Maplins Any good

PowerHouseDan

There is a maplin opening in cork soon,Are they any good price wis?

marco murphy

Yeh there ok i suppose

Shrimp

Poblachtach you live in cavan or somthin.. do they even have a maplins there?

There alright.. a lil pricey

elexes

crap if its like the dublin store

koneko

They're handy if you need something small quick (like a heatsink or fan), but ****e other than that. Their prices on hardware are really bad most of the time, and when they have a "special offer" it's on outdated hardware.

Creamy Goodness

koneko wrote:

They're handy if you need something small quick (like a heatsink or fan), but ****e other than that. Their prices on hardware are really bad most of the time, and when they have a "special offer" it's on outdated hardware.

koneko sums it up the best

JackieChan

I'd be very wary of them because of their prices.
They were looking for over 130EUR for Robosapien before xmas(and this was supposed to be their reduced price).Next door in Smyths you could buy it for less than 90. Also I bought a 128Mb USB memory key for 20 in peats, maplins cheapest was 30(although they have it reduced to 23.99 at the moment).
They do a small range of white box pieces(ie no flashy box,manual or disks) which are grand(generally these are fans,mice,sound cards,modems,lan card and maybe even a gfx).
Also I bought a great walkie talkie set for the kids with rechargeable batteries for xmas that was reduced from 65 to 30.
I suppose the motto should be to shop around.
JC

SLIM19198

You guys are slamming them, but when all you have locally is www.chip.ie , maplins will be a godsend!!!

marco murphy

Shrimp wrote:

Poblachtach you live in cavan or somthin.. do they even have a maplins there?

There alright.. a lil pricey

No i dont,even if i did i could always goto dublin.....?

Creamy Goodness

ehh tbh you could live on top of everest as long as you had a internet connection i'd buy online instead of maplin also there'd be no need for phase cooling up there

jetsonx

Compared to internet prices - not at all competitive.

Quality - not great either.

Stock Management / Inventory - they really need to brush up on this.
When you most need a part - they will be out of stock of that item.

Syth

Poblachtach wrote:

No i dont,even if i did i could always goto dublin.....?

Or as Cremo said, the net. It really does make like as a customer better.

marco murphy

Syth wrote:

Or as Cremo said, the net. It really does make like as a customer better.

Yep

RicardoSmith

jetsonx wrote:

Compared to internet prices - not at all competitive.

Quality - not great either.

Stock Management / Inventory - they really need to brush up on this.
When you most need a part - they will be out of stock of that item.

Thats about it. Same as most Irish IT shops.