High Street chain collapse sweepstake

WillPS · Wed 22 Aug, 2012 12.28

Pete wrote:I think PayPoint is a prerequisite of having Collect+ though isn't it?

Also what the flump is with PayPoint and their weird 90s terminals?

They're a whole lot of fun. The touch screen is that really primitive technology where you can actually see the touch membrane like fire-proof glass.

Pete · Wed 22 Aug, 2012 14.00

Surely they're more expensive than a cheapo resistive touchscreen? Unless they have a massive stock of them or something?

Reminds me of how the lottery kept those clapped out clangers of machines going for so long before finally replacing them.

bilky asko · Mon 24 Sep, 2012 13.33

JJB has finally gone tits up: BBC News

It's about time - in a market cornered by Sports Direct's cheapness and JD's style, they were never going to survive. Cheekily, JD have put up a sign saying that they're just 30 seconds away from the closed JJB in Hull Princes Quay, complete with the old JD logo. with the yellow triangle and red dot.

JAS84 · Wed 26 Sep, 2012 14.15

This one:

It's a red triangle and yellow dot.

bilky asko · Wed 26 Sep, 2012 18.44

JAS84 wrote:This one:

It's a red triangle and yellow dot.

Yes - despite looking at image to confirm, I still managed to get it wrong.

DJDave · Wed 26 Sep, 2012 22.35

Our JD has that logo on the inside but the new logo on the outside, saying that where I work has the new logo on the inside and the old logo on the outside

. I noticed Saturday that the JJB in my town had closed, it did become a JJB Outlet for a while.

Pete · Wed 31 Oct, 2012 23.03

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mark ... psing.html

Comet appears to be next

Dr Lobster* · Thu 01 Nov, 2012 20.40

you do wonder what the guys behind the investment group were smoking when they thought there was any value left in the comet brand.

i haven't purchased anything from comet in years, they had a tarnished reputation... bad service, upselling expensive useless extended warranties and cables and the in-store range always seemed to be half arsed.

WillPS · Thu 01 Nov, 2012 20.50

I can't think of a single thing I've ever purchased from Comet.

Gavin Scott · Thu 01 Nov, 2012 21.12

I bought a Sony Walkman, and was double talked into spending an additional 13 quid to insure it.

Me. I was doubled talked. I swear he said it so I thought I couldn't buy it without. Like the *actual* price should have been £13 more.

I felt so ashamed I vowed never to return.

It's horrific that all these people are out of work, although that one guy can go fuck himself.

tillyoshea · Thu 01 Nov, 2012 21.43

We bought our fridge from Comet 18 months or so ago. They promised to deliver for free in a specified two-hour timeslot, then phoned up the day before and told us that said promise was wrong, and that this wasn't even a service they offered, and that they'd deliver it some time between 7am and 7pm... which they duly did.

I wrote and complained about the slightly bizarre misinformation (how had they ever promised a service which didn't exist?) and they sent a lovely case of wine, which seemed an unusual sort of apology, but was very nice.