Local bargains and various deals

snubbleste · 13-06-2011 11:11am

Was in Mr.Price in the Terryland Retail Park on Saturday, noticed they had cheap adult & kids baseball caps for 99c. They had khaki and black with some writing on it for guys.

snubbleste · 21-07-2011 7:58pm

bump again for Mr. Price

My quest is finally over for cheap milk
They have 2l milk for 99c, low fat and full fat.
Limited stock though

thesandeman · 22-07-2011 2:45am

Nice. Bit far out for me but worth the journey.
By limited stock do you mean they only get a small amount in or that its a short term offer?

snubbleste · 22-07-2011 9:51am

Limited stock means it's gone by lunchtime. Doubt it's a permanent offer, should've asked instore.

Amhran Nua · 23-07-2011 12:19am

Just a heads up for the thrifty, the Filipino shop across from the Couch Potato and three doors up from Javas is doing 30 eggs for €3.50, which is less than half the price of any big shop. I recommend looking at the rest of their offerings as well, you can get some great asian food for a good price, including yummy porkskin crisps.

snubbleste · 23-07-2011 9:07am

Eh that's not cheap
Terryland Fruit &Veg are doing 6 for 39c or 30 for €1.95

whoopdedoo · 23-07-2011 9:33am

snubbleste wrote: »

Eh that's not cheap
Terryland Fruit &Veg are doing 6 for 39c or 30 for Â€1.95

yes and both shops couldn't be selling free range so beware

Mrs OBumble · 23-07-2011 11:59am

Amhran Nua wrote: »

30 eggs for €3.50, which is less than half the price of any big shop.

So Lidl's not a big shop any more? :rolleyes:

Amhran Nua · 23-07-2011 12:27pm

JustMary wrote: »

So Lidl's not a big shop any more? :rolleyes:

More of a warehouse tbh.
/adjusts monocle

_Whimsical_ · 26-07-2011 2:06pm

http://livingitup.ie/todays-deal.php

A daily bargains website for Galway featuring Galway businesses. Today they have a half price meal in Gemelles .
Are there any other websites like this that exclusively or even regularly host Galway deals?

dinneenp · 30-07-2011 10:14pm

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

http://livingitup.ie/todays-deal.php

A daily bargains website for Galway featuring Galway businesses. Today they have a half price meal in Gemelles .
Are there any other websites like this that exclusively or even regularly host Galway deals?

I use dealpage.ie It has the deals from a lot of sites all on the one site. very good.

dinneenp · 30-07-2011 10:14pm

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

http://livingitup.ie/todays-deal.php

A daily bargains website for Galway featuring Galway businesses. Today they have a half price meal in Gemelles .
Are there any other websites like this that exclusively or even regularly host Galway deals?

I use dealpage.ie It has the deals from a lot of sites all on the one site. very good.

snubbleste · 03-08-2011 9:26am

Family Day Out at City Limits Indoor Adventure Centre, Oranmore for 2 adults & 2 kids for €15. It is normally €80+
http://livingsocial.com/deals/82251-family-day-out-at-indoor-adventure-centre

whatlliwear · 06-08-2011 6:58pm

Half price on all Converse in Born in Galway!

board_stiff · 12-08-2011 10:14am

You can get €20 Worth of Food & Drink for €10 at The Office Bar in Salthill from livingitup

http://www.livingitup.ie/todays-deal.php

Never been to The Office Bar before. Is it nice?

biko · 12-08-2011 10:35am

Yeah worth a visit.

Inky_Lady · 12-08-2011 6:47pm

Smartsearch.ie have a deal in sweetie pies Galway - €4.50 instead of €11 for beakfast including tea/coffee. Does anyone know what the breakfast menu is like in there? I had no luck trying to find out on their website. If it's just cake etc I really wouldn't be interested. Hmm.

Amhran Nua · 13-08-2011 4:44am

snubbleste wrote: »

Eh that's not cheap
Terryland Fruit &Veg are doing 6 for 39c or 30 for €1.95

18 for €2 last week, so basically the exact same price.

_Whimsical_ · 15-08-2011 1:43pm

I noticed that Tesco Clubcard Deal vouchers now include Mocha Beans in their deals. 3.50 in Clubcard vouchers will get you a voucher for 4 grande coffees in mocha beans. Of course you have to apply for it online which is a bit annoying but it's a saving of around 9 euro I think. If you shop in tesco and like you cafe culture it's not too shabby,could be more generous if they extended it o everything on the menu,but better than nothing.:)

Ficheall · 15-08-2011 2:50pm

Tesco in Terryland seemed to have a decent amount of chocolate at half price yesterday. Got 4 wispas for about 1.20 and 4 crunchies for about 1.60.

board_stiff · 19-08-2011 10:20am

You can get €50 to spend on food & drink for €25 at the Royal Villa in Salthill
http://livingitup.ie/

KZJ81 · 20-08-2011 8:28pm

board_stiff wrote: »

You can get €50 to spend on food & drink for €25 at the Royal Villa in Salthill
http://livingitup.ie/

Worth looking at livingitup on Facebook, they're giving prizes away each week. Must be only starting out with 84 fans so far. 1st weeks prize is 10 fitness classes worth 100e.

GalwayGirl1975 · 20-08-2011 11:36pm

board_stiff wrote: »

You can get €50 to spend on food & drink for €25 at the Royal Villa in Salthill
http://livingitup.ie/

cool - royal villa is probably my favourite restaurant in Galway - well defo in Salthill - love the booth - never heard of livingitup before but saw an article about them in this week's advertiser - recognise the guy in the picture - think he was ahead of me in the Jes - nice eyes

JohnCleary · 19-09-2011 1:13pm

http://www.groupon.ie/deals/galway/padraicins/883269
Pretty good value I must say

Redhairedguy · 19-09-2011 1:26pm

JohnCleary wrote: »

http://www.groupon.ie/deals/galway/padraicins/883269

Pretty good value I must say

Jesus, that's savage. I love eating in Padraicins, but it's so bleeding expensive.

biko · 19-09-2011 1:48pm

Might catch that offer myself.

JohnCleary · 19-09-2011 2:23pm

JohnCleary wrote: »

http://www.groupon.ie/deals/galway/padraicins/883269
Pretty good value I must say

The steak incurs a €5 supplement just to let ye know... confirmed by e-mail enquiry. Still good value though and sure I prefer to cook my own steak anyhow!

cfeeneyinterior · 29-09-2011 10:46am

Good deal here for Leisureland gym and pool membership for 6 weeks for €29. Seems like a good bargain seeing as the dark and cold evenings are coming back?
http://www.smartsearch.ie/deals/browse?id=195

inisboffin · 29-09-2011 4:20pm

http://livingsocial.com/deals/131793-breakfast-or-brunch-for-two

Ard Bia dealy for brunch/lunch for two

JJayoo · 29-09-2011 5:37pm

Bought the Leisureland gym and pool membership earlier and haven't recieved any email. Just wondering how long it normaly takes to get a confirmation email?

moonflower · 30-09-2011 9:11pm

JJayoo wrote: »

Bought the Leisureland gym and pool membership earlier and haven't recieved any email. Just wondering how long it normaly takes to get a confirmation email?

I haven't gotten an email, but I got a text with the voucher code.

July · 01-10-2011 1:46pm

http://www.groupon.ie/deals/galway/auto-services-galway/1006789?referer=http://www.dealpage.ie/

Looks good. What do ye think?

martyboy48 · 01-10-2011 3:05pm

July wrote: »

http://www.groupon.ie/deals/galway/auto-services-galway/1006789?referer=http://www.dealpage.ie/

Looks good. What do ye think?

Wouldn't go for it.. '30 point car service' in my mind would be more like most points are inspecting light/horn/wipers ect work and then maybe just do oil and filter..
Would love to see what the 30 items they do are..
I wouldn't use this to replace the usual service i get my mechanic to do..

joeKel73 · 13-10-2011 4:16pm

inisboffin wrote: »

http://livingsocial.com/deals/131793-breakfast-or-brunch-for-two

Ard Bia dealy for brunch/lunch for two

Redeemed my €19 Two-Course Lunch for Two voucher today. It was meant to have a value of €42... so naturally I went for the most expensive menu options - €11.50 pork and coriander burger and €5.50 desert. That's €17... x2 = €34.

Looking at the offer page again I see the offer is meant to include "specials such as panfried hake" - when we said we had the voucher the specials menu was taken away again and were told the specials were not part of the deal.

It was a delicious lunch but feel a bit hard done by, would have definately gone for the fish on the specials menu... the table beside us had it and it looked great!

inisboffin · 13-10-2011 6:34pm

foto joe wrote: »

Redeemed my €19 Two-Course Lunch for Two voucher today. It was meant to have a value of €42... so naturally I went for the most expensive menu options - €11.50 pork and coriander burger and €5.50 desert. That's €17... x2 = €34.

Looking at the offer page again I see the offer is meant to include "specials such as panfried hake" - when we said we had the voucher the specials menu was taken away again and were told the specials were not part of the deal.

It was a delicious lunch but feel a bit hard done by, would have definately gone for the fish on the specials menu... the table beside us had it and it looked great!

Well that's not good. Did you point out the price discrepancy or did you spot it afterwards. If it states it on the voucher I would ring them to see what they have to say about it.

dilallio · 13-10-2011 9:13pm

Unfortunately, this type of behaviour is getting more common.

A friend of mine availed of a deal in another restaurant in Salthill recently.

When he showed them the voucher, they immediately took away the menu, and gave them a sheet of paper with a very limited menu.

He compared the prices on this sheet to the prices on an a-la-cart menu on another table, and discovered that they had added 25% to the prices.

JONJO THE MISER · 14-10-2011 2:46am

I think the trick is not to tell them you have a voucher and show it to them after you have finished the meal.

the keen edge · 14-10-2011 10:32am

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

I think the trick is not to tell them you have a voucher and show it to them after you have finished the meal.

Yeah some of these guys are right chancers.

I had some offer voucher for pizza in Bistro Bianconi before, now it said like they all do, to mention the voucher at time of ordering.

So I thought fcuk that, they'll just scrimp on the toppings and besides the offer was for any pizza from their menu, and not their take of a more economical version.

Anyway on collecting and paying for the pizza I pull out the voucher. The guy working there was not impressed. Started on about how the voucher must be mentioned on ordering.
So I ask him to explain why he needs to know about the voucher on ordering, up to this point all that has happened was a pizza has been made which my voucher enables purchase at a reduced price. I asked the guy, in what way have I by failing to mention the voucher affected this?.

He couldn't answer me, just repeating the same auld rubbish about needed to know on ordering. Chancers!.

JohnCleary · 14-10-2011 11:48am

This kind of carry-on will be the detriment of business' and completely goes against the whole point of these cheap offers.

My reason for saying this....
Generally you'll buy a voucher for a place you normally wouldn't bother. So you order your food, let's say example with a value of €40, for €20.
You get your meal, enjoy it and feel you got your value for €20.
BUT, you think to yourself "Normally this would cost me €40" hence value is not felt, hence you never return to said establishment.

When people use these vouchers, they should get the exact same treatment as they normally would, the whole idea (well I thought) was sell these vouchers at a loss (or break even) and profit from the return business they should generate.

the keen edge wrote: »

Yeah some of these guys are right chancers.

I had some offer voucher for pizza in Bistro Bianconi before, now it said like they all do, to mention the voucher at time of ordering.

So I thought fcuk that, they'll just scrimp on the toppings and besides the offer was for any pizza from their menu, and not their take of a more economical version.

Anyway on collecting and paying for the pizza I pull out the voucher. The guy working there was not impressed. Started on about how the voucher must be mentioned on ordering.
So I ask him to explain why he needs to know about the voucher on ordering, up to this point all that has happened was a pizza has been made which my voucher enables purchase at a reduced price. I asked the guy, in what way have I by failing to mention the voucher affected this?.

He couldn't answer me, just repeating the same auld rubbish about needed to know on ordering. Chancers!.

Cheshire Cat · 14-10-2011 2:34pm

Recently redeemed a living social voucher in the Townhouse Restaurant. We got the normal menu and there were no exemptions. Even the steak didn't carry a surcharge (quite often it is +€ 5.-)
The food was lovely and the staff very attentive. It was a steal at the voucher price, but we wouldn't have minded paying the full price so will be back!

restingpilgrim · 14-10-2011 3:20pm

You would think they would realisethat by providing an inferior product which they claim is worth the higher price it is highly unlikely to generate new custom. e.g. a pizza with very little topping is hardly going to scream value.

inisboffin · 14-10-2011 8:18pm

the keen edge wrote: »

Yeah some of these guys are right chancers.

I had some offer voucher for pizza in Bistro Bianconi before, now it said like they all do, to mention the voucher at time of ordering.

So I thought fcuk that, they'll just scrimp on the toppings and besides the offer was for any pizza from their menu, and not their take of a more economical version.

Anyway on collecting and paying for the pizza I pull out the voucher. The guy working there was not impressed. Started on about how the voucher must be mentioned on ordering.
So I ask him to explain why he needs to know about the voucher on ordering, up to this point all that has happened was a pizza has been made which my voucher enables purchase at a reduced price. I asked the guy, in what way have I by failing to mention the voucher affected this?.

He couldn't answer me, just repeating the same auld rubbish about needed to know on ordering. Chancers!.

I never had a problem in a different kind of service or product with Bianconi when it was open, I was a fairly regular customer. I asked about the voucher thing first, and the guy, think it was the owner, said, it was to do with the way the order was punched in. Definitely the case for delivery. PLU code, is that the name of it? That makes sense for accounting reasons, but have no idea why anywhere would do a separate menu or not let you order specials IF it says it on the menu.

It's also 'etiquette' to tip on the original (pre discount) amount, not that anyone will if they get cr*p serice.

ben.schlomo · 14-10-2011 8:41pm

Redeemed one in Harry Fitz a while back and like some others i was told it was only for battered whiting, no cod or haddock etc. Bit of a snotty attitude from them aswell if i remember correctly.

Unrealistic · 14-10-2011 9:11pm

restingpilgrim wrote: »

You would think they would realisethat by providing an inferior product which they claim is worth the higher price it is highly unlikely to generate new custom. e.g. a pizza with very little topping is hardly going to scream value.

Or they have read the extensive analysis conducted on Groupon and understand that most people who use these vouchers would only make the purchase at the discounted price and won't come back to pay full price.

the keen edge · 14-10-2011 9:50pm

The thing is, it's only a discount if your getting 100% of the service for <100% of the original price for that service.

Some of these businesses think an discount is offering a service for <100% of the original price, and then providing you with <100% of the service.

funnyname · 14-10-2011 10:29pm

Cheshire Cat wrote: »

Recently redeemed a living social voucher in the Townhouse Restaurant. We got the normal menu and there were no exemptions. Even the steak didn't carry a surcharge (quite often it is +€ 5.-)
The food was lovely and the staff very attentive. It was a steal at the voucher price, but we wouldn't have minded paying the full price so will be back!

Ditto

JONJO THE MISER · 14-10-2011 11:54pm

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Redeemed one in Harry Fitz a while back and like some others i was told it was only for battered whiting, no cod or haddock etc. Bit of a snotty attitude from them aswell if i remember correctly.

Yeah i liked there fish, but the person who served me, the owner i presume had a right attitude on him.

ramius · 03-11-2011 12:14am

This is an invtiation for 20% off in B&Q Galway tomorrow night the 3rd of Nov between 4-9, just print off the attached voucher to get 20% off. The other stores around the country are having similar events tomorrow night but i dont know if they will accept the Galway voucher

JONJO THE MISER · 03-11-2011 3:46am

aww excellent i need some paint........... sniff ..............it really is good, any in black good sir?

snubbleste · 24-11-2011 10:41am

€2 car parking plus a free sightseeing return bus tour from the racecourse to town. Valid 3 December to 24 December.
http://www.galwaycity.ie/GeneralNews/221111_01.html

Local bargains and various deals

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