Originally Posted by bobna

i hear that, was working today, busy as feck with 28 laptops & pc's to work on, on my own and customers to deal with too
managers didn't even give a feck, didn't get a break either
6 hours straight with no break is no laughing matter i was totally knackered after i finnished
although i do enjoy working there i just can't stand the constant demand from manager's/head office to sell sell sell
wouldn't actually got a job there if i didn't need to support a family

Originally Posted by Gareth

Apples and pears, nffc. A PC can be used for an enormous number of tasks, and some PCs cope far better than others at achieving said tasks. A car, on the other hand, is always used for going from A to B. There's a lot less scope of variation of what you can do with a car... admittedly you can transport different types of goods, or a different number of people, but at the end of the day, a car is used to transport you from one place to another.

As dodgy as 2nd hand car salesman are, if you ask them whether you'd be able to take a Kia Pride off-roading, even the most dodgiest Boycie wouldn't suggest it's gonna be possible. Yet some of the things I've heard from PCW salesmen are comparable to this (playing all games for the next 2 years at the highest settings, on their budget PC...?!? :disturbd: ).

Don't mean to have a go at you, nffc, but wouldn't you expect a sales assistant to not just be "reasonably" accurate be completely accurate? We're talking about PCs here, they're not really that complicated, are they? It's not rocket science, after all.

In this case, you were able to filter the bullsh*t from the truth, but put yourself in a different situation... maybe digital cameras aren't your fortÃÃâ€*’© - would you be happy if a sales assistant in a camera shop only told you half-truths purely in order to get a sale?

PC World sales assistants can largely get away with it because it's a consumer product they're selling. When dealing with customers for non-consumer products, i.e. business sales, you'll find that salespeople have to be 100% truthful. Why should it be different for Joe Bloggs on the High Street? Maybe it's because the items being sold are cheaper per se, but for the person buying an item at PC World, that's not much help.

I don't really blame the salespeople - it's PC World that should be hiring technically-oriented salespeople. If my local PC shop can find suitably technical sales people, I'm sure PC World can.

Originally Posted by paul11974

i guess pc world must be doing something right as they are the only major pc specialist in the high street ! maybee they need some major competition from dell or dabs in the high street

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

No they dont. Some of these companies not dabs do enough damage to the pc industry as it is. Selling people machines sending them home thinking there 400 quid machine with a 15 inch tft will do everything then the customer realises it only plays games poorly and it looks crap or the video editing mentioned in the gumph actually takes all night and so on.
Ive said it before and no doubt seeing as no one listens ill say it again " a system builder builds upto a spec a retailer builds down to a price full stop "

Originally Posted by Toto

Exactly, after all they are talking to couple of students. :D

Originally Posted by foreverwar

Oh, I see - the blind leading the bland! ;)

Originally Posted by Gareth

Talking about those students in the advert... it would be a much better advert if the stoodents turned round and said, "I bet you never went to university, eh? That's why you're working in PC World!"


sorry, nffc ;)

Originally Posted by Chimaera

The last thing I attempted to buy from them was a printer - they had it on offer and was cheaper than anywhere else. I'd also looked into it to make sure it was what I wanted etc. The assistant serving me was determined to persuade me to buy another (much more expensive) model, and spent 20 minutes trying to convince me - I had to admire his persistence! So eventually he agreed to go and get the model of my choice from the stockroom - he was going to bring it to the till for me. I waited - and he bought the more expensive model out, after all, saying that he was sure this was the one I should have, as I obviously had no experience in these things! :Yikes:

Originally Posted by Robster

I just saw a TV advert for PC World featuring Intel dual core systems and when the "cutomer" asks what dual core means the assistant tells him it lets you "do two things at once, like uploading email while you're downloading tunes!"

This is such a rediculous statement suggesting you can't multitask with single core processors.

But I guess this is what we've come to expect from PC World.

Originally Posted by Paddy1

Technically speaking, they are not lieing here. A single core machine can only execute a single instruction at a time so whether the instruction is part if your uploading thread or your downloading thread, you can in fact only do one thing at a time, whereas a dual core processor will do both at the same time.