Crazy Takealot Deal Today on EVGA GTX780

[Slitza]

I've bought a crap load of stuff at Takealot and Kalahari the past few months, and compared the prices to the cost price and saw for myself how they made up a price for the G3258 I bought earlier.

Caught them red handed making up a price and an imaginary savings amount.
The "was" price wasn't the real "was" price.

I now use overseas pricing as a reference for the true value of stuff.

Generalizing helps a lot, since the real specials are actually very rare. Heck a lot of those specials they are running are actually what the items cost the previous few weeks.

It's all about marketing and perspective from their side. The real specials would be the items the want to get rid of, that's nearing EoL or that's about to get replaced.

I agree with some points and disagree with others.
For instance, the lowest price I've ever seen for a dstv explorer was on takealot daily deals
Takealot daily deals often have marginally below prices for hard drives and externals
Takealot was the cheapest place to buy a HP A100 action camera from since its release.
BUT sometimes their prices are ridiculous, made up or market value as you described in your post.

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Its always "a few more bucks more"...

Think about it this way, the power draw from the 970 is less, it is 4k ready* and will natively support directx 12.1. Sometimes the few bucks more makes all the difference and will save money down the line

 

[Slitza]

I wouldn't trust brands which aren't popular in the field.

Logitech at least does speakers and other things to do with sound.

I agree with Ichigo here. If you're spending a fair amount on something then you dont necessarily want to be the guinea pig for the unpopular brand. When youre spending more or looking for quality, an entry level razer or sennheiser would be a safer bet than an unfamiliar brand flagship model

 

[Hagan]

You will not know whether or not something is good or bad if you don't try it.
Many people are too focused on buying products that they know, condemning others because of unfamiliarity. The cell phone market is a very good example of this. It's either Samsung, Nokia, Blackberry or iPhone, while there are other brands just as good (e.g HTC and Hisense).

For its price, my Hisense has proven itself to be a very worthy contender in the Android smartphone market.

 

[Ichigo]

You will not know whether or not something is good or bad if you don't try it.
Many people are too focused on buying products that they know, condemning others because of unfamiliarity. The cell phone market is a very good example of this. It's either Samsung, Nokia, Blackberry or iPhone, while there are other brands just as good (e.g HTC and Hisense).

For its price, my Hisense has proven itself to be a very worthy contender in the Android smartphone market.

That is why I like to demo test things before buying anything.

Did you test the headphones yet and what jack does it use?

 

[Hagan]

That is why I like to demo test things before buying anything.

Did you test the headphones yet and what jack does it use?

Both the headphone and mic use a 3.5mm jack. Will only be able to give it a proper testing at home.

 

[Ichigo]

Both the headphone and mic use a 3.5mm jack. Will only be able to give it a proper testing at home.

Oh ok trying to find a reasonably priced one with one jack or usb as my laptop has only one input which does both.

 

[DarkStarZA]

Oh ok trying to find a reasonably priced one with one jack or usb as my laptop has only one input which does both.

Did a lot of research on this after my thread here: http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthread.php/44352-Headphone-amp-Mic-to-cellphone-adapter

Final conclusion: The adapters are hens teeth and headphones with those plug are more expensive.

Ended up making my own "2x 3.5mm trs female to 3.5mm trrs male adapter". Cost me R48 in components and 30minutes of soldering.

 

[Ichigo]

Did a lot of research on this after my thread here: http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthread.php/44352-Headphone-amp-Mic-to-cellphone-adapter

Final conclusion: The adapters are hens teeth and headphones with those plug are more expensive.

Ended up making my own "2x 3.5mm trs female to 3.5mm trrs male adapter". Cost me R48 in components and 30minutes of soldering.

That would be ideal and cheaper so I can use my current headphones, will have to ask Takealot.com and see if they can get it or Raru.

 

[Slitza]

You will not know whether or not something is good or bad if you don't try it.
Many people are too focused on buying products that they know, condemning others because of unfamiliarity. The cell phone market is a very good example of this. It's either Samsung, Nokia, Blackberry or iPhone, while there are other brands just as good (e.g HTC and Hisense).

For its price, my Hisense has proven itself to be a very worthy contender in the Android smartphone market.

Of course, but if you try something new and it turns out a failure, that could something be a big financial/other setback.
You're specifically using phones as an example. Ill agree. I am biased on especially phones, but with due cause. Some phone models have similar specs but (feel as if they- ) run slow. For instance, samsung's touchwiz feels more responsive for me than an htc of similar specs. So spending R3000 or more on a product to find out you don't like it... may as well have bought that possibly guaranteed samsung s5 or lg g3, no?
As for the hisense- that's very interesting. Would love to see product reviews on mygaming of south african appropriate products like you can read reviews of products on anandtech etc.