Virgin or HMV?

krudler

now that Virgin have opened does anyone prefer there to HMV? since virgin is a new store they obviously are cleaner and spanky looking but what about price/ range of products/staff etc? any thoughts?

billy the squid

put it to a vote shall we?

Inge Binge

virgin... why are they allowed to call them "megastore"?? Ever been in the MEGAstores in Paris - like Champs Elysees or in the Louvre? It's three time the space than this crap shop there in the crescent.
Just another joke in Limerick...

IB

jonski

HMV for me .

Saw the pc game " the movies" in Virgin for €44.99 , was in HMV for €42.99 and in Game for €54.99 .Got Game to do a price match on it though as I prefer to give Game my money because they stock the largest range of PC Games .

Other than that my wife is always increasing our DVD collection by watching the deals in HMV and she reckons they are cheaper than Virgin .

bazz26

Neither.

I buy all my DVDs off the internet, they are much cheaper than HMV, Virgin, etc. Most come with free postage.

Plus multi region DVDs bought online may have added features not available on the ones sold here.

Airblazer

shouldn't that poll be Virgin/HMV/ Torrent/ Borrow the mates and copy it???

Virgin:

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HMV:

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Torrent:

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Borrow the mates:

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jonski

bazz26 wrote:

Neither.

I buy all my DVDs off the internet, they are much cheaper than HMV, Virgin, etc. Most come with free postage.

Plus multi region DVDs bought online may have added features not available on the ones sold here.

Some of us still live in credit cardless land but of course you are right , they do seem to be much cheaper online .

IceHawk

Online ftw, but I have to say I was impressed with the new Virgin. It doesn't seem much bigger than HMV, but I really hate the layout in HMV, especially upstairs. Virgin have good weekly deals too, at least leading up to Christmas.

It'll really be decided in January during the sales. If Virgin can beat HMV's 4 for 30 euro deal, fair play to them.

pastabrown

HMV is generlly better if your looking for older titles
buying online can be cheaper but generally means european versions of CD with copy control problems and i cant convert then to my mp3 collection because of this

um7y1h83ge06nx

Hey, now we have 2 Virgin Megastores in Limerick.

Seriously though, it's fairly hard to beat someone like Play.com or CD Wow.

1huge1

ooh very tough question depends were your going of course
hmv really do cram a lot into their store
and so do virgin but they dont have the space issue like hmv
i only chose virgin because you have a lot more space and theres a lot of good shops around it (ya i know hmv has a lot of good shops around it to)

it would be funny if you put up golden discs and blacktrack (i think they have changed names)
golden discs is a terrible shop imo
lately blacktrack are doing a lot better

pastabrown

if you don't mind waiting that is took 4 weeks to get lost box set and had actually finished on rte by the time i got it from cdwow
couldnt get me nine inch nails live cd special edition wheni had pre-ordered it and after a very long time told me they could not get it
got it in virgin in the end
bottom line

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top 40 cd get them in tesco as they are €
14.99

Melion

1huge1 wrote:

ooh very tough question depends were your going of course
hmv really do cram a lot into their store
and so do virgin but they dont have the space issue like hmv
i only chose virgin because you have a lot more space and theres a lot of good shops around it (ya i know hmv has a lot of good shops around it to)

it would be funny if you put up golden discs and blacktrack (i think they have changed names)
golden discs is a terrible shop imo
lately blacktrack are doing a lot better

Blacktrack is closed down, been replaced in the crescent by Roxy Records. Thats a shíte music store for ya

bullets

Being into unusual music that cannot usually be bought in the shops
I was surprised to see some tid-bits in Virgin Like Limited Edition Box sets
from Siouxsie and the Bansees which is a rariety.

I buy almost everything online with the only exceptions being where
I want something really quick and I am prepared to pay the extra cash
in rip of Ireland and bite the bullet and acutally buy it in a shop.

For Games I notices a lot of the Games in Virgin are a tenner more expensive
that other places. I dont know about music since I dont usually by mainstream stuff
so have lost track of whats an average price of an album.

~B

sioda

Like most people I but nearly all my Cd's and DVD's online but virgin do have one very kewl thing instore. The listening posts we all know that they have upstairs in HMV and always are playing crap in Virgin pick up any cd scan it under the listening post and viola you can listen to a sample of every track

thegills

Blacktrack is closed down, been replaced in the crescent by Roxy Records. Thats a shíte music store for ya

I wouldn't say that. I went out to the Crescent yesterday to buy "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" DVD and 50 Cents new album (pressies for Nephews). Saved €10 by buying in Roxy's instead of HMV/Virgin. I went back to HMV and told all the eejits waiting 10 minutes in line to pay €5 extra for the DVD to go around the corner - they all ignored me.
thegills

1huge1

sioda wrote:

Like most people I but nearly all my Cd's and DVD's online but virgin do have one very kewl thing instore. The listening posts we all know that they have upstairs in HMV and always are playing crap in Virgin pick up any cd scan it under the listening post and viola you can listen to a sample of every track

so thats how it works i was wondering

sioda

My apologies the scan thingy seems to be missing was there when they opened and is in all other virgins

1huge1

aww shame i was looking forward to giving that a go
hopefully they will bring it soon

krudler

actually the listening posts in HMV are broken so thats why theres always crap on them, that and the fact that every knacker in limerick wants to listen to whatever the newest on- the- radio- 2000- times- a- day single is out, far too busy to be changing them every 5 minutes

shane2005

regards to music shops- presume many will have fond memories of Blackspot in Wickham Street, well after the change of ownership and brief closure two years ago- it is now definitely closing this coming week.

Pity to see it go

1huge1

shane2005 wrote:

regards to music shops- presume many will have fond memories of Blackspot in Wickham Street, well after the change of ownership and brief closure two years ago- it is now definitely closing this coming week.

Pity to see it go

never even heard of it

limerick_man

Where's Wickhams Street??? LOL
Are u making that up???

shane2005

wickham street is at the top of thomas street. It is parrallel to O'Connell St.
Blackspot has been open at number 12 for at least 12-15 years- lot of indie/dance/hip hop/reggae and huge second hand selection

Amazotheamazing

Pity it's closing, especially since that area is about to be done up and should get more custom, anyone know anything about the cd shop in the basement of cecil (?) street that's only occasionally open?

Did Blackspot ever actually do that much business?

limerick_man

The really skinny road??!?! That Parnell street leads onto.. is that Wickham Street?

Amazotheamazing

Indeed it is.

limerick_man

That roads been done up? How whats the plan??

Amazotheamazing

I meant Thomas Street, Blackspot looks on to Thomas Street. Thomas Street is being partly pedestrianised, with the upper half having traffic calming introduced.

Limerick Dude

i went into town today to get the new charlie and the chocolate factory movie on dvd( i love tim burton movies) anywho i went into hmv and i was shocked to see it was 30 euro!!! i put it right back on the shelf

i was up in virgin in dublin last week where it was 15 euro! not sure about the virgin out in the crescent.

i saw a few other dvd's that were pretty overpriced and ive seen cheaper elsewhere. HMV is becoming a rip off if you ask me.

1huge1

ya music shops can be wierd like that
were sometimes they charge huge prices for unpopular movies and cheap for new movies and stuff like that

Zipperhead

For newer cds have a look in Xtra Vision as they beat CD WOW on 4 different CD's lately.

Limerick Dude

that sounds good zipperhead

Kess73

The Virgin store in Limerick is a joke. Ordering stuff takes forever and they say at the counter that ordering a cd can take at least four weeks, go into town to HMV and they say up to two weeks generally.



Some of those working in Virgin don't seem to have a clus about music or films either. There were a few working there that knew there stuff, especially on meta, alternative and classical stuff but I have not seen them there so I suppose they left. Was a guy with long hair and a beard and a big guy with glasses and a goatee that seemed to know their stuff the best and were not rude like what is there know.

Online is way better though, especially for non chart stuff.

I expected Virgin to compete with HMV when they first opened, but now all they are doing is making HMV look a decent store.

billy the squid

zombie thread. locked.

try not to dig up threads that are 18 months old.