Compustore

Gillo · 23-10-2004 11:03AM #1

Is this the right place to have this but Conmpustore have appearently gone into liquidation.

anyone else hear anything about it??

Staff appeared for work today and were told to go home.

K!LL!@N · 23-10-2004 11:24AM

Well it wouldn't surprise me but is this a country wide thing?
Or are all the stores run as franchises?
I had heard the shop in sandyford industrial estate was in a bit of bother.
Apparently they'd run out of credit with their suppliers and weren't able to purchase new stock til they'd sold what they had or gotten the money from somewhere.
The above is hearsay from a friend that works in compustore, so can't be 100%.
I guess i'll find out later when he goes to work though.

Killian

BadCharlie · 23-10-2004 11:38AM

Well they closed down in waterford around january

K!LL!@N · 23-10-2004 12:06PM

It seems to be true.
My mate said that the shop in sandyford has been closed.

Killian

Creamy Goodness · 23-10-2004 12:10PM

finally people have found the cheapest of buying online

Fusion251 · 23-10-2004 12:10PM

Yeah went to work today and to my surprise the doors were bolted and there was a sign saying. Call this Number 087********. Of course it was an answering machine. The manager was there, he got a call at 8.15 telling him that Compustore had gone into liquidation. Nice way to handle it really. But then again, Compustore as a company didn't really know how to handle anything, what a mess...I'm only a part timer so it didn't bother me too much, but for some of the full timers it was really a bad way to be told....tut tut

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heggie · 23-10-2004 12:17PM

yeh i work with fusion251, rotten way to handle things, says a lot about the top management there. A lot of the people that worked there have given years to that company, and to not even hear it from the management face to face is a insult, and a cowardly action. It's no surprise the company failed as it treated its staff, suppliers and customers with disregard.

tribble · 23-10-2004 12:50PM

I work with fusion and heggie

Yeah - arrived in work at 0920 this morning and was told the the company went into liquidation last night.

Dirty big chains on the doors so no one has access incl managers.

Anybody whose got a PC in with tech is up the creek 'till next month.

tribble

delly · 23-10-2004 01:03PM

Sorry to hear that lads.

I have a mate who works in a similar type store, who always said that if the chain went bust, he'd try and grap what he could before he went out the door for the last time. Guess that can't happen in your circumstance tho'.

palance · 23-10-2004 01:04PM

I used to work part time in Galway, luckily I left 6 weeks ago. The whole company was a mess really, problems with stock all the time. The people in head office didn't have a clue how to run a company.

Pity anyone who bought an extended warranty...

tribble · 23-10-2004 02:16PM

palance wrote:

I used to work part time in Galway, luckily I left 6 weeks ago.

Should have held out for your redundancy (sp?) mate

dazberry · 23-10-2004 02:48PM

Sorry for you guys out of work. Only last week(ish) I remember seeing them advertise for staff <somewhere>.

[Aside]
I remember in the early 90s going for a part-time job while in college (Sandyford was just about to open), and there were so many people all queuing up to do the technical interviews (Nass Rd) - it was incredible. I got called back to the second round - but because we didn't have a phone (couldn't afford one at the time) I was actually the last person to be interviewed. By that stage they'd obviously picked all their staff, and so it was the worst (most disgraceful) experience of an interview I've ever had to suffer. Hated them with a vengence ever since and only darkened their doors if I had to. Still sorry though for you guys.

D.

Mutant_Fruit · 23-10-2004 02:54PM

Reminds me of the time (in my youthful days) when they tried to sell me a "top of the range" PCI graphics card, with 4mb of vram (upgradable for extra cash) for 180pounds! At the time it was probably worth about 35pounds at best. The latest graphics card drivers for it had been released about 3 years before i got the card...

tribble · 23-10-2004 03:01PM

Mutant_Fruit wrote:

Reminds me of the time (in my youthful days) when they tried to sell me a "top of the range" PCI graphics card, with 4mb of vram (upgradable for extra cash) for 180pounds! At the time it was probably worth about 35pounds at best. The latest graphics card drivers for it had been released about 3 years before i got the card...

We (sandyford) still have ( :rolleyes: HAD) geforce 1's/2's for €100-€200.

Though none of the staff would even think about selling them to anybody.

tribble

Fenster · 23-10-2004 03:06PM

Well damm. They had this really nice little all-metal memory card reader I was gonna buy today.

LegacyUser · 23-10-2004 03:47PM

HAH! That surprises me. the majority of Irish people are too stupid to buy online. I am surprised they closed down.

neokenzo · 23-10-2004 04:33PM

If they go into liquidation, surely their stock will be auction off?

tribble · 23-10-2004 04:42PM

neokenzo wrote:

If they go into liquidation, surely their stock will be auction off?

A distinct possibility with some of their stock.

A lot of the most current stock was never owned by Compustore but remained the property of the suppliers.

tribble

MackQ · 23-10-2004 04:43PM

I was at Sandyford last night looking at this beautiful Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo notebook. Went back today to buy it and when I pulled up outside the shutters were down!!! I was soooooooo upset!!!

To be honest though there were so few desktops there last night that it was obvious that something wasn't right.

tribble · 23-10-2004 04:52PM

MackQ wrote:

I was at Sandyford last night looking at this beautiful Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo notebook. Went back today to buy it and when I pulled up outside the shutters were down!!! I was soooooooo upset!!!

To be honest though there were so few desktops there last night that it was obvious that something wasn't right.

The black v2000?

At €1099 it was very good value for money given the spec and weight.
Last time i checked (last sunday) it was out of stock though.
Mind you the last delivery we took (of what i'll never know) was less than 24 hour ago :rolleyes:

_113

Hobbes · 23-10-2004 04:53PM

Has the whole thing shut down in Ireland? or just the stores? If it is everything I guess the forum should put a warning up not to buy from the online site just in case.

A friend of mine got burned that way. They took his cash despite having gone into liquidation a few days before (I forget the company).

Mad Mike · 23-10-2004 05:04PM

Sorry for those who have lost your jobs. Indeed I am sorry to see an Irish company bite the dust but Compustore was clearly badly managed. Their business model involved charging higher margins than the competition in order to make up for inefficencies in basic operations, particularly stock control. You just can't get away with that anymore, even in Ireland and particularly in the computer business where stock loses between 10% and 20% of its value every month. That sort of behaviour belongs to Ireland of the past pre EU, pre-free trade and pre-internet.

The most embarrasing thing about this was Compustore's attempt to position the company as the "idiots Friend" in their advertising. Sure you can fool a new computer user into paying over the odds for stuff but a company should never presume on the stupidity of their customers. People learn fast and someone who was ripped off is unlikely to come back for more.

Unfortunately Compustore isn't the only Irish retailer using this "idiots friend" sales line. A well known shop on Parnell Street is plying a very similar line - not a good sign for the long term future of that venerable institution.

MackQ · 23-10-2004 05:08PM

tribble wrote:

The black v2000?
_113

Nah, the D1845 with the 3.2GHz proccessor, 1GB ram, 80GB HD, etc.

I see their online shop still appears to be taking orders. Hopefully no-one gets stung.

FruitLover · 23-10-2004 05:40PM

Sorry to hear about it for the sake of the staff involved, but from what I've heard about the place, it was only a matter of time.

tribble · 23-10-2004 07:02PM

Mad Mike wrote:

The most embarrasing thing about this was Compustore's attempt to position the company as the "idiots Friend" in their advertising. Sure you can fool a new computer user into paying over the odds for stuff but a company should never presume on the stupidity of their customers. People learn fast and someone who was ripped off is unlikely to come back for more.

You would be VERY surprised. Both at the sheer number of idiots and of those who just don't care.

Compustore was a based on a sound model - it was it's top level management that failed to understand the finer points of INTER BUSINESS etiquette (sp?).

tribble

unkel · 23-10-2004 11:48PM

sorry for all you guys losing your jobs, don't worry though, you'll find a better one!

But compustore closing down...

good riddance tbh

Jammer · 23-10-2004 11:53PM

pc world in blanch are looking for people.

Zaph · 24-10-2004 12:32AM

Is/was Compustore actually an Irish company?

The only reason I ask is that I was in the States recently where there was CompUSA, and the logo was exactly the same (apart from the store/USA bit, obviously).

Stephen · 24-10-2004 12:52AM

Compustore in Kilkenny was open today. What gives?

Fenster · 24-10-2004 12:59AM

Stephen wrote:

Compustore in Kilkenny was open today. What gives?

Its Kilkenny, they generally need a day or so to catch up with the rest of Ireland.

In seriousness though, I've no idea. If they closed the chain, they'd normally close all the stores at once to stop wholesale liberation of stock by soon-to-be-ex-staff. Probably the staff in Kilkenny made off with a fair whack of stock at the end of the day.

tribble · 24-10-2004 11:38AM

Compustore is Irish.
Owned by Kevin Buckley.

Most of the stores around outside Dublin are franchises and I don't know the situation with them. Some of them have their own supliers.
All Buckley owned ones are gone.

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