Amazon Prime Bargains - Chat Thread

^ I've spotted a handful of things cheaper to be honest.

For example:

Most things which are available on IE - which are also available and being fulfilled by Amazon UK - have a negligible price difference.

But if you're comparing a marketplace seller promoted on IE versus Amazon fulfilling on UK site, it's unfair.

If Amazon IE are fulfilling the DVD, that's a different story.

^ Re. The DVDs - they were both sold by Amazon (not a third party or marketplace) - I wouldn’t have highlighted it if it wasn’t!

nah they just knew your username here and made the obvious connection.

If it gets to the stage where everyone is moved to the .ie site by Amazon the thread title can be amended but for now I don't see a point. We already have 3 chat threads about Amazon so do we need multiple bargain threads as well.

In my opinion, this forum has became bad enough with these god awful threads in which we separate bargains and discussions about said bargains (god forbid they're acknowledged as good value or criticised in the exact same thread for visibility! 🙄)

The thought of having dedicated threads for different variations of Amazon is ridiculous!

Again, just my opinion!

both amazon threads were set up in 2021 - continuations/splits of previous threads if i rem correctly.

the no chat thread is 92 pages, because generally, only bargains are posted in it. mostly .co.uk, but occasionally from EU sites too, and in the future, more .ie will be posted in it.

the chat thread is 347 pages, because generally, there's chat. most of it is useful, some isn't. but that's fine, ignore the stuff you aren't interested in, respond to stuff you are interested in.

so it works, why change it?

Maybe the No Chat thread can be general no chat, like the last posts here today, but you can Chat, or give additional details on the posted bargains, as long as it's short and to the point, i.e., it's been at that price for the last year, or its cheaper here, or I bought it and its crap, type stuff.

And people should not take criticism of a bargain personally, its just a product on an international site, owned by an owner that has more money than everyone in Ireland put together….

Those chairs remind me of my childhood watching wrestling.

If these tariffs hold, we can expect to see floods of Chinese goods getting sold off at cheap prices. With the current tariff rates that Trump has put on them, and a further 50% counter retaliation, it'll price out am awful lot of goods.

Expect to see the EU market getting flooded with these excess products. There should be very good deals on Chinese laptops, tablets, toys etc.

That's the purpose of tariffs, to stop dumping. Now if only somebody could get that through the thick skin of Tangerine Man.

Both of these should have serious discussion at the mod level. Either would make the bargain thread more useful than it is now.

Exactly as above. Bargains get buried under trivial, pointless posts that offer no real benefit. The average person doesn’t have time to sift through all the new posts every day.

We constantly see irrelevant content—complaints about delivery delays or people giving us updates on their purchases that no one asked for, threads derailed into unrelated product discussions, or bizarre questions that could easily be answered with a quick Google search. Some of us just want to skip all that and see the bargain links, fast and clear.

Agreed. If the current no chat thread was properly moderated we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Am I the only person who reads a thread from oldest unread forward? So if there's a bargain posted and then a lot of chatter about said bargain, I still see the bargain first?

I will say as the numbers viewing boards is dwindling, additional rules will keep people away. So whatever is simplest seems sensible to me.