PSAs that may or may not be amazing enough to warrant their own thread

Giro.co.uk good chunk off shoes at the moment with free delivery.

Isup in Lidl at £169 with a Lidl card, £199 normal price.
I own one,it’s perfectly usable and I have done many miles on mine

Rapha summer sale on…

Giro.co.uk good chunk off shoes at the moment with free delivery.

last time I bought something the Singletrack member Giro discount still worked with sale price goods.

the Singletrack member Giro discount still worked with sale price goods

Well it could be down to user error, but I can’t see a Giro discount on the member discount site…

Superstar Kevlar and sinter finned pads reduced to £9.90 delivered with

4 sets of pads and 2 fins

Discount code is FINNED

LINK

Free day out at National Trust, family tickets.

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/free-national-trust-family-day-pass-4383422

Top PSA this – ordered 4 sets so total of 16 pads for less than £40

Always loved the kevlar pads from superstar so a no brainer

Nice one, I’ve really rated their normal kevlar pads too.

So ordered 3 sets of these (12 pairs) for £30.

Even if there’s less pad material (?) that’s still great VFM.

Am I reading it right that the ss offer is just for the replacement pads not the actual fins aswell

I read it as you get the full package.

One pack includes 4 pairs of pads and 2 sets of fins so you can upgrade both of your brakes and have a spare pair of pads ready to fit.

Says on the site

One pack includes 4 pairs of pads and 2 sets of fins so you can upgrade both of your brakes and have a spare pair of pads ready to fit.

Voodoo Bizango frames 18 & 20″  £60 a pop with 10% off voucher!

https://www.halfords.com/cycling/bike-parts/frames-and-frame-protection/voodoo-bizango-18in-size-frame-159354.html?_gl=1*w46lnw*_up*MQ..&gclid=CjwKCAjwzIK1BhAuEiwAHQmU3r1TQa7_MBmALneJtbetJk2idPCg15rSchzFAxbC9fXoBSIw2JHmcxoCDTYQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Just had 2 of those Nordisk tents turn up via UPS….didn’t actually expect them to arrive?

Thanks for the PSA ?

If you fancy saving a further £50 on those Nordisk Ydun tents you can pickup ex-demos from the Omm outlet store for £120 delivered

“These tents have been used once as demo products at our OMM Festival. They may have minor scuffs or a bit of Grasmere foliage but are nearly new”

Thanks for the national trust psa, that’s one day of summer with the kids sorted ?

J-tech have some white Bombers with a chunk off..

https://j-techsuspension.co.uk/collections/clearance-sale-items?shopify_email_activity_id=154037715195&syclid=cqgu55som04s73aqek20&utm_campaign=emailmarketing_154037715195&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email

Superstar components 50% off

Nano EVO2.0 Pedals -TITANIUM EDITION.

Just add them to basket, discount is automatically applied.

https://www.superstarcomponents.com/products/nano-evo2-0-pedals-black-and-gold-ti-edition

Best pedals I’ve used for grip and durability. A bit too big for my size 5s

Specialized Boomslang pedals 44% off

https://www.certini.co.uk/components/pedals/specialized-boomslang-platform-mountain-bike-pedals–black__36989?currency=GBP&chosenAttribute=09115-2300&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw74e1BhBnEiwAbqOAjPUK43nBfrY3myfgYGFvN6JOn9oJTsjZ5EkQ1VfPdrU5OG7iX2N-2hoCOv8QAvD_BwE

So this is interesting.

Since we stickied this thread our revenue from affiliate sales has dropped by almost half. The reason as far as we can ascertain is because there are no longer forum topics being posted that include the name of the item/deal/offer and so fewer people are clicking.

So, I’d like to run an experiment and ask everyone to post a fresh topic for each PSA that you come across. As before if you spot a great offer you want to share with everyone start your post with ‘PSA: ‘

I’ll temporarily close this topic for a few weeks so we can see if there’s any difference. If it’s all purely coincidental that the number of outgoing affiliated clicks from the forum seems to correlate with the time this thread was stickied then I’ll open it up again.

Cheers All.

Mark

@mark How about giving PSAs there own tab.. Overview/Chat/Bike/PSAs etc? Keep them all in one spot and save having to go searching for them. Just a thought as a alternative to this thread.

Just my opinion, but they wouldn’t get seen/ used as much. I only look in this thread when my life is really really dull, but I look on the forum much more often. In the unlikely event something named catches my eye then I open the thread.

TBH actually I think mark’s hypothesis about why a single thread doesn’t work as well would apply almost as much as a dedicated forum.  Fair enough with a whole forum you could quickly scan down it, but loads of people wouldn’t even open it.

Glad this thread is open again.

@Mark I get a reason for driving traffic through links. cool. Have you done an analysis on other correlations for decreased referels. eg tail off once WiggleCRC closed as I guess that was creating quite a lot of frenzy/ attention. End of the Ribble stock clearances. Have you asked your users why it may be?

I was also surprised this thread was closed by @Mark without any consultation. Seems to me a bit like a repeat of the same abrupt closure of the old classifieds which lead to the new classifieds being dead for years which surely must of affected site traffic? Cue the Scotroutes joke abut Tractor production being up year on year, every year…. its just feedback…

In terms of posting PSAs, my hypothesis is that this thread would cause more to be posted. Something needs to be really good for me to create a new thread and clutter up the forum.

But in terms of people looking, clicking through, I can see why it could cause a drop.

As OP, I say with revenue halved, do whatever gets it back!

And I’ll excuse myself by saying again my intent was literally what it says in the thread title, not to create one thread for all PSAs, which what people started using it as, which probably influenced it getting stickied.

My impulse spending has certainly dropped off since the thread went to a sticky at the top of the page.

Much preferred it when it was a single thread with the PSA in the title. If I was interested then I could click and hopefully there would be a link to click on.

Might be worth while removing the PSA if there isn’t a link attached

As OP, I say with revenue halved, do whatever gets it back!

Yep, totally agree. My prev. comments were meant to be supportive.

Were there really that many PSA threads before this? Chiggle demise notwithstanding, it seems to me like much more gets posted on this thread now than did on individual PSA threads before… stuff that doesn’t “warrant it’s own thread”, funnily enough.

Obviously Mark has access to the numbers, which don’t lie, but I find it strange that this thread has actually led to less people buying stuff they don’t need… I’m sure it hasn’t for me, I struggle to scroll past it if I see it’s been updated.

Total speculation here, but since the chiggle fire sale I have spent precisely zero on bike stuff, or camping gear or wetsuits for that matter!

how widely would that be replicated (with millions of pounds in stock being dumped recently ) to see some consumer fatigue?

How about giving PSAs there own tab.. Overview/Chat/Bike/PSAs etc? Keep them all in one spot and save having to go searching for them. Just a thought as a alternative to this thread.

+1 for this – the benefits of each having their own thread (and still appear in the Overview for general visibility) plus you can easily see all of the PSAs in one place rather than having to go searching for them.

The end of that Chiggle sale might have more to do with the reduction in affiliate sales

I check this thread all the time, and agree that people post more offers as a result of it, stuff that wpuldnt warrant a separate thread.

Yeah wasn’t this thread pinned after wiggle was finished? I was buying crap left and right through links on here and haven’t bought anything since tbh.

I’m happy enough if STW want to do it differently for business reasons, that’s a good reason and supporting st towers supports all of us.But from a user point of view that sounds like a crap change, this thread has been fantastic.

Mr buying has slowed noticeably since the Chiggle fire sale – this thread is great – I prefer all PSAs in one place

Personally, I looked at this thread a couple of times, but then I haven’t for months.

Possibly because it was a sticky. I just rarely look at stickies after the first time

Instead of wading through it all in one massive thread, I personally prefer a thread for each PSA.

I think this thread still has a place for possible PSAs, they’re not all worthy of a separate thread IMO.

I also think that bargains have seriously reduced since Chiggle went under

Mark did say

I’d like to run an experiment…

And not

Screw you guys I’m shutting this down because it suits me.

https://www.teamcycles.com/components/gears-drivetrain/shimano-cs-m7100-slx-12-speed-micro-spline-cassette__18201

Cheapest I’ve seen 10-51 slx cassettes since Merlin were punting them out for £57.50 over winter.

Still a lot of cash, and featuring cable tourism and a hidden shock but this looks a good deal

https://www.99bikes.co.uk/bikes/mountain-bikes/2023-scott-genius-910-tw-mountain-bike-in-green__51674

Since we stickied this thread our revenue from affiliate sales has dropped by almost half. The reason as far as we can ascertain is because there are no longer forum topics being posted that include the name of the item/deal/offer and so fewer people are clicking.

@mark

I wonder if the problem was not the fact that it was a single thread, but more the fact that it was stickied. I’m afraid I never look at the top block of stuff in yellow – I’m 100% blind to it. For me the forum starts the row below. If its at the top of page one it’s there on merit – i.e. people are posting and it’s current. The top bit is for t&c, rules and updates no one reads or posts on so needs stickying otherwise it’d disappear for ever. As a PSA thread, if it’s bouncing around near the top of the first page people must be posting and FOMO takes over and you take a peak. If it’s stickied – never look – never bother to see when it was last updated.,

I can’t be the only one that thinks like this.

Total speculation here, but since the chiggle fire sale I have spent precisely zero on bike stuff, or camping gear or wetsuits for that matter!

I also closed my wallet… for a while.

But it was actually this thread that got me spending regularly again.

I feel the problem for STW is probably caused by a bit of each of the factors identified by people here.

If there’s a simple UX solution though, that’s great.