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Argos RIP thread

TheDriver

The previous chat thread #1 is closed due to some weirdness going on with the code etc so we'll continue it here.

I know this is 'chat' thread but can we keep it strictly to the items posted in the Argos Bargains thread for everyone's benefit.

Thanks

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beauf

Its been up and down for weeks. Usually back in a day or so.

Electric Nitwit

The guy who runs checkargos posts here sometimes. I know he used to get a tiny bit of money from affiliate links to argos but they stopped that, so I guess it's a lot of work for no reward to keep it going now. It is a great tool though, fingers crossed it will live on

Skerries

yeah I used to love the checkargos extension that allowed you click on the SKU for the item

Suckit

I think user (mod?) Witnessmenow owns checkargos and checksmyths

The_Conductor

Suckit wrote: »

I think user (mod?) Witnessmenow owns checkargos and checksmyths

Pop Sean an e-mail and ask?

[Deleted User]

Yeah I already sent witnessmenow a PM informing him of the situation on the 31st of August. Previously he's always been very quick and responsive....

matchthis

Anyone know if there is an alternative site to checkargos?

witnessmenow

Hey all,

Checkargos is back online now, apologies for being down for so long.

I have a lot more demands on my time since I was working on checkargos (2 kids, a youtube channel and a bit of a side business) and sometimes it's just really tough to set aside some time to dig into why its down. Even I'm a lot less familiar with the project or even the infrastructure of it so it takes more time than it once did to diagnose.

One of the guys who worked on the 2015 revamp of the site moved most of the site to Kubernetes, so it automatically will recover etc (I'm not fully sure what exactly its doing, but it seems like magic) but this outage was caused by the price history service (which is not on kubernetes) being unresponsive.

I do appreciate the heads up when it does go down as I don't use it as much as I once did myself. Cheers to VanZan who is always quick off the mark. Don't feel like your bothering me or anything with, it actually still means a lot that people use it!

As Electric Nitwit mentioned, I no longer make anything from the site, but I am happy to try keep the lights on when I get time.

The fact that it still works is an absolute condemnation of Argos prioritization of the Ireland website. The stock checking code (the regular expression) has not changed since I wrote the site 8 years ago. It was ported from PHP to NodeJS in 2015, but its the same endpoint, parsing the same fields.

Brian

Cantona's Collars

Not sure if it will apply to Ireland but hukd report that Argos are launching a 50% off toy sale tomorrow, Wednesday.

TitianGerm

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

Not sure if it will apply to Ireland but hukd report that Argos are launching a 50% off toy sale tomorrow, Wednesday.

Probably will be a sale or a 3 for 2 seeing as Smyths are starting their €10 off €50 spend today.

The_Conductor

TitianGerm wrote: »

Probably will be a sale or a 3 for 2 seeing as Smyths are starting their €10 off €50 spend today.

Argos e-mail this morning offered me £6 off £50 and £12 off £100 vouchers for spending in November- for online sales (note- this is UK).

beauf

Argos usually rise their prices. You need to check using checkargos if something is actually cheaper.

OmegaGene

argos toy sale started but it seems a bit of a let down this year

The_Conductor

OmegaGene wrote: »

argos toy sale started but it seems a bit of a let down this year

Very little in the sale- a few lego kits- but its actually hard to find anything on offer...……… Also just saw the news- apparently 80 Argos branches in the UK and Ireland are to close because of poor trading. In the UK they're looking at migrating a lot of the Argos lines into Sainsburys- Ireland obviously doesn't have this option. Looks like the writing is on the wall.

OmegaGene

The_Conductor wrote: »

Very little in the sale- a few lego kits- but its actually hard to find anything on offer...……… Also just saw the news- apparently 80 Argos branches in the UK and Ireland are to close because of poor trading. In the UK they're looking at migrating a lot of the Argos lines into Sainsburys- Ireland obviously doesn't have this option. Looks like the writing is on the wall.

Yeah I read the story too and I was in London yesterday and the Argos I passed that’s inside a Sainsbury’s was dead, even the tumble weed had cleared off
This time last year the same shop had long queues with a couple of staff, I think U.K. home delivery is the reason for this as well as poor sales

JimsAlterEgo

speaking of home delivery, does anyone know how to order the "online exclusive" items
e.g https://www.argos.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?storeId=10152&catalogId=14551&langId=111&searchTerms=7455500&authToken=350238273%252cTug9e5BFRI1kf2u2DWiLwhsPtBI%253d

ButtersSuki

witnessmenow wrote: »

Hey all,

Checkargos is back online now, apologies for being down for so long.

I have a lot more demands on my time since I was working on checkargos (2 kids, a youtube channel and a bit of a side business) and sometimes it's just really tough to set aside some time to dig into why its down. Even I'm a lot less familiar with the project or even the infrastructure of it so it takes more time than it once did to diagnose.

One of the guys who worked on the 2015 revamp of the site moved most of the site to Kubernetes, so it automatically will recover etc (I'm not fully sure what exactly its doing, but it seems like magic) but this outage was caused by the price history service (which is not on kubernetes) being unresponsive.

I do appreciate the heads up when it does go down as I don't use it as much as I once did myself. Cheers to VanZan who is always quick off the mark. Don't feel like your bothering me or anything with, it actually still means a lot that people use it!

As Electric Nitwit mentioned, I no longer make anything from the site, but I am happy to try keep the lights on when I get time.

The fact that it still works is an absolute condemnation of Argos prioritization of the Ireland website. The stock checking code (the regular expression) has not changed since I wrote the site 8 years ago. It was ported from PHP to NodeJS in 2015, but its the same endpoint, parsing the same fields.

Brian

Brian,

I'm sure I speak for many when i say thanks for your creation. It's cost me a small fortune over the years but is a very useful tool. Thanks again!

witnessmenow

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Brian,

I'm sure I speak for many when i say thanks for your creation. It's cost me a small fortune over the years but is a very useful tool. Thanks again!

I apologise and your welcome all at once

Teemarie

Anyone know if Argos will be doing 3 for 2 this year. Thank you

[Deleted User]

I sent him a PM on Friday just in case anyone's wondering!

witnessmenow

Deleted User wrote: »

I sent him a PM on Friday just in case anyone's wondering!

Back up now, popular page doesn't seem to be working though. meed to dig into that.

EDIT: Ah, the service I used to store what was clicked on the most has started charging real money, so that feature would appear to be dead!

Jasminecat

Anyone know when the next furniture sale will take place?

matchthis

https://www.thesun.ie/money/4712485/argos-ireland-crazy-codes-discounts-toys/

Article about Argos doing 20 percent discount codes on different ranges each week

frash

Just spotted this 4.2l Tower Air Fryer on Argos at it's lowest price

https://www.argos.ie/w...mp;productId=1262060

Anyone got one?

RobbingBandit

Link is broken just brings me to homepage

dulpit

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Link is broken just brings me to homepage

https://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/7507207/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CKitchen+and+laundry%7C14418476/c_2/3%7C19780844%7CSmall+kitchen+appliances%7C14418587/c_3/4%7Ccat_14418587%7CFryers%7C14418598.htm I assume this is it...

d31b0y

frash wrote: »

Just spotted this 4.2l Tower Air Fryer on Argos at it's lowest price

https://www.argos.ie/w...mp;productId=1262060

Anyone got one?

I've the smaller one. It's grand. Used pretty regularly but the results aren't good enough for me to rush out and buy a bigger one. Maybe it's the small size but I don't feel like the chips are really any better than out of the oven.

sweetie

frash wrote: »

Just spotted this 4.2l Tower Aif Fryer on Argos at it's lowest price

https://www.argos.ie/w...mp;productId=1262060

Anybody have this? How does it compare to the Philips, need to replace one that was dropped.

noble00

I got that one a couple of years ago from Amazon, it’s great just as good as any of them, that’s a great price I think I paid about 80 for my one

Mantis Toboggan

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