In the shops now! – The electrical deals you can live without

By Paul Smith

A quick shake of the Bitterwallet email tree this lunchtime, and these beautiful specimens of email monkey fell to the ground. We’ll boil them up in a delicious consumer broth later, or maybe we’ll drop this largely pointless analogy and step straight to the maths-mangling manure that is the pat of retail product pricing.

First up, it’s hello to Bitterwallet reader Carl, who found Comet selling a printer with a multiple personality disorder:

Next, reader Dan Beasley squeezed every last ounce out of his Masters in Applied Mathematics, but still failed to make this deal in his local Currys make sense:

picture 4 In the shops now! The electrical deals you can live without

Finally, Andy sent us another “special” offer from the PC World sale, which somehow makes even less sense than the last:

picture 5 In the shops now! The electrical deals you can live without

Found a special offer that looks like it fell in front of a train? Online or in-store, they’re all the same to us; send your photos and links to bitterwallet@gmail.com.

Tags: comet, currys, pc world
Posted in In the shops now! February 10th, 2009 | 7 Comments

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7 Responses to “In the shops now! – The electrical deals you can live without”

Posted by Martin | February 10th, 2009 at 3:15 pm

I’m glad I didn’t buy a calculator from currys.
Posted by darren w | February 10th, 2009 at 4:56 pm

BRILLIANT on the last one with the postage cost!!, I remember a Kids saturday morning programme where they asked viewers to find the most expensive can of pepsi, it was Tescos at £5.50… 50p for the can and £5 for the delivery!!!

QUALITY
Posted by Oh Dear | February 11th, 2009 at 9:52 pm

Really… I suppose some people don’t have jobs so they can afford their time emailing you with shit like this.
Posted by life? | February 11th, 2009 at 11:49 pm

somebody actually stopped in a shop and took a photo of a ticket to post on a website, YOU SAD SAD little people
Posted by watcher | February 12th, 2009 at 6:44 am

That is a Comet ticket… not Currys
Posted by diggradu | February 13th, 2009 at 12:27 am

THAINT AINT CURRYS ITS COMET….AT LEAST GET THAT RIGHT!
Posted by Hmmmm | February 14th, 2009 at 9:53 pm

Looks like the joke is on Mr Dan Beasley who can’t even read the sign above the shop he enters…. All together now just for dan C O M E T, Spells COMET, NOT CURRYS.