Amazon Echo

harr

Ok I see amazon in France are selling second generation Echo for just under €50 but I can’t seem to get delivery to here.
Anyway around this?

https://www.amazon.fr/Amazon-g%C3%A9n%C3%A9ration-Enceinte-connect%C3%A9e-anthracite/dp/B079PNT5TK/ref=sr_tr_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528485995&sr=8-1&keywords=echo

Kolido

Pretty good deal. Been checking for couriers delivering to Ire but cant find any.

Pugzilla

Do they deliver to UK? Could use parcel wizard/motel if so. Let me know if that works.

droidman123

It states clearly that they only deliver to metropolitan france and monaco.if anyone wants,they could try france office,its a parcel wizard type operation,i,m not sure of their prices

Kolido

That frence office services looks expensive. You have sub to it for a min 1 month and 1 delivery on that you're talking about 25eur.

Probably handier waiting for the UK site to have them on sale.

Suckit

There are a couple of mail forwarders in France

airnshop - http://airnshop.com/
colisexpat - https://www.colisexpat.com/pages/en/
Parcl - https://fromfrance.parcl.com/

If they deliver to Germany you could use mailboxde.com

Pugzilla

The most they've ever dropped to on Amazon UK is £70.

odddavey

Pugzilla wrote: »

The most they've ever dropped to on Amazon UK is £70.

68£ inc delivery. Not sure if they post directly to Ireland.

Amazon Echo (2nd Gen) £67.93 @ QVC - potentially £62.93 with code FIVE4U (New Customers only)

http://www.qvcuk.com/Amazon-Echo-2nd-Generation-with-Alexa.product.513952.html

harr

Doesn’t seem to be away around the French only delivery,well a cheap option. I way wait for for a good deal in the uk.
Thanks for all the suggestions.

odddavey

harr wrote: »

Doesn’t seem to be away around the French only delivery,well a cheap option. I way wait for for a good deal in the uk.
Thanks for all the suggestions.

I can't see it going below 63 pounds. Think you should of gone with the QVC offer. Gone back up now to 99£.
For anyone who did order. Do you have to use addresspal or parcel motel. What was the full price?

Im getting an Amazon Echo second generation from America,My sister is out there and they are 80 usd.My question,before she buys it,will the power adaptor that comes with it work in Ireland? Can it be charged via a USB connection?

Etnies

zorro2566 wrote: »

Im getting an Amazon Echo second generation from America,My sister is out there and they are 80 usd.My question,before she buys it,will the power adaptor that comes with it work in Ireland? Can it be charged via a USB connection?

They're not micro usb you'll need a plug adapter

Thanks, does that convert American wattage to work here? What sort of thing do I need to get for it to work here, sorry, bit thick about these things?

Etnies

zorro2566 wrote: »

Thanks, does that convert American wattage to work here? What sort of thing do I need to get for it to work here, sorry, bit thick about these things?

Just your standard adapter you'd get for holidays

Kolido

zorro2566 wrote: »

Im getting an Amazon Echo second generation from America,My sister is out there and they are 80 usd.My question,before she buys it,will the power adaptor that comes with it work in Ireland? Can it be charged via a USB connection?

I'd imagine a regular adapter with usb port will work. Not sure what you mean by charge but afaik, this device is mains only, there is not internal battery. Im open to correction on that though.

Dazzy

odddavey wrote: »

I can't see it going below 63 pounds. Think you should of gone with the QVC offer. Gone back up now to 99£.
For anyone who did order. Do you have to use addresspal or parcel motel. What was the full price?

They post direct to Ireland for £4.04 so with the discount code the delivered price was £65.64.

hudsonn

Echo Dot is now £24.99 on Amazon UK

Echo Dot (3rd Gen) - Smart speaker with Alexa - Charcoal Fabric

BBMcQ

hudsonn wrote: »

Echo Dot is now £24.99 on Amazon UK

Echo Dot (3rd Gen) - Smart speaker with Alexa - Charcoal Fabric

Lots of discounts across the entire Echo range, must be due a refresh? Yet again, Amazon pick the most random discount seasons.

Skerries

what are the differences from the original Dot?

The_B_Man

Sound quality is a lot better in the new one.
Its slightly bigger and isn't powered by USB any more either.

RocketRaccoon

Waiting for a discount on the echo auto, probably won't see one until prime day/Black Friday though.

hudsonn

BBMcQ wrote: »

Lots of discounts across the entire Echo range, must be due a refresh? Yet again, Amazon pick the most random discount seasons.

They seem to be doing these one day price drops a lot these days. They dropped the Echo Dot to £30 last month so I grabbed one. Went back up to £50 the next day - as has this one which is now back at full price.

Citizenpain

hudsonn wrote: »

They seem to be doing these one day price drops a lot these days. They dropped the Echo Dot to £30 last month so I grabbed one. Went back up to £50 the next day - as has this one which is now back at full price.

Yeah , seems very random . The dot with clock is 55 today. It was 35 a couple of weeks ago

redzerdrog

Back up to £49.99 unfortunately

Shefwedfan

BBMcQ wrote: »

Lots of discounts across the entire Echo range, must be due a refresh? Yet again, Amazon pick the most random discount seasons.

They do it randomly alright, but normally not due a refresh just trying to shift stock.



I picked up the echo dot with clock for 25 pounds the other day. Had the GIDT05 vouchers remaining......


I would expect they will do it across all amazon stuff over the next few weeks.

ablelocks

most Amazon Echo (and other devices) on sale again...

the corpo

That's a great price for the Echo 3rd gen. I bought two the last time they were reduced to use a stereo pair. Not quite as a good as a Sonos One, but for that price, fantastic for the kitchen!

hudsonn

This is the only time I've ever seen the Echo Studio reduced in price.

Only £40 off but still quite tempting.


Introducing Echo Studio | High-fidelity smart speaker with 3D audio and Alexa

The_B_Man

Not familiar with the Echo Studio.
Reviews aren't great.
What is it? Just a bigger Alexa speaker?

Skerries

Echo devices also on sale in Argos

Echo Dot €36.99
Echo €59.99
Echo Plus €79.99
Echo Studio €179.99

https://www.argos.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?storeId=10152&catalogId=15051&langId=111&searchTerms=echo&authToken=-1002%252CTb6zd56kFOpztp1WPmC9rktuDxQ%253D

tony1980

hudsonn wrote: »

This is the only time I've ever seen the Echo Studio reduced in price.

Only £40 off but still quite tempting.


Introducing Echo Studio | High-fidelity smart speaker with 3D audio and Alexa

140 I’m seeing

Edit: 40 off, read it wrong!

hudsonn

Echo Plus (2nd Gen), Charcoal Fabric + Philips Hue White bulb B22

£64.99

dinneenp

Anyone using an Echo Auto, if so what's your thoughts on it?

dinneenp

dinneenp wrote: »

Anyone using an Echo Auto, if so what's your thoughts on it?

Looks interesting - seems to have an aux out in case your car is too old for bluetooth, which is nice. Tempted as I've 3 echos in the house, might as well put Alexa in the car too. Of course it's all dependent on having a reliable 4g connection on your commute - that is the biggest problem for me.

Raoul

I have an echo auto for sale on adverts if anyone is interested. I found it decent enough but I have moved over to google home after getting a pixel phone. So I sold my echo dots and trying to sell the Echo auto too.

bobbyy gee

amazon does not work well in Ireland i would go with google
don't forget both companies record all your audio and video all the time and store it forbever in the cloud

yoshimitsu

bobbyy gee wrote: »

don't forget both companies record all your audio and video all the time and store it forbever in the cloud

this is not true. i'm certain that you can delete all you voice requests manually (i have done it) but i think you can also opt out of having them stored.


plus the echo starts recording only when it hears the call wake word ("alexa, ..." in most cases). the rest of the time it is only listening for that call word locally, i.e. nothing gets uploaded to the cloud

Irishphotodesk

yoshimitsu wrote: »

this is not true. i'm certain that you can delete all you voice requests manually (i have done it) but i think you can also opt out of having them stored.


plus the echo starts recording only when it hears the call wake word ("alexa, ..." in most cases). the rest of the time it is only listening for that call word locally, i.e. nothing gets uploaded to the cloud

If you believe that all to be true that's fine.... As I understand it, most people believe Alexa, Facebook, Google etc are constantly recording/listening to our devices so they can improve their services and find niche markets to release products and advertising.

Facebook, Google can target advertising in a specific way, if you have a product that you wish to target at single males ages 18-24 who are into underwater engineering they can find your target market, they do this by knowing everything about the people that use their products.

hudsonn

Amazon Echo 3rd Gen
£18.99 - Prime Day Special

Absolute bargain and these ones look a lot better than the weird new "ball" shaped ones IMHO!

weetiepie

hudsonn wrote: »

Amazon Echo 3rd Gen
£18.99 - Prime Day Special

Absolute bargain and these ones look a lot better than the weird new "ball" shaped ones IMHO!

Just bought one, it'll be my first ever.

dinneenp

Costs more but get much better sound from the Echo Plus. They have 3rd gen one for £49.99 which is very good value- link

dinneenp

hudsonn wrote: »

Amazon Echo 3rd Gen
£18.99 - Prime Day Special

Absolute bargain and these ones look a lot better than the weird new "ball" shaped ones IMHO!

I presume the ball shape one is for audio improvement.

Skerries

if you have a wireless speaker lying around just pair it with that

dinneenp

Skerries wrote: »

if you have a wireless speaker lying around just pair it with that

That's exactly what I do in my kitchen- Echo dot and 2 Bose Soundtouch 10 speakers, one on either end of the kitchen.