Local computer shops.

[dobbs2010]

Walked into my local computer shop today, only went in there because I was bored waiting for the wife to have lunch with the mother-in-law.

Anyway, since I'm looking for a widescreen tft (thinking of getting the Hyundai N91W) I thought I'd see what they had in. They only stocked a couple of different models, but had in stock and on display the Video7 19" widescreen that is currently available here for £126 inc vat. So after having a little look at it, and the salesman telling me I would struggle to find a 19" widescreen tft that has a DVI input, I asked how much it was. Imagine my shock and eagerness to buy said monitor when he told me, "It's ONLY £179". I explained politely that I would have to sell my current monitor first to get some money to put towards my new one. I explained I had a iiyama Vision Master Pro514 22" CRT, at which point the other salesman laughed and said "You'll get nowt for that, CRT's aren't worth anything nowadays." Don't you just love local stores, where the shear knowledge and charm of the staff, and there constant low prices just keep you coming back for more.

Now I know not all local stores are this bad, however I'm just very unlucky, as there's not a decent computer store within about 60 miles of me. So thank you OcUK cos I'd be proper stuck without you.

 

[dobbs2010]

He's right though. We've got about fifty 15", see them being slung into skips replaced wit TFT. I do prefer CRT picture quality, however size and weight is a huge issue in offices. So thousands are chucked away for TFT's.

You've missed the point of my thread squiffy, one guy was trying to tell me I probably wouldn't be able to get a 19" tft with a DVI port, and the other laughed at me (A CUSTOMER) for wanting to sell a top of the range CRT. On a bad day he may have been dragged over his counter, by his throat, and flung into the street.

 

[dobbs2010]

Look what I can do on my dual core! Jealous?

But you see you have an AMD dual core, so your notepads are blank. With an Intel dual core you could have writing in them both too.

 

[dobbs2010]

But lay off the small guys people, they have probably worked very hard and got into a lot debt to buy that little shop.

Like I said right at the start of this thread, I know not all local shops are bad, and I would never be foolish enough to assume this. However in my area I have never found a shop where they stock some of the higher end products that the likes of OcUK stock, and I have found the knowledge of these shops to be very poor indeed.

It would be nice to go into a shop and talk to the sales people about their stock and them at least know what I'm talking to them about. For a salesman to tell me I would be unlikely to find a 19" tft with a DVI port is laughable, and for another salesman to interupt a conversation and laugh at me because I mentioned selling a top of the range CRT, as if I was trying to sell nuts to a squirrel.

On another occasion in a different shop I bought a gig of samsung ram DDR 3200, I had constant problems with this memory and when I ran memtest I got thousands of errors, so went back to the shop ram in hand. There tech guy who looked about 70 years old and claimed, I have been building and testing PC's for this shop for X amount of years and I know everything. Anyway tech guy installs ram in his test bed which was an AMD Barton core with a 333FSB, hence memory running at DDR2700, and guess what, memory ran without error. I pointed out that he was running the memory at 333mhz instead of 400mhz, his answer, "that's irrelavent the memory is fine you can't have a refund".

Do you see.