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seagate 500gb portable HDD USB3 Argos 25quid

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    #362
    Dave..M
    Registered Users Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Dave..M


    mac.in wrote: »
    I agree with you. But, I waited for nearly 4 days to get a code for Cork. Everyday, it vanished within seconds it was available. Then, there were lot of discussions on swap, etc. So, I thought why shouldn't I give a try. If everyone followed your advice, I would have got a code for cork by now. :(

    Your logic makes no sense. This thread is dead to me.


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    #363
    mac.in
    Registered Users Posts: 594 ✭✭✭mac.in


    Dave..M wrote: »
    Your logic makes no sense. This thread is dead to me.

    I was having your logic till I reserved. Anyways, it's all subjective.


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    #364
    Gits_bone
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭Gits_bone


    on_my_oe wrote: »
    If argos had a problem with it, they would take steps to prevent it - charge at reservation or minimal deposit to be deducted from the final price or forfeited to charity if not collected BUT argos are happy with the way their service runs.

    If you ban it, it will still happen underground.

    If it upsets you, just don't read the threads - what you don't know won't hurt you. It's much like a Tesco deal where the staff keep everything for themselves... Do I wish I'd gotten some of those deals, but hey, life goes on. What does surprise me us how upset you all are, it's a saving of €25, is it worth the nastiness some of you are directing to other boardsies?

    It's not anything wrong with argos, it's prícks who reserve things in stores when they have no intention of picking it up. They then use it as a bargaining tool to swap for a store near them.

    Celtic girl reserved several in different counties and was looking for a swap. I asked earlier for a naas code, she asks for one this evening and gets it. It's a shítty thing to do, should be banned.


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    #365
    TheDriver
    Registered Users Posts: 12,434 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    Blame me.....i started the thread. Or better again thank my OP for giving us a bit of craic for few days! Ps I reserved all mine before posting!


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    #366
    on_my_oe
    Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭on_my_oe


    athtrasna wrote: »
    What's really annoying me is there's a codes thread for people to offer or seek codes but almost 300 posts on this thread are to do just that, clogging up the thread sometimes leading to people missing availability updates. Is it really so hard to click the correct thread?

    Now that I agree with - requests should go in requests, and anyone asking in the wrong thread should get one warning followed by a ban.


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    #367
    Dave..M
    Registered Users Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Dave..M


    TheDriver wrote: »
    Blame me.....i started the thread. Or better again thank my OP for giving us a bit of craic for few days! Ps I reserved all mine before posting!

    I blame the creator of checkargos.com, truly an evil genius at heart although maybe like Oppenheimer he wistfully regrets his moment of clarity as people from Co. Monaghan reserve his prized steam mop in Wexford town!


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    #368
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Dave..M wrote: »
    I blame the creator of checkargos.com, truly an evil genius at heart although maybe like Oppenheimer he wistfully regrets his moment of clarity as people from Co. Monaghan reserve his prized steam mop in Wexford town!

    We're coming for witnessmenow next, pitchforks in hand. (reserved online as one was in stock in dundalk)


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    #369
    Blankety
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭Blankety


    nc6000 wrote: »
    The trouble people are going to to save €20 odd quid on something they probably don't even really want is remarkable.

    Couldn't agree more. To save 20 euro on a device from probably the manufacturer with the worst reputation in this sector is amazing what some folk are getting up to.

    For those who didn't get a code, while it's a good price it not a good bargain if you must loose a few hours of your life hitting refresh on a PC keyboard.

    Would be very interesting to see the stats from checkargos for number of searches/refreshes on the HDD SKU.


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    #370
    db
    Registered Users Posts: 1,085 ✭✭✭db


    Gits_bone wrote: »
    It's not anything wrong with argos, it's prícks who reserve things in stores when they have no intention of picking it up. They then use it as a bargaining tool to swap for a store near them.

    Celtic girl reserved several in different counties and was looking for a swap. I asked earlier for a naas code, she asks for one this evening and gets it. It's a shítty thing to do, should be banned.
    And who were you going to get a code from other than someone who had reserved it in your local store? It sounds to me like you resent her getting the code and you didn't. At least she was able to help someone else out and I'm sure they were happy to get the code same as I was. It's a bit hypocritical of you to be asking for others to be banned for doing the same as you.


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    #371
    Lau2976
    Registered Users Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭Lau2976


    I think its pretty poor form to try to get swaps. I understand getting a code, then getting one closer, and offering up your previous. But what do people swapping do when the code is close to expiring? Just leave it?


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    #372
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    on_my_oe wrote: »
    If it upsets you, just don't read the threads - what you don't know won't hurt you. It's much like a Tesco deal where the staff keep everything for themselves... Do I wish I'd gotten some of those deals, but hey, life goes on. What does surprise me us how upset you all are, it's a saving of €25, is it worth the nastiness some of you are directing to other boardsies?

    It hurts people if they can't get something in their local store because some tool in the other side of the country reserves them in order to horse trade.

    I said it before, but some people don't seem to understand that they're causing the shortages and crazyiness seen here.


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    #373
    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,746 ✭✭✭degsie


    Deal has expired. No stock. Close this mods.


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    #374
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Lau2976 wrote: »
    ...But what do people swapping do when the code is close to expiring? Just leave it?....

    That how the system is meant to work. If people don't collect it does back into stock. That's the system working normally.


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    #375
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    degsie wrote: »
    Deal has expired. No stock. Close this mods.

    Why?

    What normally happens is that a bargain thread is brought back when an offer comes back. Not that it gets closed. If people don't want updates they can unsub. Agros offers (and Dell) and other offers often get repeated every few months.


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    #376
    Lau2976
    Registered Users Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭Lau2976


    beauf wrote: »
    That how the system is meant to work. If people don't collect it does back into stock. That's the system working normally.

    I meant there's a lot of people looking for codes for a lot of different places. You shouldn't not give the code to someone here because you couldn't swa with someone.


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    #377
    Hackery
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭Hackery


    Nice one


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    #378
    Corholio
    Registered Users Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    db wrote: »
    And who were you going to get a code from other than someone who had reserved it in your local store? It sounds to me like you resent her getting the code and you didn't. At least she was able to help someone else out and I'm sure they were happy to get the code same as I was. It's a bit hypocritical of you to be asking for others to be banned for doing the same as you.

    By reserving multiple codes she also probably stopped someone from getting any in their local store. So as much as she 'helped', she also stopped other people getting them. Also im sure more than 1 person does this so thats multiple items in multiple stores being reserved for this swapping tactic. People are free to do it, but expect to get criticised for doing so.


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    #379
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Doesn't matter. If they aren't collected they go back to stock. In a day or so.

    If you check the stock the next day you'll see this stock..

    Over Xmas stock disappeared and reappeared constantly.


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    #380
    Corholio
    Registered Users Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    beauf wrote: »
    Doesn't matter. If they aren't collected they go back to stock. In a day or so.

    If you check the stock the next day you'll see this stock..

    Over Xmas stock disappeared and reappeared constantly.

    I know this but of course it matters, not everyone can be online to reserve these things every day. If it says 'out of stock' you have to guess how many might be in reservation and how many have just been actually bought.


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    #381
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Lots of stuff goes out of stock that is never mentioned on boards at all.

    Your never going to stop that.

    You could stop people from spamming up the threads though.


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    #382
    Gits_bone
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭Gits_bone


    db wrote: »
    And who were you going to get a code from other than someone who had reserved it in your local store? It sounds to me like you resent her getting the code and you didn't. At least she was able to help someone else out and I'm sure they were happy to get the code same as I was. It's a bit hypocritical of you to be asking for others to be banned for doing the same as you.

    I hope when a bargain alert you want pops up, you go to argos and someone has reserved stock in your area where they have no intention of collecting....they ask for a code swap and they don't give it to you.

    -It's a shítty thing to do. Any word from a mod on if it's going to be allowed happen?


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    #383
    Doodah7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,743 ✭✭✭Doodah7


    It's quite simple really, just ban users who look for a code outside of the designated thread. After a couple of dozen bans, the message will finally get through some people's (incredibly) thick skulls not to ask for codes despite the Mods posting warning in relevant threads.

    Problem of the whole forum being wrecked by people blatantly abusing the reservation system solved.

    Banning the trading of codes on Boards would knock that activity on the head fairly lively also...


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    #384
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    beauf wrote: »
    That seems very slow.

    Are you copying between two equal drives both connected to usb 3 ports while the machine is doing nothing else?


    If the USB port on the PC is 3.0 as well it'll be a lot faster than 5MB/s, or at least should be.


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    #385
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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    #386
    Dard23
    Registered Users Posts: 278 ✭✭Dard23


    What about people not on boards who would like to buy a good cheap hdd?! How is it fair that ye come along and reserve all these drives in stores that ye have no intention of using? It's bad form and should be banned along with the promoters of this ridiculous selfish act!


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    #387
    on_my_oe
    Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭on_my_oe


    Patww79 wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    I don't believe anyone was selling codes for this bargain, but there was someone selling codes before for another product - I think he was banned


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    #388
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    Dard23 wrote: »
    What about people not on boards who would like to buy a good cheap hdd?! How is it fair that ye come along and reserve all these drives in stores that ye have no intention of using? It's bad form and should be banned along with the promoters of this ridiculous selfish act!


    ...Peasants?


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    #389
    Dard23
    Registered Users Posts: 278 ✭✭Dard23


    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »
    ...Peasants?

    People on here obviously seem to think so as the general public don't deserve any bargains.


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    #390
    baldshin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,366 ✭✭✭baldshin


    If Argos were to charge a fee, say €5, and then deduct this from the price when you collect, I bet it would put a bit of an end to all this reserving stuff unless you genuinely were going to pick u the product. Would save a lot of messing about!


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    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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