Argos have relaunched their special offer on free gift vouchers. Any order over £50 will receive a free £5 Argos gift voucher and any order over £100 will receive a free £10 Argos gift voucher.
Full terms and conditions on the gift voucher offer can be found here. The offer ends 20th December and the gift vouchers are valid until 22nd January 2010.
Updated 10pm: Play have now returned the price of their Xbox 360 Elite bundle to £189.99. The deal was only on their site for 12 hours, in total.
The code works with all consoles and games for any platform (including the PC). It will not work with products in the Electronics, PC (software and hardware) or Mobile categories.
The last day of the voucher code coincides with the Play.com Monday Madness sale we mentioned yesterday. There are several nice discounts to be found, including a significantly reduced price on Play.com’s main Xbox 360 Elite bundle.
Be sure to browse through the various available deals to pick out anything of interest to you.
Several retailers are emailing us about “Cyber Monday”, a sale they’re holding tomorrow 7th December. Promises include large discounts and savings on electronics, games, and potentially consoles.
This appears to be a one-off sale, so we’d definitely recommend browsing through the websites of the major retailers on Monday to see what discounts are on offer. We’ll highlight anything of particular interest on this blog.
Play.com have a “Monday Madness” sale on today, with some significant discounts on different games products. One deal we spotted is a heavily reduced price for Borderlands on all platforms, and there are plenty of other discounts to browse through.
We’d recommend a browse to see if there are any attractive offers:
HMV have an excellent offer on the Nintendo Wii console. They’re selling the console, including Wii Sports and one controller, for £135. This is roughly £30 to £45 cheaper than any other deal on the market.
HMV are able to have the price so low because they do not include Wii Sports Resort and the Motionplus accessory that comes with it. These are standard across the other Wii packages currently available.
For those who want the Wii at the cheapest possible price, or who just want to spend the £30 saving on something else, this is an excellent deal.
A big thanks to the reader who sent us this tip!
Argos are running a series of discounts over the next week. Several cover all their products, and others cover just particular lines such as digital cameras or furniture.
The two deals of most interest are a free £5 gift voucher for all orders over £50, and a free £10 gift voucher for all orders over £100. This offer runs until 1st December 2009.
The code for the deal is AFD, which can be entered at the checkout.
Full terms and conditions of this deal can be found on the Argos website. Argos also have a special page covering all their current promotions, which people should definitely have a browse through.
GAME have released a voucher code MS5009 that gives a £5 discount on all orders over £50. Simply enter the code in the “Basket” area and the discount will be applied.
We’ve been told the code is valid until the end of November.
Update, November 26th: We’ve had a few reports of this code not working with console bundle deals. If people are having trouble with other items, please get in touch!
This isn’t directly related to games, but a number of us are fans of Apple products and thought this was worth flagging up.
Apple are holding a special, one-off shopping event on 27th November. This is to mark Black Friday, a US holiday which marks the start of the Christmas shopping season.
The sale is also being held in the UK, both online and in their stores. If anyone is after an Apple product this Christmas, it’s worth checking out what discounts are on offer on that particular day.
We’ve had a couple of people contacting us who have had problems getting the Amazon Xbox 360 bundle to work.
First, to reiterate, the bundle is available and it does work as described.
After a few email exchanges, people seem to have one of two common problems:
* Trying to add Xbox 360 games not covered by the Amazon Xbox 360 bundle deal (this is fine, just don’t expect them to be discounted!).
* Looking in their “Basket” and assuming the discount hasn’t been applied. With Amazon, their discounts are only ever applied toward the end of the checkout process.
Our advice for people having trouble is, firstly, to follow the following instructions carefully:
1) Go to the Amazon Xbox 360 Elite or Amazon Xbox 360 Arcade bundle deal page.
2) To get the “three games and an extra controller for free” offer, add an Xbox 360 console, Wireless Entertainment Pack and one other item to your basket. The Wireless Entertainment Pack contains two games and a controller, so in total you’re getting three games and an extra controller.
3) Once you’ve added the qualifying items to your Basket, go to your Basket and check to make sure you haven’t accidentally ordered more than 1 of each item. Note that the discount will not be shown at this stage.
4) All done! Go through the checkout process, and the full discount and correct price will be shown towards the later stages!
If you still have problems after following these steps, please get in contact!
Amazon have just dropped the price of their Xbox 360 Elite bundle deal by £10, bringing it to the lowest price we’ve seen this Christmas season. Anyone holding off buying an Xbox 360 Elite waiting for a Christmas price drop may want to consider this.
The Amazon price drop is perhaps in response to a new Comet deal which offers an Xbox 360 Eite, four games, and an extra controller for £189. The advantage Amazon has over the Comet deal is that of choice; Comet’s games are all pre-selected, whereas Amazon allows customers to select the games they want.
We’ve also added a new guide on Xbox 360 Internet Accessories and Xbox Live, which aims to go through some common questions about getting a new Xbox 360 online and connecting to Xbox Live.
