Reply to: Zavvi in administration

[Lambros]

Zavvi Christmas vouchers 'worthless'

People given Zavvi gift vouchers for Christmas will be disappointed if they try to use them because they are worthless in stores and will not be accepted.

[zara_backdog]

I always think it's ironic that 40 year old audiophiles spend so much striving for perfection when their hearing is way past its best whilst teenagers with perfect hearing are happy to put up with a compressed flat sounding mp3.

I always by the CD but the difference is becoming less clear as I age.

Mr ZB would agree with that

How many club DJ's use downloads I wonder or do they still use vinyl and CD's?

[bobhope]

I'm waiting for Past Times, a shop that only seems to sell £20 candles and bookmarks to go.

[gingerjedi]

Download quality is much poorer than something you can buy.

But then most people are only interested in buying an X Factor song to play in their phone. Not play a vinyl copy of a Mozart opera on a 10,000 quid Linn system.

I always think it's ironic that 40 year old audiophiles spend so much striving for perfection when their hearing is way past its best whilst teenagers with perfect hearing are happy to put up with a compressed flat sounding mp3.

I always by the CD but the difference is becoming less clear as I age.

[TykeMerc]

USC the clothing shop now gone into administration today, 300 shops.

58 shops and 300 jobs according to this article.

[Bumfluff]

USC the clothing shop now gone into administration today, 300 shops.

[blacjac]

I iz man

I am angry my good man.

A twunt

[minestrone]

I iz man

I am angry my good man.

[AtW]

I have a

I iz man

[minestrone]

I got £100 sound system and that includes SoundBlaster card

I have a

[AtW]

No, I sold it to him, did he offer it to you?

No, I don't talk in a pub to strangers...

I got £100 sound system and that includes SoundBlaster card

[minestrone]

Did you buy your expensive sound system from Bill in the pub then?

No, I sold it to him, did he offer it to you?

[AtW]

I used to have a 6 grand system but I let it go when I moved, I nearly got a job at Linn, they are 2 miles up the road from me.

Did you buy your expensive sound system from Bill in the pub then?

[minestrone]

I felt it was more relevant to quote the bit where you mentioned your 10 grand sound system

I used to have a 6 grand system but I let it go when I moved, I nearly got a job at Linn, they are 2 miles up the road from me.

[TykeMerc]

I know that on line sales have taken away from many shops but in Glasgow, which is the second biggest retail center in the UK, it has been the out of town shopping malls that have killed the town off.

I know it is easy to drive into a car park and have 50 shops in one building but the city has turned into a poundland wilderness.

That's the syndrome that's killed off many town centers.

Of course it hasn't been helped by dogmatic town and city Councils who detest cars and have made accessing and parking in their centres incredibly difficult and expensive. As a result of the difficulties compared with out of town shops people simply don't bother going into town if they are likely to have any amount of shopping to carry.

To take Halifax as an example there used to be abundant free 1.5 hour on street parking in easy reach of the reasonably diverse thriving shops, now the parking is ticketed, £0.80 for a max of 1 hour and the number of spaces has been cut by about 80% the town is dead and full of charity shops. It doesn't help that the Councillor who heads the transport unit is a non driver and rabidly anti car.

Music shops have no real future since CD sales have plummeted accross the board as a result of bent and legit downloads.