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Breville BCG800 Smart Grinder - $199 Good Guys - Latest Mail out Catalogue - $165 with Price Match!

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Breville BCG800 Smart Grinder - $199 Good Guys - Latest Mail out Catalogue - $165 with Price Match!
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LSpicket on 29/08/2011 - 20:20 lasoo.com.au (1653 clicks)
Last edited 29/08/2011 - 20:49

Hi Guys
Breville Smart Grinder

I bought this 2 weeks ago from myer on sale for 260 - the rrp is $299. I love the grinder, it's simple and easy to use, yet technically brilliant.

The good guys catalogue that came in the mail today in Brisbane shows it as a 'Hot pice' $199. I do not have access to scan the catalogue, perhaps someone else in Brissie does? I linked lasoo which should have the details up tomorrow, as the current catalogues on there end today.

This is an excellent price - the grinder is superb, don't think Breville and think crap, they've taken their coffee seriously and done some excellent R&D.

Jump onto coffeesnobs.com.au to get a review of the grinder.

Thanks to ng100 for the receipt scan - good for price matching!

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  • ng100 on 29/08/2011 - 20:29
    +1

    The Good Guys I bought from happily discounted it further down to $165 without any bargaining.

    • googolplex on 29/08/2011 - 20:55

      oops, should've refreshed

  • [Deactivated] on 29/08/2011 - 20:29

    you mean this one for $198 including free delivery? (well from random postcodes I popped in)
    http://www.billyguyatts.com.au/breville-smart-grindertm-with…

  • chillemi on 29/08/2011 - 20:34

    It's a great grinder, and that is an amazing price if you need something for an espresso machine. A lot of Breville stuff is junk but this is one of their Australian designed products.

  • Spicket on 29/08/2011 - 20:34

    That's awesome ng100 - great price!
    Any chance you could post up a receipt?

  • googolplex on 29/08/2011 - 20:57

    If anyone can get this for a lower price please post your receipt.
    I'm going to drop into Good Guys Tuesday or Wednesday

    • Spicket on 29/08/2011 - 21:03

      it's worth a shout out, but I doubt you'll get it for less than the $165 receipt posted up - that's nearly 50% of rrp

      • linnaen on 30/08/2011 - 18:44

        What is the best etiquette for getting them to price match.
        I went into a store today (none in stock) and asked about price matching another store, and the salesperson didn't seem very happy about it at all, and suggested that they don't normally price match other Good Guys stores.

        • Spicket on 30/08/2011 - 19:07

          A price match is a price match regardless of which other store it comes from. If they have a price match policy, this will usually negate online stores, but if it's matching another brick and mortar store then the salesperson should suck it up, unless it's below their cost.

          I guess it depends on whether you want the salesperson to be your friend or not - they might come across hurt or offended etc, but that's their problem not yours.

          Others may have a different opinion.

  • fordprefect on 29/08/2011 - 23:16

    damn i just bought one 3 weeks ago for $245 @ david jones

    really great grinder, really great deal

  • Funkdafied on 30/08/2011 - 07:23

    How does this grinder compare to the Sunbeam EM0480?

    • Spicket on 30/08/2011 - 07:54
      +1

      Smart Grinder - more consistent grind, easier to change grind setting - of which there's 25 steps, has a dosing function that is 'smart'
      EMO480 - I have a friend with one, and whilst they're ok, they aren't awesome, it's manual dosing and restriction of settings to about 13 steps I think.

      For the same money, you should go for the BCG800 (Smart Grinder)

  • Davo-CC on 30/08/2011 - 11:43

    Can anyone recommend a good place in or near the Brisbane CBD that would match or come close to this?

    Also if you have one and don't find the grind fine enough there's apparently a "Shim upgrade" available - you need to take the burr grinder off and add some shim rings to it that Breville have been supplying (at least where this appears to have been reviewed in the US). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8piBChRggPM&feature=iv&annota… has more detail.

  • Spicket on 30/08/2011 - 12:46
    +1

    Hi Davo-CC
    Both myer and DJ stock this. Considering DJ are very open with their price match policy - try them.

    Current stock should already have the shim kit fitted (mine did). According to Breville, they are fixing this issue in the factory, so shim kits will not be necessary soon.

    For more info see the grinders thread over at coffeesnobs.com.au

    • Davo-CC on 30/08/2011 - 15:18

      Thanks Hatchy - I'd get it from the link that you posted but they're not available to mid-September and I have 2kg of Dibella to use here, my old grinder is dead so I'm keen!

      • Davo-CC on 02/09/2011 - 22:00

        Myers said no - they said buy price was above $220 but they wouldn't elaborate any further. I think it's a trip to TGGG tomorrow, hard to get out there during the week for me but the savings are worth it, especially as I'm buying two of them.

    • johnperi01 on 03/09/2011 - 22:57

      How could you tell the shim kit was fitted?

      • Spicket on 03/09/2011 - 23:22

        probably the only complete way would be to take off the bottom burr - do it at your own risk. It's a reverse thread.

  • mechman323 on 30/08/2011 - 17:17

    Good guys Nunawading would not price match. Anyone successful price matching at any Good Guys in Melbourne?

    • Spicket on 30/08/2011 - 18:06

      Would they at least go to $199 - surely, seeing as it's in a brochure. Pay less pay cash…..

    • Risty on 01/09/2011 - 15:50

      I'm not surprised to hear Nunawading wouldn't price match.
      They're not much for such things, nor even their 'pay less pay cash' tagline.

      I'll post again if i find a store willing to do it.

  • mechman323 on 30/08/2011 - 18:19

    Best they could do was 191.90 so less than 5% off. No where near the $165 price on the uploaded receipt.

  • Spicket on 30/08/2011 - 18:27

    Shame, still it's a good saving off the RRP, and the general approx $250 that a lot of us have paid for ours.

  • Davo-CC on 30/08/2011 - 19:12

    Mechman323 - could you upload your receipt perhaps? That could be useful in my "DJ's negotiations"….

  • mechman323 on 30/08/2011 - 20:00

    Sorry Davo-CC i didnt buy it. Good luck with your "DJ's negotiations".

  • elcheapoinoz on 30/08/2011 - 22:08

    any good deals on the bes900 machine?

    • Spicket on 01/09/2011 - 07:21

      I wish - that same good guys catalogue has them for about 1450 - not much saving off rrp.

      I'm hoping that Myer may have them as a special, like when they discount all coffee machines etc.

      It is a brand new product though, it's only had it's first shipment thus far.

  • petec_7 on 30/08/2011 - 22:59

    Wow great price on the smart grinder. Also, is the Good Guys the 1st of the chain stores to stock the Dual Boiler? Looking forward to Myers and DJs stocking these, then it will be haggle time :)

    • Spicket on 31/08/2011 - 07:16

      check the Breville website - Myers and DJs do stock the BES900, but it's only selected stores.

  • Harlott on 31/08/2011 - 00:35

    Goodguys in Adelaide (Edwardstown store) gave it to me for $160. Didn't even view the receipt! Pooraka store also said no probs.

  • mechman323 on 31/08/2011 - 01:08
    +1

    Could you please upload a receipt Harlott?

  • MementoMori on 31/08/2011 - 19:02

    Just bought it from Highpoint Good Guys - $165, not really much bargaining, just a bit.

    Damn he kept trying to upsell me with some coffee beans and the extended warranty, true to OzBargain from I resisted getting suckered into that crap. Then paid with my AMEX, points too woohoo!! :) Too bad about pay less, pay cash.

    • Spicket on 31/08/2011 - 21:17
      +1

      Coffee Beans from a Good Guys shop? You've got to be kidding!

  • Davo-CC on 31/08/2011 - 23:24

    Tried to get one today - two places, DJ's were out of stock and the Harvey Norman I went to said that they couldn't do better than $240… The guy had seen this thread too, they're onto you guys! Going to see if any others have this thing in stock up here, no GG's near me unfortunately.

  • Davo-CC on 03/09/2011 - 17:30

    Well managed to get two from The Good Guys at Lutwyche - that was the last two they had too, they matched the $165 when I showed'em a copy of the receipt. Thanks again to OP Hatchy and NB100!

  • johnperi01 on 03/09/2011 - 22:55

    I spoke to 3 different good guys retailers and none of them could tell me if there was a shim kit included in the grinders they had in stock. Is there an easy way to pick the difference between the two? As I normally only drink espressos I really need to make sure I get the latest model.

    • Spicket on 03/09/2011 - 23:23

      If it isn't fine enough for you when you get one, it's a simple thing to fit the shim kit.
      Get onto coffeesnobs.com.au for more details - Grinders thread.

    • Davo-CC on 04/09/2011 - 01:14

      Johnperi01 - as far as I know all the recently shipped units have the shim kit fitted, they started doing this a little while ago. If you're unsure contact Breville and I believe they'll send you out one regardless - it's just some washers I think (see the video I linked to above), it should cover the bases for you.

      • Davo-CC on 10/09/2011 - 12:16

        Just to update my post - I used the grind to make espresso for the first time today (I just have a little 15 bar Sunbeam machine) and my experience was very similar to the women in the video above; the finest setting produces clumps of coffee which are too fine and were too much for the machine to handle so I'd say they have the shim kit fitted out of the box, it's just as they demonstrated after they applied their shim kit to their liking. I'm actually winding it 2 or 3 back from the finest espresso shot level to make it work properly, it's doing a really good job. If you can still get these things I 100% recommend it so far.

  • Jad on 08/09/2011 - 15:17

    I was a little late to the party on this one…. this deal was for the Father's catalogue that finished on the 5th September. I went in a few days later and it was marked back at $299. I was lucky enough to get them to honour the expired catalogue price ($199), but couldn't get any more discount below that.

    For what its worth, they said their 'cost price' was $215, but im sure they'd say anything to make a sale ;)

    • johnperi01 on 09/09/2011 - 13:01

      Just wanted to thank the guys who posted the $165
      price/receipt from Good Guys as the Bankstown store was
      happy to match it. Look forward to using it this
      weekend.

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