This drives me around the bloody bend when companies do this. Not sure what their motivation for doing it is.

… so that you can get to the ‘notify me when stock becomes available’ feature.

motivation: to keep their (out of stock) prices in google results, driving traffic to them rather than to competitors who happen to have stock

Have given up on CRC mostly these days.
Trawling through pages of out of stock items is a pain.
Sooner risk paying a bit more & shop somewhere that has stock.

The out of stock item was an ex display set of bars, so they are never going to get new stock of that item again.

I used to use them all of the time, but I too am losing faith in them. They always used to get items delivered to me next day for free, and then I noticed their delivery times started increasing

This drives me around the bloody bend when companies do this

Tip:From the left hand menu select “show in stock items only”

flanagaj – Member I used to use them all of the time, but I too am losing faith in them. They always used to get items delivered to me next day for free, and then I noticed their delivery times started increasing

That hasn’t changed. Just go for free delivery. It’s always been delivered via Royal Mail 24h for me. Can’t complain at all. Their returns/warranty service is the best I’ve ever experienced as well.

Tip:From the left hand menu select “show in stock items only”

Mind. Blown.

It’s for the sake of Google Shopping and the like, far be it for me to suggest they massively discount goods that people can’t buy, or indeed offer one obscure size at a much lower price than the ones that people will actually buy on purpose – but if they do it by accident it does often make them seem the cheapest on Google Shopping.

Correct

Tip:From the left hand menu select “show in stock items only”

CRC would probably still have my custom if it was set as default not show out of stock items.

Moving the mouse to the left hand side of the screen, scrolling, and then ffs clicking. It’s too much.