smyths toys €10 0ff €50 spend cancelled for 2020

Deleted User wrote: »

That doesn't mean they did great business, it just means they didn't get more stock when they ran out of their current stock like they usually would. Argos currently has most of their items out of stock but Argos are certainly not doing as well as they were pre-covid.

Considering in previous years their summer stock was never sold out (speaking of my local smyths here)and usually reduced to clear, yet this year they could re-arrange for Christmas without having to move stock (shelves were emptied by the selling out during the summer so no reductions needed) i think you can safely assume the money was continuously rolling in,

other shops relied on staff in branches packaging up stock to send it out to meet online demand, Smyths were to able shut off their website sales such was the high demand, they didn't even need to resort to bringing staff into stores to package up stock, they just clean sold it all out, and they stopped their free delivery making money from that too,

people forget this is a company that bought toy's r us and paid 80 million for it, they came to be in 1986 and traded through recessions including the big one in 2009-2012 while running this promotion and offering free delivery.


i can't see them "losing" money anytime soon, especially with Christmas coming, and material goods being the modern name of the game, so i can see how it just reeks of "taking advantage of the situation" to some people...


And as for the Irish thing, i can see also how people can be annoyed, when Smyths in their Uk stores run pre-orders for consoles, Fun event days, Free Lego events, and all of these are "UK only" and never run in Irish stores, they cannot on one hand claim to be Irish and "local" because it suits them, but ignore the irish market for their pre-orders, promo's and events...

I'll always choose an Irish shop if prices aren't too far apart.

This year will be even more important for them. Next year could be a bad thing year for the country. Global recession could well be on the cards.

Amazing how some people seem to know how well companies are doing. Must be a few accountants on here spilling the beans haha.

Nyum Nyum wrote: »

I just got a Revolut card - so it's better to pay in £ at the moment then on Amazon, etc.?

Always.

6 wrote: »

I'll always choose an Irish shop if prices aren't too far apart.

This year will be even more important for them. Next year could be a bad thing year for the country. Global recession could well be on the cards.

well if you want Irish owned Toy shops you could find your local Toymaster (they are independently owned toy shops) or Art & Hobby is another Irish shop who occasionally do sales on toys (they sold Lego Mario sets at the lowest they've been so far)

and both would also be supporting local employment along with irish products and irish shops.

Gru wrote: »

i am conflicted on this topic because i love Smyths, but as has repeatedly been pointed out, Smyths did great business during covid, everything we were looking to buy during lockdown was sold out or out of stock, we had to buy elsewhere.


i understand they don't want hoards of people rushing their stores but they could have ran it safely via a voucher system (like it was in the original years of the offer) where each household registered online gets 4 €10 off €50 spend vouchers, make them valid for 2 months and you avoid the queues.

every year people complain they raise their prices before the promotion, and while certain promotions end (5-10% off board games for example) Lego generally stayed the same so the 20% off that was a godsend to parents (and lego lovers)


they also have a tendency to mess up a lot too though, e.g right now they advertise "20% off selected Lego sets" on their main page, not "upto 20%" as we so often see...yet when you click on the link, no 20% off lego comes up there are various percentages but not one i could see meets the 20% advertised, so i see how people get annoyed with that.

Smyths Lego offer

Funny when you go into the lego 20% off on their website a lot of sets are full price.

Smyth's just aren't doing this offer this year. They'll probably do a few different things in the coming months if you keep an eye on it.
They may be stuck finically.(I don't know).
If they ran this tough you'd have massive crowds, pushing, fighting over €10 or €20 off.
Then you'll have somebody who'll share the incident on social media and try and cause hassle for the shop and workers.

There is more volume in the UK that is why shipping is cheaper so the business can cover the cost in your order. I was working with a company, we were been charged around £3 by dpd per parcel domestically, €5.20 with DPD in Ireland and we were doing far more in Ireland.

You have to remember Ireland is very rural outside of Dublin, cost of delivering is high compared to a more densely populated country like England.

Gru wrote: »

i am not angry at all, like i've said, i love Smyths, and the staff in my local one are fabulous, but they have been for a while now treating Irish based customers worse than their UK counterparts, and while each one individually may be small (not running an offer, charging for delivery, false advertising of offers, pre order access...etc) when you put it all together they are charging irish customers more, which for a "local" Irish store is irritating to some customers..


take their delivery for example they continue to offer the Uk free delivery while removing it from their Irish customers:

vs

This is completely false and you're now clearly looking for a reason to dislike Smyths because you clearly don't get deliveries from them.

Smyths offer free shipping to account holders for the exact same price points. And this has been the way for years.

Example below.

Deleted User wrote: »

The level of confirmation bias is staggering from you, it's almost cringey.

not confirmation bias, i'm using the information available clearly on their website right now:

Smyths Ireland

Smyths Uk


Just because you seem intent on defending them no matter what they do or do not do, does not make everyone else wrong.

Gru wrote: »

not confirmation bias, i'm using the information available clearly on their website right now:

Smyths Ireland

Smyths Uk


Just because you seem intent on defending them no matter what they do or do not do, does not make everyone else wrong.

Are you not reading the free shipping promotion I've quoted. Lob something in your basket there and log into your smyths account.

You're embarrassing yourself now as I've quoted the promotion and I've shown you evidence through a screenshot that you're wrong.

Now please stop.

Gru wrote: »

but that is not what their website says when you click on the "Delivery from €1.99" button vs the uk's site when you click on the "Free standard delivery over £19" button, thats my point.

the promotions come and go, their delivery information is clear....and different, its right there on their website in its little pop up box,


all of these differences all add up...

Stop.

Lying.

This is a waste of my time. I'm literally showing you how you're wrong. And you still are denying it. I'm outta here.

Deleted User wrote: »

So please tell me how you know that there is more false advertising of offers in Ireland than in the UK like you claim (sorry, not claim, stated as fact).

the false advertising was this:




most retailers use language like "upto 20% off" when all the items on sale aren't 20% off like in this case. it's also on their website if you click into that link there are full price sets along with others at various percentages....so not 20% off selected lego city and lego friends sets.

Gru wrote: »

the false advertising was this:




most retailers use language like "upto 20% off" when all the items on sale aren't 20% off like in this case. it's also on their website if you click into that link there are full price sets along with others at various percentages....so not 20% off selected lego city and lego friends sets.

Jesus wept. It says selected sets. Not all sets.

This is getting a bit dense.

Gru wrote: »

thats the avenue you got particularly aggrieved with, so thats the narrow rabbit hole the conversation went down.

You brought up how Irish customers were getting a raw deal by not getting similar postage perks as the UK, claimed that Irish customers should be getting it and referencing Amazon etc

Then it was proved that they did in fact get the EXACT SAME SHIPPING.

So then you quietly moved on to it actually being a disgrace that it wasn't advertised in the same way despite it being obvious to anyone who's ordered from Smyths that they have the same free shipping. And obvious to anyone who ever added an item to their basket.

Then you moved on to poor advertising phrases that the Irish get. The same that the UK get.

Just give up, its embarrassing to read.

OmegaGene wrote: »

€10 off €50 can result in nearly €100 if you’re coy and do a few checkouts, the vouchers could be obtained by email and everyone has multiple emails and combine that with visa cash back that is on offer with smyths for the last 3 years the saving were not to be sniffed at and not just €10 as you say

There weren't any vouchers that I remember or if there were, they weren't required and were more indicative than "1 voucher = 1 discount"? It was just an instore promo.