Xbox360 Accessories 100% more expensive in Maplins

Thargor

Was in Maplins today and I was shocked at the rip-off prices on their 360 stuff:



That controller is on their site for £37.99

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=261464

The worst has to be this though:



Thats worth about €50 :eek:

Beanstalk

It was worth about 50euro two years ago, why would they put the price up that much? words fail me.

Antigone05

it might be worth 50euro but the cost is alot more than that.

not over 100 euro though!!

id pay 60-70 max for it

Thargor

Nah they're 50 in HMV and about the same on Ebay, Amazon aswell even.

KTRIC

I think I paid €79 for the wlan adapter on release day. How many moons ago was that ??

omahaid

Feck, that is some rip off, I never figure out how Maplins stay in business.

You should do something more than posting on here. If I were you I would either get in contact with the Maplin HQ or get in contact with a consumer watchdog. I mean you have the evidence to back up the prices they are charging?

Might not achieve anything, but at least you complained.

b4nd1t

got a wireless controller on "sale" at game for 25eur a month or so ago...

maplin just need to be avoided as much as possible and hope they go out of business

Thargor

Deleted User wrote: »

You should do something more than posting on here. If I were you I would either get in contact with the Maplin HQ or get in contact with a consumer watchdog. I mean you have the evidence to back up the prices they are charging?

Might not achieve anything, but at least you complained.

They can charge what they like though cant they? As long as they don't get together with other shops and all agree to charge artificially high prices.

I dont shop in Maplins anyway, I just go in to stare at the delicious tools, mmmmm.

Remouad

Went into maplins to buy 1Gb of DDR ram for my PC. €113.50!! What's worse is there was a 2Gb DDR2 chip right next to it FOR THE EXACT SAME PRICE!!!.
Ended up buying it in PC world for €50

I went back to maplins after. I showed the manager the receipt and told him if he could price match that I would buy it off him(I had €100 maplins vouchers and still have 6 months later!!!).

He said that they don't set the prices. They're set in Head office and they can't do anything about it.

So even the staff know they're way over priced!!!

Venom

Maplins are only good for one thing, going in and having a laugh to cheer yourself up but checking out there mental prices

I remember when the nvidia 8800gt first came out (had only just bought one online) and had a wander around Maplins with mate who wanted to check on blank dvd prices, and I found a Geforce 4 series card going for almost 400 quid on the shelf :rolleyes:

Thephantomsmask

Maplin are a joke, for example on their website a PCB mounted microphone is £2.49, I found a small company called Bowood electronics that does them for 65 pence online so Maplin even rip off their UK customers compared to other UK component suppliers. They beat Maplin hands down on every component I checked and charged less than £4 shipping for a large order. I dread to think what Maplin's postage to Ireland would be for the same order. I only bother going into their bricks and mortar store if I'm in real need of a component asap.