Takealot SA versus Amazon USA tech price showdown: It’s around 50/50 so always best to check properly

Interesting results shown in the comparison in the linked article. In quite a few cases a single import, with duty and shipping to SA, is cheaper than Takealot in South Africa. I’m wondering how this will improve when Amazon opens its own warehouse in South Africa later in 2023, because then it won’t be individual shipping imports any more.

But the big takeaway is that you do need to check, and weigh it up also with whether you may ever need warranty support. There are also many items you just cannot find at all inside South Africa.

See https://mybroadband.co.za/news/gadgets/497469-takealot-versus-amazon-tech-price-showdown.html
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Facebook cesspool: First fake phones, now prolific Takealot advert scams

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Seems Facebook is really being exploited to the hilt by scammers and fraudsters. Samsung told me they were fully aware of all the fake phones being sold on Facebook Marketplace but seems there was “nothing they could do” and plenty of South Africans have been falling for this. I only have to look at my blog site to see the most popular page for the last three months was about “fake phones”.

This past festive season, several ads from “Takealot” with substantial discounts on various products, including TVs, iPads, hairdryers, and cooking appliances were doing the rounds on Facebook and Instagram. Individual users on WhatsApp also shared the posts.

Takealot provided these basic pointers to spotting a scam in its name:
* Takealot does not request payment to enter into its competitions.
* Takealot does not charge for the delivery of prizes.
* Customers don’t pay extra to unlock deals.
* Takealot has no physical retail branches, only online ordering from their website.

See https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/429270-beware-takealot-scams-on-facebook.html

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This new website tells you if a Takealot deal is good by displaying the history for the price of an item

Serval records the daily historic listed and selling prices of popular products on South Africa’s biggest ecommerce site and presents these in a simple graph.

To check the pricing history of a particular product, visitors must copy the URL of the product from Takealot’s site.

The generated graph will then show the product’s pricing from the date that Serval started tracking it.

Takealot's pricing is a bit odd though as just before supper I saved an item to my wishlist at R159, and by the time I finished supper, it shot up to R199 (and has been as high as over R400 despite the normal retail price being R200 to R210). So this site may be very useful to many South Africans.

See This new website tells you if a Takealot deal is good

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A new price tracking website makes it easy for Takealot shoppers to see whether they are scoring a good deal on a discounted product or whether the saving shown has been overstated.

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https://gadgeteer.co.za/new-website-tells-you-if-takealot-deal-good-displaying-history-price-item