expired Dick Smith XXXL Sale (Saturday 20 October)
This was posted 8 months 3 days ago, and might be an out-dated deal
Edited by foobar, neil 20/10/2012 - 10:02
Here’s a sneak peek at the extra, extra, extra large deals we’ll have in-store and online this Saturday only!
- 50% off Dick Smith Batteries
- 50% off Memory Cards
- 50% off Antennas, DSE Wallmounts and DSE AV Senders
- 40% off Logitech Computer and Gaming Accessories
- 40% off Headphones (excluding Beats, Pioneer and Apple)
- 40% off Microsoft Mice, Keyboards, Headsets and Webcams
- 30% off Norton and Trend Software
- 30% off Gaming titles 59.95 and under
- 40% off Swann Home Series products
- 40% off Belkin Networking
- 20% off Monitors
- 10% off Tablets
- 30% off Energizer Batteries
- 25% off Camera Accessories
- 20% off Mobile Phone Cases
- 20% off Sony, Olympus and Nikon Digital Cameras & Sony Camcorders
- 20% off Blu-Ray Players
- 20% off Epson, Brother, Canon & HP Printers
- 10% off Pre-paid Mobile Phones, Mobile Broadband and Recharges
- Up to 30% off TV's
- 25% off in-car GPS
- 30% off Gaming Accessories below $49.95
Stay tuned for more reveals tomorrow!
Offers available 20/10/2012 only. Offers may not be available at all Dick Smith stores. Click and Collect will not be available. No layby. No rainchecks. Excludes already advertised lines.
I'll update the post when more deals are announced tomorrow!
+4 votesIf the staff do their own research first and decide to buy the item themself, that's ok.
The issue is, their staff often hide the goodies AFTER they find out from lots of click and collect reservation that the goodies is actually very cheap and decide to claimed as theirs.
Their excuse is ranging from the following: stock is customer returned item, broken item, incomplete accessories, waiting to be serviced item, etc.I experience this issue the last time Dick do similar sale as this couple of days ago.
Watch out for staff in Dick Smith Neutral Bay store and Broadway store.Also, this time Click and Collect service won't be available (according their Facebook post), so it will be even worse…
- +2 votes
Would the store actually put non sell-able item (or item known to be faulty/waiting to be returned to supplier) back into the system? What do you think?
For example, one store have 2 item in stock, and refuse to show both of the stock that they advise me as to be returned to supplier.
Another store I mentioned above have 4 item in stock according to the system (checked by staff from other branch).
When I call them straight after I'm finished talking to the other branch, to check whether my item is ready to be collected, the staff advise me that all stock is actually broken stock.
Go figure… 
Most stock listings for retailers regardless of whether they are new, broken, returned etc… still show up in the total stock count, because it is still stock. I am assuming unless they have been written off these type of items will come into the total count. Hence 4 in stock might be 1 display, 1 item awaiting repair, 1 item on hold and 1 previously returned item.
Running by your logic:
- 1 display item: It should be still available for sale if it is discontinued item as they no longer need the display unit
- 1 previously returned item should still be available for sale.
- 1 item awaiting repair: It should still be available to be shown to me (or sold to me if I want it), as it should still be available onsite.
- 1 item on hold: should still be available to be shown to me (although it might not be avalable for sale in this case).So based on above, I should still get at least 1 out of 4 item. While in my case, they still argue that it is not available and I cannot buy it. They even refuse to show any available stock, even the item is not bulky, less than A4 paper in size.
Am I wrong to assume that Dick Smith staff hoarding stock even AFTER client trying to reserve it via Click and Collect system?
+2 votesAgree, I have same experience, click and collect, come to store, a guy told me that there are no more stock, but I saw those items on shelf, and he told me (while look down to the floor, avoid eye contact) that those stock is for transferring to other store!!! I am really mad a that time! That why dick go down in no time.
+1 votebrucefromaustralia on 18/10/2012 - 13:56 ¶Before the days of OB, I used to travel from Hobart to Cairns checking for old stock in DS/Tandy. I would make an offer & sell it on. Got to know that stock listed in the store's system almost always was not stock on hand.
To start with there is the matter of theft. Small popular items do walk our the door. No stock system can take that into account. I have seen staff dumping damaged stock or transfering to another store stock without accounting for it on the system.
Many items listed were returns or display stock - missing power supplies, instructions, parts, boxes, or did not work. They were dumped & forgotten our the back. Some stock had been set aside for customers & simply never got returned to the shelf. No one took responsibility, and the stock remained on the computer for years after it was last seen.
I have bought stock that did not appear in their system (managers loved offloading those for almost nothing); or it had an alternative stock numbers (eg Remmington hair cutting set for $2, instead of listed under its new code at $30 for same item!).
Stock-taking should account for discrepancy, but that's in a perfect world. One manager of a small store had so much phantom stock I rang DS HQ, got an appology & a nice gift!
Real world realities:
DS stock system is inaccurate.
Stock can be misplaced/lost & some staff never seem to know where obvious items are.
Stock is not always available in that store.
Some staff will put aside stock you want (possibly for themselves or someone who rang up & convinced them to hold it for them - as I have done many times).Any trader has the right / responsibility not to sell or display goods not of merchandisale quality. Expecting a trader to show you such stock (especially during a 1 day sale) is going beyond normal business operations.
That has been what I found out through knowing DS managers & dealing with stores over many years. Its not theory. And I have a reputation for saying when service is terrible - I have a current defamation threat for an online critism of a business last year.
Last XXXL 1 day sale in May got 0 '-' & 50 '+'
And there is no 'click n collect' this sale.
Real world realities:
- The items that people were after were the PSPs/DS's/DSi's which are all locked in a cabinet in all stores to prevent their theft.
- If someone steals a PSP or a DS, you are probably going to pick up on it because there will be shattered glass on your shop floor.
- If you have sh** organisation of the products, perhaps it is best you don't advertise availability to begin with.
- You have to question the competency of the staff if they can't raise forms for DOA.
- You have to question the competency of a store manager if he has missing parts/lost manuals for products that come with factory seals.
It sh**s me that you are still playing a game of who can lie the most convincingly, instead of saying "Yes we f***ed up, we released a massive list and our staff members took it all and we apologise… Please give us another chance".
Take some ownership.
Ta
- brucefromaustralia on 18/10/2012 - 14:53 ¶
Only saying what I have experienced. Know what it is like to anticipate great purchase, only to have my hopes dashed by DS's poor stock systems.
A trader has the right not to sell an item for any reason. Similarly you do not have to buy from that business.
I took a legal case against a business chain for refusing to sell me their service. The business settled before the court case. I could only win by showing the trader discriminated against me under the Queensland law (but not Federal). If they simply refused for no reason, my case would have never proceeded.
By the way I don't have anything to do with a poorly organised business like DS! Only go in the door if I am desperate for a bargain at a genuine sale, or curious to see what rubbish is on the bargain table.
Hopefully new owners will revamp their stock & staff systems.
(Sounds like you want this type of experience:
Had a store in Japan line up its staff, bowing & apologising for a $5 error in my grocery bill.) - +1 votebrucefromaustralia on 18/10/2012 - 15:34 ¶
Cheeky bugger :) No
(My $69 phone crashed & when I got back to OB I was tagged as a 'rep' - you just can't trust what the computer says! )To state the obvious - we all have different shopping experiences.
There were no negs for the last XXXL sale & 50 pluses.
That is a better guess of how that sale went, and may be a better predictor of how good this sale might be.As I've posted below, I was happy with the last XXXL sale in May. Went to store at 2pm & was surprised that almost everything I wanted was available. As the MS headset was opened, I asked for & got it much cheaper - so $170 (RRP) for 95c after cashback. They even rang the nearest store to hold 1 item. Next store even swapped headset for new one at double discounted price. Can't see why I wouldn't be happy with that?
(Still getting used to the random text produced by predictive text keyboard)
Geez dude that was a random example. I have no idea what happened to your beloved item on that particular day, there could have been 4 items that had just been stepped on for all I know. I just think people take these things way too seriously and whinging annoys me. And yes you are wrong to assume that Dick Smith staff are hoarding stock even if it has been click and collected without proof.
+12 votesI introduced a friend to this site; just had that friend call me telling me I send them a site with discounted on Sex Toys… I was wondering what's going on. Than i realize shes seeing "Dick's XXXL Sale" she must have though XXX as in sex, and dick's as in……. ahahahahahah
+30 votesOhhh… but their marketing department means that. Just look at the rest of the ads: http://textfail.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/72.jpg
I think Dick's marketing team need to reduce the length… of their contract.
-1 voteChickenAdobo on 17/10/2012 - 19:43 ¶Are you being sarcastic? Microsoft Security Essential> Norton plus it free provided your window id code is legit.
-4 votesAvast is better than MSE from my experience. Faster, better, harder. This, and a lot of other commercial software I've used seems to perform better than MSE in terms of picking up malware.
Even the founder of MalwareBytes reckons MSE is fairly mediocre.
Whoever negged me, should probably read some of the comments on Reddit. Microsoft was never made to be a security software company. They most likely do not have a division made specifically to support or develop anti virus software or upkeep it's malware definitions. Most likely they purchase or outsource the development to another company (i.e. Sophos)
+6 votesjusttoreply on 17/10/2012 - 20:09 ¶Yeah it was sarcasm, hence the "netscape navigator" reference.
MSE might be better than nothing, but it's still hopeless. And because it's an MS product (ie: common), a clever piece of nastyware would know how to disable it.
Pick a decent one. avcomparatives.org (from memory) is useful.
- +5 votes
I dont know why people think I am being sarcastic.
Norton is handsdown the best when it comes to picking up virus' from websites that I get linked to from altavista, lycos, and ask-jeeves. I also use it to scan every file I get sent through ICQ and it hasn't failed me yet.
Keep up the good work guys!
- +2 votesjusttoreply on 17/10/2012 - 20:10 ¶
It means that physical stock is store dependent. Which, obviously, it is.
+6 votesProspectiveDarkness on 17/10/2012 - 19:35 ¶People did find them… they were just behind the counter.
- +2 votesProspectiveDarkness on 17/10/2012 - 19:35 ¶
Stay tuned for more reveals tomorrow!
For their sake, I hope so. The current 'deals' are barely worthy of a mention - if the best they can muster for a 'sneak peek' is batteries and antivirus software, I wouldn't get my hopes up.
+1 voteI don't know why they bother with anti-virus software. I remember when COD had their last mystery item and it was anti-virus software… so many people asked for a refund. Simply put, MSE has solved the anti-virus conundrum for most people. Who says a monopoly can't be good?
- +2 votesProspectiveDarkness on 17/10/2012 - 19:58 ¶
Who says a monopoly can't be good?
Off the top of my head, I would have to say the people being crushed by it.
- +1 votebrucefromaustralia on 17/10/2012 - 19:58 ¶
I was happy with the last XXXL sale
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/70725It started with similar deals
Deals already revealed:
50% off DSE Batteries
30% off Energizer Batteries
1.5m HDMI Cables $10 for 2Offers were added daily including:
15-50% off a range of electronics -
15% off Apple - not iPad, Up to 30% off laptops, 30% off GPS,
40% off portable DVD players, MP3s, Networking
50% off DS memory cards, TV antennas, cables, etc
SD STBox for $5 LOL!Bough $170 (RRP) of MS gear for 95c after cashback.
Plenty of stock & helpful staff.(Just don't mention the games sale!!!)
- +2 votesbrucefromaustralia on 17/10/2012 - 22:23 ¶
A lot of my purchases from that sale are still in the boxes. The prices were too good to refuse.
Using the $2 100 Led solar light sets for the solar powered rechargable batteries - in Cree torches. Not to mention the handy $2 Remington groomers & $2 hair cutting sets, $2 landline phones & fittings, a/v cables, etc… So many great deals from DS last time.
At the DS stores I went to the staff were surprisingly helpful, even finding stock from our the back. But it seems no one wants to believe! They just remember the games sale fiasco. The XXXL sale was offerent.
But the mob is out for blood.
I will be negged for saying something positive from my experience of it. LOL!
+9 votesPolyphonicBreaks on 18/10/2012 - 18:28 ¶Heres the total listing of markdowns for the xxxl sale, this is besides what other instore deals will be running during the sale. I am a staff member and went through the point of sale for the sale to take note of these markdowns, was going to post it yesterday but didnt want to jump the gun too early before the company had released at least some of the markdowns
20% off mobile phone cases
20% off sony olympus and nikon digital cameras & sony camcorders
40% off logitech computer and gaming accessories
10% off pre-paid mobile phones, mobile broadband and recharges
50% off dick smith batteries
30% off Norton and trend software
30% off gaming titles 59.95 and under (uh oh another gaming sale)
50% off memory cards
50% off antennas, DS wallmounts and DS av senders
40% off headphones (excluding beats, pioneer and apple from memory)
40% off microsoft mice, keyboards, headsets and webcams
25% off camera accessories
30% off energizer batteriesSo yeah on top of that should be some instore deals and specific product markdowns, if I find more ill comment it here. hope you guys just get to see my comment in time. Also as a bit of a note, Any staff member caught keeping stock out back will be reviewed and staff are not allowed to purchase any item until their lunch break on the day. They are fairly touchy and strict on this after the fiasco that was the gaming clearance, but IMO most of that hype was over the leaked list misleading people, making expectations of 1000 cheap xbox's when there was like 2 per area. ANYWAYS, Ill post new stuff as I am informed and Ill see some of you guys there saturday morning! happy bargaining!
+1 voteI don't know what you're looking for specifically, but did you see these deals?
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/82374
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/82341There's also a heap of stuff on sale here, but shipping might be a killer if there is anything worthwhile
http://www.eastwoodhifi.com.au/specials.html
Someone a bit more local
- +2 votesPolyphonicBreaks on 20/10/2012 - 06:37 ¶
I got a promo update at work but by the time i had the spare time, the website beat me too it!
http://dicksmith.com.au/offer/XXXLSaleSat that covers everything. Should be a busy day!
good luck everybody, happy bargaining :D
- PolyphonicBreaks on 20/10/2012 - 06:54 ¶
1500 points is 2 for 40 (save 10) apart from that, no card sales soz guys
- +1 voteProspectiveDarkness on 19/10/2012 - 19:49 ¶
Their Logitech gaming accessories are also quite expensive, I find. There might be a few standout items, but overall, I would have to call this sale a dud.
- brucefromaustralia on 20/10/2012 - 01:51 ¶
Not that interesting, but might get a new TV antenna at $71 (50% discount off $149 plus 5% off with ING PayWave or RACQ Woolies Gift Card discount). Thats better than trade price. DS usually only put the lesser $129 one on sale, which is not suited to my location. http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/70154
Just priced matched the LG 55LM6410 that Dick Smith had for 30% off at Harvey Norman Norwest. Even saved 80 cents.
$1325 - Best price i have ever seen for this model and i have been tracking it for a while. Looks so good in my lounge room.http://dicksmith.com.au/product/GE2032/55-quot-139cm-full-hd...
defenestrator on 20/10/2012 - 11:06 ¶I'm stoked, got a Toshiba Z830/001 ultrabook for $769. Best price I've seen, ever, on one with decent specs and ports.
- defenestrator on 20/10/2012 - 16:30 ¶
Depends what you're after - for this size, yes. Check out the general ultrabook prices and you'll see what I mean. And most of them don't even have the number of ports this one does.
Obviously if I wasn't bothered about size, I could get a much better specced notebook for that price… it's all about priorities. ;)
http://dicksmith.com.au/product/A3417/sony-monitor-headphone...
Got them. They are awesome for the price and have that premium feel that is normally only available in more expensive ones.
-1 voteDSE's generocity brings a tear to your eye doesn't it…
DSE $9.90 for Amaysim BB voucher .. but only for today so you better rush..
http://dicksmith.com.au/dsau/navigation/product_details.jsp… if you miss out you will have to pay full price of $9.90 direct from Amaysim :-(
http://www.amaysim.com.au/mobile-plans/amaysim-mobile-broadb...
orangatan11 on 03/11/2012 - 23:17 ¶hi there everyone.
im currently looking at buying a 32 led vivo tv. does anyone know if these are vesa compatable and what measuremnts, would like to know as id put this on a swivel wall bracket.
thanks in advance
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