Been a bit quiet on the posts front recently - had a few days out last week and have been engrossed in the completely brilliant Super Mario Galaxy for past few days, which is really causing my RSI to flare up but dammit, that crazy little plumber is worth it.

The game came out on the 16th, and I went to my usual retailers of choice online to find the best price. £32.99 seemed about the most common price which was fine, but I wanted it for the weekend though so looked at the next day delivery options. With Amazon, next day delivery was going to take the price over £40 and HMV was another £5 or £6 on top.

Sod it I thought, I'll go down to Woolworths and buy it. Their website price was £32.97. Now, I always try to buy online but I had kind of gotten the idea that a lot of shops have a web price, and an instore price, so I went down to the shops fully expecting to pay a few quid extra. When Tiger Woods came out on Wii, it was £39.99 in Woolworths - considerably more than I got it for online. So I was chuffed to bits to go into the shop and find that they were indeed selling it for £32.97 and I wasn't getting it next day, I was getting it on the same day.

There's really something to be said for this shopping on the high street lark - I wonder if it will catch on!

BTW, the fact I've written a post about how I effectively saved a fiver is not lost on me and if I'm sounding stingey, it's because I am.

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