Buydig is offering an extra 15% off their Clearance Sale items (670+ items) when you use coupon code CLOSEOUT15 over there. The camera and photo gear is divided in multiple sub-categories (use the left side “Guided Search” over there to look for items of potential interest).
I’ve bought a few on-sale things from Buydig over the years without any cause for complaint. However, when Buydig e-mailed me flogging a refurb and closeout extravaganza last spring. I clicked, I looked; I could hardly believe my eyes. The goods were nearly all meh and bleh, but the prices were: “They’ve got to be kidding” . . . “This must be some kind of mistake” . . . “Trapped in a time warp, maybe?” “No, someone at Buydig is delusional.”
More recently, in mid-August, I think, I got another closeouts promo e-mail from Buydig. I clicked and grimaced again. Maybe the “extra 15 percent off” will bring some current offerings somewhere near bargain territory, but I’m not hurrying back. My recollection of the prices is that other retailers were offering better deals on some of those items a year and a half to three years ago.
BTW, I’ve had two or three of the same kind of clearance and refurb no-bargains, non-event come-ons from Newegg this year. To add to the disappointment, Newegg’s Web pages for those things were like wading waist deep through wet cement. And you have to wade through, terrible page by terrible page, because, in my experience, Newegg’s product search is such that, if you use it from a cloeseouts/refurbs page, you get listings for items you’re interested in on NOT closeout/refurb pages. Grrr.
There, I feel better now. 😉
Perhaps a new term needs to be invented, so the term “clearance” does not get marred by non-events. Perhaps a “Items No One Wants To Buy Sale”? 🙂
Yes, but with this addition: “Items no one wants to buy at prices no one is willing to pay.”
Actually, in fairness I should mention that quite a few of the Buydig offerings were for appliances, kitchen and household items that might or might not have been decent sale deals, My disappointment was in the photographic and electronics areas.