Gitex top deals…win cars, free air tickets...

If DSF is all about Raffle draws, Gitex Shopper has always been about free gifts and bundle offers. As the eight-day electronics shopping bonanza begins, here is the list of top deals.

Emax -  is offering guaranteed return flights to 24 destinations including, Bangkok, Singapore, Colombo, Chennai, Cochin, Goa, Islamabad and other destinations. And hold on, unlike airlines, Emax offer is an all-paid return ticket. All you need to do is look out for the Fly For Free banner on models on more than 100 odd products.

Sharaf DG - is offering Dh50 worth gift voucher with the purchase of every Dh500, apart from other attractive bundles. Another attractive offer by Sharaf includes a free BMW 316i guaranteed with every purchase of an LG 55” OLED TV for Dh99,990.

The actual cost of the TV is Dh19,990 and the car is being retailed by BMW at Dh130,000.

Jacky`s - will be giving away Hisense TVs of various sizes ranging upto 65’’ 4K Ultra-HD and LED TVs through a raffle every hour at the Shopper for every purchase of Dh500. It has also announced that at the end of the eight-day exhibition, its customers – who buy laptops worth Dh2000, smartphones worth Dh1,000 or UHD TVs – will enter into the raffle to win the Mini Coopers.

Plugins is offering a chance to win a Dodge Charger on the purchase of goods worth Dh500 or more and a guaranteed gift with every purchase of Dh1,000 and more.

It is not just electronic retailers who are offering bundles and deals. Even hypermarket chains such as Carrefour and Lulu have joined the trend by offering discounts and extending them beyond smartphones, laptops and cameras into household appliances. During the shopper. Lulu has already announced a tech fest with millions worth of free gifts and a chance to win 24 Mitsubishi Pajeros as part of a raffle. You get a coupon for every Dh100 you spend as part of Lulu Digital Expo 2014.

Complementing the retailers, individual brands too have come out with their own campaigns. HP is offering a free HP Phone worth Dh999 with select HP laptops and is running a draw every two hours for customers of Notebooks and desktops worth more than Dh1599 to win a HP Pavilion x360 PC. Brother has a special offer just for today where it has slashed the price of its LED colour printer from Dh1,399 to Dh499.

At Sandisk buy any Sandisk Ultra, Extreme or Extreme Pro product and you get a chance to win half kilogram of gold or Dh110,000 worth of shopping vouchers. The offers start today and extend beyond Gitex Shopper until November 22, 2014.

The volume and value of gifts has only been increasing over the years and this year too retailers are promising mega bundles and great discounted products on key products. According to initial estimates the total value of free gifts and bundles could exceed last year`s 30 million, despite this being the second Shopper in this calendar year.

On offer in 2013 October edition was a BMW car free with the purchase of an 84 inch Smart TV.

Truckloads of 32 inch smart TVs were offloaded at the World Trade Centre to be given away as free gifts with the purchase of almost everything from a SIM card to a smartphone. You also have buy one get one free offers, hourly sales of gadgets for just Dh1 and holiday packages.

Jacky`s has been running a countdown on its Facebook page ahead of the Shopper.

“Gifts. Goodies. GITEX! Enjoy a world of offers this Gitex Shopper at Jacky’s. See you there tomorrow!” a tweet from Jacky’s said.

According to Nadeem Khanzadah, Head of Retail at Jumbo Electronics this year is going to especially special with several new smartphones hitting the stores. “Expect some very good offers on older models,” he said.

Watch out this space for the latest offers and deals at Gitex Shopper.

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