Harvey Norman mid night sale

johndaman66

Hi all,

Quick one for ye. Do ye know anything about Harvey Normans midnight sale happening over the weekend and the sort of reductions or lines they have on sale? They are making a lot of noise about it on the radio.

To be honest I'm not a major fan of theirs. No doubt they don't sell any junk but they do think they are pricey any time I go in....Maybe I'm just not spotting their bargains. I'd also be a little skeptical of establishments like Harvey Norman who seem to have a sale on almost every weekend. If I go along a few times that they have a sale advertised and I don't see any bargains it sort of turns into the boy who cried wolf scenario. Maybe I'm answering my own questions here but if anybody is able to throw any further positive light on it I might pop along.

Finally I'm a bit skeptical of how the sale starts at 9pm in the evening. Do they close the store beforehand to mark the sale prices on the sale items or do these items drop in price come 9pm. Seems a bit of a bizzare scenario to me really

Red Nissan

Went there on Monday and saw a nice touchscreen laptop for €429.

Heard the ad for the midnight secret sale and had to negotiate a packed car park, the laptop was still there, the price just €429.

Ten seconds later I left with my cash, I've been unlucky like that a lot at Harvey's,

TheBrinch

Its says on their website that its an allday sale today only....cant find any info about a sale over the weekend


http://www.harveynorman.ie/promos/secret-sale.html

Ilyushin76

TheBrinch wrote: »

Its says on their website that its an allday sale today only....cant find any info about a sale over the weekend


http://www.harveynorman.ie/promos/secret-sale.html

Every ad I hear about them is announcing a big sale ....

TheBrinch

Ilyushin76 wrote: »

Every ad I hear about them is announcing a big sale ....

Yet the prices always remain the same

wil

so how big a secret is it and how huge the discounts?
Would you be able to tell if you were there?
Very sceptical about these "secret sales"
Is obsolete stuff in baskets a sale?

johndaman66

Hmm, yer pretty much confirming my suspicions folks:)

I actually had a piece of furniture in mind for my mother as she done some work around the house during the year and is always quite generous to me with presents but think I'll give them a skip.

I appreciate you will pay well for decent furniture but do think EZ living have just as good as quality. more lines and perhaps that bit better value.

As usual with Harvey Norman its probably a lot of noise about nothing. Thanks for replies all

pah

Stopped off at the Cork store, Kinsale Rd on the way home. Absolute ball of ****e as usual. I don't know why I bother even looking.

delthedriver

Soundstore also have a one day only sale today!!

Red Nissan

pah wrote: »

Stopped off at the Cork store, Kinsale Rd on the way home. Absolute ball of ****e as usual. I don't know why I bother even looking.

Yes, but we must do what the ads say to us, we are like rabbits in car headlights at night or those kids following a Pied Piper. I looked too, thanks for the confirmation.

Zonda999

This is undoubtedly the same aul crock of sh*te every other HN sale is. Other than if you're absolutely clueless about tech, I don't know why people bother shopping there other than effectively anyone else. From my experience, they are consistently more expensive than the other bricks and mortar shops

vicwatson

Sssssshhh its a secret

e.r

Iv heard right price tiles might be having a SALE this weekend !!

vicwatson

e.r wrote: »

Iv heard right price tiles might be having a SALE this weekend !!

And carpet right !!

darragh o meara

Went in there this morning to buy two tablets. Was looking forward to getting a few quid off as there was a sale on. The tablet I was lookung for was exactly the same price as it was two days ago and to make it worse the sane salesperson I was dealing with the other day came over and tries to tell me that there is 50,euro off the tablet. Funny enough he showed it to me two days ago at that price, when I called him up on it he shrugged his shoulders and ccontinued onto the next customer..

Advert should have went.. Harvey Norman Midnight sale , Prices same as yesterday but you'llstill buy it cos you think its cheap

hfallada

Furniture from chain stores is always ****. It's kinda cheap, but no really and won't last. My parents brought a hand made Italian sofa from Arnotts which is a 3+2 seater for about €2,500 and its still perfect 10 years later.

They also brought an fairly pricey table from habitat which is still perfect.

A real bargain is a piece of furniture that is genuinely on sale and will last you 25 years at least.

Truckermal

vicwatson wrote: »

And carpet right !!

Dont forget Jean scene, they seem to be closing down with the last 7 years...

delthedriver

darragh o meara wrote: »

Went in there this morning to buy two tablets. Was looking forward to getting a few quid off as there was a sale on. The tablet I was lookung for was exactly the same price as it was two days ago and to make it worse the sane salesperson I was dealing with the other day came over and tries to tell me that there is 50,euro off the tablet. Funny enough he showed it to me two days ago at that price, when I called him up on it he shrugged his shoulders and ccontinued onto the next customer..

Advert should have went.. Harvey Norman Midnight sale , Prices same as yesterday but you'llstill buy it cos you think its cheap

Harvey Norman or Hardly Normal?:D

beauf

Hiding prices is never a good sign of a deal.

Of course someone will pop up here with some ridiculous bargain that almost no one else can get in the store.

sundodger5

Got a set of headphones in Harveys today. They had 15% off them all. Genuine reduction as I was in the day before checking prices.

delthedriver

beauf wrote: »

Hiding prices is never a good sign of a deal.

Of course someone will pop up here with some ridiculous bargain that almost no one else can get in the store.

Funny you should say that 50" Widescreen TV for €99!

Only joking:D

readytosnap

went in today to buy a telly, saved myself 700 euros.

readytosnap

I didn't buy anything of them.

Red Nissan

readytosnap wrote: »

went in today to buy a telly, saved myself 700 euros.

I presume you know that euros means 'toilet' as in waste closet and you're making a joke. Funny then.

delthedriver

readytosnap wrote: »

went in today to buy a telly, saved myself 700 euros.

Yeah right! It was the same price yesterday;)

Dontfadeaway

Their black friday online sale seemed good.

Red Nissan

Dontfadeaway wrote: »

Their black friday online sale seemed good.

So you did not buy then?

Kev_2012

I used work there years ago. You are encouraged to haggle with the salespeople. If there is a sale on, not everything is gonna be reduced! The sooner people realize that the better. They are a business trying to make money so they are hardly gonna give the goods away for half nothing.

If that laptop was 429E then you should've tried to bargain with the salesperson to get 10% off or even get it for 400E or get a free mouse or something thrown in. Now PC World and Currys on the other hand you can't bargain with, but they are generally cheaper from the off.

BTW I worked for both.

Red Nissan

Kev_2012 wrote: »

The sooner people realize that the better. h.

To Bee Honest, rubbish, this has already been disproved when a poster pointed out that the laptop was still the same price.

Sooner Harvey Norman advertise HONESTLY, the better.

I will show 96FM this post, we, consumers MUST allow ourselves to be fooled. Norman nearly failed recently, maybe there is cause for that, maybe it should, especially as it treats it's potential customers as idiots and WE should accept this?

It's bad enough that is happens, it's bad that the company EXPECTS us oblige, bye bye Harvey, I can't believe it was your official policy,

cs5

I had a similar issue with HM during their last January ''sale''. We were looking at beds in their store in Airside in December and saw one we really liked for €599. Decided to wait for the January sale and take our chances on it being reduced. Went in during the sale and ta dah the price had gone UP to €650. The saleswoman said to us ''look I shouldn't be doing this but I'll give you a Manager discount of €50 to €600''.

When we pulled her up on it and told her the price was €599 in Dec she simply shrugged her shoulders and walked away. Haven't bought anything from them since. :mad:

rob316

Harvey norman is a joke. I saw a mattress once in there I asked the salesperson what your best price, she dropped 300 off it straight away. I walked out if they can drop 300 off it how much more are they making on it?

but saying that I have gotten alot of genuine bargains from there but just be wise and be armed with your smart phone to check prices against other places.

wil

Did I miss it:rolleyes:

Eoin

Red Nissan wrote: »

Went there on Monday and saw a nice touchscreen laptop for €429.

Sorry for going off topic, but was that the 11" HP one? Was looking at it myself but can't find much info on it online.

billie1b

I'm nearly sure the first time I heard the ad on 98fm they said 'the prices are gonna be so high its a secret', so I listened out for it again and heard the same thing 3 times. It was a scam to get people into the shop and buy, typical sale scam, up the price by 50%, scratch it out and write 'sale price now €???' which is the original price anyways. Smyths, Dunnes, Irish Ferries, Aer Lingus and nearly all clothes shops are good for it.

Kev_2012

Red Nissan wrote: »

To Bee Honest, rubbish, this has already been disproved when a poster pointed out that the laptop was still the same price.

Sooner Harvey Norman advertise HONESTLY, the better.

I will show 96FM this post, we, consumers MUST allow ourselves to be fooled. Norman nearly failed recently, maybe there is cause for that, maybe it should, especially as it treats it's potential customers as idiots and WE should accept this?

It's bad enough that is happens, it's bad that the company EXPECTS us oblige, bye bye Harvey, I can't believe it was your official policy,

Rubbish? Where did that poster ever mention that the particular laptop in question was reduced during the sale? You do realize that not everything in the store is reduced during the sale don't you?

Have a look at a stores sale catalogue, you will find things that have been reduced. Just because the Apple macbook you wanted is still the same price doesn't mean that they are not having a sale, they are having a sale on the other items. Salespeople on commission also need to make their money, it is based on your profit margin.

If a 2K euro tv has 200 euro profit margin and they make a percentage of that, then why should they give it to you for 1800? I understand that things can be expensive and that, but in that case, don't buy em! But you have to also cop on a bit and understand how the world works. No wonder half the businesses find it difficult in Ireland. Christ above!

"It costs us 300euro to buy a laptop so lets advertise it for 500". "Lets have a sale and mark it down to 450". Let the sales people have 50-100 to play with for making a deal and then count the cost of rent, wages, bills, franchise cost etc. etc. etc. and how the f*ck do you expect the business to survive. I suggest you do a bit of research on the world of retail before you start rambling on.

I haven't worked in retail since 2008 by the way, just hitting you with a bit of common sense and my own knowledge of the area.

delthedriver

There should be blood letting after Christmas when unsold stock remains on the shelves on Christmas Eve.

Watch for the real sales when Hardly Normal, Peasy World and others lock horns and do battle before closing time on New Years Eve!!!!!;)

Blinked_Missed It

Went to HM a few times a few years ago for a 42" TV's. I'd done my research pretty thoroughly and had checked their prices for a few weeks prior. The last time I went in the TV I was looking for was marked on sale. Down from 1200 to 1000. Problem is the TV was only marked up from 1000 to 1200 a week earlier.

I pointed this out to the sales guy and was sneered, sighed, threw his eyes to heaven, told me to speak to a manager, pointed at him and walked away. I asked the manager why it was marked sale when consumer law required it to be at the previous price for 28 consecutive days prior. He told me to "call someone who cares", smiled smugly and walked off.

One last try I went to another sales guy & explained the issue & also told him the TV's they were selling by display & description had different panels in them & they may want to check this with Philips to avoid problems for themselves with returns and refunds (earlier display models has LG panels, boxed ones disastrously bad Sharps with 20 degree viewing angles). I was told "yeah fine" and he just stared at me. I worked in retail for yrs. I don't ever harass, raise my voice etc to staff. There was no need for that behaviour.

I brought the same thing to Richer Sounds attention & was thanked by them & they sourced me the right TV & I paid my cash. Awesome service from RS as always.

Point is HM have complained for years about rents, taxes, you name it they complained to explain poor sales. For most people I know they won't buy from them because they break the law and try and screw their prospective customers. Theres no such thing as a HM sale, just a con job with flashy advertising.

delthedriver

delthedriver wrote: »

There should be blood letting after Christmas when unsold stock remains on the shelves on Christmas Eve.

Watch for the real sales when Hardly Normal, Peasy World and others lock horns and do battle before closing time on New Years Eve!!!!!;)

Watch out then for closing down sales in the New Year. There is bound to be a casualty or two!:)

goz83

Kev_2012 wrote: »

I used work there years ago. You are encouraged to haggle with the salespeople. If there is a sale on, not everything is gonna be reduced! The sooner people realize that the better. They are a business trying to make money so they are hardly gonna give the goods away for half nothing.

If that laptop was 429E then you should've tried to bargain with the salesperson to get 10% off or even get it for 400E or get a free mouse or something thrown in. Now PC World and Currys on the other hand you can't bargain with, but they are generally cheaper from the off.

BTW I worked for both.

Yeah this has been my experience. If i buy anything in HN, i normally go into currys first and get the price (which they dont haggle on) and then return to HN and get a few more quid off. Lat time, i got 3D tv price matched and was able to collect straight away. Currys had no stock. I got a wall bracket thrown in for peanut money, because i accidentally confused the sales rep when i told him that currys were selling a similar one for a much lower price. I was only chancing my arm to get a reduction, but i walked away with the most expensive wall bracket (€120) for about €40.

Migworks

This makes me chuckle, the wife's cousin works for HN and via Facebook we got a staff family and friends invite for a 3 hr sale bonanza a few weeks back. We were hunting for tablets for Xmas so I travelled the 20 miles to the store for a look around. Now I haven't kept up with tablet specs and prices this last year, but knew iPad prices quite well!

Was looking at the iPad mini priced at 339 but when I asked what the staff discount was I was informed it to bring the price down to 299. I thought that's a tasty discount but was sure Tesco's were doing it at 299 anyway so left it. As I walked out (much to his dismay), I picked up their Xmas brochure and opened it and on the 2nd page taking up half the area they are advertising the very same iPad at.....299! I went back to the sales guy and asked him and his implausible explanation was the sign showing 339 was old and they were waiting for new a4 posters to come from apple!!! I laughed at him and told him they were conning people to which he rolled his eyes, shrugged his shoulders and walked away, (wonder if that is taught in training).

Never, Ever, EVER, buy goods without doing some research. A lot of People have smart phones these days, use them in store to check prices, even show the sales guy your checking so he/she knows they can't bluff.

beauf

Raising a price then pretending to give a discount, back to the original price, or higher than original price, while giving a low discount on very low volume items, is not a sale, as most people would understand the term.

Because its been so badly miss-used by so many retailers, the word sale has become meaningless for a lot of people.

Fiery mutant

cs5 wrote: »

I had a similar issue with HM during their last January ''sale''. We were looking at beds in their store in Airside in December and saw one we really liked for €599. Decided to wait for the January sale and take our chances on it being reduced. Went in during the sale and ta dah the price had gone UP to €650. The saleswoman said to us ''look I shouldn't be doing this but I'll give you a Manager discount of €50 to €600''.

When we pulled her up on it and told her the price was €599 in Dec she simply shrugged her shoulders and walked away. Haven't bought anything from them since. :mad:

Total bull****. If you're gonna make something up, at least make a realistic effort at it. Not everything in the store is gonna be on sale, as has already been pointed out by another poster.

Picking and choosing your spots makes no sense. Don't say "well that laptop I saw for 429 yesteay was still 429 today so it's all bull****". If you can't pick or negotiate yourself a bargain in these sales, then try harder.

delthedriver

I simply fail to understand the arrogance of the people in Hardly Normal. Shrugging their shoulders , turning their eyes to heaven , and walking away from the customer is totally unacceptable.

Let us hope they are still around after Christmas to have customers calling in to buy products.:rolleyes:

beauf

Fiery mutant wrote: »

Total bull****. If you're gonna make something up, at least make a realistic effort at it. Not everything in the store is gonna be on sale, as has already been pointed out by another poster. ...

Its seems to be a tactic by a lot of places supermarkets etc, to drop some items and raise other items. One offsets the other. Won't be many people expecting things to increase in price in a sale, so they get caught out.

If you can't trust the prices of anything, you might aswell buy it online where you can compare all the prices and have tools to track price changes.

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mad m

A friend of ours went in last week to buy a laptop. She paid 549 for toshiba one. I said to her its 503 in powercity. So she went back the following day and ask to either price match it or a refund. They gave it to her for 500. Also they gave her Office student and home for 119. But that was 139.

OREGATO

delthedriver wrote: »

I simply fail to understand the arrogance of the people in Hardly Normal. Shrugging their shoulders , turning their eyes to heaven , and walking away from the customer is totally unacceptable.

Let us hope they are still around after Christmas to have customers calling in to buy products.:rolleyes:

Totally agree, but then again, I'd say they get a high level of turnover in staff.

I went to their Nutgrove store last night, we needed a printer and thought, might as well pick up a cheap one. Was packed at around 10.30, went up to one lady and asked her if she could give us a hand, she told me to wait there and she'd get someone, comes back 5 minutes later and says 'Adam will be right over'.. .. Adam never appeared.

We decided upon one ourselves and while walking to the desk, one of their sales people jumps on top of us and says, let me give you an invoice for that, I asked him why I couldn't just go up to the till and he said, this will be easier, give him the printer, he types it in and tells me to go up to the till anyway.. So he delays us just so he can put his name on the sale and earn commission for doing sweet **** all?

Not helping is one thing, but taking commission for it takes the biscuit.

I might point out as well that the till was empty before he jumped on us but by the time we were finished with him, there was a queue of 5 people. I was half tempted to just drop the printer and walk out.

I've noticed over the years that HM seem to be getting worse and worse, I won't be shopping there any more.

Patrickheg

OREGATO wrote: »

Totally agree, but then again, I'd say they get a high level of turnover in staff.

I went to their Nutgrove store last night, we needed a printer and thought, might as well pick up a cheap one. Was packed at around 10.30, went up to one lady and asked her if she could give us a hand, she told me to wait there and she'd get someone, comes back 5 minutes later and says 'Adam will be right over'.. .. Adam never appeared.

We decided upon one ourselves and while walking to the desk, one of their sales people jumps on top of us and says, let me give you an invoice for that, I asked him why I couldn't just go up to the till and he said, this will be easier, give him the printer, he types it in and tells me to go up to the till anyway.. So he delays us just so he can put his name on the sale and earn commission for doing sweet **** all?

Not helping is one thing, but taking commission for it takes the biscuit.

I might point out as well that the till was empty before he jumped on us but by the time we were finished with him, there was a queue of 5 people. I was half tempted to just drop the printer and walk out.

I've noticed over the years that HM seem to be getting worse and worse, I won't be shopping there any more.

To be fair google is your friend and a more knowledgable one too. If I go to an electronics store and like the l look of two items, google for review against each other and other products and also check pricing.

Their staff can't possibly be experts on all the stock that they sell so you would have gotten very little useful information from the staff.

OREGATO

Patrickheg wrote: »

To be fair google is your friend and a more knowledgable one too. If I go to an electronics store and like the l look of two items, google for review against each other and other products and also check pricing.

Their staff can't possibly be experts on all the stock that they sell so you would have gotten very little useful information from the staff.

Don't get me wrong, I'll Google the items I want to buy as well, I'd normally do a good bit more digging and research into the likes of phones/cars/laptops/tablets etc, but for the sake of a cheap printer, I thought some of these guys might have some clue seeing as they're meant to be selling it day in, day out.

Surely they should have at least one person on the floor who is clued up on one specific area? How can you possibly sell an item to joe soap if none of their sales people have a clue about what exactly their selling?

Also, my main gripe isn't the lack of help, it's the fact that one of them only came to put his name on our purchase while not giving us the help.. That's what really annoyed me

Farnsworth

I saw a smart TV that was €26,000 with €7,000 off, now ONLY €19,000
Now that's a big sale!

johndaman66

Some very harsh posts in this thread. I'm not talking about posts against Harvey Norman but against people who highlight Harvey Normans sly tricks and questionable courtesy of their sales staff. I would also suggest that the mark up on a €2,000 tv is more than €200 in a bricks and mortar store such as Harvey Norman.

Also why are people calling Harvey Norman HM?

Anyway, wasn't much on TV so went into their Limerick outlet last night and can safely say its more of the same from them. Just a lot of noise to increase the footfall through the door. The 20% off many of their furniture lines is most likely the discount you would probably negotiate yourself during a period when they don't have a sale on....if that ever happens with them:rolleyes:. The cynic in me tells me the marked price is what you'd end up paying and if you were to try and negotiate any further discount you would be told no can do as the item is at sale price.

Furniture store wasn't overly busy but electrical store was swarming with people. Went over to see what all the fuss was about. Granted I wasn't looking for anything electrical and wouldn't be too clued into the prices of quite a few electrical lines. All the same nothing was jumping out at me as a notable bargain there either.

beauf

Farnsworth wrote: »

I saw a smart TV that was €26,000 with €7,000 off, now ONLY €19,000
Now that's a big sale!

Its cheaper in currys in the UK. Without a sale.

€17,690

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-dvd-blu-ray/televisions/large-screen-tvs-32-and-over/lg-84lm960v-smart-3d-4k-ultra-hd-84-led-tv-19393541-pdt.html