We could by no means see a cheaper price 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 only £199.
To place that into perspective, it is a model new gaming monitor that we scored 90% in our current G9 OLED overview. Although we appeared 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 related to a fully-functioning gaming PC and but I would not say no to it at that value.
Sadly, I did not attain the display screen in time to safe one for myself. I caught wind of the supply on TikTok, by way of a video of a consumer claiming to have scored an order in time through Samsung’s eBay web page, which additionally had an analogous deal working—it have to be an automatic system.
By the point I had reached the web page, it had already offered out.
The low value was nonetheless listed on the offered out product, nevertheless. I snapped a couple of screenshots earlier than the worth shot again up. The monitor remains to be offered 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 value on a handful of events, solely to understand 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 offered at this value. That will have solely been a handful however that is nonetheless a variety of money. Hey, do not feel dangerous for Samsung, it is price billions. However perhaps really feel dangerous for the individual that has to confess it was their fault.
For what it is price, whereas we can’t see a deal anyplace near this (although fingers crossed), there shall be some low cost gaming monitor offers for Prime Day over the following few weeks. Do not get your hopes up for £1,400 off, although.
