Philips Baristina Falls to AU$359 in Australia, Undercutting TechRadar's 'Deal of the Year' at AU$419
TechRadar reports the Philips Baristina coffee machine is now AU$359 in Australia, AU$60 below the AU$419 price its writer had already called the coffee machine deal of the year.
The piece was written by Max, a senior staff writer at TechRadar who covers home entertainment and audio and also edits the magazines Australian Hi-Fi and Audio Esoterica. In it he said the AU$419 price had struck him as the year's best coffee machine bargain, and that the further cut to AU$359 had left him regretting the timing of his own purchase. The headline ran, "I thought the Philips Baristina for AU$419 was the coffee machine deal of the year — now it's AU$359 and I'm eating my shoes."
The article is written in the first person as a deals item. It quotes the Australian dollar prices but does not name the retailer offering the AU$359 figure, set an end date for the offer, or list the Baristina's specifications, and no independent confirmation of the pricing appeared alongside it.
The price movement is a drop of about 14 per cent from the AU$419 level that the writer had flagged as a standout discount, and roughly AU$60 in absolute terms, on a machine that had already been positioned as the cheapest opportunity of its kind this year in TechRadar's assessment.