Christmas Cracker Rip Off

LT · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject: Christmas Cracker Rip Off

With having a TT GO 510, I had no hesitation in getting my parents a TT One V3 Christmas cracker for Christmas, complete with £10 voucher. I expected to be able to use it at Halfords or something, but no. You can only use it at Widget.com online and on certain products which are extremely overpriced, so the £10 voucher is virtually worthless. For example, the home charger is £19.99 plus postage, and I can get that for under a tenner on Ebay including postage. The only worthwhile thing would be the voice downloads, but they're advertised at £9.99 with "Internet connection needed" although if you go to buy, you have to have 2 voices, The Don and Sylvia, neither of which appeal. To add insult to injury, get this, you CAN'T DOWNLOAD THEM? Oh no, you have to buy a voucher which they send through the post (getting you to pay postage) so that they can make their money. A total rip off in my view. All of the accessories on there can be got from Ebay for under a tenner.

Anyone else notice this? Or have any comment?

andy-c1 · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject:

to me voices are a waist of time ,take manual from faulty towers by the time he had said turny righta about 20 times he was switched off chop chop
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Darren · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:37 pm Post subject:

What's a TT One V3 Christmas cracker anyway?
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:00 am Post subject:

TT One V3 Christmas cracker

Darren · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:15 am Post subject:

Ah, now I see. Cheers Paul.
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EricWB · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jan 31, 2007 Posts: 310

It seems that you consider that what was available for your £10.00 voucher was worthless, could that be something to do with the fact it was considered to be a free gift? As there is no such thing as something for nothing or a free lunch what would you expect?

Kar98 · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject: Re: Christmas Cracker Rip Off

M8TJT · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject: Re: Christmas Cracker Rip Off

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:35 pm Post subject:

Ah but you have to remember... it costs SO much more to send a TomTom from Holland to England than it does to send it to the US.
And it costs so much more to pay a immigrant worker with no union rights to look after it in a warehouse in the UK than it does an American worker.

Err....maybe? Confused

M8TJT · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

Andy. I hadn't thought of it that way before. Perhaps we are getting a bargain then?

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

Always remember the first rule of importing electronic goods...

1 USD = 1 GBP Rolling Eyes

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bazzza · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject:

Come on guys, you are using TomTom. You should be used to being ripped off. e.g their 50% off maps offer etc. Don't bother complaining to them though, you won't get a sensible answer, sometimes no answer at all if you ask a difficult question. Crying or Very sad

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Skippy · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:41 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject:

Darren · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject:

There is one other factor. We are a much bigger market for satnav and it is much more widely used here than in the US.

Hence supply and demand factors prevail, they need to break into the market there and so will be cutting margins to the bone, here it is a much more mature market and TomTom are already well established.
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