3 DVDs for £15 at Play.com

Ruu_Old

More Christmas promotions from Play, a few good ones here. Linkage

BFassassin

yet another good offer from play. im still waiting to hear back about the other two i have tried to get.

alastair_doom

just an FYI, when you click on Euro as your price:

"Choose any 3 of these cracking DVDs for only EUR 23.49 !"

BFassassin

why not just order in sterling and let the bank do the conversion

alastair_doom

BFassassin wrote:

why not just order in sterling and let the bank do the conversion

dont think play allow delivery outside uk anymore if you order in Sterling. Haavent checked it in a while, but thats how it was a month ago.

BFassassin

you may be right i havent got anything from there in ages. thats a crazy mark up though:eek:

subway

alastair_doom wrote:

just an FYI, when you click on Euro as your price:

"Choose any 3 of these cracking DVDs for only EUR 23.49 !"

whats that, a 15p markup?
hardly earth shattering

tman

cheers for the heads up, my credit card has been getting a hammering ever since play sorted out the euro pricing issues:p

samo

Just picked out about 3 I was gonna buy from Play but then checked on www.find-dvd.co.uk and they were all a little cheaper elsewhere (Blah dvd/sendit etc) by about 50p-£1 but some of the titles there are very good in this deal like The Lost Boys SE etc

Ryaller

subway wrote:

whats that, a 15p markup?
hardly earth shattering

I make it a €1.10 markup. Yes, we are getting screwed.

tman

Ryaller wrote:

I make it a €1.10 markup. Yes, we are getting screwed.

The total price is 22.47 when you actually go ahead and order 3 of them.
So that's an 8c difference according to xe.com...

samo

they were coming out at 22.47 euro when you put 3 in the basket.

samo

tman wrote:

The total price is 22.47 when you actually go ahead and order 3 of them.
So that's an 8c difference according to xe.com...

Beat me to it!!

subway

tman wrote:

The total price is 22.47 when you actually go ahead and order 3 of them.
So that's an 8c difference according to xe.com...

didnt even notice that,
the exchange rates on xe.com are "optimistic" to say the least.
todays ecb rate of exchange is roughly 1.49 which would make it roughly -
15 = 22.35 a 1eu 14c difference

most banks charge about 4% in fees, which adds about 92c onto your exchange
that leaves you with a 22c difference, or about 15p

MOH

Just noticed that they're all (Euro) 8.99 each, when you buy 3 the price drops to 7.49 each (so that's 3 for 22.47).

If you add a fourth or subsequent DVD they also go in at 7.49 (rather than having to buy another 3 to get the same rate).

TarfHead

tman wrote:

So that's an 8c difference according to xe.com...

You're not buying at XE.com's rates .. you're buying at play.com's rates so to quote the XE.com rate is irrelevant to the play.com transaction