HPE Aruba AP-505 Access Point (Currys price error)
Called 31 July 2026 · #misc-alerts · Resell Vault Drops
- In · retail
- £2.19 inc VAT — RRP £250+
- Out · eBay UK solds
- ~£75
- Net · per unit
- +£73
- ROI · at the low end
- 3325%+
Why we called it
Currys Business listed an HPE Aruba AP-505 — a Wi-Fi 6 enterprise access point with a limited lifetime warranty — at £1.83 excluding VAT. That is £2.19 delivered, on a unit that normally runs well over £330. It was a straightforward pricing error, and it had already surfaced on UK hot-deals feeds, so the window was short.
The wrinkle was access: the price sat behind a Currys Business account. We posted a step-by-step walkthrough of registering as a sole trader, which needs no company registration number and no VAT number, alongside the thing most people miss — buying B2B strips your consumer return rights.
The edge
What members knew before everyone else worked it out.
- £2.19 delivered against roughly £75 on eBay, with real demand from IT resellers.
- Worst case is cancellation and a refund, which makes the downside close to nothing.
- Full Currys Business signup guide posted, including which fields to leave blank.
- B2B purchase means no automatic 14-day change-of-mind return — fine on a £2 punt, worth knowing generally.
How it played out
- 31 Jul
The error is caught
Posted with the listing, the resale figure and the warning that hot-deals exposure would close it fast.
- 31 Jul
Access solved
A sole-trader signup walkthrough goes out so members without a business account are not locked out.
- 31 Jul
The honest update
Bulk orders start getting cancelled while single-unit orders hold. Members are told plainly rather than left to find out.
The takeaway
Price errors are a lottery ticket, not a business. Order one, keep it sealed, and treat a cancellation as the expected outcome rather than a grievance — which is exactly how it was posted.
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