The Argos Catalogue

[Gavin Scott]

Unlike the Argos Catalogue, the Next Directory is going in the opposite direction, more volumous every year and comes bound like a volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica. And then of course you pay for the privilige too.

I doubt they still do it but the original ones used to have fabric swatches on the pages for the expensive suits and the like.

The first editions were around £20.00 - which was a lot of money back then.

Heck, it still is.

[m-in-m]

The previous two catalogues started off the normal size then shrunk towards the end of their seasons, this must have been some kind of trial as I believe this current one launched with the more compact catalogue.

I know they used to produce two different sized versions, and some stores receive the larger copy (normal print size) while others receive the same catalogue but in a smaller print size. Not sure if this is still the same case. The smaller print edition was introduced following the Argos Extra order in roll out.

[Captain.Cubbio]

Hi there,

This is my First Post on here. It's a great Forum, I am really P****d Off with Argos Home Delivery Service.

My dad ordered me a LCD 19 Inch Samsung TV with Freeview & HD Ready. We paid 277.67 GBP all together including Saturday Delivery from Argos.

Now this really takes the biscuit, It didn't arrive until Monday Afternoon just after 1pm in a Home Delivery van "not" an Argos Van. So we are Very Unhappy about this, Never trust Argos we are never buying from them again.

Kind Regards

C.Cubbio

[Pete]

perhaps craig, if you'd offered them some of your extensive collection of tv theme tunes, for example by spamming their PM inboxes with endless requests for swaps, they'd have been more responsive.

[lukey]

On the tenuous subject of Argos delivery, my housemate was having some nasty Argos furniture delivered a couple of weeks ago. I had the pleasure of taking it in for her, but the driver was very prickish. I was outraged.

He started by whining that she hadn't informed him what end of the road we lived on :\ and that the delivery charge did not include the outlandish possibility of him going to "the wrong fuckin' end of the street, pal". He then joked hilariously that the pile of debris in the bottom of the van was the furniture she'd ordered.

On reflection, it doesn't really sound particularly prickish, or worthy of retelling, but he had a rubbish face, so there.

[LaSeandre]

... The smaller print edition was introduced following the Argos Extra order in roll out.

I've probably got a smaller print one as my local's an Extra?

[m-in-m]

... The smaller print edition was introduced following the Argos Extra order in roll out.

I've probably got a smaller print one as my local's an Extra?

The catalogue is the same across the UK. The size is either dependant on the space in the store, the stores location (i.e. town centre/retail park) or which regional distribution centre (RDC) it is serviced by. I think there is more than one firm used to print the catalogue, and it is possible that they do different sizes, so it would depend on which size was sent into the RDC.

[Cache]

Argos Home Delivery is rubbish! Bought a bed, and all I got was complaint, complaint.

1) The drive was too long
2) They couldn't fit it through the door (even though I live in an old house with massive doors)
3) When they eventually did get it through the door, they refused to carry it upstairs because it exceeded a weight limit. However, when we ordered it, they said it was fine for two men to carry =/
4) The delivery driver covered the 'Complaints' box when we signed

When I did get it upstairs (me and my mum managed) it was actually a pile of crap

Have stopped shopping there now ...

[Stuart*]

When they eventually did get it through the door, they refused to carry it upstairs because it exceeded a weight limit. However, when we ordered it, they said it was fine for two men to carry.

If, at the time of ordering, you'd specifically made a request for them to carry the bed upstairs when it was delivered, then you should've sent it back if they refused to do so.

When I did get it upstairs (me and my mum managed) it was actually a pile of crap.

Unless the price indicated that it was likely to be a pile of crap, then that was another reason to have sent it back (and told them they had to collect it from upstairs)