Jessops to go into administration ?

J1nxy said:
Both the ones in Milton Keynes and Northampton have been good. I bought my first DSLR from them and have bought most of my other kit as well, usually with a price match from the website and cashback from quidco, at least recently anyway. My D600 and lenses came from them, my current P&S camera and I bought a SB700 2 weeks ago from them as well as their price was good.
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yeah the one in derby has been good to me, I went there to pick up the D5100(I reserved it) but before I payed the guy said would you like to try it and the canon 600d and just see which one feels good in the hand and which one I felt worked better for me, he didn't try to push any of the 2 on me, he just said until its in the hand sometime you never know if you have made the right choice for you.
 
Damnations Fury said:
Had a similar response at the Nottingham banch. Wanted to take a look at a 5D MKIII or a D800 on the run up to christmas. They had them in stock, but there was no way they were going to let me take a look before handing over my card details first. I wasn't really planning on buying from there anyway (maybe they guessed), but did they really think I would make the choice blind.


Maybe I just look dodgy.
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That's ridiculous. I would have been inclined to write a letter of complaint to their head office. It's not far off from being treated like a criminal.
 
Westyfield2 said:
Imagine if they put a 5D III in a sale...
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iamtheoneneo said:
that will be the first thing that goes back to the suppliers.
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To be honest, it didn't really seem like they carried many anyway. They didn't even have one at all at their New Oxford Street store to look at, they simply had a notice about the fact that you could buy them. I think it kind of echoes what some have said about Jessops never being that geared up for the professional, as it was a complete contrast to Jacobs who were over the road.



2StepSteve said:
That's ridiculous. I would have been inclined to write a letter of complaint to their head office. It's not far off from being treated like a criminal.
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I mentioned it in the other thread in GD, but I felt like I was treated like a criminal by them once!

I was going to buy the Canon 70-200 f/2.8 IS II and it was a terrible day, really heavy rain. I knew that it looked like Jessops and Jacobs both opposite each other on New Oxford Street would be the same price from looking online, but I thought I'd pop into Jessops first.

I got to Jessops, took down my umbrella, shook the rain off and walked into the store, heading to the back where the lenses were. As I'd walked in, the security guard at the door had grunted something, which I'd thought was a greeting. After being a good way into the store, I suddenly find an arm grabbing me around my upper torso, close to the neck and dragging me back to the door. I was then shouting at the guy, what the hell are you doing. He was from Nigeria or somewhere, so his English wasn't much good. Apparently he was dragging me back to the door because I'd walked in with an umbrella. Due to it being wet weather, I was told I was supposed to have left my umbrella outside. I don't know whether this is a silly health and safety thing about wet floors, or whether they simply can't be bothered to have somebody doing some mopping because it looks a little messy at the door, I don't know.

After finally understanding him and him motioning to leave my umbrella outside, I was like "Forget it, if that is how you treat customers, I'll go elsewhere". From the moment he grabbed me there was some kind of supervisor or deputy manager watching on and I could tell he knew it was wrong from the expression on his face, but he said nothing.

Anyways, I went over to Jacobs, bought the lens, they were incredibly helpful and didn't have a problem with people bringing umbrellas into the shop!
 
Jessops service was great in my local branch, bought the D3100 kit a couple of years ago and they price-matched online, which meant I could include their DSLR starter kit (Bag, filter, SD card & memory stick) within my budget. When the own brand bag started splitting, they allowed me to exchange it and pay a small amount extra for the LowePro Slingshot AW100 - which I still use as my every day bag!

Shame...
 
Nexus said:
To be honest, it didn't really seem like they carried many anyway. They didn't even have one at all at their New Oxford Street store to look at, they simply had a notice about the fact that you could buy them. I think it kind of echoes what some have said about Jessops never being that geared up for the professional, as it was a complete contrast to Jacobs who were over the road.





I mentioned it in the other thread in GD, but I felt like I was treated like a criminal by them once!

I was going to buy the Canon 70-200 f/2.8 IS II and it was a terrible day, really heavy rain. I knew that it looked like Jessops and Jacobs both opposite each other on New Oxford Street would be the same price from looking online, but I thought I'd pop into Jessops first.

I got to Jessops, took down my umbrella, shook the rain off and walked into the store, heading to the back where the lenses were. As I'd walked in, the security guard at the door had grunted something, which I'd thought was a greeting. After being a good way into the store, I suddenly find an arm grabbing me around my upper torso, close to the neck and dragging me back to the door. I was then shouting at the guy, what the hell are you doing. He was from Nigeria or somewhere, so his English wasn't much good. Apparently he was dragging me back to the door because I'd walked in with an umbrella. Due to it being wet weather, I was told I was supposed to have left my umbrella outside. I don't know whether this is a silly health and safety thing about wet floors, or whether they simply can't be bothered to have somebody doing some mopping because it looks a little messy at the door, I don't know.

After finally understanding him and him motioning to leave my umbrella outside, I was like "Forget it, if that is how you treat customers, I'll go elsewhere". From the moment he grabbed me there was some kind of supervisor or deputy manager watching on and I could tell he knew it was wrong from the expression on his face, but he said nothing.

Anyways, I went over to Jacobs, bought the lens, they were incredibly helpful and didn't have a problem with people bringing umbrellas into the shop!
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Disgusting how the manager didn't say or do anything. I bet you were tempted to swing for that security guard, I would have been very tempted!
 
Awh, I thought I picked up a great deal.. £5 for a discontinued £15 monopod.. if only I bought it just a couple of days earlier.. Well, I actually reserve it in-store and the store I reserved it for said it had it in stock.. I wonder if they'll sell it same price as the web price?
 
Top service in my local branch, will be sad to see them go. Although staff were pretty ignorant in the Trafford centre branch. So the continuing slaughter of the highstreet continues...
 
Jessops lost their way when they decided to move from being a specialised and knowledgable camera supplier which catered to professional and serious amateur photographers, and chose to rebrand themselves as a digital point-and-shoot merchant with their sights clearly aimed at the i-generation.

Not everyone decides to purchase a new camera just to keep up with the latest fads and so, by deliberately targetting the few who do, Jessops lost a lot of impulse trade from folks like myself who would wander in and pick up a specialised filter, or a particular flash attachment. They also dropped their second-hand trading which probably cost them a few customers.

Although I did buy my current DSLR from Jessops, this was partly because of the discounted price at the time but mainly because I was a loyal customer from times past. However, I was appalled at the service I received from the rebranded Jessops. All the knowledgable enthusiasts had been replaced by salespeople who didn't understand the basic principles of photography. To make matters worse, when I got the camera home it had clearly been used as a display model, with significant wear to the grip and chock-full of dust, but cleverly reboxed to look as if it was pristine. When I returned it, they were admittedly apologetic and agreed to order in a replacement, but compounded their earlier error by asking if I'd rather keep the used battery instead of waiting for a new one to arrive.

I'm not sure that I go along with the argument that mobile phones caused their demise. Yes, many more people now have a camera thanks to their phone, but a market still clearly exists for a dedicated camera otherwise the manufacturers wouldn't keep churning out model after model each year. And, if mobile phones were poised to become the camera of choice in the future, it was a lack of foresight on the part of Jessop's management not to expand into this marketplace when they did their dumbed-down rebranding exercise.
 
Jessops camera stores to close with loss of 1,370 jobs

High Street camera retailer Jessops is to shut all of its stores, resulting in the loss of about 1,370 jobs.

Administrator PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), appointed this week, said all 187 stores in the UK would shut at the end of trading on Friday.

More jobs would be lost at the head office in Leicester, it added.

Jessops became the first High Street casualty of 2013, after a raft of firms fell into administration in 2012, including Comet and Clinton Cards.

The camera chain was founded in Leicester in 1935. In recent years, it has been hit by increasing competition from supermarkets and internet retailers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20992125
 
I'd guess it'll go the same ways Jacobs did with it all being auctioned off by the administrators.
 
Does that mean they won't be open tomorrow? Or will they have sales on tomorrow? :D

Just text the only people I know who might have wanted a film developed this week.

kd
 
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