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Prebuilt competitor PCs - ridiculous!

Hotwired said:
They're not ripping the public on that one. Must email and tell them to jack the price.

Maybe Acer prawned them when it sold them the quad due to the flashy case and Packard Bell gave them a better deal for the i7 rig.

Or perhaps the quad was priced when the processor was new and the i7 was built and priced at today's prices.
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Yeh, I mean it's still 120 quid over what you could build it for, but considering you get the warranty and support and everything it's not bad at all for a prebuilt. Baffling really.
 
The for mentioned shop are unbelievable those tech guys that repair in the shop are completely clueless 9/10 they end up ringing someone else to help them fix the problem.

Another thing is the insurance, every time they sell insurance on an item they are paid commission that's why they are so pushy about it.
 
DAMO RAM80 said:
+1 Plus look at how MANY shops they have and staff.
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Don't be daft - more shops = more sales. If a store isn't profitable, they close it - so having more shops is hardly going to damage them, is it?

What ****es me off isn't so much the prices, which people will at least have some vague notion about - it's the way they describe them.

"Quad core technology and 4gb of ram, perfect for multitasking"
all good so far
"...so you can save your photos of the grand-kids while sending an email to your friends!"
erm, no.

As far as I'm concerned, every single "normal" home user can get by absolutely fine with the second cheapest desktop/"normal" laptop in the store. The cheapest is just old crap, but the £350 desktop and £400 laptop will both run windows (vista, but also 7), msn, internet explorer and office with absolutely no worries.

Unless their kids are actually going to be doing some serious gaming, there's no point in the multitude higher-spec machines at high-street stores. That "basic" desktop and laptop, a "low budget" gaming rig and a full blown gaming rig, and that's all the purple place, or any of the rest of them, need to stock.

Charge what you want - if it's unreasonable the market won't stand it - but don't lie to the customers to make them think they need to pay more.

The fact is that my PC cost £500 all told, and will handle pretty much every 2+ year old game on high, and the newer titles well enough if I drop the quality slightly. If I, as a gamer; hobbyist and computer science student, can find this well more than adequate, why should anyone else need more?

Pay a little more, maybe, for the convenience of their profit margins and the "all-in-1 warranty", but no normal home (by which I exclude just about everyone on this site) user NEEDS more.
 
They are runing out of stock of these bad boys, buy one quick, only £1300 each:

Intel® Core 2 Quad Q9550
(2.80GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 12MB Cache)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
4GB DDR2 memory
2x 640GB SATA hard drives
512MB NVIDIA® GeForce 9600GT graphics
Blu-Ray Player and DVD Rewriter
Media card reader
9x USB ports
 
also many people are lazy and can't be bothered to trawl through websites and forums for up to date news on new technology.
 
^^ Bet you any money the copy of Vista on there is only 32bit too!!.. :rolleyes:

Might as well just have 2Gb RAM in it!!... :o
 
The staff at these places truely make me sick, most of them are asian which would make you think they know a thing or two but no and when you question them they do a lil turd and worry you might crack there stupidity. IMO online shopping only way to go these business's wouldnt exist if there werent lack of consumer knowledge but there just ripping the money out nieve pockets they could add on a lil extra theres a difference but these guys dont do profit they do extortion
 
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EpicCarnage said:
More Carnage
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Don't really know what you are trying to say friend but I am pretty sure that if I was stood behind you I would Shout RIGHT ON & throw my fist in the air.
Your name suits you Sir. :D ( I saw your Ninja edit :p)


O.P.
You're right All other pre builts suck compared to OcUK as OcUK is quite Clearly the centre of the Tinterwebz/Internetz & it's Forum hold the key to the Universe & the survival of the Human race. :cool:
 
borderline sterotyping/racism there epiccarnage! lol

Im on the verge of being banned from the castle marina retail park "pc (thing we live on)" in nottingham >.> they weren't happy with me going in there for the odd small purchase and occasionally winding the lying staff up each time I visit.

They opened a new store in the city centre now :D fun and games to commense!
 
Lol @ HybridX :D
I am worse mate I have this strange compulsion to go in Any PC store & ask questions Loudly & advise there Customers even when they are walking towards the till with there purchase. :D
Whats that you got there mate I ask, Then I tell them Loudly how Crap it is & how they will get a Much better component & deal from this Blue place I use Myself. :p:p:p
Then when shop staff come over to tell me better I Pawnz them :o + :D

I Love this game & don't care how it makes me look as I knowz best, Honest. :D
 
HybridX said:
borderline sterotyping/racism there epiccarnage! lol

Im on the verge of being banned from the castle marina retail park "pc (thing we live on)" in nottingham >.> they weren't happy with me going in there for the odd small purchase and occasionally winding the lying staff up each time I visit.

They opened a new store in the city centre now :D fun and games to commense!
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rofl
 
Going into said shop and pretending to be a naive buyer is great fun, always provides me with much amusement to then start asking them difficult questions :D
 
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