PC World

superscaper

Cypher wrote:

Their current advert gets me, the one with the baby in the push chair, who the computer will be perfect for, for when that baby does their school work.
In 5+ years time :mad:
People will fall for it though and buy that particular model

Forgot about that one, thought it was funny. Talking about schoolwork you're probably thinking more like secondary school so 10+ years. It would be like me using our old Acorn for my engineering work.

Cypher

Yes when I saw the advert I did think more like secondary school ie in 10year+

I posted primary school age to give them the benefit of the doubt. but even then I think they are stretching the truth, but they will probably sell loads of them on the back of that advert :mad:

superscaper

HalleluiahMan wrote:

Not that I'm one to defend the sheds, but have you just had a bad day? Are you getting upset just because they confused "memory" and "storage"? What do you mean by "misleading"? They sell a lot more than just PCs and laptops. Can one be missold a new Sims game, some blank media or a new mouse?

As for their customer service, how many people actually use it? Yes, they're more expensive than buying online, but which bricks-and-mortar retailer isn't?

Personally I like going around pc world just to browse and look at peripherals, components in "real life". Although I wouldn't buy from there unless it was some kind of same day emergency. Although I have bought games from there when they're bargains (there are some, cheaper than t'internet even).

superscaper

Cypher wrote:

Yes when I saw the advert I did think more like secondary school ie in 10year+

I posted primary school age to give them the benefit of the doubt. but even then I think they are stretching the truth, but they will probably sell loads of them on the back of that advert :mad:

Almost emotional blackmail "you're doing it for your children, it will be for their benefit".

HalleluiahMan

superscaper wrote:

Personally I like going around pc world just to browse and look at peripherals, components in "real life".

I enjoy going in them, if nothing else just to bait the insincere sales staff. Alternatively, a visit there or Halfords after a day of trailing through Next, Dorothy Perkins and the like, brings a sense of balance to the day.

superscaper wrote:

Although I wouldn't buy from there unless it was some kind of same day emergency. Although I have bought games from there when they're bargains (there are some, cheaper than t'internet even).

Exactly. That is about all that they're good for.

I see that the OP seems to have vanished anyway, so this post is nothing more that a bunch of like-minded souls agreeing with one another.

woo

I occasionally buy from them, i.e. bought a 5 port netgear switch last month. I did a collect in store from the web and it was about the same price as elsewhere, without shipping.
Marked price in store was about 10quid more though.

The adverts make me wanna scream, how a duo processor allows you to do anymore when running a virus scan beats me. Biggest bottle neck there is disk access..

chuckles1066

superscaper wrote:

I don't think I would ever buy another pc again (unless I won the lottery and bought alienware or vadim or something although I'd probably still want to mess around building my own) now I know how to build my own, I prefer to know exactly what's "in there".

I've built plenty but my choice is always Dell.

Solid build............ok, you need to replace the Seagate/Maxtor hard drives with Western Digital's but, that aside, rock steady.

Their memory upgrades are ludicrously expensive so you use Crucial.

Euro for Euro you won't get a more solid machine than a Dell.

sco0ter

I must admit the new Duo core really gives staff more scope to be stupid. I went in 2 days ago (looking for cheap XBOX games) and the guy tried to sell me a new PC. When questioned about the duo core he said... "You will be able to play games AND surf the web at the same time"..My reply...."How the bloody hell does that work???? How would I see my game with a big web browser blocking the screen" His reply.. "er umm I meant listen to music while you surf the net". Mine.. "I can already do that with my single core" His reply "ahh but it wont slow your computer down" Mine.... "Youre full of MINCE mate..." at which I took my XBOX Xploder (£2.97) and left.

robin58

It's not for nothing that this company in our family is called " PC Con", (sung to thier theme tune it sounds better.)

The only reason I usally go there is to see whats on the market, look at the products. I then google it or go to 2 or 3 firms I trust and are cheap, then buy it.

They are too expensive for what they sell. Can get some of the products it sells cheaper even from a local computer supplier near me.

The only time you can get a bargain, is when they have one of thier clearouts

Picked up a nice, unmarked, returned to base, not required, cheap laptop recently.

My brother wanted of take it off "my hands" at the time. That shows to me it was a good bargian if he was trying to encourge me to sell it to him!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

chuckles1066

robin58 wrote:

It's not for nothing that this company in our family is called " PC Con", (sung to thier theme tune it sounds better.)

:rotfl: :rotfl:

Good job you never bought from Tiny then!

One of the biggest names in the UK pc industry, they went bust............twice.

Built on the slogan TINY = "Tough It's Now Yours"