Analysis - Young e-tailer thrives in Northern Ireland

[Michaelv]

Crikey did I set off a chain reaction of negativity?

I just, you know thought everyone thought that anyway

I just registered today because I forgot my login from 2 years ago...

Anyway...since people asked the settings question above...um..how does one upload the avatar? (I browsed the settings but it just states that I don't want one )

Also, I'm not a "hater" or "anal" (whatever you were thinking of ), my opinion will not have a

negative impact on Patrick's business, but may help his business model in the long run.

I would really like to buy some components at the cheapest possible prices so I would happily order

stuff from c3 should the price be great. But it is obvious that companies like ebuyer who ship 8000

orders per day have privileges that C3 cannot dream of at this time. And should they seek to

"compete" on any ground with "the big boys", C3 would have to innovate (for example Dyson

innovated..and won in a similar game...) be it in the support, components or the software sector.

Whatever it is, it would have to be exceptional. An example that comes to mind is VeryPC...a dying

donkey imo, many people thought they would be huge...now they offer free servers and their mega

5 year warranty turned to a 3 year one..... am I an annoying pessimist?...all I can say is prove me

wrong, and I'll happily get out my wallet

Anyway, people keep forgetting that many of the currently huge companies were initially started up

by absolutely broke students. Every year, 1000s of kids in their early 20s start up companies...those

who make it half way, are published in aeroplane magazines (that guy with the smoothie machine

thingy etc) the ones who really MAKE it, are anonymous, why? because they were either very very

intelligent or prepared their s**t well in advance......

I'll finish with the following question;

When you go to the supermarket to get your washing powder and see 10-25 "brands" competing

with each other, how many companies do you think are competing?

[TAKTAK]

Anyway...since people asked the settings question above...um..how does one upload the avatar? (I browsed the settings but it just states that I don't want one )

See the post count rewards thread in my sig, avatars are disabled until 500 posts ()

[Dreaming]

And who cares how he was setup initially?

You think everyone washes dishes for 20 years to save up to buy their first company?

Andy
Belfast

The reason I mentioned that is because the article makes it out as if he did start from the ground up washing dishes for 20 years. Other than that I did say that he deserves to do well.

Although I would question the journalistic merit of the article (i.e. what is it telling us?). I would rather an exposé on some of Intel's shadier practices, or an announcement of a new CPU architecture, or whatever. This reads pretty much like a press release from the new company, which not being a big or particularly notable company, makes me (a curious person) wonder why it's on hexus, one of the biggest web-based tech columns if not the biggest in the UK. Surely they have enough talent to generate interesting / noteworthy stories?

It was probably just a slow news day. Still beats the BBC hands down.

[Funkstar]

This reads pretty much like a press release from the new company, which not being a big or particularly notable company, makes me (a curious person) wonder why it's on hexus, one of the biggest web-based tech columns if not the biggest in the UK. Surely they have enough talent to generate interesting / noteworthy stories?

C3 are a part of the Hexus community. They might not have a support forum like Scan, but they are official members of the forums and do announce offers etc. on here.

[Vadim]

the "company"!?!? HA HA, it is NOT a company, he is NOT a MD (he could only technically be a MD if he was a director in a registered company) and a business can only be called (correctly) a company if it has limited liability (hence the term Ltd) then you get a VAT reg number and a comp number

according to my searches, there is a company registered in NI under the number NI068056 as C3 COMPUTERS LIMITED, so the above doesnt make much sense.

[Michaelv]

C3 rules!!!!

Gimmi some offers, I like low prices

[Dreaming]

C3 are a part of the Hexus community. They might not have a support forum like Scan, but they are official members of the forums and do announce offers etc. on here.

Sorry, I did not realise this.

[TheAnimus]

Looks to me like they are registered.

Also looks to me like they are competing on price quite well by having a NI warehouse, this makes their life quite a bit easier to compete no?

Quicker shipping thats cheaper, could mean a LOT to the geeks there, given the negative publicity many of the box system builders that used to be local there have had lately. I think they've got their differentiating factor there myself, and they seam to be a size that is big enough to block a small start up!

My critacisim would be at their IT team, it might be too small, too ineficent or whatever, but the site is lacking and things like all the £2k machines should of easily been spotted before it was promoted from UAT. Either way they need a good kick up the arse and mabye more resources!

[neologan]

I'll finish with the following question;

When you go to the supermarket to get your washing powder and see 10-25 "brands" competing

with each other, how many companies do you think are competing?

less because the parent companies will own multiple brands, which i assume is what you mean to suggest. But what is your point though?