56% off! How does that work then?

p9uma

This seems like a good deal. If it looks to good to be true it probably is, or I have missed out on summat.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... os_product

I have just ordered one of these. It probably won't come, and if it does it probably won't work. I don't understand how Amazon can sell something over £100 off recommended price! I bought the enemy the 210 version of this watch last year and paid a lot more for that.

Jez mon

Quite why have you ordered one when you think if it comes it won't work ;-)

I got an electric shaver off amazon last year for a similar amount off...think they generally do such discounts when there's a replacement product coming out soon.

p9uma

Jez mon wrote:

Quite why have you ordered one when you think if it comes it won't work ;-)

I got an electric shaver off amazon last year for a similar amount off...think they generally do such discounts when there's a replacement product coming out soon.

I'm sure it will be fine, my comment was a vague attempt at humour.

GiantMike

p9uma wrote:

I don't understand how Amazon can sell something over £100 off recommended price!

Because it costs Garmin about £20 to make it and Amazon get them reappl cheap. The RRP is some spurious figure that the manufacturer comes up with so that retailers can offer a large discount on it.

For example, on my desk I have a soiled spoon. I would recommend that Amazon sold it for £1000. I sell it to Amazon for £10. They sell it for £20 with a 98% discount over RRP. The spoon only cost 28p to make.

mattshrops

GiantMike wrote:

p9uma wrote:

I don't understand how Amazon can sell something over £100 off recommended price!

Because it costs Garmin about £20 to make it and Amazon get them reappl cheap. The RRP is some spurious figure that the manufacturer comes up with so that retailers can offer a large discount on it.

For example, on my desk I have a soiled spoon. I would recommend that Amazon sold it for £1000. I sell it to Amazon for £10. They sell it for £20 with a 98% discount over RRP. The spoon only cost 28p to make.

AAH so you say, but just exactly how soiled is it? how many hours of labour were involved in said spoiling?were any animals or pvc clad persons damaged during its transformation? Not quite as simple as you thought is it?

GiantMike

mattshrops wrote:

GiantMike wrote:

p9uma wrote:

I don't understand how Amazon can sell something over £100 off recommended price!

Because it costs Garmin about £20 to make it and Amazon get them reappl cheap. The RRP is some spurious figure that the manufacturer comes up with so that retailers can offer a large discount on it.

For example, on my desk I have a soiled spoon. I would recommend that Amazon sold it for £1000. I sell it to Amazon for £10. They sell it for £20 with a 98% discount over RRP. The spoon only cost 28p to make.

AAH so you say, but just exactly how soiled is it? how many hours of labour were involved in said spoiling?were any animals or pvc clad persons damaged during its transformation? Not quite as simple as you thought is it?

I wanted to show a picture to demonstrate. I googled 'pvc woman soiled spoon'. Never again!

p9uma

Curiously there are no soiled spoons on the Garmin site, anywhere. Further one can buy the Forerunner 410 on the Garmin site for much more than on Amazon. And the 210 is more expensive on Amazon than the 410. There are no soiled spoons on Amazon either. I am curious to know wear one might purchase a soiled spoon on line. Maybe EBay?

rolf_f

GiantMike wrote:

I wanted to show a picture to demonstrate. I googled 'pvc woman soiled spoon'. Never again!

I once Googled "tar sprayed hardcore" - a technique of using demolition waste to make pavement and parking surfaces. Or at least that's what I thought it was

capt_slog

Rolf F wrote:

GiantMike wrote:

I wanted to show a picture to demonstrate. I googled 'pvc woman soiled spoon'. Never again!

I once Googled "tar sprayed hardcore" - a technique of using demolition waste to make pavement and parking surfaces. Or at least that's what I thought it was

I used to work for a company involved in reclaiming 'brownfield sites', areas of land that once had heavy industry on them. A famous place that was heavily polluted is in America (I think), it's called "Love Canal", not a good one to Google on a works machine!

p9uma

Rolf F wrote:

GiantMike wrote:

I wanted to show a picture to demonstrate. I googled 'pvc woman soiled spoon'. Never again!

I once Googled "tar sprayed hardcore" - a technique of using demolition waste to make pavement and parking surfaces. Or at least that's what I thought it was

I used to do research for a radio station, when Christopher Reeve died I was asked to research Superman, so I googled Superman. I wish that I had not.

team47b

I once had to contact a design company called Attick, I now know why they put the extra letter K on the end, think Aggie's basement and then some!

Sorry Aggie, didn't mean to cast dispersions, but there is no other smilie that comes close