Aldi Special Buys

[Armchair Expert]

As Aldi don't have a email address I will moan on here!

They have some really cheap stuff on special these supermarkets, yet getting them is near impossible.

Last year tried buying a garden parasol, got to the store an hour after it opened, the cashier told me they sold out within 15 minutes with people buying multiple amounts. By evening Ebay had many examples on sale at up to twice the price.

Sunday they had a fire pit on offer, got up early and started checking every 30 minutes, but missed the deal they all sold out in between checking the site, once again Ebay has many of these for sale at up to 200% kmore than Aldi sold them for.

Aldi management, surely there should be a limit of how many can be sold in one transaction.

[cobra kid]

I'm amazed a company as big as that can only be contacted by email. I thought they may have something like.....a phone line connected? Maybe a postal address?? Maybe some form of social media presence???

[anonymous-user]

not really Aldis fault, this happens across the board. I've been looking for a graphics card for a year.

When i was skint i used to buy things in demand and flip them, not taking the piss just 2 most, but it is easy money really. Should be a code in place i think though for all retailers.

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The Spruce Goose said:

not really Aldis fault, this happens across the board. I've been looking for a graphics card for a year.

When i was skint i used to buy things in demand and flip them, not taking the piss just 2 most, but it is easy money really. Should be a code in place i think though for all retailers.

Lots of you tube videos suggesting to do something like this (flipping).

Suddenly everyone's an entrepreneur.....

[vikingaero]

Most of Aldi's stuff can be bought online a few days before it goes on general sale in store.

[Jamescrs]

Flipping/ Reselling or whatever else you want to call it is big business now, probably largely due to Youtube and social media telling everyone about it, I have done it myself before it became the trendy thing to do, it's much harder now to be honest as everyone and their mum is trying to do it.

I've never got involved in the Aldi special buys though, I can see it not working overly well as if everyone is buying them and banging them straight on eBay what will happen is all the people doing it will end up pushing the prices down on each other to get the stuff moved on again. Some people will make a decent profit off it but many won't.

[ARHarh]

If you are really keen to buy these things then why aren't you first in the que when the doors open? It's not really difficult other people do it.

[towser44]

There were well over 150,000 in the online queue at silly o'clock the other Sunday morning for their egg chair and rattan sofa sets. Lots of them were then on ebay and facebook for hundreds more.

[so called]

I buy quite a lot of Aldi stuff on line and generally get what I want.
Although, about 20 years ago I sotted a really good spec tower computer and my son really wanted it.
Fortunately, I was working in Germany at the time and the Uncle of my Bosses Wife worked at the Aldi Regional Distribution Centre, so he saved me one.

[steveo3002]

you need to be there waiting for the door to open to get stuff like that

dont know why they dont order in more if it flys off the shelf so fast

[Spare tyre]

I’m sure ours puts stuff out just before closing the night before, whether it sells when you get to checkout, I dunno

OP, does IKEA have anything? Had a gazebo from them and it was excellent

[Psycho Warren]

I am surprised a lot more retailers arent putting restrictions on. A lot of known "collectable" items are restricted by the manufacturer for that reason - eg lego very commonly restricts numbers of one item.


Scalping is becoming more common. People need to open their eyes to it more and just not pay the inflated prices then it will die out.

Unfortunately its hard to control. I did laugh my head off when at the start of covid, loads of rip off assholes tried scalping with 10's of thousands of pounds worth of PPE and basically all the websites they could of sold it on banned it for ethical reasons and the morons got stuck with PPE they couldn't sell.


Most scalpers will say they are no different than anywhere else buying goods and selling on at a profit.

[louiebaby]

Spare tyre said:

I’m sure ours puts stuff out just before closing the night before, whether it sells when you get to checkout, I dunno

I've got a pizza oven that says that it does. (Not intentionally going after it, the missus just did the weekly shop on a Wednesday night one week.)

[Shnozz]

So if these items are being flipped, why don’t Aldi increase the sale price? Hardly like Porsche limiting numbers to protect resale values is it.

[Spare tyre]

Shnozz said:

So if these items are being flipped, why don’t Aldi increase the sale price? Hardly like Porsche limiting numbers to protect resale values is it.

It feels like the special buys are a way of getting non customers in the store, I’d say it works, whether people return is a different matter

[ARHarh]

Shnozz said:

So if these items are being flipped, why don’t Aldi increase the sale price? Hardly like Porsche limiting numbers to protect resale values is it.

Because a it d draws people into the shop or website, then if there is no stock left chances are they will buy other stuff. Look at the attention this thread has got, it wouldn't have got this is it was always in stock.

[Shnozz]

Spare tyre said:

It feels like the special buys are a way of getting non customers in the store, I’d say it works, whether people return is a different matter

Fair enough. Although if my first impression of a store was a queue outside and a stampede for the centre isle as the doors open like wild animals, I’m not sure I’d be returning anytime soon.

Likewise if I turned up there at a more civilised hour to find none of the supposed offers were actually available due to said earlier stampede.

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cobra kid said:

I'm amazed a company as big as that can only be contacted by email. I thought they may have something like.....a phone line connected? Maybe a postal address?? Maybe some form of social media presence???

They'e really active on Twitter and do reply/act on DM's

[towser44]

Shnozz said:

So if these items are being flipped, why don’t Aldi increase the sale price? Hardly like Porsche limiting numbers to protect resale values is it.

With the Rattan sofa set they did. Last year it was £199 and this year £289. Still sold out and flipped.

[Shnozz]

ARHarh said:

Because a it d draws people into the shop or website, then if there is no stock left chances are they will buy other stuff. Look at the attention this thread has got, it wouldn't have got this is it was always in stock.

Fair play - if it works it works. On a personal level it says to me don't bother wasting time as unlikely to get the offer anyway. But understood that I am in the minority. No doubt some seasoned marketeers know exactly what their ploy is and have measured it.