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RE: Crazy...

I happen to work (while in education, going cov uni for car design :p ) to work in the above mentioned retail place. I do have one of those attractive purple shirts aswell, yum, hehe.

I think the reason you find that the certain place in the Uk with the purple disco shirts is more expensive is part that they have to employ a lot of staff per store and the delivery costs are quite expensive shipping items in etc

Also, a lot of the time as mentioned above we just cant be bothered to change the ticket on the processors etc because no fool would buy from us. If they were smart they would buy specialist components from OcUK.

Just wanted to shed some light on the enemies opinion :P . hehe.
Im gonna check later (in work in a bit) and see just how much we bought those 3800's in for. Might be interesting :P.

Sol ;)

(Oh, and we did also sell the DFI Lanparty NF3 at one point cheaper than OcUK and the Hiper 580w Mod PSU's , just wanted to also mention that like that dagger chap).
 
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youll get sacked for being a spy for the an oppsition!! mind you, a good idea would be to tell OcUK about everything they do and put them out of business, then the world would be safe from that shop that has less technical knowledge than i do,and im 16!

have you seen the prices of laptops in there! wooee, i dont know why youd ever buy from there, people must be brainwashed by the corny slogan...

where in the world...** ***** - dont go there or youll get eaten by purple aliens!!!
 
Im not one of the brain dead monkies :).
I would probably expect a lot of people to know more than the average salesperson hehe. :)
 
Wanna hear a bad story? last week i NEEDED a LGA775 chip and was no where near home, had to get a client up and running within hours and his order was not in yet, spent 60 quid on a celeron D 2.6Ghz in a small PC shop, felt like a mug..but had to be done :o
 
Lol, he must have been a happy chap the owner of the shop. They hardly ever manage to sell stuff anyway.

Too much competition.

That makes me think, I wonder how OcUK started up? Were they originally a small IT shop. Anyone know?

Sol :p
 
I think people are a bit hard on this place, they don't cater for enthusiasts, they cater for the kind of numbskulls I used to see leaving with generic anybox pcs when I worked there.

Half of the time the sales people don't know much about pcs because they don't NEED to know much, they need to know what the offers are, what printer is bundled and what the finance deals are. About 100 to 1 people ask "whats the cheapest pc?" rather than "whats the front side bus speed of this processor?" In fact, pretty much the most irritating thing when you work there and do know a bit is nobby geeks coming in trying to score points. Half the time they're wrong anyway.

When I sold mobiles, I didn't need to know much about them, in fact I left because I knew loads more than people ever asked which drove me mad.
 
as probably mentioned above they get away with it as people with little knowledge shop there. although why such a person would buy an amd cpu i dont know. but they may have been recommended it and they will buy it and get it fitted.

they may be expensive but until everyone is knowledgable they will continue to do well. personally if they were the same price as OCuk i'd shop there as there would be no P&P and i'd get it there and then

daven
 
majority of people who shop there dont care about top of the range graphics, 2gb ram, they just want a pc to do their work on, browse the net
and want the peace of mind (aftercare).
Obviously this comes at a premium cost, not everyone knows how to format, troubleshoot, obiviously its not rocket science.
They think of a pc as a television, full of circuit boards, connector wires, dangerous caps. thats half the story, we can move onto software, configuration, settings. Might sound like a nightmare to the average person.
 
VaderDSL said:
I got XP Professional retail for £92 ... at a high street store it was selling for £249.99 :eek:
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you sure about that? you sure you didn't get an oem copy from someone who shouldn't have been selling you oem?

Seriously, microsoft fix prices for this pretty hard. Thats a very bad example for bad pricing because I reckon the purple shirters probably make 5 or 10% max on the cost of a full retail box.
 
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you sure about that? you sure you didn't get an oem copy from someone who shouldn't have been selling you oem?

Seriously, microsoft fix prices for this pretty hard. Thats a very bad example for bad pricing because I reckon the purple shirters probably make 5 or 10% max on the cost of a full retail box.
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Aye .. I took advantage of the offer from Microsoft, XP Professional Retail for £92 upgrading from a dodgy copy.

The store in question had XP Professional at £249.99 I was gobsmacked! It wasn't the purple monkeys :)
 
well already there you're not just walking in and buying a straight retail with no strings attached.. ms will be giving the store a huge kickback for servicing this deal.
 
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