What is the best strategy for getting discount at currys?

[lucyellensmumagain]

My mum has seen a TV she wants, its £700 She can afford it though - however, i have googled and its £100 cheaper elsewhere. Now, here is where i might be a tad UR - i don't really want to go elsewhere because its on amazon and i don't know who im dealing with.

Dixons do the same model for £629, and they sell the stand much cheaper too, so £670 for the stand and the TV. trouble is, they don't have it in stock in this area.

I always thought dixons was a part of currys. So, with the cheek of the devil on my side, how do i negotiate currys to either - drop the price, or include the TV stand for the original price - I want the reassurance of being easy to sort out if it goes wrong as my mother is a bit of a numpty when it comes to technology

Erm... ask?

Print out the relavent pages with prices on, go to customer service and ask if they price match.

Alternatively, do JL stock them? They price match.

From the Currys website:

We?ll match the instore prices of Argos, Asda, Comet, Jessops, Tesco, John Lewis?..in fact any local retail store.

In the unlikely event that you find a cheaper price for the same product and offer in a local retail store (which has stock ready for delivery) we will not only match the competitor?s price but beat it by 10% of the difference.

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Sounds like you can just go in and ask them to match the price, and they'll give you a 10% discount on top of that!

Sounds easy. Take a printout of whatever of your cheaper deal and in you go.

Having said that, we had a bit of a battle with them over something being cheaper in Dixons (was a tv actually, now I come to think of it; we were buying three so thought we were in a good bargaining position) and they wouldn't honour it as Dixons is part of their chain and a web based company now. We gave up but who knows, they might have caved in if we'd pushed harder.

Worth a shot anyway

I'm sure that this won't happen to your Mum.....but when I bought a TV from Currys then man asked if he could use my loo and then came out with his willy dangling out of his pants, not accidently may I add. Naturally I complained and they wouldn't even give me back the twenty quid delivery charge!

I recently asked currys to price match a washer and fridge freezer we'd seen on Dixon's website which were £20 dearer in currys and charging £20 delivery for each. I was told point blank that they do not price match dixons.

Lo and behold when the items I ordered from dixons were delivered yesterday twas a Curry's van that brought them . So I doubt they will price match dixons but may do for other stores - worth a try!

They won't price match Dixons as they don't care if you go buy from them as they are all part of the same group; they do care if they lose a sale to Argos etc which is why they price match those retailers.

Dixons will generally be cheaper as they have no store overheads. Have you checked places like Kelkoo etc to check no-one else does it cheaper?

We tried buying a telly from them the other week and they said no straight away to us. That was dixons as well. Good luck!!

we tired to price match and they told us they would not price match online retailers.

That's pretty unanimous then!

they wouldnt price match, so we went to comet