This is the cheapest it's been on Amazon and equal to the cheapest ever afaik.
Lots more instructions included with EV3 than there was with EV2.
We got it for Christmas and have just got through all the main models and have built a few of our own creations - still hundreds of online instructions to sift through!
Software is fantastic (even I can understand some of it)- especially if your children have used Scratch or other drag&drop coding tools.
Note: This has been going in and out of stock all morning, so I don't know whether they just keep finding the odd set behind the sofa, or whether people aren't completing checkout - who knows! If it's OOS - keep trying.
11 comments
bargain1979
10 May 163#1
it is a good price, but i went for the tesco direct deal recently instead which was 3 for 2, so i bought 3 of these for £420, making it £140 a set....and i intend to sell the other 2 in the region of £200 (which they regularly achieve on ebay), which will mean the one i keep will cost £20 or so
stevenfeeney to bargain1979
10 May 16#3
So you could theoretically buy them over and over making £150 profit each cycle (after fees)?
Whilst also racking up ClubCard points?
DannGo to bargain1979
10 May 16#8
Surely it'll cost you a lot more once you've taken postage and fees into consideration?
online2014 to bargain1979
11 May 16#9
Hi mate is this 3 for 2 deal still on at tesco? Cheers buddy
paulj48
10 May 16#2
These are regularly on Argos 3 for 2 on toys and is £229.99 there at the moment but £190 is a good price. I bought a set at Christmas but there are only instructions supplied for 1 basic model, the other instructions you need access to a laptop or tablet. Don't really think there's 100's of instructions online, more like just over a dozen official ones with the associated program.
bargain1979
10 May 161#4
they are a riskier 'investment' than other lego sets such as star wars since each new version of mindstorms is a technological leap from the previous one....making the old ones look lame....so i would only recommend exercising such an offer once or so
bigjt
10 May 16#5
Oh well looks like I missed out on this :disappointed:
thingswelike
10 May 16#6
Keep trying - I have got about 6 alerts this morning as it keeps coming back into stock.
caterham7
10 May 161#7
In theory... but for the majority of casual eBayers, eBay (10%) and Paypal (3.4% + 20p) fees plus postage (£10 say, to insure for £200) will come to about £40 on selling for £200. Mass sellers have reduced rates and eBay sometimes run capped fees eg £3 max fee on all sales, so it'll get it down to about £20 costs all in, but you might as well put on gumtree for around £180-£200 and pay no fees.
I got 3 from Tesco, not sure if I'm going to keep all 3 for my boys and me, or sell 2 via gumtree to pay for most of one to keep.
MadPad
11 May 161#10
Just to note, this is still appearing back in stock from time to time - I ordered at this price around 12.30 today.
cypher007
16 May 16#11
slightly off topic. I was all set to get one from Tesco using boost. £210 all day long for the last month or so. go on there today now boost is on £299. I'm madder than a bag full of badgers. bet when boost finishes it'll drop to £210 again.
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This is the cheapest it's been on Amazon and equal to the cheapest ever afaik.
Lots more instructions included with EV3 than there was with EV2.
We got it for Christmas and have just got through all the main models and have built a few of our own creations - still hundreds of online instructions to sift through!
Software is fantastic (even I can understand some of it)- especially if your children have used Scratch or other drag&drop coding tools.
Note: This has been going in and out of stock all morning, so I don't know whether they just keep finding the odd set behind the sofa, or whether people aren't completing checkout - who knows! If it's OOS - keep trying.
11 comments
Whilst also racking up ClubCard points?
I got 3 from Tesco, not sure if I'm going to keep all 3 for my boys and me, or sell 2 via gumtree to pay for most of one to keep.