Posted by Tricky Dicky on 01/02/06 19:08

"watty" <watson.d@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Tricky Dicky" <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> "watty" <watson.d@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> > "Owen" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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>> >> "watty" <watson.d@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> >> > "Owen" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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>> >> >> Just been looking around for a decent multi-region player on the
>> >> >> high-street. Nobody seems to sell them any more. Argos? Nope.
>> >> > Bennetts?
>> >> >> Nope. Dixons? Nope.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On the web, Amazon.co.uk sells a few (poor selection) but play.com
>> > turns
>> >> > up
>> >> >> nothing.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> What happened?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Owen
>> >> >
>> >> > I picked up a multi-region player from Dixons yesterday for a
> relative.
>> >> >
>> >> > Matsui for �25. Haven't tried any R1 disks as the player isn't mine
> but
>> > it
>> >> > says in the shops that its multi-region.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Yep, actually I did see the Matsui on the dixons website - looked a
>> >> bit
>> > shit
>> >> to be honest, so I passed on it.
>> >>
>> >> Funny though because 3 years ago I'm sure there were loads of 'em, in
>> >> fact
>> >> it was a big selling point. Whereas today it seems almost taboo.
>> >>
>> >> Owen
>> >
>> > You're right, its not the best looking machine and has very basic
>> > features...... but it wasn't for me so don't care :) still it is only
> �25
>> > so
>> > you get what you pay for.
>> >
>> > amazingly though, Dixons asked if we wanted to take out extended
> warranty
>> > on
>> > the player for �30!! as if anyone is going to bother with a machine
>> > that
>> > cheap.
>>
>> Many years ago, a Comet salesman tried to sell me an extended warranty
>> for
> a
>> hi-fi rack. I just laughed
>>
>> Tricky
>
> Ah! good old Comet.
>
> I can still remember going to buy a Dreamcast from Comet in the late 90's,
> they had sold out of those but instead tried to flog me a memory card for
> the system!!!!
>
> or the time I bought my first PC from Comet (what a great store!) and all
> they delivered was a printer!
> after waiting a week for the PC, I rang them and they said it had arrived
> in
> the store but they couldn't deliver for another four days which I found a
> little odd as the store was only 3 miles from my house and I was paying
> �10
> delivery charge.
> so instead I picked it up myself and took it home only to find that all
> the
> leads had european connections so it still wouldn't work.
>
> then shortly after the monitor packed up but I did pay extended warranty
> on
> this so rang Comet only to be told that they didn't deal with the warranty
> or the replacement of faulty items and gave me a number for the computer
> manufacturer so I had to deal with them instead which made it sort of
> pointless in getting the warranty in the first place if Comet were going
> to
> do bugger for me! it took me 3 weeks to get a replacement monitor.
>
> Comet aren't my favourite place to buy from :)

However, on behalf of a friend I did manage to wangle an ex-demo LCD telly
off them with a nice stand, one of those gold-plated aerial cables and a
load of cleaning stuff for about �250 off the actual price of the bundle
just by quoting prices from other suppliers and the floor manager being
about 19 years old and a bit scared of me ;-)

But, most of the time Comet/Dixons/Currys/PC World are very very crap

Tricky

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