HP TouchPad

On_The_Ball

lacey - who told you that?

MoneySavingUser

sky_man wrote: »

I suggest everyone emails the Head Offices of these companies to complain.

You would think these corporations would frown upon their staff blagging all the bargains simply so they can sell them on Ebay at a vastly inflated profit.

To add further insult to injury, these employees most probably get staff discount too, upwards of 10% at some places. So that £89 Touchpad costs them about £80, maybe less.

This behaviour does nothing but alienate potential customers. Why should I shop at PCW, Comet, Dixons, etc when I know that the moment a bargain pops up, the employees have first dabs? Furthermore why should I ever return for a future sale? Undervalued as a customer and treated with contempt, reservations and orders cancelled and mysteriously vanishing, it stinks.

I doubt they care - people who know what they are looking for and want to get a good price like most of the people on this site tend to avoid the above stores

So the gullible people who are their main client base will keep going regardless

drykid

ashsi wrote: »

anyone had any luck with the difference refunded with comet

Yep, worked for me. I phoned up customer services and they said to go into store where they'd sort it, and sure enough they did. I'd recommend phoning up first though, as I've a suspicion they may have added something to their online system to instruct the store what action to take.

sadlybrokeboy

lacey101 wrote: »

Hi Folks

I have just bought a 16gb HP Tablet off expanseys for full price (£360), apparently they will not charge your account or dispatch until they have recieved the stock and confirm you still want the product (in which case I was thinking I will not accept it unless the price has come down).
Has anyone else heard if this is the case or done something similar with Expanseys?
Thanks

Yep - have done exactly the same thing - wonder if/when they get any stock in?!?

Matt

seequis

I've been told by my mate at PC world that they WILL have access to over 2,000 tablets from HH:00.01 Thursday morning. HP are dumping them all and these will be stock that come with additional items (special purchase pack), case etc for the same price (89 and 115)...

bigbulldog

sky_man wrote: »

This behaviour does nothing but alienate potential customers. Why should I shop at PCW, Comet, Dixons, etc when I know that the moment a bargain pops up, the employees have first dabs? Furthermore why should I ever return for a future sale? Undervalued as a customer and treated with contempt, reservations and orders cancelled and mysteriously vanishing, it stinks.

Totally agree however its called greed and that's the worst part of human nature.

ashsi_2

drykid wrote: »

Yep, worked for me. I phoned up customer services and they said to go into store where they'd sort it, and sure enough they did. I'd recommend phoning up first though, as I've a suspicion they may have added something to their online system to instruct the store what action to take.

Ah so they where okay with it. what did you say. I never seem to have luck when ringing companies

MoneySavingUser

seequis wrote: »

I've been told by my mate at PC world that they WILL have access to over 2,000 tablets from HH:00.01 Thursday morning. HP are dumping them all and these will be stock that come with additional items (special purchase pack), case etc for the same price (89 and 115)...

hmm would be nice - but dabs had 2000 this morning and they all sold out and the site was unresponsive for me so will still be tough to get one

kerryjayne21

Gavin_Coles wrote: »

I have been passing emails back and forth to Comet with the eventual outcome that they do not give a damn. Anyone else had any luck getting their money back from Comet?

Went in this morning and got my money back from them, they told me they had a price promise that if they lowered there price within 14 days they would need to refund me the difference.

sky_man

Does anyone know what HP's official response is? Are they offering to refund those who paid full price as they are with US customers?