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Wooden Swingset Argos €94.99

  • 11-04-2014 12:04pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭


    Solid wooden Swingset in Argos.ie for €94.99

    Reduced from €379.99

    Coming up as £149.99 on Argos.co.uk so may be a mis-price.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 662 ✭✭✭selfbuilder1


    Thanks a million. Just ordered one seems like a very good price when comparing to other stores.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭daingeanrob


    me too cheers op, happy girl in my house this summer... now to get a summer...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭celticbhoy27


    Good deal, don't see why us culchies should be charged extra for delivery though. "9.95 delivery within Dublin 17.95 rest of country"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 161 ✭✭hoodrats


    a few sticks ,a bit of rope and a few bits of plastic . I wouldn't like to have payed 380 euros for it .:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,901 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    Good deal, don't see why us culchies should be charged extra for delivery though. "9.95 delivery within Dublin 17.95 rest of country"
    Because diesel costs are related to. Distance travelled from warehouse, also wages are based on return. They can do 20 houses in dublin in the time it takes to do 4 houses outside dublin


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,797 ✭✭✭sweetie


    how solid is this? anyone have it yet?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    ted1 wrote: »
    Because diesel costs are related to. Distance travelled from warehouse, also wages are based on return. They can do 20 houses in dublin in the time it takes to do 4 houses outside dublin

    except when its a nationwide company.......
    I find their home delivery terrible, they give you an all day estimated time and can turn up at 7:30 in the morning like they did with me.........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    Looks like a hangman game on the end of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,901 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    TheDriver wrote: »
    except when its a nationwide company.......
    I find their home delivery terrible, they give you an all day estimated time and can turn up at 7:30 in the morning like they did with me.........

    Home deliveries come from a central depot not the closet store


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 456 ✭✭2013Lara


    sweetie wrote: »
    how solid is this? anyone have it yet?

    I don't have this exact set bit have a wooden swing set by plum and very happy with it. Good and strong, mine just hasn't got the climbing part.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭eamonnq


    ted1 wrote: »
    Home deliveries come from a central depot not the closet store

    Unless you ordered a closet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,799 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    I've ordered one of these, cheers OP.
    But on closer inspection, one of the swings is just a rope and a yoke to sit on (like a zip wire thing) which is fine, except if two kids are swinging at the same time, what's to stop the child on the zip-wire seat swinging right across the path of the child on the normal swing.

    Hmmm

    I think I'll put the rope ladder thingy beside the swing and put the zip wire thingy on it's own where the rope ladder is in the picture


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭celticbhoy27


    Anybody get theirs yet? What's the verdict?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭iPhone.


    me too cheers op, happy girl in my house this summer... now to get a summer...

    Summer was on Tuesday here last year if I recall correctly, so it should be on a Wednesday this year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭Loobz


    Akrasia wrote: »
    I've ordered one of these, cheers OP.
    But on closer inspection, one of the swings is just a rope and a yoke to sit on (like a zip wire thing) which is fine, except if two kids are swinging at the same time, what's to stop the child on the zip-wire seat swinging right across the path of the child on the normal swing.

    Hmmm

    I think I'll put the rope ladder thingy beside the swing and put the zip wire thingy on it's own where the rope ladder is in the picture

    I was thinking the same thing. And I will probably do what u suggested with mine. Thanks. Looks very solid overall. 51kg weight while most tubular metal swings weigh half that, even with more things built on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭celticbhoy27


    Out of stock now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,108 ✭✭✭✭2nd Row Donkey


    Wooden ladders, talk to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭celticbhoy27


    back in stock. just purchased. anybody get theirs yet?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭craggy2


    back in stock. just purchased. anybody get theirs yet?

    Yep ..arrived today..looks really sturdy..delighted with it ..be a week or two before we assemble it though...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭dball


    would this need to be secured in theground with cement or is it sturdy enough to just stake in the grass?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,255 ✭✭✭loopymum


    I bought one and was told delivery was slow but I would hear from delivery company between 15th and 18th which I agreed to.
    I just got a phone call from Argos saying they are out of stock and want to refund me, I have refused, their UK website is showing in stock and I created an account to double check, if I lived in UK they would deliver it tomorrow.

    Anyone else get a call?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭Zilog


    dball wrote: »
    would this need to be secured in theground with cement or is it sturdy enough to just stake in the grass?
    Received mine at the weekend and assembled. Quite sturdy, very happy with it, thanks OP!
    Does need to be fixed to the ground though. It is supplied with 4 holding down brackets, intended to be cast into ground using concrete. I used these, dug 4 small holes (approx 150 x 150 x 300mm deep)and used postmix to anchor to ground, mixing postmix outside the hole, then filling hole and inserting supplied brackets. This method did need careful setting out though, so when I put the swing into position the legs lined up with the brackets!
    The swing could easily be drilled and screwed to concrete path or paving using appropriate fixings too. I'm sure stakes into grass would be fine, though you will need long stakes to make sure the movement of the swing does not loosen them!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Buy Postcrete (20kg bag for €6), you dig the hole, fill the hole with water, pour in the Postcrete up to the level of the water and in 10 minutes you're good for a cup of coffee !! Simples


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,255 ✭✭✭loopymum


    When did you order Zilog?

    I ordered on the 24th April


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭Zilog


    loopymum wrote: »
    When did you order Zilog?

    I ordered on the 24th April
    Just checked there, ordered on 19th April, received last Saturday morning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭The lips


    loopymum wrote: »
    Anyone else get a call?

    I got a call Friday, refused there cancellation. They could not give me a delivery date, it looks like they do not want to deliver.

    Play the waiting game I suppose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭The lips


    I caved and accepted the refund.

    Did anyone get there swing set after?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭craggy2


    I got one, told the sister in law, she got one too. Reckon a few got through at the price allright.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭daingeanrob


    I got one too. cheers op..


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 483 ✭✭daveohdave


    OT but has there been any sign of the roofed sandpit this year, have I missed it? Our kids love it but the roof is long gone and I don't want to buy more and until I've a new one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭craggy2


    Got a spare Plum rope ladder and swing seat for this in Tesco
    Naas today reduced to €3.93 each, still some left on shelves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭bigneacy


    Can this be updated to expired. Got excited with Xmas in the horizon.


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