Local computer shops.
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A.N.Other said:I'll raise you two paints in this dual core maddness!
Seriously, though. It is amazing when you go into PC shops and see some of the prices they have things for. Noting that, though, they are good places to find out-dated kit - Socket A is still top of the range in my nearest shop!
pwned?
one good experience i had with a local place was when they were selling off their stock, they were selling x800 XT PE's for £150, OcUK price was close to £300 iirc at the time! a guy in my clan sent me a piccy of the box because i didnt believe the price, so he went back the next day and picked up 2 more, and one was promptly shipped my way 
a guy in my clan sent me a piccy of the box because i didnt believe the price, so he went back the next day and picked up 2 more, and one was promptly shipped my way 
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lol dont ya just love these guys i like to expand a bit further though when they try to get all upperty
example
went into my local pc shop for a 6800gt and a gig of ram
price for both on ocuk at the time was about 230 quid this is going back a while
price in shop 375 quid i laughed and said is that right aye he said you wont get cheaper
oh i can beat that by 145 quid i said
he replied dont mean to be funny mate but theres no way in the world u can get for that price seeing his comp on his desk connected to net i promptley showed him
oh yeah he said but then youl have to wait 3 days to get it lol i was rotfpmsl i think i can just about manage a 3 day wait for a 145 quid saving i said
example
went into my local pc shop for a 6800gt and a gig of ram
price for both on ocuk at the time was about 230 quid this is going back a while
price in shop 375 quid i laughed and said is that right aye he said you wont get cheaper
oh i can beat that by 145 quid i said
he replied dont mean to be funny mate but theres no way in the world u can get for that price seeing his comp on his desk connected to net i promptley showed him
oh yeah he said but then youl have to wait 3 days to get it lol i was rotfpmsl i think i can just about manage a 3 day wait for a 145 quid saving i said
Hi, now my local PC shop is brilliant and there prices are around the same as that from OCUK, when you factor in postage as well. For example, I bought a 7900GT 256 mb gainward bliss from them 3 months ago. OCUK was around the £200 then, as now they are £193 on OCUK + P+P.
I paid only £203 then for it, and also I can take things back if there faulty and get replacements without hassle and without them testing the parts as I know them. Plus they got all the good stuff in stock or can order them up the next day with no problem.
Anthony
I paid only £203 then for it, and also I can take things back if there faulty and get replacements without hassle and without them testing the parts as I know them. Plus they got all the good stuff in stock or can order them up the next day with no problem.
Anthony
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Not all local computer shops are expensive, there's one near which has up to date stock and most of the time prices on par with online prices...actually saved £200 last time by going there and not online.
You may joke at the prices, but its all about supply and demand. They do actually sell this stuff at silly prices, otherwise they'd be out of business.
You can laugh at them, but at the end of the day, they have a nice little shop, their own business most probably. Its so tough running one of these shops, they certainly cant afford anywhere near ocuk prices, due the lack of bulk buying, the shop rent and their own salary.
If i owned such a shop, i'd also charge silly prices for stuff, as people do actually buy it. And if people came in, moaning about the prices and quoting online prices, i'd just tell em to buy it online then.
You honestly cant expect any local shop to have low prices. Just like if you bought a pint of milk from the local corner shop, it'll probably be 30% more expensive than if you bought it from sainsburys. There is no difference.
Now the big PC superstores charging £80 for a Nvidia FX5200, these are a joke and have no excuse.... But lay off the small guys people, they have probably worked very hard and got into a lot debt to buy that little shop.
You can laugh at them, but at the end of the day, they have a nice little shop, their own business most probably. Its so tough running one of these shops, they certainly cant afford anywhere near ocuk prices, due the lack of bulk buying, the shop rent and their own salary.
If i owned such a shop, i'd also charge silly prices for stuff, as people do actually buy it. And if people came in, moaning about the prices and quoting online prices, i'd just tell em to buy it online then.
You honestly cant expect any local shop to have low prices. Just like if you bought a pint of milk from the local corner shop, it'll probably be 30% more expensive than if you bought it from sainsburys. There is no difference.
Now the big PC superstores charging £80 for a Nvidia FX5200, these are a joke and have no excuse.... But lay off the small guys people, they have probably worked very hard and got into a lot debt to buy that little shop.
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Lanz said:
One of the best posts i have ever read on her. Congratulations
Correct in every sense of the word.
They pay taxes, earn an honest living and put something back into the community.
But that big purple shop, there really is NO excuse to shope there.
Cheers
my local shop is awesome! its prices are the same if not lower on some things than OcUK, although it does have a website which is quite popular so will aid selling, if anyone lives in manchester the shop is near a hospital and is a pub converted into a shop. 
cant obviously tell you who it is.
cant obviously tell you who it is.taz488 said:my local shop is awesome! its prices are the same if not lower on some things than OcUK, although it does have a website which is quite popular so will aid selling, if anyone lives in manchester the shop is near a hospital and is a pub converted into a shop.
Agree, thats where my first build came from!
You can also go in with your RMAs which is good, but you better be quick on a saturday morning
Cheers
Lanz said:
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.
