Just had this email come through with a few offers at Currys/PC World in store only for "a limited time".
7.5% off HP Laptops over £200 10% off all headphones 25% off all bags, cases and sleeves 10% off TVs 10% off Kettles, Toasters, Irons and Food Prep 10% off Surface, Printers, Ink and Office
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TheUrbis
10 Aug 17#1
Just had this email come through with a few offers at Currys/PC World in store only for "a limited time".
7.5% off HP Laptops over £200 10% off all headphones 25% off all bags, cases and sleeves 10% off TVs 10% off Kettles, Toasters, Irons and Food Prep 10% off Surface, Printers, Ink and Office
SimyJo
10 Aug 17#2
Wow, a whole 10%! - that's really stingey of Currys/PC World.
shu123 to SimyJo
10 Aug 17#3
Better than nothing imo
TheUrbis to SimyJo
10 Aug 17#4
Can you please post how to get more off?
SimyJo to TheUrbis
10 Aug 17#6
Honestly? , for Currys/PC World... with Nectar points I'd wager. 10% is pretty stingey for any company and is not a proper discount as it can easily be absorbed by other business practices.
Graham1979 to SimyJo
10 Aug 17#7
Yeah making the other customers foot the bill to give the snowflakes a discount. They should add 10 percent for these economically inactive individuals.
ollie87 to Graham1979
11 Aug 17#12
You do realise why companies offer student discount right?
jamiedb to ollie87
11 Aug 17#14
Judging by the date in his username, university was probably free/a lot cheaper if he attended university. Correct me if I'm wrong but we've had a 900% increase in tuition fees (I know, inflation etc.) in the past 20 years and will not likely ever pay off our student loans unless we get a real top job but hey, 10% off a new TV makes up for that... :stuck_out_tongue:
ollie87 to jamiedb
11 Aug 17#15
Well to be fair student discounts are not about the money, if they were then the discounts would be better.
It's a token gesture to a group of people going through a very important and informative point of their life, if a company treats them well during this period they've got a customer for life.
Then again, that reasoning requires intelligence, empathy, and common sense. It's hard to believe anyone who uses the word "snowflake" without irony is capable of such reasoning.
jamiedb to ollie87
11 Aug 17#21
I brought up the money as a lot of the older people that I see complain say about not having discounts like these when they were a student but forget about the massive jump in fees :stuck_out_tongue: All very true though!
Graham1979 to ollie87
11 Aug 17#18
Why don't you enlighten me?
TheUrbis to Graham1979
11 Aug 17#19
To be fair, he has... 3 posts up.
vassy1
10 Aug 17#5
Worth adding the min spend on each category you mentioned :kissing_heart:
SimyJo
10 Aug 17#8
Yeah, but what a deal!. :sunglasses:
mamboboy
10 Aug 17#9
Tbh 10% is decent if you're after a high end TV or something
CAL23
10 Aug 17#10
7.5% off a laptop. WTF? :thinking:
TheUrbis to CAL23
11 Aug 17#13
Are you aware how little profit is in stuff like that?
It's better than not saving 7.5%.
y_am_I_buying_this
10 Aug 17#11
I don't suppose someone could send me their discount code for 25% off bags please.
abs
11 Aug 17#16
I can buy Currys/PC World e-vouchers for 7.5% discount via my employer. My daughter can get student discount of 10% via Student Beans. Wow that's a whopping 17.5% off - voted hot
FirmColdheart
11 Aug 17#17
Employees only get 10% and you have to put up with working for them. So this is a great deal!
TheUrbis
11 Aug 17#20
To be fair, Graham, you can't put all students under the same umbrella.
As I posted this deal, you'll appreciate the fact that I'm a student - albeit not in my 20s, and studying from home, but regardless, I'm still a student.
I've worked hard and self-funded the vast majority of my courses, and it's being done for my development rather than career or other reasons - I'm lucky to be in a position whereby I've climbed the ranks into a relatively high position employment wise.
Admittedly, I'm sure your statement does apply in some cases, but there's also plenty where it doesn't.
Graham1979 to TheUrbis
11 Aug 17#22
What we need, going off topic, is to get rid of courses that have no meaningful benefit of society. Medical and STEM get priority, heavily subsidized and the focus of colleges and HE institutions. We have pointless courses that the only outcome is for the students to teach the course. Native American history? Labour destroyed this in 1997 with the "everybody should go" mentality.
We HAD a university system that was the envy of the world. Now if you like the look of the building you get to go. We need strict entrance exams to the university not just your a-level grades, we need rolling pass marks in courses, your competing all the time with others on the course. Work experience (paid or voluntary) will be built into the course, those three months over summer wont see you "have a well deserved break" you will work!
Shakeyyy to Graham1979
12 Aug 17#23
There's too much money to be made. Education is no longer about education, it's a business.
Wish I knew that before I got myself in £45,000 of debt + interest. But, parents being parents are always pressuring their kids into university thinking that's the best way to get a good career - in fact it's been the opposite most cases for us uni grads post 2012.
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Opening post
7.5% off HP Laptops over £200
10% off all headphones
25% off all bags, cases and sleeves
10% off TVs
10% off Kettles, Toasters, Irons and Food Prep
10% off Surface, Printers, Ink and Office
23 comments
7.5% off HP Laptops over £200
10% off all headphones
25% off all bags, cases and sleeves
10% off TVs
10% off Kettles, Toasters, Irons and Food Prep
10% off Surface, Printers, Ink and Office
10% is pretty stingey for any company and is not a proper discount as it can easily be absorbed by other business practices.
It's a token gesture to a group of people going through a very important and informative point of their life, if a company treats them well during this period they've got a customer for life.
Then again, that reasoning requires intelligence, empathy, and common sense. It's hard to believe anyone who uses the word "snowflake" without irony is capable of such reasoning.
It's better than not saving 7.5%.
As I posted this deal, you'll appreciate the fact that I'm a student - albeit not in my 20s, and studying from home, but regardless, I'm still a student.
I've worked hard and self-funded the vast majority of my courses, and it's being done for my development rather than career or other reasons - I'm lucky to be in a position whereby I've climbed the ranks into a relatively high position employment wise.
Admittedly, I'm sure your statement does apply in some cases, but there's also plenty where it doesn't.
We HAD a university system that was the envy of the world. Now if you like the look of the building you get to go. We need strict entrance exams to the university not just your a-level grades, we need rolling pass marks in courses, your competing all the time with others on the course. Work experience (paid or voluntary) will be built into the course, those three months over summer wont see you "have a well deserved break" you will work!
Wish I knew that before I got myself in £45,000 of debt + interest. But, parents being parents are always pressuring their kids into university thinking that's the best way to get a good career - in fact it's been the opposite most cases for us uni grads post 2012.