Heads up: 15% off at GAK on eBay UK

Alexlotl

eBay UK are running one of their occasional 15% off codes for various vendors, which this time around includes GAK.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/Timed-Offers/bn_7116144158

Minimum spend £15, maximum discount £60 (so it caps out on a £400 purchase).

I had been GASing after the 2020 Epiphone Les Paul Special in TV Yellow, and this let me nab it for £290 delivered. Will post a NGD when it arrives!

Switch625

What's the code - "POPUPNOV15"?

Edit - yes I now see them in the list of merchants. Link to their ebay store - http://www.ebaystores.co.uk/guitarampkeyboard

Whitecat

Just be warned that the prices on their eBay shop are often higher than on their own site, so the coupon may not actually do much in the end. You might still get a bit off but possibly not 15% off whatever you might have paid had you gone direct.

JohnCordy

Thanks! Blues junior incoming

Musicman20

Whitecat said:

Just be warned that the prices on their eBay shop are often higher than on their own site, so the coupon may not actually do much in the end. You might still get a bit off but possibly not 15% off whatever you might have paid had you gone direct.

They often bump the price as well. 

crunchman

Musicman20 said:

Whitecat said:

Just be warned that the prices on their eBay shop are often higher than on their own site, so the coupon may not actually do much in the end. You might still get a bit off but possibly not 15% off whatever you might have paid had you gone direct.

They often bump the price as well. 

I did check the prices.  Some items are noticeably cheaper than Andertons even before the discount is applied.

Of course that might mean that Andertons have jacked their prices so that they can announce a "sale" in the coming days.

Whitecat

Musicman20 said:

Whitecat said:

Just be warned that the prices on their eBay shop are often higher than on their own site, so the coupon may not actually do much in the end. You might still get a bit off but possibly not 15% off whatever you might have paid had you gone direct.

They often bump the price as well. 

They do indeed. I have been comparing a few things and some are genuine offers/bargains but there are quite a few that are almost negligible. Wonder if they base it on popularity or original margin...

Musicman20

https://www.gak.co.uk/en/boss-eq-200-graphic-equaliser-pedal/928042?gclid=Cj0KCQiAhZT9BRDmARIsAN2E-J39z_aYHEXlQR1_5D2suwo2JYFyreX4Fh44kcdbC5714C2rDPm8eBUaAlftEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Or

Look at this on eBay
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124196231200

StefB

Musicman20 said:

Whitecat said:

Just be warned that the prices on their eBay shop are often higher than on their own site, so the coupon may not actually do much in the end. You might still get a bit off but possibly not 15% off whatever you might have paid had you gone direct.

They often bump the price as well. 

The official term is to 'do a RichTone'.

Fishboy7

Musicman20 said:

https://www.gak.co.uk/en/boss-eq-200-graphic-equaliser-pedal/928042?gclid=Cj0KCQiAhZT9BRDmARIsAN2E-J39z_aYHEXlQR1_5D2suwo2JYFyreX4Fh44kcdbC5714C2rDPm8eBUaAlftEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Or

Look at this on eBay
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124196231200

I don't get why they'd do this. Aren't eBay covering the 15%?  So they would be more likely to sell at the properly discounted price with no change to the actual profit margin

revsorg

This way they get to earn more money but damage their reputation a little bit.

I'm looking at a Maschine MK3 which is £448.10 on their website and (£479.23 - £60) £419.23 on Ebay which represents a 6.4% saving.

Alexlotl

Caveat emptor, as usual. There are definitely bargains there, though - that’s a killer price for the Les Paul Special, so I’m chuffed.

I’m pretty sure eBay cover at least some of the 15%, all the emails I've had from GAK list the full price of £339 (same as their website, which is already cheaper than Andertons and Gear4Music).

Whitecat

Fishboy7 said:

Musicman20 said:

https://www.gak.co.uk/en/boss-eq-200-graphic-equaliser-pedal/928042?gclid=Cj0KCQiAhZT9BRDmARIsAN2E-J39z_aYHEXlQR1_5D2suwo2JYFyreX4Fh44kcdbC5714C2rDPm8eBUaAlftEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Or

Look at this on eBay
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124196231200

I don't get why they'd do this. Aren't eBay covering the 15%?  So they would be more likely to sell at the properly discounted price with no change to the actual profit margin

Because greed that's why

JohnCordy

Yeh I got the blues junior for 493 which is the cheapest I can find around? (Hopefully)

Koa

Slightly more than the website but that makes a Strymon Flint or El Capistan £250 brand new....hardly worth paying used prices

Sassafras

A gentle run up to Black Friday.

Fishboy7

£50 off a revivaldrive compact is pretty tempting 

Whitecat

Fishboy7 said:

£50 off a revivaldrive compact is pretty tempting 

That's one of the few things I found that was a decent offer. 

Mudcrutch

I just go directly to GAK when I want something and ask for a good discount and always get it.
There prices on amplifiers are always better than other dealers with free next day courier delivery.
I don’t like using evil bay.

Whitecat

Alrighty, despite my moaning I picked up a Meris Polymoon and preset controller. All in all about £45 cheaper than anywhere else with the voucher despite the fact that they had increased the price of the Polymoon by about £9 on eBay. The preset switch was the same price on the GAK site and on eBay but that’s about £8 more expensive than elsewhere. All good in the end though, some nice kit at a savings is never a bad thing. 

chrisj1602

There are some deals that work out well, Strymon pedals are good for example, but they have hiked the price of a Tone Master Deluxe Reverb up that high that even with £60 off it’s cheaper to use their website. For that reason I would buy one from someone else.