Chat thread for Amazon Black Friday/Cyber Monday

scamalert

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Good price but god help you if you need any after sales support. I'll never buy anything from that shower again, regardless of price and I doubt I'm the only one.

cant blame workers its their policy to push the insurance which to be fair for smth around grand isnt that bad, as long as your withing return periood is it two weeks ? i always found no issues with support, thou might depend on item and the shop.

rubadub

Browney7 wrote: »

Better VAT rate too

yes, there is price which will mean you are saving money. Though it does then go to the UK government. Some do not know that when you have to pay the 23% with these companies it is going to our coffers.

Some items are zero vat in the UK too, like adult cycling helmets.

Frunchy wrote: »

Yeah, but no free delivery option and the inconvenience of having to translate.

de has an english version on the main page. The others probably will too if nobody is using .co.uk.

scamalert

scamalert wrote: »

cant blame workers its their policy to push the insurance which to be fair for smth around grand isnt that bad, as long as your withing return periood is it two weeks ? i always found no issues with support, thou might depend on item and the shop.

Nothing at all to do with their "insurance" and everything to do with meeting their obligations laid out in the Sale of Goods act.
I'm not blaming the staff, they're hands are tied by head office

scamalert

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Nothing at all to do with their "insurance" and everything to do with meeting their obligations laid out in the Sale of Goods act.
I'm not blaming the staff, they're hands are tied by head office

my bad thought your on about insurance etc.

CyberGhost

Frunchy wrote: »

Will Amazon UK even deliver here if we have a no deal Brexit?

As Ian Malcolm said: "Business, uh, finds a way."

Enrico Palazzo

Very repetitive, same products on offer every time. It's crazy that even when they put a frying pan on offer, it's not only the same model, but even always the same size out of the several ones available. BF, Prime Day, you name it. If you already have a Logitech c920, Sony NC headphones and an RX camera, you can't hope for much, unless you are looking to upgrade to a newer iteration. Best deal this year IMO were the Samsung NVME drives, too bad I didn't need another one.

Harika

Frunchy wrote: »

Will Amazon UK even deliver here if we have a no deal Brexit?

They have a whole office in Ireland, in the worst case they will deliver from the German warehouse.

km79

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-HD9240-90-Collection-Airfryer/dp/B00BS97UUA?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAJ7T5BOVUVRD2EFYQ&tag=camelanonalerts-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00BS97UUA

114.99
Best price ever
Bought one in the prime sale for 129.99 and genuinely tempted to buy a second one

This one price drop alone may have redeemed Black Friday /cyber Monday for a few

EnlightenedApe

Most of the deals on Amazon.co.uk appear to be fake.

If I search price history they have all been nearly as low or lower.

Harika

EnlightenedApe wrote: »

Most of the deals on Amazon.co.uk appear to be fake.

If I search price history they have all been nearly as low or lower.

Use the browser extensions, like the deal above was best at 154 Pound in the last three months, with spikes to 250 pounds and now is at 115 pounds. Not the 55% steal but still nice 25% off.

EnlightenedApe

Harika wrote: »

Use the browser extensions, like the deal above was best at 154 Pound in the last three months, with spikes to 250 pounds and now is at 115 pounds. Not the 55% steal but still nice 25% off.

I wasnt talking about a specific product but "deals" in general.

Metroid diorteM

EnlightenedApe wrote: »

I wasnt talking about a specific product but "deals" in general.

It’s definitely the worst cyber Monday ever

Harika

Metroid diorteM wrote: »

It’s definitely the worst cyber Monday ever

I heard this last year too, that's why I only read here and not even bother to scroll through amazon for stuff. :pac: And notifications if something on my wishlist is on sale.

slave1

mgray wrote: »

Anker speaker arrived this morning, great little speaker and arrived super quick..

+1, the bargain of the week but it had little competition in fairness apart from a few used books from the warehouse that I always pick up for a few euro max

Darwin

Ordered a pair of Oakley sunglasses from the warehouse with 20% off. They arrived this morning in the correct packaging, but some git had replaced the Oakley's with a cheap pair of Nike sunglasses. Just unbelievable the stunts people pull!

Brian017

Harika wrote: »

Use the browser extensions, like the deal above was best at 154 Pound in the last three months, with spikes to 250 pounds and now is at 115 pounds. Not the 55% steal but still nice 25% off.

What extension is this?

Harika

Brian017 wrote: »

What extension is this?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keepa-amazon-price-tracke/neebplgakaahbhdphmkckjjcegoiijjo?hl=en

Blacktie.

Harika wrote: »

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keepa-amazon-price-tracke/neebplgakaahbhdphmkckjjcegoiijjo?hl=en

This any better than camelcamelcamel or is it all the same really?

Harika

Blacktie. wrote: »

This any better than camelcamelcamel or is it all the same really?

It's the same data, with the difference that is here shown on the amazon page itself.

Ryath

Keepa show's prices across all the amazon sites. Found it very handy this week.

jay0109

jay0109 wrote: »

A huawei band 3 fitness tracker in my basket just went from £59 to €82 so I expect that to drop back to £59 on Cyber Monday and be heralded as a big drop by Amazon

As expected, Cyber Monday sees the price on this fall back to £59

elbyrneo

Well Cyber Monday is a bit of a let down. Just a continuation of Black Friday with little disguise.

Reminds me of Zoolander.

"The man has only one look for Christ's sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigre? They're the same face! Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!"

quad_red

Trying to buy a Maxi Cosi Rodifix child car seat.

Reduced to £100.09 in the sale. But it turns into £109.16 once you go to pay.

Delivery is zero. Where is the extra tenner coming from?

odddavey

Harika wrote: »

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keepa-amazon-price-tracke/neebplgakaahbhdphmkckjjcegoiijjo?hl=en

There is also an app on the play store.
Do a search for keepa.

Brian017

quad_red wrote: »

Trying to buy a Maxi Cosi Rodifix child car seat.

Reduced to £100.09 in the sale. But it turns into £109.16 once you go to pay.

Delivery is zero. Where is the extra tenner coming from?

Irish VAT

ongarite

quad_red wrote: »

Trying to buy a Maxi Cosi Rodifix child car seat.

Reduced to £100.09 in the sale. But it turns into £109.16 once you go to pay.

Delivery is zero. Where is the extra tenner coming from?

VAT. Reduced VAT on children's products in UK.
Use Parcel Wizard to get it delivered to UK address at reduced price.

ckeego

quad_red wrote: »

Trying to buy a Maxi Cosi Rodifix child car seat.

Reduced to £100.09 in the sale. But it turns into £109.16 once you go to pay.

Delivery is zero. Where is the extra tenner coming from?

AFAIK, that’s due to a higher tax here on safety equipment..

cherryghost

elbyrneo wrote: »

Well Cyber Monday is a bit of a let down. Just a continuation of Black Friday with little disguise.

Reminds me of Zoolander.

"The man has only one look for Christ's sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigre? They're the same face! Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUHunfH0XbI

odddavey

quad_red wrote: »

Trying to buy a Maxi Cosi Rodifix child car seat.

Reduced to £100.09 in the sale. But it turns into £109.16 once you go to pay.

Delivery is zero. Where is the extra tenner coming from?

Could it be irish vat? Getting delivered to Ireland?
Change your address to a UK one
See if there is a difference.

GBX

Brian017 wrote: »

Irish VAT

ongarite wrote: »

VAT. Reduced VAT on children's products in UK.
Use Parcel Wizard to get it delivered to UK address at reduced price.

odddavey wrote: »

Could it be irish vat? Getting delivered to Ireland?
Change your address to a UK one
See if there is a difference.

I think it could be VAT

Prime shipping isn't exactly impressing me, 6 days and two items still not dispatched

Mickeroo

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Prime shipping isn't exactly impressing me, 6 days and two items still not dispatched

I don't even have an expected delivery date for one item. Was showing delivery by tomorrow when ordering until I picked and irish delivery address so it shouldn't be out of stock.

Alanstrainor

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Prime shipping isn't exactly impressing me, 6 days and two items still not dispatched

Whereas I've had two items with free delivery without prime and gotten them within 48hrs in the last week. I reckon their whole system is all over the place the last week.

quad_red

Thanks, lad. I think it might be the vat.... (duh).

Going to have to think this through. Paying the higher VAT rate costs me £10 per seat (I'm buying 2). That's £20 delivered.

But depending on whether they package them together or separately I could be looking at higher costs going through parcel motel or an post.

Will hardly fit in a locker so I'd be looking at collection from Parcel motel:
In addition to the €7.00 Parcel Motel charge, there is a supplement of €7.00 per 10 kg (over the 55 kg) or part thereof per parcel

Probably safer and cheaper to just home deliver direct from amazon and wear the VAT.

Berty

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Prime shipping isn't exactly impressing me, 6 days and two items still not dispatched

I had an argument with Amazon CS one day. I was asking why it was taking so long to ship an item(about 10 weeks ago so hardly Black Friday). She kept saying but you selected free shipping 3-5 days. I said that it how fast it is to get to me once it leaves the warehouse not how long it takes Amazon to pick the item.

She wasn't getting it. Often they say that if you select Group Items together then they might need to be transferred between Warehouses but doesn't make sense for Individual items.

I have 2 Firesticks ordered, one on it's own (shipped already) and the other stick with another item, still hasn't been despatched. The one not shipped was ordered 24 hours before the first.

One other item was delivered one day late today and Amazon refunded it, £20, refunded. Amazon CS are mental. £20 item, shipped by UPS overnight(hardly cheap), arrived late and everything refunded. :rolleyes:

Etnies

EnlightenedApe wrote: »

Most of the deals on Amazon.co.uk appear to be fake.

If I search price history they have all been nearly as low or lower.

Well that's the nature of amazon. They drop the price on items all the time, people complaining about the black firday deals probably didn't actually need anything and we're scrolling through the pages of crap on the 'today's deals' page , I had set up camel alerts for a number of items i needed and pretty much all of them dropped.

EnlightenedApe

Berty wrote: »

I had an argument with Amazon CS one day. I was asking why it was taking so long to ship an item(about 10 weeks ago so hardly Black Friday). She kept saying but you selected free shipping 3-5 days. I said that it how fast it is to get to me once it leaves the warehouse not how long it takes Amazon to pick the item.

She wasn't getting it. Often they say that if you select Group Items together then they might need to be transferred between Warehouses but doesn't make sense for Individual items.

I have 2 Firesticks ordered, one on it's own (shipped already) and the other stick with another item, still hasn't been despatched. The one not shipped was ordered 24 hours before the first.

One other item was delivered one day late today and Amazon refunded it, £20, refunded. Amazon CS are mental. £20 item, shipped by UPS overnight(hardly cheap), arrived late and everything refunded. :rolleyes:

Yes same issue for me, when I signed up for prime I thought 2 days for any items listed as "Prime" but when I order stuff its often showing as up to two weeks....

I find if you deliver to a parcel motel UK address its within one day.

Alanstrainor

Etnies wrote: »

Well that's the nature of amazon. They drop the price on items all the time, people complaining about the black firday deals probably didn't actually need anything and we're scrolling through the pages of crap on the 'today's deals' page , I had set up camel alerts for a number of items i needed and pretty much all of them dropped.

Absolutely. I know you reference it here, but in case others don't know. You should all be checking prices on:

https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/

It will give you the price history for all products on Amazon. You can make a good guess then as to how good a deal it is. It's very easy to get caught up in the buzz of it all.

Optimus Prime

I bought a phone six days ago and it said " we will update your delivery time soon" or something on it, even though it was in stock. I seen the same phone for the same price on three today so got onto chat to cancel it and ask them about the delivery delay even though its in stock. They gave me 10 sterling onto my account.

They said the delay was something to do with shipping from warehouses in Europe or something.

Mickeroo

Optimus Prime wrote: »

I bought a phone six days ago and it said " we will update your delivery time soon" or something on it, even though it was in stock. I seen the same phone for the same price on three today so got onto chat to cancel it and ask them about the delivery delay even though its in stock. They gave me 10 sterling onto my account.

They said the delay was something to do with shipping from warehouses in Europe or something.

Did you cancel? I'm having the same thing with a mechanical keyboard.

rubadub

EnlightenedApe wrote: »

Most of the deals on Amazon.co.uk appear to be fake.

If I search price history they have all been nearly as low or lower.

just because it was cheaper once does not mean it is a bad deal. I got an instantpot, it was £82, on CCC I can see it was £70 back in 2016 for a few days, but besides that it is the cheapest it has been.

Although CCC does not capture every price, there have been flash sales which do not register on CCC.

It is £107.24 today.

I would expect the cheapest price to be friday and today to only match or be more. Since people could cancel their order and order again if it was lower today (I did this before around xmas/black friday time)

ongarite wrote: »

VAT. Reduced VAT on children's products in UK.
Use Parcel Wizard to get it delivered to UK address at reduced price.

Some things can be zero vat in the Uk so big savings to be had, e.g. bicycle helmets and some sport supplements.

Optimus Prime

Mickeroo wrote: »

Did you cancel? I'm having the same thing with a mechanical keyboard.

Yeh, I asked the guy (Robot) about the delay in delivery first as i was going to go ahead with it, but then he explained it to me and it might be a while longer, i decided to cancel as its available for the same price on three, i told him i was cancelling and he gave me 10 sterling credit on my amazon account. Then i cancelled it myself after the chat.

Berty

EnlightenedApe wrote: »

Yes same issue for me, when I signed up for prime I thought 2 days for any items listed as "Prime" but when I order stuff its often showing as up to two weeks....

I find if you deliver to a parcel motel UK address its within one day.

Not always the case. Both of my orders are Parcel Wizard bound, the later order has despatched so overtaken the first one, which was been on their system since Wednesday of last week. Both items stocked by Amazon.

batistuta9

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Absolutely. I know you reference it here, but in case others don't know. You should all be checking prices on:

https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/

It will give you the price history for all products on Amazon. You can make a good guess then as to how good a deal it is. It's very easy to get caught up in the buzz of it all.

& this or sites like it for checking the prices on other Amazon sites
https://www.hagglezon.com

wawaman

Anyone know of any iPad deals?

dos29

quad_red wrote: »

Thanks, lad. I think it might be the vat.... (duh).

Going to have to think this through. Paying the higher VAT rate costs me £10 per seat (I'm buying 2). That's £20 delivered.

But depending on whether they package them together or separately I could be looking at higher costs going through parcel motel or an post.

Will hardly fit in a locker so I'd be looking at collection from Parcel motel:
In addition to the €7.00 Parcel Motel charge, there is a supplement of €7.00 per 10 kg (over the 55 kg) or part thereof per parcel

Probably safer and cheaper to just home deliver direct from amazon and wear the VAT.

Parcel Wizard an option? Worst case 2 deliveries at €4 each. They're generally fairly sound on the "oversize" limits.

Cake of Tremendous Power

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Prime shipping isn't exactly impressing me, 6 days and two items still not dispatched

It's a mess. They gave me an extra month's free Prime because I complained about the shipping. Often, if I order something, the Priority option is slower than the free standard option. Makes no sense to me.



On top of that, one of my work colleagues cancelled his Prime a couple of months ago. He ordered the same product the same time as me (well, a few minutes after) with free shipping, and his was delivered faster than mine with Prime. I really do wonder if it's worth it.

For the record, the item from the screenshot above was delivered on the 22nd, so earlier than either the priority or standard shipping option predicted.

odddavey

batistuta9 wrote: »

& this or sites like it for checking the prices on other Amazon sites
https://www.hagglezon.com

Camelcamelcamel app
Install this on Android phone
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cstewart.android.trycamel

Shefwedfan

Looking for smart plugs? any deal or good ones to get? Thanks

sweetie

Basil3 wrote: »

It's a mess. They gave me an extra month's free Prime because I complained about the shipping. Often, if I order something, the Priority option is slower than the free standard option. Makes no sense to me.

Got a £5 voucher for complaining about shipping speed. Better than nowt!

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Looking for smart plugs? any deal or good ones to get? Thanks

I ordered this but the delivery is crazy now.
Can trade in the dot at CEX and make the smartplug very cheap.