pcworld.ie

Karoma

www.pcworld.ie



*snigger*













Thanks Truckle

Saruman

Thats funny

Bluefoam

Ha ha

Sully

Hate that!

Mint Sauce

lmao

Pigman II

I heard they jacked the annual rental up to a massive FOUR NINE NINE.

The Real B-man

LMAO they really havent a clue :rolleyes:

youcancallmeal

If only their hosting bills were £699?

Maybe they shouldnt of done so many of those crappy ads.

Lord Nikon

Can't believe the hoster put that up though. Ha ha anyway.

Chonker

That site has been down for many many months. It has not been used by pc world for a long time as they are working on something new I hear. Bigger and better. Least you guys got a chuckle out of it thats the main thing.

Merry Xmas.

Sully

The site was "Under Development" for a considerable amount of time, and was always a ****e site.

Webmonkey

Hilarious. Hope they won't go trying to sue the hosters for loss of business now, though its their own fault if they didn't pay.

rjt

It gets better. A while back, I noticed that PC world and Dixons had similar (and awful!) sites. They also both used redirects - dixons.ie goes to dixons.ie/Dixons/index.htm and pcworld.ie did something similar. So I decided to try http://www.dixons.ie/PCworld/index.htm... and lo and behold, we get the crappy PC World website! It still works too, so you can look at it in all its crappiness.

Capt'n Midnight

Thanks for that - needed cheering up.

You'd have thought they would have taken out the 3 year extra cover finance deal.

GhostInTheRuins

lol that got a laugh out of me, I ****ing hate pcworld

GhostInTheRuins

rjt wrote: »

It gets better. A while back, I noticed that PC world and Dixons had similar (and awful!) sites. They also both used redirects - dixons.ie goes to dixons.ie/Dixons/index.htm and pcworld.ie did something similar. So I decided to try http://www.dixons.ie/PCworld/index.htm... and lo and behold, we get the crappy PC World website! It still works too, so you can look at it in all its crappiness.

You can't browse it, it's just 3 jpgs with their "deals" hahah

thehomeofDob

It's ridiculous. The site was crap to begin with. Those that ran it were given no training. Pfftt.. PC World is a joke from the top down.

HungryJoey

thehomeofDob wrote: »

It's ridiculous. The site was crap to begin with. Those that ran it were given no training. Pfftt.. PC World is a joke from the top down.

:rolleyes:

Hj

Our man in Havana

domain: pcworld.ie
descr: DSG Retail Ireland Ltd
descr: Body Corporate (Ltd,PLC,Company)
descr: Registered Business Name
admin-c: AB212-IEDR
tech-c: AG2-IEDR
renewal: 30-September-2008
status: Active
nserver: ns1.continuumdns.com
nserver: ns2.continuumdns.com
nserver: ns3.continuumdns.com
source: IEDR

person: Amanda Brock
nic-hdl: AB212-IEDR
source: IEDR

person: Andrew Gromniak (MIS)
nic-hdl: AG2-IEDR
source: IEDR

Hopefully they will forget to renew the domain and someone can move in and cyber squat it.

Karoma

Bond-007 wrote: »

Hopefully they will forget to renew the domain and someone can move in and cyber squat it.

.ie? Unlikely.

hairyfish

Looks like its been hacked rather than exprired, no hosting company would put that message up ???

Our man in Havana

You would be surprised. It could be the web designer that wasn't paid and he pulled the content. I certainly would remove content if I was not paid for my hard work.

Webmonkey

hairyfish wrote: »

no hosting company would put that message up ???

I would!

hairyfish

Well if a company put that up i wouldnt give them my services again...but then again if i had paid them properly in the first place...

duely noted...

testicle

hairyfish wrote: »

Looks like its been hacked rather than exprired, no hosting company would put that message up ???

Yes of course they would...

~ > traceroute www.pcworld.ie
traceroute to www.pcworld.ie (82.195.130.221), 30 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 <snip> <snip>
8 border2.hosting365.ie (193.242.111.23) 7.426 ms 6.720 ms 7.259 ms
9 84.51.248.45 (84.51.248.45) 7.488 ms 8.099 ms 7.668 ms
10 bashful.hosting365.ie (82.195.134.70) 7.910 ms 8.345 ms 7.918 ms
11 win6.hosting365.ie (82.195.130.221) 8.499 ms 8.810 ms 7.059 ms

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

Nearly killed me inside, but i had to spend money in Dixons/PCWorld/Currys for the first time in 11 years over the Christmas - its the only tech shop in Blanchardstown. Had to bath and scrub myself rigorously afterwards.

Swore i'd never give them money again after they made my first PC buying experience and aftersales service so painful.

the_syco

Lolz if someone buys it, and redirects all to komplett.ie

qwertplaywert

Is it not www.pcwb.ie now?

Tomk1

About time they got an Irish website in €.
But does "business" mean business custumors only not privite.

note: I did buy my mini-LT there after observing price/specs for about a year and managed to get out of there without the extended waranty.

pcworld.ie funny:))

kev_s88

what really makes me laugh is the fact that they still advertise www.pcworld.ie as their website in all their shops.its like they either dont know or dont care

buyingabroad

Look what I found when I checked out the google cache

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:jax8z16Z8ygJ:www.pcworld.ie/+http://www.pcworld.ie/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ie

Webmonkey

buyingabroad wrote: »

Look what I found when I checked out the google cache

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:jax8z16Z8ygJ:www.pcworld.ie/+http://www.pcworld.ie/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ie

Thats what the thread was about, the Accout being suspended.

They seem to be back up and running now though.

Its back now. I was going to say that we could all chip in and turn it into a porn site.

Sully

It hit the Sunday Paper today. They were made a mockery of as the company (PC World, Dixons and Currys) seem to be promosing websites for years yet nothing materialises.

Anyway, they moved host which is why its back up and the "lawyers" are sorting out the issues with the old host.

Sully

Roundtower2 wrote: »

Nearly killed me inside, but i had to spend money in Dixons/PCWorld/Currys for the first time in 11 years over the Christmas - its the only tech shop in Blanchardstown. Had to bath and scrub myself rigorously afterwards.

Swore i'd never give them money again after they made my first PC buying experience and aftersales service so painful.

Why didn't you buy online?

Our man in Havana

Sully wrote: »

It hit the Sunday Paper today. They were made a mockery of as the company (PC World, Dixons and Currys) seem to be promosing websites for years yet nothing materialises.

Anyway, they moved host which is why its back up and the "lawyers" are sorting out the issues with the old host.

Any linky?

Sully

hairyfish wrote: »

Looks like its been hacked rather than exprired, no hosting company would put that message up ???

Its very common. Iv had to inform clients before that it would be done unless they paid there bills. A big company like PC World making millions and they wouldn't pay a few bob to sort out hosting?

They deserve the shame and so do other companies who ignore bills for services.

hairyfish wrote: »

Well if a company put that up i wouldnt give them my services again...but then again if i had paid them properly in the first place...

duely noted...

Why? You got billed, you didn't pay. Therefore, they suspend your account for not paying your bills - and a message is displayed online giving the reason.

The majority of hosting companies do it (and have software that does it) and designers / coders also do it but not as much (due to not having access).

testicle wrote: »

Yes of course they would...

~ > traceroute www.pcworld.ie
traceroute to www.pcworld.ie (82.195.130.221), 30 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 <snip> <snip>
8 border2.hosting365.ie (193.242.111.23) 7.426 ms 6.720 ms 7.259 ms
9 84.51.248.45 (84.51.248.45) 7.488 ms 8.099 ms 7.668 ms
10 bashful.hosting365.ie (82.195.134.70) 7.910 ms 8.345 ms 7.918 ms
11 win6.hosting365.ie (82.195.130.221) 8.499 ms 8.810 ms 7.059 ms

Ah its our friends at H365 that are giving all the grief to PC World. I would have thought PC World would have hosted in the UK!

Sully

Bond-007 wrote: »

Any linky?

In the back of the Sunday Indo, ill scan it later and post it up

Our man in Havana

Thanks!