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Fire sale at Asos.com

Clothes shopaholics will be interested in the online half-price sale at giant (British) clothes retailer Asos.com. As the Daily Telegraph today reports, the company was hit badly by the Buncefield oil depot explosion in England a month ago and has only just started trading again this morning. It now has to shift a massive amount of tops, bottoms, shoes, lingerie and accessories – all the undamaged winter stock that needs to make way for Spring and Summer collections. YTS's in-house clothes-shopping consultant, Tina-Marie, confirmed that it's "really good value". The site delivers direct to Ireland.

DVD box set watch: The Simpsons

Gamestop (Henry Street, Liffey Street, Santry) has a couple of (used) box sets of Series 5 of The Simpsons for €25. Episodes include Homer going into space and accidentally knocking over an on-board experimental ant colony. This prompts the watching Springfield TV news anchorman, Kent Brockman, to "hail our new ant masters". There’s a lot of Sideshow Bob (played by Frasier’s Kelsey Grammer), too, including the Cape Fear episode. Classic stuff.

Get yer XD cards, five for €150

Got a Fuji Finepix digital camera? If so, you pay more than other camera owners for the brand's XD format memory cards. But one shop in Dublin is selling them cheap. Gunn Cameras in Camden Street is selling a 256MB card for €30, €20 cheaper than other camera shops and even €8 cheaper than Tesco.

Saleswatch: digital cameras

Where can you get the cheapest Nikon D50 (6 megapixel) digital SLR camera? We tried a couple of shops around Dublin's city centre.

Jessops (Grafton Street) -- €863
Camera Centre (Grafton Street) -- €900 (comes with memory card and extras)
Camera Exchange (Trinity Street) -- €800 (comes with bag)

The Camera Exchange is the clear winner on price.

Dell.ie flogging 26" LCDs for €565

If you're thinking of an LCD telly this Christmas, Dell's 26 inch model is probably thte best value around at €565 (including delivery). In fact, no-one we're aware of else comes even close to this price. It's a sale price, so best get in there fast. (Sorry for the dodgy imaging.)