Last weekend I was out and about on my travels and wandered past a small computer shop, this was down in Havent. Anyway I went in to find out what people are really buying off the streets. This was both interest and market research.
I spoke to a member of the sales staff, and looked at what they had on offer - all of their products on the shelves appeared to be a little out of date.
However, they did have some ECS boards, and I was suprised to see some Athlon 64 products.
I also asked if they sold many A64s - they stated Sempron was their biggest seller and that they sold the customer what they wanted not what they think they want.
They didn't sell many Intel proccessors, because 'We don't like them'
But they didn't have any processors which I would class as 'modern' in stock - and they only had an 8500DV which they could sell me. Their PSU range featured Rys' favourite product - the Q-Tecs. When asked they stated they knew they were bad but they were clearing stock out.
They mentioned it several times (infact more times than they tried to sell anything) and this appeared that their biggest gripe was the fact NovaTech was close to them and they were annoyed when people would drive to NovaTech to pickup a product rather than buy locally. So what they want you to do is pay £10 to £15 more, and they will order it for you (probably from NovaTech) and then give it to you in the middle of the week.
I doubt this situation is unique, how can any store like this offer a compelling reason to purchase from when we have more proffesional operations avaliable. Infact, I dread to say this - I would buy from PCWorld over them. Maybe if they spoke more of their buisness and didn't try and sell to me with tatty bits of paper they would be more sucessful.
I have been to several retailers - as well as production places (such as Corsairs, Dells, Intels plants) and this was the most shocking one I have seen to date.
What is your local computer store like?
Update
I have just done some searching - all I can find on 'Cambridge Computers' is a phone number and an address - their website is not even setup yet.
No wonder NovaTech and other stores do so well.


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) the 5200 is only just capable of running new games ad fails to play slightly older ones well... i didnt really notice what else they were selling, i guess after seeing that i figured it wasnt worth it

