Soldato
Argos went down hill after the snobs at Sainsburys took it over.
Argos - book of dreams.
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Commissario
Maplin's had the right idea with that, IIRC you paid for the catalogue to take home, but it had vouchers so you usually got the cost the catalogue back if you spent more than £10 at a go a few times (and if you used them a lot, you could get several times the cost of the catalogue back).
I recall buying the Gameboy in the mid 90s, I think from Argos. One of the first games I purchased was called Nemesis. This was one of the games I use to play at the arcades in Soho (Central London) in the mid 80s. The other game was Pacman.I bought a GameBoy Pocket at Argos mid to late 90s but recently sold it.
Last thing I bought from Argos was a cheap mattress and that was more for convenience purposes not from drooling over...
Commissario
So you're the reason they went bust!You had to pay for those?I usually just picked one up on the way out.
I can remember when I didn't know what "Sugg'd retail" (or whatever the exact abbreviation was) meant (next to the prices) so I used to pronounce it as it was written.
(This was in the early 80's when young Yad was lusting after a very swish Casio "diver's watch".
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Edit: it was #11 on this page of the '84/'85 catalogue. "Phwoor!", I loved that watch.
http://dev.argosbookofdreams.co.uk/1984-85.html#page=26
(This was in the early 80's when young Yad was lusting after a very swish Casio "diver's watch".
)Edit: it was #11 on this page of the '84/'85 catalogue. "Phwoor!", I loved that watch.
http://dev.argosbookofdreams.co.uk/1984-85.html#page=26
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Caporegime
True, reducing it to being in hidden away, pathetic little far off corners in the superstores as though it was some sort of dirty secret. Must keep the Argos chavs away from our preferred clientele whilst their browsing the Stilton and Rioja’s.
Caporegime
I drive past Waitrose and then Aldi to go shop in Sainsbury’s!
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My local Sainsburys is a dive. If I have to do a big shop I'll drive an extra 15 minutes to go to Waitrose
Caporegime
My local Sainsburys is a dive. If I have to do a big shop I'll drive an extra 15 minutes to go to Waitrose
Actually I drive kinda pass Morrisons, Waitrose, then Tesco and Aldi to get to Sainsbury's. Within about a mile and a half.
Soldato
amateur, I do all my grocery shopping with Fortnum and Mason, their seasonal hampers are delectable, their condiments divine, especially their burlington breakfast marmalde............
Lol Maplin's, get several times the cost of catalogue back but still pay 30% more for the same product you can get cheaper elsewhere.
i used to look through the argos catalogues constantly in the 80's when i was a kid, i am kinda sad to see it go but at the same time im thinking they don't half sell some bs
soo many things are reduced by half...... yeh, display something for a day or 2 in the back of the store for a high price and then say a few days later 50% off come and get it, i bought a muddy fox full suspension bike for 200 quid by fallen for that, few weeks later i cleaned it up good, returned it and got a btwin rockrider 540.... which has thousands of miles on it
do not get me started on every thing that was wrong with that bike or what the daft women tried to say to get out of a refund......, i knew what a proper bike felt like i had a ridgeback since primary 6
im too drunk, but she tried to say if i had different pedals on it no warranty, dumb, glad she was too dumb to notice i had a shimano bottom bracket i took out and put the original one back in, still not used that bottom bracket and was not gonna give them a 29 quid bottom bracket
edit: last thing i bought from them was my cheapo 180 quid samsung monitor, had massive screen bleed etc and no matter what i done free sync would not enable, they turned up on a sunday and took the old one away and left me the one im typing on years ago.
free sync enabled straight away on this one, rumour has it im still on this 1080p monitor to this day
soo many things are reduced by half...... yeh, display something for a day or 2 in the back of the store for a high price and then say a few days later 50% off come and get it, i bought a muddy fox full suspension bike for 200 quid by fallen for that, few weeks later i cleaned it up good, returned it and got a btwin rockrider 540.... which has thousands of miles on it
do not get me started on every thing that was wrong with that bike or what the daft women tried to say to get out of a refund......, i knew what a proper bike felt like i had a ridgeback since primary 6
im too drunk, but she tried to say if i had different pedals on it no warranty, dumb, glad she was too dumb to notice i had a shimano bottom bracket i took out and put the original one back in, still not used that bottom bracket and was not gonna give them a 29 quid bottom bracket
edit: last thing i bought from them was my cheapo 180 quid samsung monitor, had massive screen bleed etc and no matter what i done free sync would not enable, they turned up on a sunday and took the old one away and left me the one im typing on years ago.
free sync enabled straight away on this one, rumour has it im still on this 1080p monitor to this day
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Soldato
Anyone know if this is hosted anywhere else as the website now seems to link straight to Argos main site?
Soldato
'Snob' would have been the right word back in the late 90s as M&S and Sainsbury's were regarded as the posh stores. Nowadays, it's M&S and Waitrose's. Sainsbury's are now in the same bracket as ASDA and Tesco.
I just tried and the same happened. Did Argos buy the domain name?
A bit of digging and i've just come across this site: https://retromash.com/argos/
Doesn't look like it has every edition though unfortunately. But at least has a few good years to search through.