I don't quite believe this... after 10 years of goose chasing :confused:



No units on display but there was one in the stock room. I think I may need a lay down now to recover.

I posted a Tesco £20 Blu-Ray player deal on here some time ago, and was accused of all sorts of things. Being a Tesco employee was one of them, but over the course of 24 hours it was proven to be pretty much nationwide, and even the most vocal person dishing out the accusations managed to snag one himself in the end. People are generally treated quite poorly on here, it's a surprise that people ever come back!

Op's a reputable poster giving people a heads up, what's wrong with that? Too many grumps on here

I was walking past my local Bentley dealer today and there was a sign in the window advertising a new Continental GT for only £3.99. I went inside but the salesman said they had just sold the last one. Unfortunately he would not give me the sign, or let me take a photo of it, and I can't remember the address of the dealer or which town it was in so I don't have anything to verify the deal. It would be worth everyone searching around their local Bentley dealerships though, just in case they see any more in stock ...

Just called my other local Sainsbury's and they didn't have it either. But if anybody is near Kinross, then they have it there she said.

(No Acer Revo either, sadly)

It has (obviously to me) been in my store and I have it from staff that it exists in Kinross. I don't really care much about imaginary internet points, but I like a good deal. I would have bought it, if it was in stock in my store - maybe it is in stock in yours or one nearby. As I said, it might be a wild goose chase, but it is a good deal if you can find it.

So it seems the Op is a bit disgruntled with this non deal :smirk:

Would this run kodi

Can you install Windows 10 on this tablet?

It would run kodi, I have it on my 7" version

And Windows 10

Still at £120 in Sainsburrys Cheltenham

Its not a good deal if no one can get it, my local corner shop has iPads free with a purchase of Tangy Toms should get me 10,000 heat.

I was walking past my local Bentley dealer today and there was a sign in the window advertising a new Continental GT for only £3.99. I went inside but the salesman said they had just sold the last one. Unfortunately he would not give me the sign, or let me take a photo of it, and I can't remember the address of the dealer or which town it was in so I don't have anything to verify the deal. It would be worth everyone searching around their local Bentley dealerships though, just in case they see any more in stock ...

This is the best wild goose chase of all time.

The one where even the OP couldn't get it, and the store's local so I don't even have to try.

no receipt, no proof - so no deal, i dont know why these are classed as deals as usually only the OP gets one!

Op's a reputable poster giving people a heads up, what's wrong with that? Too many grumps on here

:smiley:

I hope someone gets it or at least tries to call their local Sainsbury's to see if it was/is available.

As for the rest. I'd get the Bentley, but the iPad is still overpriced! :wink:

200degC + for a sticker on a shelf. Bravo OP.

there's no stock in Kinross - just been in - supervisor confirmed it's not on inventory there and hasn't been for over a month

:disappointed:
Sorry. That's what the lady said.

Not blaming you, it was worth going to check as it's my local store. They've obviously given you a bum steer though.

I posted a Tesco £20 Blu-Ray player deal on here some time ago, and was accused of all sorts of things. Being a Tesco employee was one of them, but over the course of 24 hours it was proven to be pretty much nationwide, and even the most vocal person dishing out the accusations managed to snag one himself in the end. People are generally treated quite poorly on here, it's a surprise that people ever come back!

Screw the Ipad I want some Tangy Toms now!!!

Here's how it works : it's a range change time in Sainsburys (and Tesco's). Some stores will not be selling some products after the change so they reduce them "to clear"- and staff will usually buy these for themselves - but still put the price tickets out as they're not supposed to do that. In other stores, where they will continue to sell the product after the change, the same product will stay at full price.
There's an iPad mini (16GB WiFi) reduction to 219 -> 150 -> and now 99.99 (I've seen the tickets out), but if you try and locate any stock you'd be out of luck.
Not voting either way purely for the effort but take these "reduced to clear" deals for what they are - a myth.

It's a genuine deal. Just out of the Kirkcaldy store, they sold the last 2 today Assistant said that didn't even know they were that price until they were scanned.

Cheers for taking both btw.....

damn you sir :-)

Cold. This is about as real as the Bentley deal :-)

tangy toms sold aty local shop but are not the same as they were years ago

I will check this when the sainsbury's bloke calls me back on the Acer revo and monitor.

No, we're not lying. They had 2 in Kirkcaldy, they have sold them,

if you call any store and ask them to check the inventory price they'll tell you it's coming up £40

I think the OP deserves a bit of heat for finding this

When will this site ban wild goose chases? There should be a separate section at least.

I don't quite believe this... after 10 years of goose chasing :confused:



No units on display but there was one in the stock room. I think I may need a lay down now to recover.

OP; "So no picture of the sticker and obviously didn't come away with a tablet"
I've probably missed the point here, but if £40 is a really hot price for this tablet and there was one on display, did you not try to buy it? It might have been minus its box, cables, whatever, but for £40...

Of course it might have needed the bar code on the box to do so, or even the PoS RTC sticker, but if you don't ask...

someone bought the last one right in my presence at the Lancaster branch. I managed to grab the acer revo nettop pc and monitor as a compensation tho

Has anyone bought this for £40? This seems to be a deal that no one (even the deal poster) can get!

Lovely tablet, picked one up a few weeks ago when they were £49. Completely believable that they are now £40, Heat added.

I'd be really surprised if it would not. You could just say you heard from a guy on the internet that Bentley were selling the Continental GT for £3.99, and although he did not buy one himself, or have any evidence of the deal, or remember which Bentley dealer made the offer, that should be plenty to justify £124,996.01 off a Gallardo coupe.

omg, i saw you too. :smile:

I bought only one

It's certainly heavy compared to my sadly deceased Lenovo S8-50. Haven't tried Win 10 on a tablet before, if it can run my external DAC/Headphone amp and Foobar I will be extremely impressed.

Well I was skeptical when I left my half drunk beer on the table this evening, I honestly thought I'd be going home with cheese topped rolls tonight but this was a rare and pleasant surprise :smiley:

How much is the genuine keyboard for this tablet?

I'm really surprised stores still have these in stock as I was struggling to get one in January when they were £79.50. A bargain though for sure at £40...if you can find one!

Right, so I embarked on my first ever wild goose chase. I called up Sainsbury's and spoke to a guy called Daniel who took down the tablet details and told me it's on clearance for £40 (without me mentioning this) - he then checked and found that basically most stores near me were out of stock. He spoke to the store in Tottenham who said they would be due more stock next week (which I thought was strange considering it's supposed to be "clearance".) Another store that may have some is Chelmsford but as the GM department is currently closed, the staff cannot check the stock room. Will call tomorrow morning (and post on here) but not sure if a 50mile round trip is really worth it for this tablet.

Cold, this is not a deal

hot

I dont believe why we are seeing these type of deals in groupon which are merely a marketing tactic.. Its a common strategy to put the price down to insanely level for out of stock stuff so that a perception for cheap seller be established...

Well I'm going to check my local. sainsburys for stock, you choose not to see a real deal that's up to you

£140 @ my local

There are 2 different models a 16 & a 32gb, the 32pgb has a leather style back and won't be reduced, that's why it is £140...the barcode for the reduced one should be 129227492 it was £49 a couple of weeks ago at Sainsburys, hence the clearance price see http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/linx-10-light-49-sainsburys-instore-2374372?page=3#comments for more info.

I can't believe this non-deal has reached 607 degrees.

16GB on a Windows 10 tablet is bloody useless, I wouldn't bother honestly.

I paid £50 for the Linx 7 back around Christmas but it's the 32GB version and even the storage on that needs to be cleared once in a while just because of Windows updates etc... Windows will not work properly on 16GB, it'll just be a very frustrating experience.

It's a good price - I saw the empty shelf where these would have been in a Norwich Sainsburys yesterday (Pound Lane). But after briefly owning a 16GB Windows tablet I wouldn't recommend the experience.

I bought 2 Linx Windows tablets from Tesco before xmas. They look and feel good but thats about all. I had to send them back for a refund as they wouldn't connect to any wifi. They're cheap for a reason.

Struggling to install Windows updates at the moment, the first attempt failed as it was 300mb short of space.
With a Micro SD card installed the update will start to process but when I checked at 3:00am it was stuck at 14%.
Having another go this morning but might need to use a USB stick with the media creation tool instead. I noticed the processor is x64, anyone know if this device can handle Win 64?

There's potentially something wrong with the bios too, I can't use any search engine besides Bing as it returns an unsecure connection message. Going direct to a web address is fine and no other devices on my network are having this issue. Further investigation required over the weekend.

Surprisingly little bloatware on the device besides standard Windows apps and a couple of Sainsbury's Entertainment programs (there's a £5 discount code in the box!).

On the upside the two full size USB ports are really useful, headphone DAC/amp is running great via Foobar with ASIO installed though I'm sure it will slaughter the battery. Hopefully it can handle SACD/DSD files too as it will make a nice portable audio rig.

It's a good deal for someone who a) can find one and b) wants a pretty basic tablet. The Linx 1010 is pretty good but obviously a lot dearer.

I've got a Linx 8 which I use for streaming from Xbox One and Steam. though it's a pain that it uses the same port for USB and charging (stupid idea). and, yes, I did get the Revo One deal in Sainsburys too, which I was pretty pleased with.

generally the community here is not hugely friendly, most people here would step on their granny to save a fiver.

congrats to the person who got one, great deal

Chance of finding it will be really rare - most stock was cleared previously.

do these type of tablet work well?

Maidenhead have 6 , was seven but i bought one this morning

Just a quick bit of feedback...for morale!
I updated a 32Gb asus vivo 8 the other night which i had updated to win 10 previously but was the large december update...after faffing and needing a micro sd it did eventually start the install but took the best part of all evening and only for an incremental!

I think referring to your x64 question they add the 32bit license to try and keep the os size down as these tablets struggle with <32GB

Keep trying.

having win 10 on a machine that runs so slooowly is almost pointless

Just imagine if this was in Tesco... you'd probably be dead by now!

It's quite amusing and I'm enjoying the challenge, hopefully I can streamline it by disabling features.
Should be okay for music/films/web browsing, fingers crossed for some Pinball FX2 too...

Not fussed for the price but I would be disappointed if I'd spent over £80 on it.

I have a linx 10 lite bought when it was 50 quid in sainsburys a few weeks ago. Got the keyboard for it for 25 quid off amazon and a 128gb card. £110 all in. And it's amazing! Not kidding, I prefer it to my surface 3. And I prefer my surface 3 to my iPad Air. For the price it's a stunning bit of kit, and runs all windows software. If you can get it for anything like fifty quid it's a bargain. Just get a micro SD card as well, ideally before doing the windows 10 update as you can install all the apps/software on the card.

Not to toot my own horn (it's used to it - woooo!), but my suggestion here seems to have worked for a few people.

It is an issue with generic parts that a lot of tablets such as this use.

None available at Sevenoaks. :disappointed:

they have these in stock in grimsby but apparently scanning through at £129.00 (that's what i got told on the phone there is always the possibility it scanned through at £40 and he thought "**** you i'm having that! )

Are you still Lancaster based? This will save me heading down if so :disappointed:

None left in the Sunderland North store

Yes mine was from the Lancaster store. Sorry :disappointed:

Quick heads up for anyone after one of these in the North East. I popped into the Monkseaton store on the off chance, and the guy behind the desk did a stock search for me. The closest store with stock was Throckley, which was showing as having two in stock, but he did say to call them first to make sure they actually physically had them.

Very good value for the price.

I bought the 1010B 32GB with Keyboard and have to say that 16GB is way too small.

Does this come with Office licence that can be sold?

No geese here!

Just picked up the only one at Newhaven - many thanks to the OP :sunglasses:

What the MicroSD read speed on this? I've got the Linx 810 leather edition two weeks ago and it's not loading many if any apps / games that are from the windows marketplace. Cant seem to find an sd card thats fast enough wont benchmark past 22MB/s read and with USB same happens even though benchmarks at 42MB/s .

FYI : I've got some full desktop blown classic applications games working including Halo 2 though the online is dead, oh and House of the Dead 3 is a blast on touchscreen so nice being table to tap to kill the zombies :wink: Since I've not upgraded or purchased a new desktop in over 10 years all my retail pc games are old enough to run on this without problem. I'm going to try some games I purchased on Steam in the sale today too.

I know Burnout Paradise works and well with 2GB ram many more games will work than the model I picked up just 16GB internal is rather limiting you wont be able to have many apps for that space to enjoy.

Also plays 4K YouTube without any hickups allow it to buffer in full and it works.

I've yet to try the HDMI out but my only two issues so far is the WIFI and the issue playing apps/games from the marketplace from other storage doesn't work too well if at all.

I don't need this but I want it! Somebody please stop me from wasting my money on more tech deals. :O

F'all in Sainsbury's Braehead, I repeat, F'all in Sainsbury's Braehead.

None in Ipswich, just called.

Thanks DisgruntledD
Nice little birthday present to myself
Was think of getting one in Jan when they were reduced £70/£80, but didn't get around to it, lucky me!
Plus had £23 on my Nectar Card, so only £17!!!
Cheers
(From Maidenhead store)

Did you guys manage to upgrade to Windows 10 Home, version 1511?

I hate these bloody wild goose chase deals on here, there's always one unit amongst 2000 shops in the whole of the UK and the nearest one in stock is only a 420 mile round trip.
I wasn't going to jump in the car at 9AM and go rushing into Sainsbury's to get the last one in the universe just to prove that the deal was actually real and not just a figment of the OP's imagination!
No not me, I went in at 6PM and bought some mashed potato and said to the bloke, have you got a £40 10" tablet thing??
"Oh this one he replied! It's the last one in stock"

Nice one OP

had to pay for that on one counter and the mash on the other counter. what points??

Damn, no light models in Morecambe.

Great deal. managed to get one from Bicester store. Thanks to Stuart who went and found it in stock room! Too man.

Top man even....

800 heat and no deal, wtf

No joy in the Hampshire area.

I called 20 stores and even the ones that showed as having stock didn't have any.

OP .. I would have LUVVVVVVVVV'ed to have gotten my ones of these for only £40 each?.

Needless to say I paid more at the time!. :-(

Lol. :-)

I have this already, and it does NOT come with Windows 10 'pre-installed' on it as standard?, so .....

It comes with Windows 8.1 installed on it instead.

You need to allow it to install your Windows 10 on it for you after ..... lol. :-)

And the Linx 8 is the exact same too! (as I have that also).

Well done. :-)

Interesting setup... :smiley:

I have this already, and it does NOT come with Windows 10 'pre-installed' on it as standard?, so .....

It comes with Windows 8.1 installed on it instead.

You need to allow it to install your Windows 10 on it for you after ..... lol. :-)

And the Linx 8 is the exact same too! (as I have that also).

Kind of what I was thinking too ..... hehehe. :-)

is that just a stand? or on a changing cradle?
I see the pogo connectors on the bottom of the tablet, anyone know if there is a charger cradle to fit these?

Just got one of these (Weds 17th @ 8pm) from my local Sainsburys in Altrincham, last one. Cannot believe I got one!!

I can't believe I got one tbh, it already has windows 10 on it and I put a 32gig micro sd card in, currently doing app and associated updates, for £40 I'm delighted (so far).

Normally on HUKD the geese chases are for Tesco Deals, & not for Sainsburys Deals?.

But you did well nonetheless ..... lol. :-)

Mine did

Mine came with windows 10 already installed too. The big clue are the words "windows 10" in the top right corner of the box!!

Cant find any in stock in around birmingham area :disappointed:

You are joking right? Are you telling me you can't check for deals after certain days? Wow... You are intelligent

Some guys dont have much to do apart from trolling i guess :smile: