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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Everybody knows that stuff is cheaper to buy online but it lacks the immediacy of going to a shop.
Where do you draw the line? Would a ten percent saving be enough to get you to order online and have to wait, say, two or three days? Twenty percent?

I'm thinking of buying a camera, see. I could get it online for 50-60 quid less than walking into a shop. The difference being that I'd have to wait until next week to actually get my grubby mitts on it, compared to popping in on my way home from work tonight and playing with it all evening.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:28, 157 replies, latest was 11 years ago)
DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE HIGH STREET, BOY

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:29, Reply)
GET STARTED BOY

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:31, Reply)
there is room in the economy for everyone if you are fair and split your shopping between online and high street
the high street is too important to the british economy to get borked. your fiver saved now will cost you dearly in terms of house prices plummeting as town centres become untenable; people who worked there on the dole; and the pension schemes that own them losing money and therefore costing you...

buy some things online and some things on the high street, and it works for everyone.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:37, Reply)
YEAH BUT CITY CENTRE PROPERTY PRICES?

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:39, Reply)
high street kensington, oxford street, regent street, deansgate, brum city centre, oxford, cambridge...
these places, not so much of a problem.

we're talking town centres dying out, affecting prices in the surrounding areas. towns like berkhamsted, durham, stockport...
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:45, Reply)
But I thought house prices were too high and THATCHER.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:40, Reply)
plus there might be an attractive dolly bird
working in the shop and you can stare at her lovlies while shopping
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:42, Reply)
I like breasts

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:43, Reply)
they are good

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:46, Reply)
OK, so you won't accept that occasional, random occurences are coincidences
but that blatant economic guesswork and speculation by the relatively uninformed is still valid reason for me not to save 60 quid. Got it.

MAYBE THE GHOULS AND GHOSTIES WILL BUY ME MY CAMERA, EH?
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:44, Reply)
THERE WERE NO GHOULS OR GHOSTIES
BUT THERE WAS NO BLANK-EYED EASY COINCIDENCE EITHER.

typical french, give up at the first requirement for independent thought.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:45, Reply)
ALSO THEY WILL WANK IN THE SENSOR THOUGH.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:45, Reply)
THAT'S TYPICAL OF THE SORT OF GHOST THAT HANGS AROUND IN SCHOOLS

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:51, Reply)
what.....wait me? ..................:(

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:54, Reply)
Nah I'll be dead by the point where this becomes an issue
I'll just by me dildos online until then
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:01, Reply)
YEA A KRONEY THREAD

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:31, Reply)
I find that most shops will give you a discount
if you start on with the ol internet price
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:32, Reply)
Not sure if I go into John Lewis and say
"Yeah, well I'm thinking about it, but old internet shop SrsCmraBznz will give it to me for 60 quid cheaper, so I dunno" I won't just get laughed out of the shop.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:42, Reply)
John Lewis do price match, not sure if this extends to online though

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:44, Reply)
No, I think it has to be available in an actual shop somewhere
but you can use an online quote from a real shop
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:46, Reply)
but a lot of shops will come down a bit

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:47, Reply)
YM went down loads last night

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:48, Reply)
6ft down
Man you better have filled the hole in after
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:49, Reply)
The cables probably don’t reach

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:46, Reply)
they often will mate,
Simply try it if they say no then walk out... or are you such a lily livered Frenchie that you are scared of a fucking shop assistant
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:46, Reply)
It's more that I have terrible impulse control and I'm worried that if I see it in front of me
I'll buy it simply because I want it so. The girlfriend had to pull me out of John Lewis the other day. This is quite an achievement on her part, because she's kinda willowy and I'm kinda not.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:50, Reply)
Bwwaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkk
Bwwaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkk Bwwaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkk Bwwaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkk Bwwaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkk

Does flappy arm thing
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:51, Reply)
I deserved this.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:53, Reply)
Your girlfriend caught you up to the back wheels in a chap called John Lewis?
I bet she was LIVID.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:53, Reply)
i watch my pennies joe so it'd be delayed gratification for me

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:32, Reply)
This sounds like you are asking Kroney to suck you off?

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:33, Reply)
needs his little blue pills first mate

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:34, Reply)
g'day HH ya flamin galaar?
its the kinda comedy misunderstanding that seinfeld'd be proud of but im willing to go along with itas long as he dont leave me with a garlic baguette
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:35, Reply)
YOU OWN IT NOW SHITPANTS

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:36, Reply)
Yeah, but four days, Reg.
The whim might have worn off by then :(
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:45, Reply)
Online shopping has it's ups and downs
ask Battered
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:33, Reply)
gets love long time

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:33, Reply)
Ben the two of us can look no MOARZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:34, Reply)
Get it online.
It's all the same stuff.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:33, Reply)
I bought a camera online last week.
Ordered it Monday, delivered Wednesday. Saved me a shit load of cash over the High Street, so they can get fucked.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:41, Reply)
^ Craig David ^

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:42, Reply)
proper BO

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:42, Reply)
Selecta

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:43, Reply)
Who'd you buy it with?

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:45, Reply)
Just off Amazon. I'm not a huge camera whizz, but I saw a friend's one that I liked and got a similar model.
I did have a scan about and saw it as part of a bundle with a bag, SD card, batteries and charger etc and it was as cheap as anywhere else.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:53, Reply)
I tend to prefer shops
as if shit goes wrong it's easier to take it back.

I did buy a jumperoo for minibadger online at the weekend though as it was £50 cheaper than Argos.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:45, Reply)
I don't know what a jumperoo is, but I'm guessing it's not a cutesy term for knitwear.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:46, Reply)
It's a bouncer thing to keep babies entertained
like a tiger, but less dangerous.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:47, Reply)
fuck me that's some expensive baby shit

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:47, Reply)
they do keep them entertained though.
I'd pay thousands for something she didn't get bored of after 10 minutes.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:47, Reply)
i feel there is a joke here about battered's wedding

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:48, Reply)
ROFFLECOPTER.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:48, Reply)
agreed

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:49, Reply)
I too concur

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:50, Reply)

I was playing jumperoo with hartley's mum, but I got bored well quickly
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:49, Reply)
She's not been the same since Thirteen Inch Trevor scuttled her.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:51, Reply)
Battereds name is Trevor?

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:53, Reply)
opens window
fucks night
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:53, Reply)
She said you had a penis like an acorn and she would have been better off asking the squirrels to bury the nuts

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:51, Reply)
yeah she's right, it STARTS out like an acorn, but when ready it grows into a mighty oak tree
I'ma grower, not a shower
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:56, Reply)
*sings inch worm song*

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:10, Reply)
£50-£60
Of course you should wait, that money could get you all sorts of accessories to go with your camera, like lego, 12 sided dice and a plastic light saber.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:45, Reply)
and maybe a feild day at young desperate females

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:47, Reply)
I could buy a lot of polyhedral dice with 50 quid, that's an angle I hadn't looked at.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:48, Reply)
Obtuse.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:50, Reply)
are you calling him fat?

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:53, Reply)
oh fucking THANKS
I've spent months trying to erase my mind after going on there to see what the fuss was about and seeing some bint with a lightsabre right up her chuff and now you've bloody reminded me again. You cunt.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:50, Reply)
*takes a bow*
*checks behind self for a grinning emvee with a fist full of duplo*
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:51, Reply)
He's saving a Tonka truck for you

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:53, Reply)
oof.
probably with a pokemon driving it.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:54, Reply)
STD's he's gonna catch them all

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:55, Reply)
hahaha

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:56, Reply)
WIN.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:56, Reply)


(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:04, Reply)
The mighty Sarlacc slowly digests its victims over a period of a thousand years.
Which seems like a fucking huge evolutionary handicap for a gigantic animal that lives in a fucking desert, but what do I know?

I'm saying her chuff probably looked like a monster, by the way.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:53, Reply)
Star Wars is shit

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:53, Reply)
It certainly doesn't seem to grasp certain biological realities, Nakers, that's for sure.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 16:54, Reply)
OK, so online or not online?
GO!
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:00, Reply)
Off line

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:04, Reply)
on wine SEE WOT I DUN ERE?

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:05, Reply)
Fuck off prick, we all hate you

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:06, Reply)
Hey chill mate, save that anger for your wife and children

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:08, Reply)
Thery are already brown bread I need to vent off on you lot now

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:12, Reply)
Er, no

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:06, Reply)
It's internet attention seeking

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:07, Reply)
Oh. Like a selfie.
Oh, Monty :(
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:10, Reply)
Oh man, first 'sneaks', now 'selfie-gate'

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:18, Reply)
Will smith refers to his new sports shoes as 'sneaks' in his classic hit 'Summertime'

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:19, Reply)
Well there you go then - proof if needed that I am str8 dope, yo.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:20, Reply)
Will "WINGNUT" Smith can lick the sweat from my balls

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:21, Reply)
Which ever is cheaper

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:06, Reply)
Your mum is not value for money

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:08, Reply)
Value for money and cost are different things
We learnt this after chompy's free wine fiasco
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:09, Reply)
Fuck that's harsh he aint even here to defwnd himself

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:14, Reply)
He didn't have the wit or charm to do so anyway

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:19, Reply)
Just use your phone to take pictures of your knob, they don't have to be that high def

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:07, Reply)
But it better have a bloody good zoom lens

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:08, Reply)
He can jerry rig something together
And then he can start spamming it on snapchat, get some sexy snaps back in return
worlds his oyster
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:09, Reply)
snapchat....I think my son put that on my phone the other day, all my days I need mind bleach

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:11, Reply)
I sent a picture of me arse to a mate
BEST APP 5 STARS
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:16, Reply)
5 Chocolate starfishes

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:20, Reply)
I think I'm going to have an extremely large amount of booze tonight.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:16, Reply)
Good day eh?

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:18, Reply)
Yes and no.
Cracking afternoon in very nice weather with micro.

Next round of legal paperwork for divorce received.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:19, Reply)
I guessed as much
It's a fucking polava ain't it. Imagine trying to sort it all out after 20 years together.

Has she found that £57k yet?
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:21, Reply)
I will find out next week. I'll get a forensic accountant on to it if necessary.
Damn iPad keyboard.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:23, Reply)
I really don't see the similarity between divorce and a meringue-based dessert.
Or a sweater, for that matter.


You are an odd chap, you really are.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:23, Reply)
The important thing is I know what I'm on about

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:25, Reply)
Raises a thimble

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:19, Reply)
My capacity for alcohol has been fairly well documented on here.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:21, Reply)
Especially when you post pissed
That's my favourite
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:21, Reply)
I like the pissed up Gazzes

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:22, Reply)
I ain't Dozer.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:23, Reply)
Yeah he's taller

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:24, Reply)
Nah he's taller

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:24, Reply)
You're Andrew MARR's SIZE

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:26, Reply)
HAHAHAHMARRR!!!!!!!

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:26, Reply)
AHAHAHAHAHA ANDREW MARR IS TALLER!!!! ANDREW MARR!!!!!!!

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:26, Reply)
I NEED A MARRS BAR GEDDIT !!!!!!!!!!!

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:27, Reply)
Ok, quieten down now

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:28, Reply)
He always gets overexcited.
No wonder all his colleagues pretended the firm has collapsed to get rid of him.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:30, Reply)
:o
wait they did that to me?
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:31, Reply)
Yeah they were all telling me about it and high fiving each other in the Nurseryman in Beeston last night.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:33, Reply)
OMG did you google that?

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:34, Reply)
AAAAAAANNNDREEWWWWWWW MAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRR


^this should be read in that 'old skool jungle record really slowed down vocal' style
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:29, Reply)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THEY SAID IT AND ALL

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:30, Reply)
That's not really something to be proud of

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:21, Reply)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24209788
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:20, Reply)
That might slow down Argos' collapse.




....by a couple of days.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:21, Reply)
Who cares, Argos is ghastly place full of beastly people

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:22, Reply)
Yes but it keeps them off the streets for a little while.
They're all in one place, a place I won't have to see...I fail to see the problem.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:25, Reply)
as long as you aint doing the pricing you mean?

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:26, Reply)
If I were, there'd be queues round the fucking block.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:28, Reply)
yEAH BET NAKERS WOULD BE GIVING THE DIRECTIONS TO WHICH BLOCK

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:33, Reply)
They could follow his (30') lead.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:37, Reply)

rgos' nul

d G
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:23, Reply)
i probably paid their rent in the newquay store for the next quarter after getting raped in there by the nieces and nephew

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:25, Reply)
Metaphorically I hope.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:25, Reply)
Kids today eh?
Always with the computers and fashion and raping!
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:26, Reply)
Tsk. In my day it was uncles that did the raping, not like nowadays.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:28, Reply)
For a moment there I thought something really bad happened and you needed compensation money.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:35, Reply)
Happy early evening knobs!
I buy everything online as I don't like going in shops because other people.
It is also well lol to see small long established businesses going under, and I get massively turned on by seeing their weeping faces in the local newspapers. Which we don't get anymore anyway.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:31, Reply)
You gay prick.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:31, Reply)
Alright mr fuck off during the day as I'm far to important to come and entertain my fans and sycophants?

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:32, Reply)
Yes thanks. You?

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:33, Reply)
Very well indeed.
How can i apply to be in your gang?
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:34, Reply)
Well there's quite a lot of paperwork to be honest, I don't really think it's "for you".

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:37, Reply)
Neither do I.
I mean you are quite funny occasionally, but to *have* to show appreciation for all your pathetic interjections must be awfully tiresome.
Thanks for the advice.
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:39, Reply)
^ PINT OF 'BITTER' MATE? ^

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:40, Reply)
I'm not Battered.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:42, Reply)

their weeping faces in the local newspapers. Which we don't get anymore anyway pictures of naked children
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:32, Reply)
You do realise this makes me look like a mega peedo?
Not cool man, totally not cool.

IM GOING FOR A FAG THIS BETTER BE DELETED BY THE TIME I GET BACK *tuts and snorts*
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:34, Reply)

FOR A FAG TO LOOK AT GRAPHIC IMAGES OF CHILD ABUSE
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:36, Reply)
YOU KNOW YOUVE DONE IT AGAIN RIGHT?

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:39, Reply)

YOUVE DONE IT IT WILL ONLY BE A MATTER OF HOURS BEFORE i'M SCOURING THE INTERNET FOR SICKENING NONCE VIDS
(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:41, Reply)
Oh we know alright

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:41, Reply)
Hurry up and get all nice and drunk so you're nice to me again.

(, Wed 25 Sep 2013, 17:43, Reply)

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