EXPIRED Comet Sale

lawrie28

Basil1234 wrote: »

thanks for the lecture lawrie yes i do get how businesses work, comet has been bad last few years we all know this! point being when selling off the last few bits of tat this in no way in any shape or form will pay the redundancy money owed to thousands of former Comet workers totals £23.2m and will be paid by the government's Redundancy Payments Service (RPS) which will end up the rest of the uk paying.
especially when administrators Deloitte pay back some of the unsecured creditors before settling redundancy first imho staff should have been sorted first then creditors after that they seem to have used a government backup scheme first in there plans all along which is not how the scheme was set up to be used but deloitte have exploited this.

i suggest you a full read of this before passing comment with all the facts and figures.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20765983

and yes i don't think people should miss out on a bargain fair enough but there sales never where a sale to start with as they jacked up there prices to full rrp when administrators took control still be better if you let internet find best price imho because market will always give the best price, thats what killed comet it became a dinosaur in the end!

anyway my issue still remains going to a store on the last day when only the tat is left is the act of a vulture and i find it dis-tasteful and yes it seems people are having less and less morals and common decency but perhaps thats the way our society is going but it is not a good thing!
bit like the ambulance chasers after a car accident!

basil

it bit like the newest idea from the government to allow quicker mass redundancies which comes into force in April changing from 90days notice to 45 days in order to help out businesses well done conservatives! 6 weeks and we can all be kicked out now wonderful!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20768345
time for a change you think?

So, you don't want the administrators to sell off everything they can, for whatever they can to reduce debt, pay wages etc. yet you don't want them to go to the government for the staff to receive redundancy payments??? So you think the administrators should have just shut the doors on the stores straightaway, leaving whatever stock is left for the landlords to deal with?

I agree that administrators should be paying off staff before unsecured creditors, but alas, they do what they do.

As for calling people Vultures for going in on the last day of the sale, well, if we all thought like you there would never be a sale ever, because obviously paying anything under full price for anything is the distasteful act of a vulture ripping the boots off a person before their body goes cold.

THIS IS A MONEY SAVING WEBSITE - PEOPLE COME ON HERE TO FIND CHEAP STUFF!!

Don't know why you bothered joining such a distastful place that disagrees with your morals.

Doc_N

It's pretty clear from some of the stocks left what went wrong.

Small electronic items, for example, marked at £14.99 - being sold off at £1.49. The only problem being that £1.49 is the sort of price you'd pay online anyway. People got wise to it, of course.

Lousy customer service, too - why would anyone have wanted to shop there?

You could of course say much the same sort of thing about Dixons/Currys.............

3010

Time to expire. Another retailer bites the dust.

mrs_lds

RIP COMet was good knowing you.goodnight may the last person leaving switch. off the lights