Nintendo Wii U [Premium Pack], Mario Kart 8 & Another Game – £125
Nintendo Wii U [Premium Pack], Mario Kart 8 & Another Game – £125 collect in store.
Bit of a convoluted one this, but worth it for the price.
Mightydeals will currently sell you a £10 Curry’s gift voucher for £5 here. These are one per Mightydeals account, but if you create multiple Mightydeals accounts, you can purchase many gift cards. I’ve sent you to the mobile site, because that’s the only way to use paypal for payments, and any other payment method they appear to be blocking after you’ve used the same card a certain number of times.
You can use multiple gift cards in one transaction, essentially meaning you can get anything that Curry’s sell for half price. I have confirmed this myself.
It takes 24 hours for Mightydeals to send you your gift voucher, and although the instructions say you need to print it out, just displaying the gift card number on your phone will suffice.
I have no idea if/when Mightydeals will run out of gift vouchers, and whilst the Curry’s I used had no problem stacking multiple gift cards, I guess it’s possible your branch might.
An Wii U costs £249.99 at Currys, so you need 25 gift cards, at a total cost of £125.
Once you register your copy of Mario Kart on the Club Nintendo, you’ll be offered a free download of any one of these games:
Game & Wario,
Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games,
Monster Hunter 3: Ultimate,
New Super Mario Bros. U,
Nintendo Land,
Pikmin 3,
Sonic Lost World,
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD,
The Wonderful 101 &
Wii Party U.
These vouchers can only be used in store, so it’s probably worth confirming that your local store(s) have stock before purchasing the gift cards.
How many gift cards have you tried handing over in a single transaction?
I’m wondering if the staff might get a little peeved when you hand over 25. 😉
It looks like they’ve cottoned on. While I managed 5 purchased via card yesterday, none of my PayPal purchases (which all went through successfully) have been furnished with a voucher. In fact, the purchases have been entirely removed from the accounts in question! This is despite the money being accepted.
Karma’s a bitch, but I’m prepared to fight for a refund if needed. We’ll see if they have a response tomorrow. 😉
Some more info for you: After having spoken to representatives both on the phone and in-store, they both say it is possible to make an order online, have it delivered to a store, and then pick it up there (they call it Pay and Collect). When you pick the item up, present the vouchers, and they’ll “refund” the value of the vouchers on to the card used to pay for the transaction.
If you don’t trust them to do this, their returns policy states that you can return an item to them if it’s unopened within 21 days. So if the store refuses to comply for any reason, ask for a refund there and then.
Finally, via their price match policy (http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/price-promise-1023-theme.html – which applies up to 7 days after the purchase occurs) you can get a refund on the difference between them and any of Argos, Asda, John Lewis, Tesco or AO.com, so long as it is ready for home delivery (i.e. in stock).
The cheapest I can see the console from accepted retailers is £239 from Tesco:
http://www.tesco.com/direct/mario-kart-wii-u-console-bundle/117-7839.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=117-7839
This means you only technically need 24 vouchers for this deal. But I only got 5, so never mind. 🙂
Update: They’ve rescinded the purchase on _all_ accounts.
I saved the 5 vouchers I did get yesterday as PDFs — and printed them off for good measure — so those should be safe.
The Gestapo are closing in.
Exciting.
hmm same has happened for me, I only got 1 voucher off. any noise about a refund
I’ve automatically received one e-mail to one of the accounts about a refund.
So just 19 or so to go… 🙂
I’ve started receiving a whole bunch of cancellations for the PayPal payments that were Pay After Delivery.
No word in the payments that went through as Pay Now.
(For some reason 50% went through as Pay After Delivery, 50% as Pay Now)
Yep, I got 4 vouchers printed but my 5th and 6th purchases have been taken payments but removed from each account as though iv’e never made the purchase (yet won’t enable you to make another purchase). No refunds given at the time. I made the last purchases at about 1:30pm on Tuesday.
so at what point do they call you on it lewie? I have a load that are at the ‘nearly there stage’ but 2 have come though already… how many has anyone got so far?!
It was during the payment stage that my orders got held up. Pretty certain that if you have managed to pay, your order will go through fine.
For me they stopped taking payments after 5 successful payments. I tried a different card but it didn’t go through. I suspect it’s based on the address? I also tried switching IP address and my wife’s card for a different name. Neither worked.
Yeah, I have found a workaround for this though! Check back in the morning.
Thanks for this, I’ve managed to get 10 vouchers with your mobile site/paypal tip, as I’m only after a new kindle paperwhite, and am going to get them to price match tesco and argos. I’m guessing that will work as these are gift cards, not offers.
Which Currys store did you manage to find to have the Wii U bundle in stock??
Does registering with a fake name and/or address cause any problems? I don’t like the idea of dozens of accounts worth of spam coming through my door.
Sorry. I don’t know.
I’ve got 6 vouchers currently, I was able to use fake details for both registering and redeeming the vouchers.
Wish I read more of these before I went through the process of getting my vouchers.
I’ve only had 1 go through. The rest have been processed payment wise (Paypal) but the other accounts all show up as “no orders”.
1 voucher is essentially useless to me but worse is that I’ve lots of money spent on Paypal with nothing for it. Has anyone started claiming back yet? I’m assuming if they don’t just refund me I’ll have to file a claim on each one.
I’d probably give it a few days and see how it plays out. I’m in a similar boat to you, and that’s what I’ll be doing.
I’m keen to keep tabs on this too; I have had the same issue (one voucher arrived, the others no-show and not on the accounts, but the money was taken). I’m keen to see what happens next….
I’m currently investigating this situation, I’ll hopefully have a update for you all by the end of today.
I am fairly confident that worst case scenario is going to be getting a full refund.
Thanks Lewie, I’ve been given a couple of codes but I suspect the rest have been cancelled.
Hi guys, Just received this email form customer services:
Thank you for contacting Mighty Deals Customer Support.
My Name is Ashanta and I am going to help you with your enquiry today
I can see this voucher has been cancelled and refunded as during the daily checks, this was found to be a duplicate.
You have attempted to purchase several of these using different email addresses and they are clearly stated as one per customer.
Therefore, all but one has been cancelled and refunded.
I don;t have a timeframe for the refunds, but have requested it and will share when I know. 🙂
Nice one, thanks Dave
So yeah mine has been refunded as well.
1 voucher is essentially useless to me like I’ve said before. Does anyone fancy buying mine off me and I can send them over the print out/etc 🙂
Sorry if this is not kosher, I just figure that someone should reap the rewards of a bargain.
Has anyone tried this recently, and seen if it still works?
Also, does Currys have a limit on how many vouchers it will let you use in store? Spending over £100 worth vouchers might seem a bit dodgy
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Oh that’s a shame.
I do wish shopping for consoles wasn’t so stressful