Boxing day sale

[Uncle_Ken]

Well I've been Boxing day shopping (got to love Santa and Shopping cards)
Just wondering what people have picked up today (any store)
UK
Spercheap Auto for me

[Bushbasher]

My missus finished a night shift doing what she does and went straight to Kmart and Target and came home with a mountain of solar christmas lights of various kinds for less than half price.............and a crepe maker, although I'm still trying to work out why.

[AndyXR6T]

Supercheap auto for me too. Pretty well the only shop or centre open in my area today, but I planned to go anyway

[Legit290]

Went to Supercheap. Big toolbox reduced from $500 to $250 due to a damaged cardboard box. $100 gift card from the in laws. Big toolbox for $150 WIN!

[GASWAGON]

I was going to go clothes shopping with missus and kid but decided I could'nt handle the crowds and parking nightmares.....We are going tomorrow instead hopefully some sales are still on.

[Marquis]

50 inch Sony Led lcd $699 for the Ford Room

[GASWAGON]

Originally Posted by Bushbasher

My missus finished a night shift doing what she does and went straight to Kmart and Target and came home with a mountain of solar christmas lights of various kinds for less than half price.............and a crepe maker, although I'm still trying to work out why.

Gees thats a good idea especially solar lights to save on power bill.....Some people are very smart!

[Bushbasher]

Yup, all our outside chrissy lights are now solar. We started changing them all over slowly about 4 years ago and have been completely solar for 2 years. We try and buy a feature or 2 every year to build it up but today she came home with 20 m of icicles, 2 features, candy canes, 4 boxes of mini features, 20m of coloured LED strip lights and about 20m of various coloured strings. I guess I'm going to have a shirt load of extra work to do next year.
Plus we have a 5kw solar system on the roof and have just about zeroed out our power bills anyway for the most part by turning things off, switching to LED bayonets and flouros, running timers on fridges and freezers and, yes, buying solar lights to avoid using grid power. A battery bank is the next big ticket item so we can go off grid completely by 2016 when the feed in tarif rebate goes here in SA.

[Jacko*]

Super Cheap Auto for me, spent nearly $400 on various goodies, hard to beat 20% off.

[MercurySilver]

Autobarn.
New mf50 battery for turbo
Blue globes in doors map light and rear vent light
Set of 200 amp jumper cables for work ute
El cheapo Kenwood 200 watt head unit and el cheapo clarion 4inch speakers for work ute as was still running stock tape deck lol
Plus another small set of small torque drill bits

Hopefully there's sales on around easter
I'll get rotars and brake pads for xh along with ball joints etc

[deesun]

60" Sony for wifeys lounge room from JB Hi Fi for 998, that was 500 off and JBs price was lower than anyone elses to start with.

[bobthebilda]

Originally Posted by Jacko*

Super Cheap Auto for me, spent nearly $400 on various goodies, hard to beat 20% off.

Not many shops sell at a loss. Just to bring you back to reality, its normally 50 to 80 % on, before the 20% to 50% gets lopped off for the boxing day sale. What you really should be saying is that you spent $400 buying goodies worth $300 that someone may have bought for $500 just a few days earlier.

[Uncle_Ken]

Yeah I told my boys to take me to supercheap/autobarn/repco on boxing day rather than get before. Mind you I didn't get much but I did save them some $$$.
UK

[JC]

Supercheap for me. Got a $175 Century 67EF battery for the GT for $140, $100 of which was from my mother in law for Xmas! Car starts better than ever ( no surprise there, really), and it means I won't need to trickle charge it every other week (it is a daily, but still needed a regular charge)

[Bucknaked]

Bread, Milk and some eggs.

[Lunch]

Originally Posted by Bucknaked

Bread, Milk and some eggs.

Ya know how they used to put stickers down the front of the front doors of jap cars of the aftermarket parts in the car? I used to see a broken old corola getting around with
Milk
Paper
Bread
Smokes
In the same place, always made me laugh

[paule11]

Shorts and thongs

[Maka]

Rego (for the old car) & Christmas together this year is not a good match for me but next year look out. The new car will be registered in a month or two so that will definitely make things a lot easier for the Boxing day sales next year, it's all good!

cheers, Maka

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by Uncle_Ken

Well I've been Boxing day shopping (got to love Santa and Shopping cards)
Just wondering what people have picked up today (any store)
UK
Spercheap Auto for me

If you want to save money UK, come down here.

The only retail shops that were open were the little owner operated ones, every other major shop and shopping centre (we have 3) was closed as they do every year.

[Trevor 57]

It would be great to be a burglar, thanks for the ads - LOL

[CoupeKing]

Originally Posted by paule11

Shorts and thongs

Same. Matching shorts and g-strings.

[Uncle_Ken]

Originally Posted by Trevor 57

It would be great to be a burglar, thanks for the ads - LOL

Well I live at 5 Adelaide Avenue, Deakin ACT. Any mail should the titled
The Prime minister, Tony Abbott.

UK (The right honourable )

[Legit290]

Saw a couple of tempting goodies before I decided on the toolbox
* head up display
* onboard tyre pressure monitor
* a knock-off of a GoPro

[DoreSlamR]

I got a nice SP toolbox before xmas, was already on sale at $990 but I got it for $750

[Jacko*]

Originally Posted by bobthebilda

Not many shops sell at a loss. Just to bring you back to reality, its normally 50 to 80 % on, before the 20% to 50% gets lopped off for the boxing day sale. What you really should be saying is that you spent $400 buying goodies worth $300 that someone may have bought for $500 just a few days earlier.

So true, only the mark up is often more than 100%, Especially here in Gladstone. I often buy items online now but with bulky things like batteries,oil & tools the freight can work out quite expensive, so when I can, I take advantage of these sales for said items. There is no way a business would sell at a loss overall, maybe on some selected items just to get you in the door. But for me I just spent $100 less than I would have, on items I need to buy anyway.

[Uncle_Ken]

Originally Posted by Legit290

Saw a couple of tempting goodies before I decided on the toolbox
* head up display
* onboard tyre pressure monitor
* a knock-off of a GoPro

If its the Gator HUD is from Autobarn/ Auto one and its the OBDII type it doesn't work in a Series 1 AU. I tired it on BMC's AU I Fairmont and not joy (also on the wife's 2004 Suzuki no luck their)
Don't get the GPS it lags to much. I have a Gator on my Series III XR8 but its hard wired (and it works brilliantly)
UK

[brismike]

Wife wanted a new lounge suite. To keep her happy we went shopping in all the usual furniture shops. Eventually found one she liked. Chose the leather colour she wanted (White like our cars lol). Got a decent discount 40% off compared to the price we saw the same one in November.

It definitely pays to wait for the after Christmas sales. This time last year I was shopping for my GT and got a great price and trade in for my old FG XR6. I was really happy then .... now it is her turn to be happy.

Cheers Mike

[fordomatic]

Got suits for my wedding with the groomsmen, were $1100 when we looked at them a week ago, got for $450 yesterday. We took a gamble knowing they would be discounted but not sure if they would sell out. Stoked, saved $550 from our budget