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Peats 'World of Electronics' (partly) Closing

  • 02-04-2012 7:53pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭


    http://www.peats.com/

    Sad to see them close. I remember buying my first computer games and TV from them before I ended up working there for years. Great bunch of lads to work for and with, if any of you read this good luck in the future.

    Mods - I wasn't entirely sure where to put this feel free to move it.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭Slideshowbob


    sad to see em go

    the influx of Dixons et al did not help


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 jok_jetset


    I doubt the Government putting up VAT to 23% helped much either !


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,341 ✭✭✭cml387


    I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did,beaten down by the likes of Komplette and others on the component side and by DSG on the big items.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Sad to see, very little choice in this country when it comes to trying out Home Cinema kit etc and this won't help one bit. Best of luck to all who are losing their jobs as a result.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,668 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    What a shame - I'm a bit of a technophobe, and any time I needed hardware and/or advice that was where I headed - asking for informed advice at any of the retail park giants is a complete waste of time!

    Another nail in the coffin of personal, informed, specialised service :mad:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,341 ✭✭✭cml387


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    What a shame - I'm a bit of a technophobe, and any time I needed hardware and/or advice that was where I headed - asking for informed advice at any of the retail park giants is a complete waste of time!

    Another nail in the coffin of personal, informed, specialised service :mad:


    You'd think,but I guarantee nowadays if you asked a question in one of the tech forums here they'd give you better advice and from the comfort of your own home.

    Will a day come when we never have to venture outside except for fresh air?


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    Bought the parts for my first ever computer build in there (well, their old store across the road from where they are now on Parnell street).

    A 486 DX4 100 in 1995 :)

    I'd be a regular in Peats tbh - really handy to just pop in and get what you need without having to wait for delivery etc

    Very sad news :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    The message on their site makes for ominous reading for any business out there in today's climate - seems they tried every avenue to reduce costs and came up against the familiar brick wall of sky-high rents.

    Reading that it appears the owners are going to do right by their employees, hope that is the case.

    Best of luck to the lads and ladies that worked there especially the ones on here.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,593 ✭✭✭Northern Monkey


    Such a shame, I remember getting my amstrad games there as a kid.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    I wonder would it be viable for them to resurrect as an online outlet?

    They already have a recognised name, and they do supply thing you just can't get anywhere else (such as components etc - though quite how much of their revenue this would have given is anyone's guess).

    I hate to see them disappear into the annals of history.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24 Marinjohn


    jok_jetset wrote: »
    I doubt the Government putting up VAT to 23% helped much either !
    I agree 100%........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 jok_jetset


    Genuinely very sad to hear this news. Hard to believe that Peats has been trading since 1934 and survived the 50s, 70s and 80s. Just goes to show the extent of the mess we are in now

    I bought a fair few bits and pieces off them over the years. Bought computer games as a kid in the late 70s/early 80s. Put a computer together with components I bought there in the late 90s. Bought some Wharfedale Diamond Floorstanders from them a couple of years back - great speakers and got a pretty good price too. I always found their prices competitive plus they had a good website if you wanted to order online.

    Richer Sounds blamed the high rents too when they closed down their Dublin store a few years ago. Not many places left now to go and buy decent HiFi and Home Cinema gear.

    Sad day, best of luck to all who worked there.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,627 ✭✭✭RichardAnd


    I'm earnestly saddened by this. I've bought some great stuff in Peats throughout the years and I've never had an problems with them at all. Games, Peats, H&V in trouble, you have to ask where it will all end. The more I read, the more depressed I get.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭Crann na Beatha


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭AltAccount


    I bought a Sony tablet off them a month or two ago, I looked online and was in several Dublin retailers before buying. Peat's service was by far the best.

    I wish I had spent more with them, it's very sad to see them go.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭Icepick


    jok_jetset wrote: »
    Genuinely very sad to hear this news. Hard to believe that Peats has been trading since 1934 and survived the 50s, 70s and 80s. Just goes to show the extent of the mess we are in now.
    Not really.
    They just can't compete with big retailers and online shops.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Damien360


    very bad news. This is being repeated in so many companies up and down the country. People have no money to spend on anything other than essential goods. All companies dealing in non-essential supplies will suffer until Enda and the fools realise what they are doing to the domestic economy.


  • Registered Users Posts: 29,952 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    Sad indeed :(. Bought a few things there over the years, my first 5.1 soundcard, my first mp3 player creative muvo nx 128mb, sony clie sl10 pda, hard disks, dvd writer... big purchases at the time :) and a few other things. Best of luck to those who worked there, always found it friendly and helpful place to shop


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    Very sad indeed,especially for the workers in Peats.
    Enda and his backslapping cronies can take another bow on this one.
    Raising the VAT played a huge part in this.
    The life is slowly being drained from our great country thanks to the past and present bunch of charletens in charge.:mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    I worked in the Parnell Street store and the South William Street Sony Center back in the last 90's when I finished school. It was a great and unique company to work for to say the least.

    I still seen some of the same faces in the Parnell Street store to this day and I'm really saddened to see them close up shop :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I never shopped there but I do remember checking their website for something like a CD burner about 7 or 8 years ago and nearly falling off my chair. Couldn't believe the prices for everything. Made a mental note never to look again. komplett got my business instead.


  • Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Very sad to see Peats go. Bought my first modem off them years and years ago (14.4k!).

    I think the current Government messed up quite badly not sorting out the high rents issue and then compounding that with the increase in VAT. Those few people who have got some extra cash (not me unfortunately) are now being scared into hoarding it with a unspecified property tax looming next year which will certainly be a multiple of the so-called "household charge".

    I expect Peats & Game to be followed by more big name retail outlets before the end of the year.


  • Registered Users Posts: 464 ✭✭Marcin_diy


    I was wondering how Peats could survive for so many years.
    Fact is they had large stock of different goods, but they were much overpriced. I remember well when few years ago when shopping for Laptop went to PEATS, then Currys ( literally 50 meters walk between shops in Blanch S.C.) and the very same model was 100euro more expensive in Peats. The same with other products, at different time. I never bought anything there....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Is suspect they thought that being an established "prestige" city centre store would somehow protect them from retail trends. They aren't the first to discover most people don't want or need a "bricks & mortar" outlet to help them buy things these days.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,176 ✭✭✭ongarite


    Very sad to see them go.
    The end of the high-end AV stores in Dublin now.

    If your looking to get any proper home cinema gear, there are few choices left in this country. Clooney Audio and RicherSounds in Belfast.

    The staff in Blanch were always very helpful.


  • Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭ChubbyHubby


    When I was looking for a new monitor about 3 years ago I went to peats as I wanted one quickly instead of waiting for internet delivery. Went to peats on Dame Street and asked about an ex-display 24" monitor they had on offer. The discounted price was still a little dearer than the new version of the same monitor on komplett plus it was damaged by the heat of the light in the display case. I brought this up about the damage and internet prices hoping for a discount and the guy said the internet is always cheaper and basically there's no more price reduction. Guess what I did...not sad to see a place that charges rip off prices go.


  • Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭delta36


    Very sad to see them go, bought my first stick of RAM from them. Staff were always great, no matter what store I was in.


  • Registered Users Posts: 491 ✭✭nowuckenfurries


    Sad to see them go,
    I bought alot of my Sinclair ZX Games there in the 80's :eek::o

    I hope that they maintain an online store if poss & that all the staff affected get looked after


  • Registered Users Posts: 398 ✭✭d@rk l0rd


    Really sad to see Peats close. Used to buy my Commodore 64 games as a kid in the mid 80s in their old store across from where they are now and bought my components there to build my first computer around 10 years ago.

    Yeah, rents far too high, VAT too high, impossible to compete with the likes if the massive British chains such as Dixons and people buying online. Such a sad day that they've managed to survive 80 years and now they're gone. This country really is in such a mess! Sympathies with the employees.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭KyussBishop


    Sad to see them go indeed, though with the high prices, and competition from online retailers, it was only a matter of time for them (and still is for quite a lot of other retail stores).


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