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Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Wed 22 Aug, 2012 12.28
by WillPS
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.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Wed 22 Aug, 2012 14.00
by Pete
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.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Mon 24 Sep, 2012 13.33
by bilky asko
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.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Wed 26 Sep, 2012 14.15
by JAS84
This one:
It's a red triangle and yellow dot.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Wed 26 Sep, 2012 18.44
by bilky asko
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.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Wed 26 Sep, 2012 22.35
by DJDave
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.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Wed 31 Oct, 2012 23.03
by Pete
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Thu 01 Nov, 2012 20.40
by Dr Lobster*
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.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Thu 01 Nov, 2012 20.50
by WillPS
I can't think of a single thing I've ever purchased from Comet.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Thu 01 Nov, 2012 21.12
by Gavin Scott
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.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Thu 01 Nov, 2012 21.43
by tillyoshea
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.