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Currys Dixons PC World

zarazara
zarazara Posts: 2,264 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
their sites are down for maintenance. Is this normal:confused:
"The purpose of Life is to spread and create Happiness" :j
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  • Cannon_Fodder
    Cannon_Fodder Posts: 3,980 Forumite
    They are the same website, afaik, as evidenced by the appallingly similar performance of them all when trying to browse, so it could be genuine maintenance.

    Of course tomorrow, if the website has a Zavvi style "Administration" notice at the home page, I shall be back to edit this post...
  • ShimSham
    ShimSham Posts: 841 Forumite
    I tried to access PC World's website at 2am this morning and they were under going maintenance then as well. So that's at least 13 hours give or take a few hours that the site hasn't been working.
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  • PasturesNew
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    Are shares still trading?
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    There shares are up so I doubt it is anything but maintainance.
    Perhaps new design for websites?
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Really2 wrote: »
    There shares are up so I doubt it is anything but maintainance.
    Perhaps new design for websites?
    It seems an odd strategy to take down all three websites, you'd normally at least take down one at a time and redirect it to one of the others.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    zarazara wrote: »
    their sites are down for maintenance. Is this normal:confused:

    were you looking to buy something from them today?
  • mike_the_bike_2
    mike_the_bike_2 Posts: 437 Forumite
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    You think what it must be costing them in sales...just at a time when ...cough you know what I mean!
    The Early bird may catch the worm ...but its the second mouse that gets all the cheese!
  • ShimSham
    ShimSham Posts: 841 Forumite
    Dixons websites take a little lie down

    Routine maintenance?
    By John Oates
    Posted in IT Channel, 12th January 2009 14:29 GMT
    DSGi is cut off from the digital world today, with its two main websites falling off the net.
    Dixons.co.uk is down at the time of writing, along with PCworld.co.uk.
    A spokesman for DSGi told us: "We had some routine maintenance last night which has caused problems - it looks like a few more hours work to get it fixed."
    Missing even a day's trading online will hurt the firm - it has been one of its few areas of recent growth, up nine per cent in the last half year.
    The firm announced a £30m loss in November for the six months in an environment it described as "tough and volatile". It is pinning its hopes on a store renewal programme.
    The retailer is expected to offer an update on Christmas trading later this week - which will be closely watched given the state of the UK High Street and the firm's historic reliance on Christmas sales.
    Poor sales at Christmas last year saw DSGi shares drop 20 per cent. ®
    Wins 2007 :Boots £125, XBOX 360 & 3 games 2008:5 David Gray CDs £10 DVD voucher 2 Crossed Bones DVD & chocolate Torch. Smackdown 2008 game Deck the Halls Scrubs S6 High School Musical 2 ESR PC game Sherrybaby Beauty Hamper The Break Up Shutter
  • beecher
    beecher Posts: 2,497 Forumite
    Someone on digitalspy said that they'd been told the maintenance was taking longer than expected. Bad timing, if it is the case.
  • mizzbiz
    mizzbiz Posts: 1,434 Forumite
    Ironic considering how much they charge for Techguys.

    Looks like they're about as competent as people think they are, even when they're the ones having problems!
    I'll have some cheese please, bob.
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