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Save 5-10% on any item at hardwareversand.de
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21-03-2013 4:17pm#1I'm a long time buyer from hardwareversand.de and this is a little trick I like to use whenever I make a purchase to offset delivery costs. Been using it for a while now, but sharing is caring. It's really simple:
1) Go to hardwareversand.de, choose your item(s) and place them into your basket.
2) Copy the title of one item, eg. "Gigabyte Radeon HD 7950, 3GB GDDR5, PCI-Express" (278,79 euro)
2) go to geizhals.de (a German price comparison website) and paste it in to the search bar
3) click on the first result, scroll down until you see the hardwareversand.de image and click on it.
4) you'll be taken to your basket and the discount will be applied. (In this case a savings of 11 euro! YEAH BUDDY!
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5) rinse & repeat
Believe me, this method really goes a long way with those big orders. The discount varies but it saves you enough bob to pay for delivery out of your budget and then some! enjoy
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Wow fantastic! I gotta test thisI'm a long time buyer from hardwareversand.de and this is a little trick I like to use whenever I make a purchase to offset delivery costs. Been using it for a while now, but sharing is caring. It's really simple:
1) Go to hardwareversand.de, choose your item(s) and place them into your basket.
2) Copy the title of one item, eg. "Gigabyte Radeon HD 7950, 3GB GDDR5, PCI-Express" (278,79 euro)
2) go to geizhals.de (a German price comparison website) and paste it in to the search bar
3) click on the first result, scroll down until you see the hardwareversand.de image and click on it.
4) you'll be taken to your basket and the discount will be applied. (In this case a savings of 11 euro! YEAH BUDDY!)
5) rinse & repeat
Believe me, this method really goes a long way with those big orders. The discount varies but it saves you enough bob to pay for delivery out of your budget and then some! enjoy 0 -
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just after placing a near €600 order haha ZeroThreat wrote: »pah, I'm feeling pissed now after spending about 1600 on a build there last year...Just spent 1300 the other day ;(
I feel your pain lads. Spent a good bit myself before finding this out. Ah well, what can you do. You live and you learn :cool:0 -
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I wouldn't exploit this too much or else you might find hardwareversand won't ship to ireland anymore. Its really only meant to be used by german shoppers. They match the price of some other german stores to stay competitively priced (ones which don't ship outside germany) Without doing this, hardwareversand still have pretty much the lowest prices with a reasonable shipping cost to Ireland, much better than any UK store or dabs/komplett. Mindfactory can be cheaper but they charge 30 euro shipping then another 30 if you buy a case and another 30 for a monitor compared to 18.99 flat rate of hwvs.
I'd only use it on a couple of items not go through the whole basket.
I've known about it for a while and this is the reason I didn't post about it although I did help a few people out
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HWVS is up for me now and the trick is still working
I haven't bought anything with it yet though.
I've used this in the past, works fine. I really don't recommend you use it on everything though.. it will draw attention if every item bought from ireland is through their german price comparison thingy ! Use in moderation and hopefully they don't ban us from the site or increase postage costs to compensate.0 -
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Relax guys... What options do HWVS have? Blocking Irish i.p addresses instead of gladly accepting the increased revenue? They are a business after all. Remove their listing from Geizhals, one of the biggest European price comparison websites? Most of mainland Europe buy their gear from that site and all their competitors are listed there. Beyond unlikely. Increase postage costs for no legitimate reason? Consumer law, baby. Why do people inherently assume we have to pay more just because we're buying from Ireland? I'm sure HWVS will be glad for all the extra traffic they're getting from a listing they put up for that exact purpose. If not, I personally will arrange a mass boycott 0
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Relax guys... What options do HWVS have? Blocking Irish i.p addresses instead of gladly accepting the increased revenue? They are a business after all. Remove their listing from Geizhals, one of the biggest European price comparison websites? Most of mainland Europe buy their gear from that site and all their competitors are listed there. Beyond unlikely. Increase postage costs for no legitimate reason? Consumer law, baby. Why do people inherently assume we have to pay more just because we're buying from Ireland? I'm sure HWVS will be glad for all the extra traffic they're getting from a listing they put up for that exact purpose. If not, I personally will arrange a mass boycott
My thoughts exactly I wonder could we make a php script to automate the process...0 -
Relax guys... What options do HWVS have? Blocking Irish i.p addresses instead of gladly accepting the increased revenue? They are a business after all. Remove their listing from Geizhals, one of the biggest European price comparison websites? Most of mainland Europe buy their gear from that site and all their competitors are listed there. Beyond unlikely. Increase postage costs for no legitimate reason? Consumer law, baby. Why do people inherently assume we have to pay more just because we're buying from Ireland? I'm sure HWVS will be glad for all the extra traffic they're getting from a listing they put up for that exact purpose. If not, I personally will arrange a mass boycott
Hardly increasing revenue if they're loosing 5-10 percent per irish order. Most people using this price comparison website would have bought from hardwareversand at full price anyway. That's a big chunk out of their profit on these orders even if its not significant.0 -
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How did you pay? That was quick processing...
Paid via bank transfer but clicked the "urgent" payment type which costs €12.70. Cleared for delivery sounds like good news to me. Like the guy says above there is nothing wrong with this, we are in the EU after all.
He says with fingers crossed lol.0 -
Paid via bank transfer but clicked the "urgent" payment type which costs €12.70. Cleared for delivery sounds like good news to me. Like the guy says above there is nothing wrong with this, we are in the EU after all.
He says with fingers crossed lol.
Yea you'll get the order fine.. this has been around for years. I've done it multiple times without problems. But if 100 percent of irish orders start doing it, then they're likely to take action when they notice. Just my opinion 0 -
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