PC World vent

Hermione_Granger

pappa_golf wrote: »

do not buy anything that if faulty has to be checked by their service department

signed

Gary Glitter

pappa_golf wrote: »

Gary Glitter is still annoyed with PCWorld ,

He's probably more annoyed at people who still think that Gary Glitter/PC World jokes are amusing close to 19 years after the actual incident occurred.

Fosterdog

I think is more a case of whatever search engine you used bringing up expired ads, I just ran a Google search for a MacBook Pro and it also shows John Lewis as being £200 off selected macs but I can't find any on their website with that offer.

It's a common vent on the praise vents and warnings boards about search engines showing different offers and pricing to the actual shops website.

John_Gray

RumRat wrote: »

But the point is mute...;)

<pedant>
A 'mute' post would be completely dumb. :rotfl:
A 'moot' point is what you mean, but note that 'moot' has two slightly different meanings:
a) subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty
b) having little or no practical relevance
</pedant>

Kendall80

RumRat wrote: »

If you go about it the right way, you can easily get that extra £50 knocked off the machine in PC world. So, the price increase isn't really a problem.
But the point is mute as you don't like them...;)

Thats only because they add £150 to it at the outset!

RumRat

John_Gray wrote: »

<pedant>
A 'mute' post would be completely dumb. :rotfl:
A 'moot' point is what you mean, but note that 'moot' has two slightly different meanings:
a) subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty
b) having little or no practical relevance
</pedant>

Yes....Damn spellchucker. (My excuse)......thank you...:o

Kendall80 wrote: »

Thats only because they add £150 to it at the outset!

They will also price match with the likes of JL. Most of the main retailers are there or there about these days.
The after sales service and PC repair service are a different story....:)

snae

I love the quip at Gary, lol.

I still have a HDD somewhere which has a sticker on it saying "Do no touch, has customer data", which The Tech Guys attached a few years back. Wasn't even aware they were allowed to go through files without permission, unless maybe they're not allowed now.

My current PC came from PC World, a present. I'd have preferred to have made one, but the individual (mother) was very insistent. It was a reduced display model, best specs for the price range (£500). AMD A10 3.5GHz, 16GB, 3TB HDD. All fine and dandy, but tiny MB factor mean it has no extra expansion slots and onboard graphics is rubbish. Had to end up buying a DVI to VGA connector. Also not enough rails, so had to steal from the CD drive.

Brought it home, and it was still in demo mode. Had to keep resetting the BIOS as it wouldn't boot. Brought it back and had to be sent away from a new MB. Got it back and Demo mode was still on it, so had to get it serviced again. Was offered a generous £200 discount, but decided not when one of their colleagues realised the next best PC up cost about a grand. Right pain in the a*se!

On top of that, they sold my mother 5 copies of McAfee AV for some reason. All she wanted was Office 365...

John_Gray

snae wrote: »

On top of that, they sold my mother 5 copies of McAfee AV...

She should have sued them!