PC World rip off merchants

[bogeyman]

Is bogeyman getting at me now?

Did I say I was buying things from PC World?

No my dear two-horned, rubbery orange friend. I was just wondering why so many self-professed 'professionals' (not you in particular) buy stuff off the high street.

[AtW]

I'm not surprised, since you've been using PC World instead.

I have not - they did not stock the item I wanted so I found small shop elsewhere, most people would never walk into it and have to buy stuff in PC World -- big discrepancy in prices for the same goods is a very good indication of a monopoly, because in any competitive market prices tend to be more or less the same - say online you will see that there is a huge competition for computer parts - prices are not that different. They are mainly different at PC World since they can't politically cut prices on their site as shop managers would complain - when I worked for an IT retailer it was just the situation we faced.

[bogeyman]

when I worked for an IT retailer it was just the situation we faced.

You've worked in a shop then, boyo?

You have gone up hugely in my estimation. A quarter of Nuttal's Mintos - in a PAPER bag, please.

[AtW]

bogeyman - why won't you feck off and try to do something useful in your bum like life?

[DodgyAgent]

I have not - they did not stock the item I wanted so I found small shop elsewhere, most people would never walk into it and have to buy stuff in PC World -- big discrepancy in prices for the same goods is a very good indication of a monopoly, because in any competitive market prices tend to be more or less the same - say online you will see that there is a huge competition for computer parts - prices are not that different. They are mainly different at PC World since they can't politically cut prices on their site as shop managers would complain - when I worked for an IT retailer it was just the situation we faced.

So what you are saying is that people are too stupid to consider buying from someone other trhan PC world? And you think that the govt knows better ??? Isnt that what happened in Russia.

BTW I buy all my computer stuff (or used to) from PCworld cos I am a non techie idiot who likes to browse around a smart shop irrespective of what the prices are. With your system I would have to browse through a cold poorly stocked shop in a run down part of the city. No thanks AtW, tell you what I and my fellow PCworld shoppers will continue to buy from where we want, and we wont in return tell you where or where not to shop. In other words f*** off and mind your own business.

DA in "John Clare" mode

[DodgyAgent]

It was distress purchase - .

I'll say it was, particularly for the staff at PCworld

[bogeyman]

bogeyman - why won't you feck off and try to do something useful in your bum like life?

"My Bum Like Life"

Yes, there you have it - youu little genius you! I could almost kiss you!!

Here I've been, sitting in my hovel in the rain in Abergavenny, wracking my brains to think of a title for my autobiography (advance $2m from Secker & Warburg - and all spent down the Drovers Arms - tut!)

You're a genius!

Must get the manuscript out now - and light the candle!

Thanks again!

Bogey

[AtW]

With your system I would have to browse through a cold poorly stocked shop in a run down part of the city.

No.

PC World is part of Dixons who also control Dixons computer shops on high-street - breakup won't help here since PC World fits out-of-town market, so price controls are necessary until there is a viable competitor present in this market.

[darmstadt]

I was building a system in the UK last year and someone forgot to order some SLT tapes. Over the road was a PC World so I popped over, found a young assistant and it went like this:

DA: " Do you sell SDLT tapes?"
PC: "Eh!"
DA: "SDLT tapes for computers. To make backups on."
PC: "Sorry, don't understand you."
DA: "A bit like DAT tapes but bigger and hold more data. You have a tape drive on the PC, put a tape in and backup your data to tape. Do you sell tapes for computer systems?"
PC: "Do you mean cassettes? They're over there."
DA: "Diptulip."

Went to another one a few weeks later when I had to give a training course and someone had forgotten his power supply for his Thinkpad.

PC: "Don't do IBM or power supplies. Try Maplins for something like that."

Went to Maplins who do universal power supplies but suggested not using them just in case (this was a US model from Israel.) Got one down the Tottingham Court Rahd for next to nuffing.

[Francko]

so price controls are necessary until there is a viable competitor present in this market.

There were. They just went bankrupt because they tried to compete at cheap prices. You have plenty of competitors on-line and there is no bareer to enter the market, you can do it yourself tomorrow if you want. But you have to practice the same prices as them with fewer smiley youngsters so you will fail too. So, what's your point (if you ever had one)? That the government should push the only organisation who managed to remain profitable in the market out of business?