Thread 3 - Christmas bargain thread, no clever name just OMG last thread has 999 messages!

[aurorie11]

Hi all

Was about to post about a bargain and saw thread 2 is at 999, hoping to post a link to this as 1000, wish me luck!

Not sure if it was mentioned before but I got Lego minifigures series 18 in Sainsbury's for £1.50.
I'm hoping my Tesco has that £10 playmobil bus

@OhHolyFuck

That would’ve been ideal (I admit to seeing ‘gamer’ and dismissing it initially - I’m not proud of that, I just don’t tend to register gaming things ).

It’s back at £7.49 now, but I’ll set a price alert for it - thank you!

I’m thinking of getting an Alexa mainly for a specific radio station I listen to that isn’t on dab but I can listen to via Alexa (and it’s cheaper than buying an internet radio and does a lot more). I know dd would have great fun with it! So I’ve heard the smaller one (dot?) has rubbish speakers but that’s really all the difference between the two (echo and dot). How rubbish are the speakers?

Youngest DS (12) has the Dot in his room. The speaker isn't great but good enough for him to listen to whatever he wants. I also have an Echo Show (bought half price) and DS1 has one too. He has ASD and is now trying semi-independent living. The Echos mean we can all speak face to face whenever he needs. The speaker in that is a lot more powerful and it plays Prime movies etc.

Reastie we got a dot for our 10 year old last Christmas and I and more importantly her have no issue at all with the sound volume or quality from the speakers and that's mainly what she uses it for (listening to music), that and asking it seemingly impossible maths questions!

Sorry quick Christmas Q.... what's that wee rhyme MNers use for Santa presents...something like

Something I want, something I need, something to wear, something to read...

Or is that just it? Want to streamline a bit this year...

I tried want, need, wear, read and ended up looking like a mean Mummy as relatives got 50 billion pieces of plastic shite.

The Book People have an offer for today only:

£8 off a £40 spend
£5 off a £30 spend

Code PARTY40

Just saw on another thread that Amazon will let you pay for some of the Echo dots and Kindles in interest-free monthly instalments, if that helps anyone?

Does anyone know if Book People ever so free delivery on £10? I have 2 books I want, but am trying very hard not to buy any more!

We got Echo dots for the older two kids and also grandparents last Christmas - for some big purchases we used a Very discount and then did 'take 3' to spread the cost over 3 months.

We used the discount when they were £35, so they ended up costing around £30 each.

The speakers are absolutely fine for what my dc use the dot for - listening to music and the radio - sound quality is perfect and volume perfect for what we require.
We have a larger Alexa too and I think the only difference might be that it will go louder?

@ja9r this is one I use.

We have an upstairs dot and a downstairs dot.
DD who is 7 has asked for a dot for her room so she can play music, ask it daft questions, add to my shopping list and voice operate her hue lights.
We have a small house and find the speakers to be fine.

M and Co have 25% off and free delivery at the moment. They have some nice pj's for teens including Harry Potter ones.

I recently bought an Echo Show and would highly recommend it. The kids love adding songs to our kitchen disco playlist 💃🏼. I got it for just over £100 on offer from QVC but it does drop from time to time on Amazon too. I’m thinking of getting a couple of dots for the kids rooms too when they go on offer 🤔.

@TalkingOrmer Thank you!

Thanks so much for all the Echo Dot advice, I'm sold! Just need to wait for that drop in price now, so please shout if you see it!

One more question about Alexa (sorry). If I have prime will it play music? How limited is the music it’ll play? Without paying for Spotify is there a way to get more?

thaegumathteth Thanks a million for link re Alexa very interesting.

Reastie I don’t have Spotify or unlimited and I hear most of what I want. Every so often Alexa will tell me that I can’t hear a song, but it’s 1 every hundred if at all.

good price on little mermaid lego

I’m sold! I’ve got a camelcamelcamel alert for £35 on the dot

FOR those worried about data collection, this might help:

www.wired.co.uk/article/how-to-delete-amazon-echo-google-home-data

Spode Christmas Tree plates / cups / glasses heavily reduced:

www.spode.co.uk/offers-1/christmas-tree.html

Code TREE20 knocks another 20% off - 12 piece dinner set is £38 with delivery