Amazon Black Friday 2012

[Zarjazz]

That's up again right now if anyone was after it.

Anyone who did is kicking themselves I bet since its £12 on Steam.

 

[soze]

Fuck is going on tonight with Amazon.

Bought some stuff and it's charged me the full price even though i've got them on lightning deals. It even says when i'm purchasing that the price i'm paying is the discounted price, but then at the end it charges me full whack.

Mine did that too but it showed a deduction lower down. If you miss the time scale of the lightning deal its full price though. I only had about 5 minutes to pay.

Item Subtotal: £24.98
Delivery & Handling: £0.00
Credit applied: -£0.00
Lightning Deal: -£9.98
Total before VAT: £16.66
VAT: £3.33
Total: £19.99
Paid by Visa:
£19.99

 

[Gray]

Yeah was weird, i was well within the period for it so it shouldn't have. Messaged Amazon and they responded immediately though and it was quickly fixed.

Just hope it doesn't happen within the next hour or so, considering i have my eye on that laser printer and SSD. Might hold off on the laser printer though for an all-in-one.

 

[MYstIC G]

Anyone who did is kicking themselves I bet since its £12 on Steam.

It was the consolers versions

 

[Bigmac]

Anyone who did is kicking themselves I bet since its £12 on Steam.

Not everyone has a super computer to run games on.

 

[Poag]

Interesting ones for the day....

09:30 Sales
Samsung T24B300 23.6 inch Widescreen LED TV/Monitor with Digital TV Tuner - Gloss Black (Full 1080P, Dolby Digital +, HDMI, VGA, USB, Scart) ~ £199


Crucial 256GB M4 SATA 6Gb/s 2.5 inch Internal Solid State Drive ~ £125


Netgear 200Mbps Mini Powerline Twin Pack Ethernet Adapter ~ £30


Samsung Series 5 Wi-Fi Chromebook ~ £344



16:45 Sales
LG 37LM620T 37-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED Cinema 3D Smart TV with Freeview HD ~ £529




Some Point and Shoot cameras in the 4pm block.

 

[Poag]

Wat? Why facepalm?

 

[Nate]

Le text needs format remove

 

[Poag]

Something for all the nutty cyclists..

09:15 - Chilli Technology Action 3 VGA Head Cam - Black

 

[Poag]

Le text needs format remove

Sadly i can't edit it anymore. Shows up normal sized text to me..ho humm.

 

[Nate]

Ah you done it again! The top left button just highlight and click it with your recent bike one. Should fix it for others at least.

 

[Nate]

Interesting ones for the day....

09:30 Sales
Samsung T24B300 23.6 inch Widescreen LED TV/Monitor with Digital TV Tuner - Gloss Black (Full 1080P, Dolby Digital +, HDMI, VGA, USB, Scart) ~ £199


Crucial 256GB M4 SATA 6Gb/s 2.5 inch Internal Solid State Drive ~ £125


Netgear 200Mbps Mini Powerline Twin Pack Ethernet Adapter ~ £30


Samsung Series 5 Wi-Fi Chromebook ~ £344



16:45 Sales
LG 37LM620T 37-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED Cinema 3D Smart TV with Freeview HD ~ £529




Some Point and Shoot cameras in the 4pm block.

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[Himse]

Going to look at getting a TV and an external hard drive in these sales! See if I can find something sweet!

 

[Poag]

Toying with getting the SSD. I have 1x128gb and 1x64gb SSDs atm. the 64 is for windows and the 128gb for games..... should probably switch them over as my windows drive is down to 16gb atm.....or just tidy the smegger up....

 

[Ch3tan]

16:45 Sales
LG 37LM620T 37-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED Cinema 3D Smart TV with Freeview HD ~ £529

That TV is £550 in richer sounds with a 5 year warranty chucked in, or was the other day when I was there. I got the model down (the 570t) for £440 with a 5 year warranty.

 

[Gray]

I thought that Amazon would have learned from the previous years how to make it better, still is The Fastest Click in the West who wins the prize. Specially suprised at them this time around considering they had a monitor, SSD, notebook amongst other things all going up at the same time. And each of them went before the option came up.

What's annoying is the fact that on all the not-so-interesting items, the option to buy is up as soon as the timer reaches zero. But there is very clearly a massive delay showing up on more important stuff.

 

[MYstIC G]

Toying with getting the SSD. I have 1x128gb and 1x64gb SSDs atm. the 64 is for windows and the 128gb for games..... should probably switch them over as my windows drive is down to 16gb atm.....or just tidy the smegger up....

I nabbed an M4 on Monday, it's still on the PC Pro A-List over a year after release. I installed it last night and did a clean install of Windows 8. Boot time is now something stupid like 3-4 seconds from end of BIOS checks to Windows login screen. This is on an over 5 year old PC. The Windows performance score for the box as a whole has jumped up by 1.5 to 6.8 (I've got a 8800 NVidia GPU that holds it back).

Well worth the £100 imho.

 

[Himse]

16:45 Sales
LG 37LM620T 37-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED Cinema 3D Smart TV with Freeview HD ~ £529

That TV is £550 in richer sounds with a 5 year warranty chucked in, or was the other day when I was there. I got the model down (the 570t) for £440 with a 5 year warranty.

Can you 'turn off' the 3D functions so to speak?

I dont fancy sitting in my room wearing 3d glasses haha!

 

[Bigmac]

Is it me or are they putting the prices up before the deal starts to make the percentage saved bigger?

 

[Gray]

Check http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com for any potential price differences, last year it was known that certain items had been inflated then reduced to "sale" value, which wasn't the case.

 

[Nate]

Kindle fire is on for £99 black friday special, seems pc world already do it at £99 and £89 if you buy a sleeve/cover one of which is going for £5. Though so not such a special deal

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/search-keywords/xx_xx_xx_xx_xx/kindle+fire/xx-criteria.html

 

[dysfunction]

Is it me or are they putting the prices up before the deal starts to make the percentage saved bigger?

That wouldn't surprise me at all!

 

[Gumbo]

Just bought myself a little chopper for £8.80, not bad.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Bought one of those Phillips multicolour lamp things. It's pretty nice.

 

[Zenith.UK]

Well that left a bad taste in my mouth.

There was a Samsung Galaxy Player 4.2 8GB on the offer, £130 usual price. I was watching the countdown and saw it come up as £69.99. HELL YEAH! Hit the button, ran through the order in less than a minute and came to the final screen.... no discount showing. The item was full price.
I got straight onto live chat and explained what I was doing and where I was in the order. The bloke said that the offer was already expired. I said that I find that hard to believe since it only switched over 2mins ago, I hit it straight away and was on the final order screen in less than a minute. He apologised but repeated himself. I was pissed off in the extreme.

I opened another window, reloaded Amazon and got to where the item was in the list.... no longer showing.
Now when a deal is 100% claimed, it says deal closed but the item still shows in the list. This Galaxy Player isn't even showing in the list.
I raised it as a complaint for not applying the discount at ordering, and a complaint for not showing the item in the list once it was expired.

We'll see what the outcome is.

 

[Nate]

I don't think you'd be the only one zenith, probably happens all the time with the electronic deals.

 

[Mabs]

did they fix the exploit from last year ?

 

[Gray]

If you mean the exploit where if you change your time on your PC to about a minute ahead... Then yes :<.

Still didnt fuckin matter eitherway, the best deals where still gone in <00000.01 seconds anyway.


So with it being over now, anyone get any good deals, since i don't think Black Friday promotion is active from now.

This year, all i got was those mini speakers. Fucking things. :<

Far cry from last year when i got an Xbox360, Skyrim, WWE 12, Starcraft Keyboard and a 6month LoveFilm subscription.

Fail :<

 

[opticle]

To be honest the reductions weren't that great, you would have still spent a fuckton of money if you had. So buy yourself something nice and celebrate

 

[Gray]

FYI

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sam...sunday-25th-nov-20-00-promised-amazon-1377008