to sell your details to a Nigerian prince.

It is a well established company but I'm sure all the people that have gone off on supervalu weekends foretold that all their details will be stolen through a breach of security in a company in Ennis.
Third party company could be involved,wouldn't have to be Currys

ThisRegard

Ok so, just keep away from ever buying on the internet then.

Shiminay

So a company takes your money, has 3 weeks to earn interest on it before you can even start to make a claim (where they'll obviously be hoping you forget all about it) and then gives it back to you (how quickly?) as long as you've given them your bank details...?

And this is some how supposed to be some sort of "deal" for the customer?

codie

ThisRegard wrote: »

Ok so, just keep away from ever buying on the internet then.

Why?I have never given my bank account number over the internet and no company has ever looked for my bank account number when completing a transaction.Credit card or paypal is a different thing all together.

FourFourRED

Shiminay wrote: »

So a company takes your money, has 3 weeks to earn interest on it before you can even start to make a claim (where they'll obviously be hoping you forget all about it) and then gives it back to you (how quickly?) as long as you've given them your bank details...?

And this is some how supposed to be some sort of "deal" for the customer?

Hardly lending them money considering they are selling iPads at same price as Apple, wait a few weeks and get €30 back for nothing.

Kenny Logins

ThisRegard wrote: »

It's a well established company, they're hardly going to sell your details to a Nigerian prince.

Doesn't matter, you shouldn't have to submit bank details for a one-off €20-50 rebate.

daheff

its a tried and trusted business model from the states. Its to encourage more sales from people on the basis that they'll get a rebate in the future. The hope is that people forget and dont claim the rebate.

Store wins in 3 ways:

1. more sales
2. Interest on funds received/no interest paid on overdraft/better working capital mgmt
3. unclaimed rebates

As long as you can claim your money and not be subject to fraud issues you win (assuming purchase price is the same as competitors)

PErsonally I dont like it. Just charge a lower sales price.

Crazy Eye

codie wrote: »

This is a bit of a dodge if you ask me.Why can't they just give the discount at the till.Why do you have to give them your bank details.With all the fraud in the news lately there with Supervalu customers I would be very slow giving my bank details

i told them that i was going to harvey normans to get my tv there , store manager overheard me say this infront of other customers and was only too happy to take me aside and deal with me quielty and i got a further 10% off the price

machalla

daheff wrote: »

its a tried and trusted business model from the states. Its to encourage more sales from people on the basis that they'll get a rebate in the future. The hope is that people forget and dont claim the rebate.

A bit off topic here but its interesting just how much data can be gleaned from loyalty cards, credit cards and bank accounts these days. An interesting story below to do with this.

How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

September1

I think there is no risk that they will go rogue, but that database would be stolen. Other risk is if company would be still solvent next year, as technically speaking they are taking a loan from customers.

Soarer

Shouldn't be supported for the way they treated Declan!

pah

machalla wrote: »

A bit off topic here but its interesting just how much data can be gleaned from loyalty cards, credit cards and bank accounts these days. An interesting story below...

The whole thread's of topic since the second post :rolleyes:

homer911

https://www.curryspcworldcashback.ie/ie/en/pages/xmas/how-it-works

I see you have to submit your claim between 21 and 60 days after purchase, and then wait for the claim to be validated, and then wait two weeks for payment.

If this is anything like the Samsung cashback deal you could be waiting a couple of months for the claim to be validated. The claim company then need to get the cash off the promoter before they issue the refund.

daheff

machalla wrote: »

A bit off topic here but its interesting just how much data can be gleaned from loyalty cards, credit cards and bank accounts these days. An interesting story below to do with this.

How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

This is an urban myth...I heard this story in relation to Walmart, Target,Sainsburys and Tesco

Dont get me wrong...they can data mine and get huge information from their databases on you..but i call shenanigans on this particular story (because i've heard it about too many stores)

kn

ThisRegard wrote: »

It's a well established company, they're hardly going to sell your details to a Nigerian prince.

They might have a Nigerian Prince or three working for them??

dowtchaboy

Soarer wrote: »

Shouldn't be supported for the way they treated Declan!

Why what happened? Wasn't he the guy who was helpful and innovative on their boards.ie thread?

curly from cork

Magi mix nespesso machines are selling for 89.99 which I thought was a great price plus I had a voucher for 10 € off as I had bought an airfyer there last month . Well pleased ..

dingding

Site of line now

whiterebel

codie wrote: »

This is a bit of a dodge if you ask me.Why can't they just give the discount at the till.Why do you have to give them your bank details.With all the fraud in the news lately there with Supervalu customers I would be very slow giving my bank details

An employee explained the reason behind the 21 days, is to allow the 21 day return option to expire, otherwise they would have people return it, and still claim the money back.

faral

currys and good deal....hahaha someone have a good sense of humour:)

groom

Soarer wrote: »

Shouldn't be supported for the way they treated Declan!

What happened Declan?

emo72

groom wrote: »

What happened Declan?

declan got shafted.:(

edit...in fairness to explain. he was their MD and set up the "talk to currys" on boards, and things were improving and we were getting good service off him, and he would answer your emails at 1155 pm on a sunday evening about a broken electric toothbrush or some other disaster, and held all the cool ipads or nexus pads especially for boards peeps........and then he was gone. no explanation, just gone, the end.

green123

Soarer wrote: »

Shouldn't be supported for the way they treated Declan!

emo72 wrote: »

declan got shafted.:(

edit...in fairness to explain. he was their MD and set up the "talk to currys" on boards, and things were improving and we were getting good service off him, and he would answer your emails at 1155 pm on a sunday evening about a broken electric toothbrush or some other disaster, and held all the cool ipads or nexus pads especially for boards peeps........and then he was gone. no explanation, just gone, the end.

you still havent explained how he got shafted

emo72

green123 wrote: »

you still havent explained how he got shafted

well i gave you the facts that i know

im not going to give you the exact details because i dont know. he loved his job,then he posted on here saying he was going and couldnt explain why. he loved his job but left without saying why. draw your conclusions from that.

skinny90

Obviously we don't have all the points on why it happend but at the end of the day this stuff happens the whole time. Any company like dsgi,tesco's even bigger organisations in all sectors will restructure the business in order to remain competitive and react to change. mds don't stay very long not because there not good at there job(declan was great) more so that they don't fit in to the organisations long term plans.declan may have been md but working with a public company he would have had a lot of people above him to answer too...shareholders CEO etc

Another point is that I havnt read anywhere about them cutting valuable jobs on the bottom chain so it could have been tied in with what happend...again purely an assumption

On the cash back yoke it's not coming out of curries pocket it's more than likly through suppliers. See the apple cash back for example...apple products generate feck all Margin for any shop so to discount it your loosing money.I wouldn't be too concerned about account info I'd rather it there than waiting for it in the post which can be annoying. Should fraud activities occur you can be rest assured that would a massive pr disaster for a company as big as them...not that it could not happen

green123

emo72 wrote: »

well i gave you the facts that i know

im not going to give you the exact details because i dont know. he loved his job,then he posted on here saying he was going and couldnt explain why. he loved his job but left without saying why. draw your conclusions from that.

thats my point - we dont know why he left, so we cant say that he was shafted.

maybe he was shafted and maybe he wasnt, there could be lots of reasons why he would decide to leave and lots of reasons for a company to let someone go.

Etnies

How much do you get off an iPad mini retina 16gb? Says UP to 50 but not for sure what's what

Lanigamadan

The heading on that Curry's page that outlines how to claim the cashback states "Claiming could not be more simple".

Perhaps someone could make a few suggestions about how it could be...

3DataModem

codie wrote: »

Why?I have never given my bank account number over the internet and no company has ever looked for my bank account number when completing a transaction.Credit card or paypal is a different thing all together.

Have you ever written a cheque?

You give more info to a cheque recipient than Currys are asking for.

abff

green123 wrote: »

thats my point - we dont know why he left, so we cant say that he was shafted.

maybe he was shafted and maybe he wasnt, there could be lots of reasons why he would decide to leave and lots of reasons for a company to let someone go.

My recollection is that he was the MD of the Irish operation and they decided to eliminate that role on grounds of streamlining the organisation.

mossym

daheff wrote: »

its a tried and trusted business model from the states. Its to encourage more sales from people on the basis that they'll get a rebate in the future. The hope is that people forget and dont claim the rebate.

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it is a tried and trusted model in the states, and having lived there for 6 years i used it many times. the difference was the rebate was always by check, and you never had to give your bank details

codie

3DataModem wrote: »

Have you ever written a cheque?

You give more info to a cheque recipient than Currys are asking for.

NO I don't deal with cheques.

Lawdie

Shiminay wrote: »

So a company takes your money, has 3 weeks to earn interest on it...

3 weeks current interest rates on €10m (circa €11,612 @2%) would probably not even cover the administration costs if each item was average €600 = 16,666 items to process claim backs. That is if they received all the funds from sales in one day and found a bank to offer this rate on such short term money.

I think that was more a off the cuff not thinking it through remark by Shiminay.

As someone suggested its the no claim back or lose the receipt market they are counting on. Plus manufacturer discount arrangements on sales quantities. Perfectly acceptable business practice to drive sales. Too many want bricks and mortar to be cheap as or cheaper than web, it mostly can't happen.

I bought off Currys on Friday and no issue marking in the calendar for the 18th. Good spot op.

skinny90

mossym wrote: »

it is a tried and trusted model in the states, and having lived there for 6 years i used it many times. the difference was the rebate was always by check, and you never had to give your bank details

While it works well in the states i would say it be the opposite here with us not having post codes and all...

rocky

Not recognising my sort code and account number...

An asian sounding girl in their call center asked me if the account number is a credit or debit card... I gave up explaining it's neither and went with 'debit'. Waiting for a call back ...

mossym

skinny90 wrote: »

While it works well in the states i would say it be the opposite here with us not having post codes and all...

sorry, but why are post codes important?

dilallio

If you scan your receipts and send them to me at the address below, I will generously claim the refund on your behalf and send you on the cash.

You are correct - these large institutions are not safe and cannot be trusted with your bank details.

Your money is very safe with me.


Address

Prince Dilallio Bungabunga
PO Box 419
Lagos
Nigeria

God Bless you all

machalla

A prince amongst men indeed.

In a vague attempt to drive this back on topic..

How much of a rebate discount is on offer for instance for a 16Gb Ipad Air (Wireless) or 16 Ipad Mini Retina (Wireless) from PC World? I realise it says "Up to €50" but that doesn't mean its actually going to be €50 of course.

I notice apple are doing some 10% deals today on the likes of the air (not the retina ipad mini though).

So which offers the better discount does anyone know?

Spipov

30 euros up to 500 euros, 50 euros thereafter

skinny90

mossym wrote: »

sorry, but why are post codes important?

because we dont have post codes in ireland. The amount of unfulfilled postal deliveries in ireland is crazy because of it.
With post codes there's no need for the local postal worker to know people and where they live. Postal services should work by unique location identifier logic, not familiarity.
An post has had to rely on familiarity and this has caused too many wrong deliveries, late deliveries, redirected deliveries and lost deliveries

mtdelany

I was looking at the Lenovo yoga 8 in PC world at €259.99 less the €30 Rebate so €229.99

http://www.pcworld.ie/action/searchsite/lenovo-yoga-8

Bought it yesterday on Amazon for £149.99 (c. €183)


Thats about €50 extra in my pocket

OldRio

skinny90 wrote: »

because we dont have post codes in ireland. The amount of unfulfilled postal deliveries in ireland is crazy because of it.
With post codes there's no need for the local postal worker to know people and where they live. Postal services should work by unique location identifier logic, not familiarity.
An post has had to rely on familiarity and this has caused too many wrong deliveries, late deliveries, redirected deliveries and lost deliveries

It is a help to the postal service but then the government uses the post code as a check on you and people living in the house. You will end up using your post code on official documents. Council and government.
That's the way it works in the UK anyway. (Lived there for a while)

skinny90

OldRio wrote: »

It is a help to the postal service but then the government uses the post code as a check on you and people living in the house. You will end up using your post code on official documents. Council and government.
That's the way it works in the UK anyway. (Lived there for a while)

aye but thats not the point to this thread its purly focused on how such procedures work well in some countries and not others
Seeing as its bargin alerts and not a discussion about postel codes and the ethics of it I feel we should all focus on the thread topic