Garmin Edge 205 for £49.97 at Currys...but there's a catch

[rogerzilla]

Out of stock online (so why list it?).  Maybe you'll find one in your local branch.

[bikenerd]

If anyone does buy one then I have a Python program to convert Bikely GPX output to Garmin Course TCX data and waypoint GPX data.  It allows you to navigate up to 13,000 points and increases the usefulness of the unit many fold, even if I do say so myself!
Free to anyone who asks! 

(I got mine from Amazon for £90.  Still a bargain, in my eyes.)

[Gattopardo]

None in the brixton branch, But I doubt they had a clue what I was talking about.

[delthebike]

If anyone does buy one then I have a Python program to convert Bikely GPX output to Garmin Course TCX data and waypoint GPX data.  It allows you to navigate up to 13,000 points and increases the usefulness of the unit many fold, even if I do say so myself!
Free to anyone who asks! 

Currys have been out of stock since at least May.

Bikeroutetoaster.com does the conversion, gpx to tcx, as well. Does your one issue a warning at X distance? The toaster one just shows an icon for direction but doesn't beep until you reach the turn even though 200m warning is pre selected in the program.

[bikenerd]

If anyone does buy one then I have a Python program to convert Bikely GPX output to Garmin Course TCX data and waypoint GPX data.  It allows you to navigate up to 13,000 points and increases the usefulness of the unit many fold, even if I do say so myself!
Free to anyone who asks! 

Bikeroutetoaster.com does the conversion, gpx to tcx, as well. Does your one issue a warning at X distance? The toaster one just shows an icon for direction but doesn't beep until you reach the turn even though 200m warning is pre selected in the program.

Nope, no warning.  It converts into a course, so in the menus you select "Training"->"Do Course"->"Course name".  I could look into adding the beep / icon to my code.  I'll have a look in the XML schema over the weekend and see if I can figure what's going on.

[tiermat]

Not even showing on the website now...

[Wowbagger]

None in the brixton branch, But I doubt they had a clue what I was talking about.

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That's pretty normal though isn't it Lynx?

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[rogerzilla]

PC World had them at the same price - whether either store will either have them back in stock, I don't know.  The going rate is nearer £100.

[pcolbeck]

That will be because PC World and Currys are both parts of DSGi along with Dixons or Currys Digital as it's usually branded these days (I work for another business in the same group).

[JonBuoy]

Reduced by another £10 at Currys to £39.97  -  but still out of stock !

[rogerzilla]

That should be illegal, surely?  Bait and switch?

[LEE]

I sell them for £10 each when I haven't got any.


I've noticed a lot of sites on Google Shopping return very cheap results for an item but, when you follow the link to the shop itself it actually results in the regular price.

Reel 'em in.

[rogerzilla]

I'm not expecting a response 

Sir,

This item:

http://www.currys.co.uk/product.php?sku=518405

has been out of stock for several weeks, and has now been reduced by a further £10, although it's still not in stock.  Are you ever expecting to get any of these in, and is it legal to advertise a product at an amazingly low price (40% of the going rate) when you don't have any?

I'd be interested in your thoughts.

Yours,


Roger Cantwell

[frankly frankie]

I used to rant about this in the works 'restaurant' -

"Fish is off, luv"

"WHAT?  It's still on the menu!  Don't you realise you're breaking the law"  etc etc.

[Polar Bear]

I used to rant about this in the works 'restaurant' -

"Fish is off, luv"

"WHAT?  It's still on the menu!  Don't you realise you're breaking the law"  etc etc.

Is it against the law to advertise something you don't actually have in stock? 

Surely it is only against the law to accept payment for something you don't have to sell?

[rogerzilla]

North Somerset Council - Trading Standards and Consumer Protection information for the UK

No.6 would seem to cover it.

[Polar Bear]

Having read through The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008m this is covered under Schedule 1, section 5:

5. Making an invitation to purchase products at a specified price without disclosing the existence
of any reasonable grounds the trader may have for believing that he will not be able to offer for
supply, or to procure another trader to supply, those products or equivalent products at that price
for a period that is, and in quantities that are, reasonable having regard to the product, the scale of
advertising of the product and the price offered (bait advertising).

[Noodley]

It does sound like it should not be possible to do this.

[Polar Bear]

Somebody needs to give Trading Standards a call.  It's called bait advertising according to the regs.

[Thor]

Somebody needs to give Trading Standards a call.  It's called bait advertising according to the regs.

But if they'll agree to supply, say, 30 of the things, to YACFers, at the advertised price, we'll agree to overlook it...

[Noodley]

Somebody needs to give Trading Standards a call.  It's called bait advertising according to the regs.

I have just e-mailed Trading Standards asking for advice. 

[rogerzilla]

But if they'll agree to supply, say, 30 of the things, to YACFers, at the advertised price, we'll agree to overlook it...

Pretty much my thoughts 

[rogerzilla]

As predicted, no reply to e-mail and the item is still listed at £39.97.   I suppose they'll go bust in the next 12 months anyway - I'm amazed Dixons/Currys have lasted so long, because they truly are hopeless.

[rogerzilla]

Also sent e-mail to PC World, who theoretically sell it for the same price of £39.97.  We have two massive Currys and PC World sheds near here and neither carry any GPS stuff except cat satnav, so it's probably never been available in store either.

Given that no-one else sells it for less than £78.99, and in most places it's well over £100, this looks like a scam.  Which Trading Standards office do you complain to for Internet advertising - your local one, or Currys' local one?

[Polar Bear]

Any, so your local.