PC World Prices Irritant

jimmycrackcorm

Does anyone other than me notice how bad PC world are at displaying prices. It's so annoying to walk round, as a geek, and see tasty goods but with no pricing in sight. I just can't get why they are so lazy with shelf labels. Surely when they get somethig new in stock and put it on the shelves they could think about printing some edge labels to go with them. It is absolutle endemic in Liffey Valley and Blanchardstown.

TerrorFirmer

I've never gone back since I saw a Radeon 9600 priced at something like 250 quid, A geforce 4 for 100, and an fx5200 of some type for about 200. :mad:

But yes I've definately noticed that alot of the stuff isn't marked nor does it have labels on the shelf....very annoying.

jor el

Yeah, I've noticed that too, though I try not to buy anything in PC World as a matter of principal. Sometimes however, you can actually get a good deal. This is rather rare though. Even a lot of older items on shelves won't have price tags above/below them, not just new items. I think their plan is to get you to the checkout, then you'll buy it regardless of the price :mad:

The brown boxed items used to be where you could get cheap components, though they don't seem to have updated their prices in over two years, so a 120GB IDE disk is still around €130. They've also had 40GB disks here in Limerick for about €80 for ages now :rolleyes:

Khannie

Defo annoying. Bought a nostromo in there without knowing how much I was going to pay for it (was prepared to walk from the cash register if it was ridiculous).

I wonder if there are any laws about displaying prices that you could nail them on?

Stephen

I believe there are. From my student days working part time in the shop, we had the importance of always displaying the correct price for everything drilled into us.

Hobbes

jimmycrackcorm wrote:

Does anyone other than me notice how bad PC world are at displaying prices.

It is actually illegal and a number of retailers got slapped with fines just the other day.

John R

Hobbes wrote:

It is actually illegal and a number of retailers got slapped with fines just the other day.

linky

HelterSkelter

Noticed this too, very annoying. Fire off an email to odca@entemp.ie and ask them to send their inspectors around.

Smurfpiss

If you ever want a laugh head into Dixons in liffey valley.
They're selling a six pack bundle of PC games...emm DEus ex: invisible war, Splinter Cell:Pandora Tomorrow and a few other oldish but still look good PC games.
There asking price? 300 euro.
What idiot would buy that???
you could pick all six up for less than a hundred now probably.

Irishpimpdude

Smurf i hope your joking :O lol

jesus_thats_gre

Various consumer agencies ponce around Tesco and Dunnes on a daily basis making sure they have tins of peas costing 39cents priced clearly but they don't seem to go near the likes of Pc World...

RG Data = assholes

Smurfpiss

Irishpimpdude wrote:

Smurf i hope your joking :O lol

You think I could make this stuff up??? they don't give a toss what price stuff is... there's always some fool who'll buy it...except where the 300 euro game pack is concerned..I hope for the sake of humanity.

mcummins2

I work for a sports retial chain and asked for info on this subject from the department of consumer rights. Was told that grocery shops such as Tesco and Dunnes have to conform to the scanning code of practise, this is why every product must have a shelf edge label or SEL. Shops that are part of this agreement will display a sign with EAN (not sure what it means) on thier entry way. Other shops that do not conform or sign up to this agreement do the following. If a product is priced at €90 and when you get to the till they tell you it is €100 you have the option of buying it or not. The choice is yours. This is called an "Invitation to treat". The retailers responsibility ends when he/she confirms the price to you and you either accept it or reject it. The retailer is under no legal binding to give you the product at €90. Crap I know but that is that.

Crazy thing about PC World in Galway, they had a tower case in thier reduced section which was not priced. When I checked the price was told it €49. The case was visibly damaged, and had bits missing. The same case was in thier normal retail section at the same price. When I queried this was told thats the price it came up as!!££$$%%^^&*&*

TomCo

Smurfpiss wrote:

You think I could make this stuff up??? they don't give a toss what price stuff is... there's always some fool who'll buy it...except where the 300 euro game pack is concerned..I hope for the sake of humanity.

Ive seen it too, I thought it was the funniest thing ever and considered taking a photo.

Hobbes

mcummins2 wrote:

I work for a sports retial chain and asked for info on this subject from the department of consumer rights.

I'd check up again if I was you as a number of shops have already been fined for not displaying prices (as shown above).

WexCan

mcummins2 wrote:

I work for a sports retial chain and asked for info on this subject from the department of consumer rights. Was told that grocery shops such as Tesco and Dunnes have to conform to the scanning code of practise, this is why every product must have a shelf edge label or SEL. Shops that are part of this agreement will display a sign with EAN (not sure what it means) on thier entry way. Other shops that do not conform or sign up to this agreement do the following. If a product is priced at €90 and when you get to the till they tell you it is €100 you have the option of buying it or not. The choice is yours. This is called an "Invitation to treat". The retailers responsibility ends when he/she confirms the price to you and you either accept it or reject it. The retailer is under no legal binding to give you the product at €90. Crap I know but that is that.

Crazy thing about PC World in Galway, they had a tower case in thier reduced section which was not priced. When I checked the price was told it €49. The case was visibly damaged, and had bits missing. The same case was in thier normal retail section at the same price. When I queried this was told thats the price it came up as!!££$$%%^^&*&*

EAN = European Article Number. It's a standard for barcoding items. Most items you find in shops have them. 13 digits long. Also a shorter 8 digit version. Retailers that sign the agreement yokey have to display prices.

I'm such a geek. lol.

godtabh

Irishpimpdude wrote:

Smurf i hope your joking :O lol

I've seen it too.

mcummins2

Hobbes wrote:

I'd check up again if I was you as a number of shops have already been fined for not displaying prices (as shown above).

Yeah but they were all grocery shops that conform to EAN and the scanning code of practise(suppousedly). PC World do not display the EAN sign nore does the chain I work for. Any way you cant place a shelf edge lable on a clothing rail.

Mad Mike

Has anyone else noticed how the worst value of all in PCWORLD is on the so called bargain shelf. Typically they take the original price something sold for and mark it down by 10%. Trouble is the thing they are trying to flog as a bargain is usually several years old and you can buy an up to date version for half the price on very next shelf.

I rarely buy anything in PCWorld nowadays but it can be useful to be able to stroll around and see what things look like before heading off to buy them cheaply online.

Khannie

TomCo wrote:

Ive seen it too, I thought it was the funniest thing ever and considered taking a photo.

Haha. Someone get a phone cam photo of that. Classic stuff.

WexCan

mcummins2 wrote:

Yeah but they were all grocery shops that conform to EAN and the scanning code of practise(suppousedly). PC World do not display the EAN sign nore does the chain I work for. Any way you cant place a shelf edge lable on a clothing rail.

A lot clothes retailers use an in-house barcoding system with numbers that don't confirm to the EAN standards. In any case, those that do have have price tickets.