The EE "Power Bar" - is it a bit of a scam ?

I tried to get an EE power bar today.

I texted when the offer resumed but first had time to visit an EE store this afternoon.

I find that the store (in a smaller high street in the London suburbs) gets a delivery of around 100 every day (possibly not Sundays when I visited) and when they are gone they are gone.

The promotion seems to be about driving footfall to their stores as I have to return each day until I find a store with one in stock.

I'm not sure how successful it will be as I'm going to be increasingly cross each time I go as I don't naturally visit a location with an EE shop in it.

What chance is there that I will buy something when at an EE shop ?

- Zero !

I've never bought anything in an operator phone shop and only buy phones unbranded and unlocked (preferably via a website to avoid the dreadful experience that is the mobile phone shop).

The power bar promotion makes me feel even less inclined to visit an EE shop.

OWN GOAL EE !