It pays to moan in PCWorld :D

[Sicilian]

Last few weeks i've had some major issue with heat from my PC. Any cut a long story short it basically my graphics card getting very very hot. Last night I nearly burnt my hand touching the damn thing.

Any way this morning I thought time to buy another from PCWorld, couldn't be arsed to order online from Ebuyer or somewhere. So I ordered this to collect in store: -

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/pny-nvidia-geforce-gts-450-pci-e-graphics-card-1gb-08623351-pdt.html

Got to PCworld to collect and the muppet bird behind the counter couldn't find it, she said she'd have to get one of the shelf, I'd already looked on the shelf, there where none there so I told her that, silly bat insited she'd look. After about 10 mins of waiting for the silly prat I asked a member of staff to call a manager, so I had a right moan about driving down there and the item not being in stock! So the manager offered me to give me the next model up at the same cost. The GTX-460 on the shelf was £149.99, so I thought ok fine.

Anyway the muppet manager asked me how much the one I ordered online was, so I told him £107.00, the deaf twat thought I said £59.00 and to my amazement he reduced the £149.99 card to £59.00, what a fooking result!!!

So I got the card below for £59.00

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/pny-nvidia-geforce-gtx460-pci-e-graphics-card-768mb-07203783-pdt.html

[SLOTH]

Nice move !

[uniuk2000]

Result - well done...

[tomthebomb1968]

There are some real numptys in there alright, I was in my local about 3 years ago when i was looking a new tv. I fancied a Samsung one that I had read a few reviews on. All were the same, great picture but sound was a bit tinny and may struggle in a large room. So I goes in the store and seen the one I wanted and asked the assistant to let me hear the actual tvs speakers rather than the sound from the surround sound gear it was hooked up to. so he goes round the back of the tv and fiddles about. Then he comes out and announces that you need to hook it up to get sound. I knew he was talking garbage but let him continue cos he was really amusing me now. I have never heard anyone talk as much BS with such authority in all my life.

Didnt stop me from going back and I just picked up an ONKYO ONKCBX300 Ipod dock the other day for a stonking £65.

[Conaxthewarrior]

While looking through the telstar 12 satellite at 15 W I found a radio station named "PCWorld FM"....

[silverfox0786]

ah na you are a jammy dodger

[notanotherone]

if you fell oot a window youd go up

[manicscrewdriver]

The favorite with PC world is putting the wrong shelf edge labels up.

So far i have managed in 2003 to get a 160Gb HDD for £49, They were about £180 at the time. So impressed was i with the price that had to buy 3 of them just to p**s the manager off

I kept one and sold the other 2 on ebay and made £130 profit

I also managed last year to get 4 £120 Linksys N wireless ADSL routers for £39 each.

The manager tried to fob me off after removing the shelf edge label but soon changed his mind when i said, fine i'll go to trading standards equiped with the video i have of the shelf edge label here on my Blackberry. Fortunately i also had a copy of the Sun with me which i also put on the video to prove the date

I only went in for a cheap router but walked out with all four on the shelf to teach the twat not to try it on.

The other 3 spare ones also went on ebay covering the cost of the first router and making me £70 in the process.

Just make sure if you ever find a shelf label stating an incorrect lower price that you take a photo of it first, otherwise they will try and back track.

They have to by law sell you the item for the price that is on the shelf label

Many thanks to the feckless idiot managers of the Aberdeen and Wednesbury branches of PC World

Nano

[silverfox0786]

Actually nano you would be a little wrong there i have been in the retail trade for over 10 years given it up now

but the product belongs to the retailer until payed for and even if a price is incorrect the retailer has the full rights to sell it or not trading law does not require a retailer to sell anything nore does it require the retailer to offer a mandatory refund on its products when purchaced in store.

So if a price is incorrect the price must be honered yes but the retailer can just turn around and say actually i dont wanna sell it and take it off the selves and as long as its been off the shelves for 24hours or more it can be return at a new stated price.

Basically most of these things are the so called good will gesture and without it most customers wouldn't return to buy from them so that is why most 9 out of 10 times the reatiler will just honour it.

[Larry-G]

yes by law the retailer always has the rights to refuse sale.

[Stanman]

The best I had from PCW was going via cashback site for a £25 reserve&collect joystick, they paid £75 cashback rather than the few pennnies it should have been, needless to say i didn't complain.