Misleading PC advert in todays paper

Reminds me of an advert one of there competitors ran a few years back. They'd marketed a PC as having so may GB of 'storage'. They'd added the capacity of the hard drive to the capacity of the spindle of CDRs they'd included.
 
I did the unthinkable before christmas because I always build machines with parts from OCUK.
I couldn't be bothered to build one and instead sent my friend elsewhere but I got him what was a bargain.
Q6600, 2 gig ram, 400 gig HD, 20" widescreen, Vista Premium etc etc all for £620.
I did the initial setting up and was very impressed with the quality and price.

Two days later my mate is ringing saying he can't install stuff onto it because a message comes up about contacting some guys or other.
I look at the machine and I tried everything to install original software like Soundforge and Sonar but the machine wanted me to pay about £120 a year or ring a number for about £1 a minute to get the password.
It infuriated me that much that we took it all back (they forgot to ask for the 20" widescreen :)) and we went down OCUK for parts.

I learnt my lesson.
 
I worked for them over xmas. It made me cringe selling a x1950 pro for £150 :eek: I did tell a load of people to go online though haha :]
 
i went into mapsin to see what they had and they totally tried to turn me away from quadcore saying it was for servers and not normal desktops. they did have one 8800 gtx in there book but to start with he didnt evan know anything about it, after 2 mins of flicking through he managed to find one lol.
 
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