We might by no means see a lower cost for the Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 than what I caught it going for over the weekend, and that is as a result of it seems to have been an entire accident. Samsung discounted its ultrawide 49-inch OLED gaming monitor by £1,400—bringing it down to simply £199.
To place that into perspective, this can be a model new gaming monitor that we scored 90% in our current G9 OLED overview. Although we regarded on the cheaper mannequin, the G93SC. The one discounted over the weekend was the model with sensible TV performance built-in, the G95SC. We thought that sensible performance fairly pointless on a gaming monitor presumably linked to a fully-functioning gaming PC and but I would not say no to it at that worth.
Sadly, I did not attain the display screen in time to safe one for myself. I caught wind of the supply on TikTok, by means of a video of a person claiming to have scored an order in time by way of Samsung’s eBay web page, which additionally had an identical deal working—it should be an automatic system.
By the point I had reached the web page, it had already bought out.
The low worth was nonetheless listed on the bought out product, nonetheless. I snapped a number of screenshots earlier than the worth shot again up. The monitor continues to be bought out on Samsung proper now.
That form of low cost is one method to transfer inventory quick. Although I very a lot doubt Samsung meant to low cost its model new OLED display screen to little greater than a 1080p panel. As somebody that beforehand managed an ecommerce web site, I can admit to cocking up a product’s worth on a handful of events, solely to grasp my mistake when the primary order rolls in. The stakes had been fairly small—a mug price £7.99 discounted to £6.99 did not precisely break the financial institution.
Samsung, alternatively, simply misplaced out on over a thousand kilos sterling for each monitor bought at this worth. Which will have solely been a handful however that is nonetheless numerous money. Hey, do not feel unhealthy for Samsung, it is price billions. However possibly really feel unhealthy for the person who has to confess it was their fault.
For what it is price, whereas we can’t see a deal wherever near this (although fingers crossed), there might be some low cost gaming monitor offers for Prime Day over the subsequent few weeks. Do not get your hopes up for £1,400 off, although.
