PC World Dual Core Advert

[Dav0s]

Customer: Hey look its that compaq <insert model number> we saw on the website

Sales Assistant: yeah it has a dual core processor

Customer: Dual core?

Sales Assistant: yes, it means you can do 2 things at once, like view your mail and upload your tunes.

Customer: wow!

seriously, can they get away with that? thats not at all what dual core is for. you can do those 2 things simultaneously on a p3. imo its not only false advertising, but fricking hilariously stupid!

 

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

ROFL! @ "WOW!" bit.

What can ya do anyway, It's pc world were talking about here..........

 

[JN]

Give it a couple of years, they'll go out of business. They can't come close to internet prices.

 

[Ham]

Actualy i found a use for them:

Emergancies (yeah cant spell). Mates PSU died on me 5mins before a lan game, rushed out to 'that place' and got a rubish, over priced one. Saved his langame though.

 

[cybermaniac]

ok i work there as a techie.......and even though i dont see myself as the best techie around, nor the most knowledgable (all i have is an HND in network engineering and security, + the usual home taught things), i deem myself to be one of the best techies in pcworld chichester (branch 4893 if u were really at all remotely interested (which im not))

now lets see what ive noticed.

£15 for a 1m patch cable

£15 for an adsl filter (bagged not in plastic vacuum thing)

crap staff

so called "techies" that dont know the first thing about computers (the "head" techie didnt even know how to set up a network printer (EVEN THOUGH THE IP ADDRESS WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM ON A PRINTED SHEET OF PAPER)

incompetent staff (eg saying they removed norton when they blatently hadnt)

their healthcheck consists of:

adaware scan

solo antivirus scan (free edition)

disk cleanup

msconfig

all that for £49.99

well chaps, there u have it.

useful in an emergency, but then again so is novatech (the latter being a damn sight cheaper).

btw their so called "instant replacement" on products like printers etc - WILL ONLY COVER A PRINTER UP TO £130, after that its got to back to the manufacturer to be repaired.

 

[browney]

They dont even state many facts at all

 

[JN]

It takes a lot of courage to admit working in a PC World - Cybermaniac, i salute you

 

[PV5150]

now lets see what ive noticed.

£15 for a 1m patch cable

£15 for an adsl filter (bagged not in plastic vacuum thing)

crap staff

so called "techies" that dont know the first thing about computers (the "head" techie didnt even know how to set up a network printer (EVEN THOUGH THE IP ADDRESS WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM ON A PRINTED SHEET OF PAPER)

incompetent staff (eg saying they removed norton when they blatently hadnt)

their healthcheck consists of:

adaware scan

solo antivirus scan (free edition)

disk cleanup

msconfig

all that for £49.99

well chaps, there u have it.

useful in an emergency, but then again so is novatech (the latter being a damn sight cheaper).

btw their so called "instant replacement" on products like printers etc - WILL ONLY COVER A PRINTER UP TO £130, after that its got to back to the manufacturer to be repaired.

Holy crap....How the hell do they get away with that?

 

[cybermaniac]

terms and conditions and small print.

 

[JN]

I used to work for a certain computer store as a techie, and their practice was very similar.

Thwy even put suspected broken products back on the shelves to see if they would be returned by the customer - just to avoid testing the items themselves.

 

[PV5150]

There is a very well known retailer here in Brisbane who does the same thing People return the goods saying they are defective; they just re-box them and put 'em out for sale again (after abusing the customer). I couldn't sleep at night if I did that, I guess I'm too honest.

 

[FragTek]

Wow, PC World sounds like teh uber suck. So is it like a chain store in the UK or what? Sounds like there are a lot of them around?

All I know is that the first post is hillarious, I can do those two things on my freakin' cell phone.

 

[Raging]

pc world is like the wal mart of pc stores here in the uk fragster,they sux major ballz.

cheers.

 

[browney]

Offtopic

ASDA/Wallmart sells PC's and Laptops lol well at mine they do

 

[Phnom_Penh]

I got a pc from tesco back in 97.

PCWorld do do the odd good deal, I got a Samsung laptop hard drive from there for a lot less than anywhere else was doing it.

 

[Bal3Wolf]

lol i feel sorry for you techs work at that place one day your gonna get one mad person comes back with a semi automatic weapon and really shows his anger.

 

[Raging]

lol i feel sorry for you techs work at that place one day your gonna get one mad person comes back with a semi automatic weapon and really shows his anger.

:rollingla :rollingla :rollingla :rotfl:

that made me laugh...hard

 

[Bal3Wolf]

geek with firearms scary

lol that could be a good slogan for somthing.

 

[Phnom_Penh]

geek with firearms scary

lol that could be a good slogan for somthing.

The crap grammer association?

 

[Rastalovich]

Offtopic

ASDA/Wallmart sells PC's and Laptops lol well at mine they do

To be fair, I`ve bought some nice valued monitors from UK supermarkets in the past. Their problem is it`s not something they usually do, and if it`s it the store for a week+ they start knocking the price down, anything close to a month and they panic. Mucho saving. Same can sometimes be said about TVs.

Wouldn`t buy a pc off any of these guyz tho. I have to be honest and admit that Dell have been the best pcs I`ve come across for fixing. Kind of a best of the worst situation I guess, and I know they spend alot of time phone-wize trying to help their customers (which I`m told is migrating back from pakistan/india). Maybe only standard questions on a sheet, but if something needs to be replaced/renewed, they`ve been pretty good to a few peoples I know. You can even get official copies of Windows off them

In the US I`ve liked buying from Fryz and CompUSA, however it`s easy for me to say their prices are good when I usually buy in the UK. The assistants aren`t always the hottest, but once you`ve fought through the initial assistants, you get to a techy guy that`s more help than a PCWorld dood. Example I bought my laptop in the UK for around £600, then went to Tx and seen the same(ish) model for around $600 - same ole same ole.