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PC World, Jan 2004 - 12*DVD ROM , CREATIVE - £69.97!
Local PC Shop in Reading, Dec 2003 - USB flexilight - £15! (£3 from e-buyer)
Whats the worst price you've seen for a piece of IT kit or IT service?
e.g.
PC World, Jan 2004 - 12*DVD ROM , CREATIVE - £69.97!
Local PC Shop in Reading, Dec 2003 - USB flexilight - £15! (£3 from e-buyer)
Anything in PC World is madly over priced hardware wise.Originally Posted by aeonf242
Not true!
They often have reasonably priced hdd's, coolers and other bits and bobs etc. Especially when you take off the delivery charges.
Any of the companies that advertise in the likes of Micro Mart selling 2nd hand Laptops. Even crappy spec ones are searly as much as a new lo-end one.
Why?
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One of my clients paid just over £1000 for a memory upgrade for his Unix server some years ago. He was a bit put out when I showed him a source for the same component for £130.
Teach him to ask first and not just pay the price his "supplier" quoted him won't it. Still, that's a "financial consultant" for you. He makes his living from giving people expert advice, but doesn't seem to listen to any.
This WAS, however, a long time ago (about 1988 I'd guess).
Still.......OUCH!One of my clients paid just over £1000 for a memory upgrade for his Unix server some years ago. He was a bit put out when I showed him a source for the same component for £130.
Teach him to ask first and not just pay the price his "supplier" quoted him won't it. Still, that's a "financial consultant" for you. He makes his living from giving people expert advice, but doesn't seem to listen to any.
This WAS, however, a long time ago (about 1988 I'd guess).
About 2 weeks ago I paied £5 for an UDMA 33 IDE cable
that was shocking :'(
Paying £170 for a freecom 4x CD-RW "before internet shoping"
Someone left a note on a piece of cake in the fridge that said, "Do not eat!". I ate the cake and left a note saying, "Yuck, who the hell eats paper ?
I paid £160 for a 4x HP burner when they first came out.
Then got a Liteon the other day, 48x for £30 or so.
£5 shocking, i'm sure there are many people on the forum here that would've sent you one out of the kind ness of their heart (and maybe a few pence for postage)
mark
Aye I'm sure your right but I need the cable ASAP so my local independant PC shop was teh only place to go :'(
Nm, I have now stocked up on IDE leads @ 50p a go
Seeing a GeForce 2 GTS for £199.99 in PC World's "bargain" section a couple of week ago. It was reduced from £229.99 to clear it.
My local Game also has a GeForce 2 Pro for £99.99 going at the moment if anyone wants to pick up a bargain.
Yeah I think this should be current deals, becuase otherwise people are going to say like me:
I got a 4 gig hardrive for £100 with install...what a bargain!
Yeah?
Twigman
my boss at work paid £230 for a 240W atx psu that came from a specialist box (some fibre analysing kit) - about 4 years ago (they were £20ish at the time)
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One of my coursemates asked me today if this was a good deal (she had been told it was by whoever was trying to sell it to her, supposedly at half the original price):
A 1.13 GHz P3 laptop with 128MB ram, a 20Gig HD, and 16 MB graphics for... wait for it.. £900!!! And she had been convinced it was a good deal as well! There are some real con artists out there, i tell thee..
£100 for 4mb of ram to upgrade my 486 up to a whopping 8MB
THat wasnt a ripoff as it was the going rate, but still funny when now you can get 1000mb for £100 odd nearly
Butuz
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