Disgraceful Wii Pricing on Oxendales

eamon234

Missus always buys clothes from this crowd. Was flicking through the catalogue today and saw this Wii package:

Console with Wii Sports , remote and nunchuck (standard package)
Mario Kart
Mario and Sonic at the Olympics
Big Beach Sports

And the price?

Wait for it

€601.99!

DS Lite + Brain Training + Sun Crosswords (!)

€309.99!

Scumbags. These catalogues are regularly used by lower income families because of their "easy" credit terms - I can see an awful lot of people getting screwed this Christmas.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

how else do you expect them to make any money?

SunnyP

All mail order catalogues are more expensive especially in regard to electronices, the basic Wii package with three games is €470 in 'Littlewoods',
your paying for the 'easy' credit and the convience of it just being delivered, no shops etc

RichyX

If you're thick enough to pay that sort of money on easily available items you deserve to be ripped off.

Diddler82

RichyX wrote: »

If you're thick enough to pay that sort of money on easily available items you deserve to be ripped off.

Its not about being thick, it is about families not being able to afford lump sums and as a result having to pay over the odds when paying bit by bit per week.

I would say everyone who reads this thread realises this except you......

Oh and well done on such a worthwile post, added huge amounts to this thread

RichyX

Diddler82 wrote: »

Its not about being thick, it is about families not being able to afford lump sums and as a result having to pay over the odds when paying bit by bit per week.

I would say everyone who reads this thread realises this except you......

Oh and well done on such a worthwile post, added huge amounts to this thread

Already placed your order with them then?

Ever hear of an old thing call saving?
A few quid every week would add up to a Wii at the end of the year, without the need to be ripped off.

It's better than getting enraged on behalf of some tools who should know better.

Diddler82

RichyX wrote: »

Already placed your order with them then?

Ever hear of an old thing call saving?
A few quid every week would add up to a Wii at the end of the year, without the need to be ripped off.

It's better than getting enraged on behalf of some tools who should know better.

Saving works for a lot of people but believe it or not there are people in this country who are not as well off and trying to save up to buy a Wii does not wash. You try and tell a 10 year old that you have to save up to buy him/her a Wii, it is the pressure of modern parenthood.

FYI I am not a parent but I do live in the real world.

I will not respond directly to your comment on me placing an order with them that is flaming and against the rules. I would be interested in hearing your response to this though.

RichyX

Diddler82 wrote: »

Saving works for a lot of people but believe it or not there are people in this country who are not as well off and trying to save up to buy a Wii does not wash. You try and tell a 10 year old that you have to save up to buy him/her a Wii, it is the pressure of modern parenthood.

FYI I am not a parent but I do live in the real world.

I will not respond directly to your comment on me placing an order with them that is flaming and against the rules. I would be interested in hearing your response to this though.

Asking in jest if someone has placed an order is flaming!?
Real world indeed.

So if you can't save for something you place an expensive order for it on credit that you still can't pay for?
Fair enough parenthood is a difficult thing, but a degree of common sense with finances shouldn't be completely out of the question.

p

RichyX wrote: »

So if you can't save for something you place an expensive order for it on credit that you still can't pay for?
Fair enough parenthood is a difficult thing, but a degree of common sense with finances shouldn't be completely out of the question.

You sound like you know very little about running a family on a budget.


They say that before you have your first child, you should enjoy those last few months seeing other people making mistakes with their children and families, and enjoy that feeling of knowing how silly they are and how easy it is to do everything right.

RichyX

p wrote: »

You sound like you know very little about running a family on a budget.


They say that before you have your first child, you should enjoy those last few months seeing other people making mistakes with their children and families, and enjoy that feeling of knowing how silly they are and how easy it is to do everything right.

This comes down saving A WHOLE 5 EURO'S A WEEK, so you can afford a Wii for your kid at the end of the year.

Is that an unreasonable thing to be expected do?

Diddler82

RichyX wrote: »

This comes down saving A WHOLE 5 EURO'S A WEEK, so you can afford a Wii for your kid at the end of the year.

Is that an unreasonable thing to be expected do?

You obviously did not read what I posted today at 11:58am, Kids wont except that as an answer, they wont be willing to wait for you to save to buy one.

I am just amazed at you by the way! This is my last post on this matter, your ignorance obviously prevents you from understand the points of both myself and p.

Good day to you!

RichyX

Diddler82 wrote: »

You obviously did not read what I posted today at 11:58am, Kids wont except that as an answer, they wont be willing to wait for you to save to buy one.

I am just amazed at you by the way! This is my last post on this matter, your ignorance obviously prevents you from understand the points of both myself and p.

Good day to you!

Yeah, we'll just let kids set the household budget.
Try using the word "no" with them. I didn't get everything I wanted when I was a kid, no-one should.

If you're struggling to pay for food, rent etc. a Wii should not be a priority.
A child with an ounce of sense would understand that on some level.

Good luck with having a family, the kids will tear you to shreds on this evidence.

TheAlmightyArse

Diddler82 wrote: »

Kids wont except that as an answer, they wont be willing to wait for you to save to buy one.

But it's not like it's something you can't anticipate. No-one's going to go, "Christ, Christmas is on the 25th this year! If only I could have predicted it."

Paparazzo

RichyX, you're a gob****e. I suppose you'll tell your kids they were bad so santa left them nothing.

RichyX

Paparazzo wrote: »

RichyX, you're a gob****e. I suppose you'll tell your kids they were bad so santa left them nothing.

Christ, I only suggested saving 5€ a week to buy a Wii as an alternative to spending an obscene amount with Oxendales.

You can talk, jumping into a *cough* discussion, and referring to someone as gob****e so readily.

Try contributing something instead of name calling, you tool.

Retr0gamer

Calm down, lads. Paparazzo if you notice in the charter personal abuse is strictly forbidden. Anymore and you will be banned.

4Xcut

Christmas is at the same time every year. A few quid put by every week wouldn't hurt. How bout giving up smoking, drink two pints less a week. With a 20 a day smoker that's about €60 a month. Times twelve is €720. Not a bad start to the christmas kitty and all it cost the parents was not having cancer - how will they live with out it.

Yes i am aware that not everyone smokes, but it was an example. Everyone has things they could cut back on a bit financially to save a few quid a week.

And there's no reason to tell the child that he's been bad and santa won't give it to him. Just make up some lie - we all believed the santa thing - how hard can a lie be.

norrie rugger

4Xcut wrote: »

Christmas is at the same time every year. A few quid put by every week wouldn't hurt. How bout giving up smoking, drink two pints less a week. With a 20 a day smoker that's about €60 a month. Times twelve is €720. Not a bad start to the christmas kitty and all it cost the parents was not having cancer - how will they live with out it.

Yes i am aware that not everyone smokes, but it was an example. Everyone has things they could cut back on a bit financially to save a few quid a week.

And there's no reason to tell the child that he's been bad and santa won't give it to him. Just make up some lie - we all believed the santa thing - how hard can a lie be.

Ask a kid now, what they want for Xmas?
now ask them next week... it will change all the time as will the values

RichyX

norrie rugger wrote: »

Ask a kid now, what they want for Xmas?
now ask them next week... it will change all the time as will the values

What a child wants may change, but that isn't a reason for the parent not to save.
If they have too much saved at the end of the year all the better.

norrie rugger

RichyX wrote: »

What a child wants may change, but that isn't a reason for the parent not to save.
If they have too much saved at the end of the year all the better.

Honestly, have you ever been part of a family that was short of money?
I do not mean "not enough cash to go out tonight", I mean broke

It is a lot easier to pay a HP bill than it is to ignore a massive wad of cash in the saving account, that would pay this weeks food bill.

RichyX

norrie rugger wrote: »

Honestly, have you ever been part of a family that was short of money?

I've no intention of giving my family history an airing on here, thanks.

norrie rugger wrote: »

It is a lot easier to pay a HP bill than it is to ignore a massive wad of cash in the saving account, that would pay this weeks food bill.

It's a lot easier to preempt Xmas and save a few € a week than it is to pay a massive HP bill. No?

If you can't even afford food for your family I don't think a HP plan is a very good option.

4Xcut

RichyX wrote: »

I've no intention of giving my family history an airing on here, thanks.



It's a lot easier to preempt Xmas and save a few € a week than it is to pay a massive HP bill. No?

If you can't even afford food for your family I don't think a HP plan is a very good option.

Have to agree here - HP things don't come before food.

Tails142

I'm with richy on this, Xmas is an expensive time of the year for everyone but paying nearly twice the amount on goods is hardly helping anyone, even if it is hire purchase!!

Fair enough about the saving not being easy, it would be the best way as you'd even be getting interest throughout the year so be saving even more money, but for a cash strapped family, or even a non cash strapped family, it takes a lot of discipline and you have to resist dipping into the savings every time you see something nice.

BoI even do a 2in1 credit card, where you can buy something on the credit card and then switch it over to a payment plan with 8.9% interest, while not ideal as you will be paying interest, an APR of 8.9% will give you a LOT better value than a hire purchase agreement of the likes of oxendales and is ideal for buying something like a Wii.

Anyway, that's just my 2 cents.

norrie rugger

4Xcut wrote: »

Have to agree here - HP things don't come before food.

I would never get something on HP, even saved up an paid cash for my car.

What I am saying, is that when a family is broke one week, those savings look really tempting

I agree with ritchie also. This "Want.. Must Have.. NOW!" culture has effected us all quite badly.
We need to remember how important it is to save, not buy on the never never. Everyone should have a Credit Union account or some form of savings account that has no instant access to it. ie a bankcard.
It really isn't that hard to put 5-10euro a week away.

And yes, I grew up broke before anyone asks :P

norrie rugger

Papa Smut wrote: »

I agree with ritchie also. This "Want.. Must Have.. NOW!" culture has effected us all quite badly.
We need to remember how important it is to save, not buy on the never never. Everyone should have a Credit Union account or some form of savings account that has no instant access to it. ie a bankcard.
It really isn't that hard to put 5-10euro a week away.

And yes, I grew up broke before anyone asks :P

I was delighted when the CU card scheme failed

Grew up with not much either, think it is why I avoid HP like the plague but I bet it does seem an easy option to families with more than one kid

Saying that, most people have the biggest scam HP there is, Mortgages