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Title: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: Gaffers on 01 September 2010, 17:20:46
.....check their site online.  Just went it with a colleague, well boss, to get a DVI/VGA Adapter and found one for 19.99 GBP.  In shock I started to search online with the phone and found on pcworld.co.uk for 6 pounds and a few pence.  When I questionned them about it they said they would match their online price. 

Is this legal? :-/
Title: Re: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 01 September 2010, 17:33:00
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.....check their site online.  Just went it with a colleague, well boss, to get a DVI/VGA Adapter and found one for 19.99 GBP.  In shock I started to search online with the phone and found on pcworld.co.uk for 6 pounds and a few pence.  When I questionned them about it they said they would match their online price. 

Is this legal? :-/


Yes Gaffers, it is :o :o :o :o

On-line prices can be different, and often are, to any organisations retail units prices.  Treated as two separate operations, unless otherwise advertised for certain product as one offer for both. ;) ;)
Title: Re: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: johny5 on 01 September 2010, 17:50:27
£20 for a VGA adaptor???  :o
Title: Re: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 01 September 2010, 18:53:13
As Lizzie says, but you also have to remember the savings of not having to display, stock rotatation, no commisision on sales with larger items like laptops etc.

Just to put an item on didplay you are talking handling by wharehose staff, shop floor, possibly a sale assistant then on to check out.  Then of course there are the 4 staff that keep point ing to other staff saying they will help coz they dont have a clue where they are either.  :-/
Title: Re: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: Vamps on 01 September 2010, 22:06:35
My advice to anyone buying anything from PC World would be Don't........ :-X  (In my experience, after sales very poor, rang trading standards whilst standing in the Que, soon got a response ::))
Title: Re: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: Broomies Mate on 01 September 2010, 22:20:35
Not really important to this thread, but Comet (not connected with the Curry's/PC World group) will not match their online prices.

So, if you want to buy from Comet, browse in-store, buy it with your gayiPhone then collect it from the store you are already in.  :y

**You dont need an iPhone to buy online, it just makes it far easier than any other phone in the world..... Signed, an iPhone user.

**Note, I, BM, have nothing to do with this.... I'd never own an iPhone.
Title: Re: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: charlie on 01 September 2010, 22:23:44
neither will halfrauds,same thing ,same shop,just two prices crazy >:( >:(
Title: Re: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: Amigo on 01 September 2010, 23:25:16
Same with car insurance compare sites. You go on, make your choice only to be told when phoning that's thier online price...well i was online... they won't match thier own prices?????? ::)...Trading standards? >:(
Title: Re: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: Broomies Mate on 01 September 2010, 23:29:53
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Same with car insurance compare sites. You go on, make your choice only to be told when phoning that's thier online price...well i was online... they won't match thier own prices?????? ::)...Trading standards? >:(

Nope.  Nothing you can do about it.  Any business can offer 'online only deals'.  Point is, if you were online, why not buy it?
Title: Re: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: Kevin Wood on 01 September 2010, 23:53:02
The point is, if you find yourself in any of these stores and think you'll buy something on impulse.. don't! Go home, shop around and don't let the swindling barstewards win.

They do take the P**S, but only because people don't do their homework.

Kevin
Title: Re: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: Dishevelled Den on 02 September 2010, 08:57:51
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The point is, if you find yourself in any of these stores and think you'll buy something on impulse.. don't! Go home, shop around and don't let the swindling barstewards win.

They do take the P**S, but only because people don't do their homework.

Kevin


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They do take the P**S, but only because people don't do their homework.


Indeed so K, to skew the common idiom slightly: Act in haste, repent at leisure. 8-) :y
Title: Re: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: Sixstring on 02 September 2010, 09:31:15
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Not really important to this thread, but Comet (not connected with the Curry's/PC World group) will not match their online prices.

So, if you want to buy from Comet, browse in-store, buy it with your gayiPhone then collect it from the store you are already in.  :y

**You dont need an iPhone to buy online, it just makes it far easier than any other phone in the world..... Signed, an iPhone user.

Note, I, BM, have nothing to do with this.... I'd never own an iPhone.
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HAH!! Bottawallaloaducks!!!!!
Title: Re: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: zirax on 02 September 2010, 17:57:02
If its any help, there is the google shopper app that you can get for smartphones. You simply pick up the box and it will take a picture of either the box or cover art (ala dvd etc) and search online for the cheapest price. This will then pop up on your phone.

Saved an absolute fortune by doing this  :y
Title: Re: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: TheBoy on 02 September 2010, 21:32:57
Yup, its normal.

I reserve online (to get their webprice), then pick up from the store later in the day. Sometimes, when in store, I use the browser on the phone to reserve at webprice online ;)

Don't forget to go through Topcashback to get cashback on the pcworld purchase :y
Title: Re: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: Kevin Wood on 03 September 2010, 09:28:55
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I reserve online (to get their webprice), then pick up from the store later in the day. Sometimes, when in store, I use the browser on the phone to reserve at webprice online ;)

Best of both worlds then. Online prices without having to deal with daft couriers. :y

Kevin
Title: Re: Before you buy anything from PC World....
Post by: TheBoy on 06 September 2010, 09:37:58
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I reserve online (to get their webprice), then pick up from the store later in the day. Sometimes, when in store, I use the browser on the phone to reserve at webprice online ;)

Best of both worlds then. Online prices without having to deal with daft couriers. :y

Kevin
And cashback, so better than online prices ;)