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NinetyOne

NinetyOne

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I always cringe when she comes home having bought something off the high street that she could have got something equal for half the price off the net.

I should really teach her about internet bargain hunting :rolleyes:
 
But then if everyone did online shopping they'd be no need for high street shopping centres, whole economies and low paying retail jobs for uni graduates would be no more!!!!

Think of the children!

KaHn
 
I often laugh at the price of things in shops these days.

Whoever owns HMV is living in cloud Cuukoo land. Who would pay £22.99 for a new blu-ray when you can look on your smart phone, whilst in HMV, and buy it online for about 13.99??? :confused:

Their whole business model no longer makes sense in the real world.
 
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Jono8 said:
I often laugh at the price of things in shops these days.

Whoever owns HMV is living in cloud Cuukoo land. Who would pay £22.99 for a new blu-ray when you can look on your smart phone, whilst in HMV, and buy it online for about 13.99??? :confused:

Their whole business model no longer makes sense in the real world.
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That's why a lot of businesses like HMV have already already gone bust or close to being bust, HMV will soon follow. One high street retailer I really wish would go bust is GAME thou, I hate that company, every time I go in there, their staff look like aliens/androids from outer space.
 
On one hand a good shop is excellent and I wouldn't mind paying extra for that service. But not at the kind of margins that HMV and the like want to operate on. That and the service isn't usually anything to write home about.

If it was an independent however I'd more than likely pay a little more because they tend to have decent service or actual knowledge about the product they are selling rather than no knowledge about the products they are pushing. That is getting rarer and rarer now though.

I do probably 95% of my non food shopping online. I dread to think how much extra it would have cost me over the last 5 years otherwise. And that's not including the petrol and car park and all the time it would take compared to click click click "excellent it'll be here in 3 days".
 
haha that reminds me of when I went to pc world with my mum to help find her a new laptop for work and this guy was trying to tell her that she needed norton with her laptop, and I said no we can just get avg for free and he's trying to tell me that avg doesn't work on pc any more and she needs to buy norton :rolleyes:
 
NinetyOne said:
haha that reminds me of when I went to pc world with my mum to help find her a new laptop for work and this guy was trying to tell her that she needed norton with her laptop, and I said no we can just get avg for free and he's trying to tell me that avg doesn't work on pc any more and she needs to buy norton :rolleyes:
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Your mum doesn't need Norton OR Avg.
 
Jono8 said:
I often laugh at the price of things in shops these days.

Whoever owns HMV is living in cloud Cuukoo land. Who would pay £22.99 for a new blu-ray when you can look on your smart phone, whilst in HMV, and buy it online for about 13.99??? :confused:

Their whole business model no longer makes sense in the real world.
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Someone that wants the product there and then.
 
NinetyOne said:
haha that reminds me of when I went to pc world with my mum to help find her a new laptop for work and this guy was trying to tell her that she needed norton with her laptop, and I said no we can just get avg for free and he's trying to tell me that avg doesn't work on pc any more and she needs to buy norton :rolleyes:
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I'm confused, how does that remind you of the OP?
 
KaHn said:
But then if everyone did online shopping they'd be no need for high street shopping centres, whole economies and low paying retail jobs for uni graduates would be no more!!!!

Think of the children!

KaHn
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they could do warehouse work :p
 
I bet she knows how to say and spell "could have" properly though.

Basic English > Internet bargain hunting
 
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