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| Thread ID: 46994 | 2004-07-12 08:53:00 | OT: Store Prices | ~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | Press F1 |
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| 251796 | 2004-07-14 05:08:00 | Mind you, it could be The Warehouse, you just remembered the $888+GST (which ends up at $999 incl GST) THe $800 I am talking about includes GST, so about $711.11+GST |
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| 251797 | 2004-07-14 05:46:00 | It was a HP/Compaq machine and in a Bond n Bond brochure. You can download all the brochures off their website. It was one of the July issues, have a look. But just for the record, I wouldn't even buy one of those machines for use as a smoothwall box. Sometimes you have to put a limit on how low you will go. |
kiki (762) | ||
| 251798 | 2004-07-14 06:33:00 | Oh ok, yes they're Compaqs. On special for $899 (or $599 if you were the lucky one to snatch the one of thirty that went within two minutes of Noel Leemings Wairau Park's Superstore opening :D) We skipped that one, solely because it only had 128Mb ram, and the guy didn't want to add extras. As I said, hes got a rigid personality, he wants a branded PC, untouched on the inside from the factory. Bit hard to find, huh? ;-) | ~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | ||
| 251799 | 2004-07-14 11:56:00 | >>No shop has an obligation to give you your money back "if you don't like" the product when you get it home. You bought it. You liked it in the shop. I tend to shop at LV Martin and Son. They have a 14 day right of return (as long as the product is returned in "as new" condition). Even if I pay slightly more, it means that, for whatever reason, you have the right to take it back. It is one of their stated policies and it gets my business. |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 251800 | 2004-07-14 23:18:00 | Yes, most privately owned computer shops have similar policies like that if you read the bottom of their receipts (those big A4 sheets of paper most people don't read that come with their purchase :D) some will state that you can return unfaulted goods in as-new condition within 7/14/21 days provided it comes with a 20% restocking fee. [i.e. penalty :p] However, you must watch the line with softwares. Due to Copyright laws, you cannot return them once you buy them, even if you didnt know that it would work with your computer or not. Tough luck! ... unless it is faulty. | ~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | ||
| 251801 | 2004-07-15 06:16:00 | > > I wouldn't touch a DSE computer with a 20m pole. > How > > much are they asking for that machine? > > > > Build him one yourself ~sy~ you have the skills > and > > you'll save a lot of $. > > Hehe, I wish. It's not for me! As mentioned, he wants > a brand PC (e.g. Acer, HP, Compaq, etc.) DSE is just > selling it, it's an Acer Aspire RC500 -its been off > the DSE online catalogue since yesterday. They want > $800 for a shop demo, from the orgininal clearance > price of $850 for everything but the monitor. Still, don't touch it. |
Growly (6) | ||
| 251802 | 2004-07-15 06:53:00 | > However, you must watch the line with softwares. Due > to Copyright laws, you cannot return them once you > buy them, even if you didnt know that it would work > with your computer or not. Tough luck! ... unless it > is faulty. Who told you that SY? Once again, if the seller represents that the product will work on your machine, and it does not, provided you return all packaging etc they are obliged to refund. For obvious reasons, this may not apply quite so readily to products such as Word or any other mainstream programs that should work on any system, but it would if you were sold it for W95 (for example) and the shop said it would be OK, or if you were ignorant of computer specs and told the shop assistant that, and they referred to the system requirements on the box and again said it would be OK. I have returned software for system incompatibility reasons, not without questions being asked, but with the refund forthcoming. Bleeding edge games might be a good example where some computers might not cut it. It is up to the purchaser to detail their computer specs at time of buying, and provided it matches the minimum on the box, and the salesperson tells you it will work OK, you are home free if it doesn't. This is not a means of returning a game once you have burned a copy for yourself and a few of your mates though (present company excepted of course). It is nothing whatsoever to do with copyright, and everything to do with copying! And knowing your rights. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 251803 | 2004-07-15 07:32:00 | Yes, sorry, BillyT has the exception. If you were being "misled" about the fact that it would work on the PC, but you arrived home to find it couldn't -then your entitled to a full refund without restocking fee. What I was refering to was people who "think they know what they are doing", go into Noel Leeming or somewhere like that, and then without consulting the Sales Consultant before they made their purchase. Then tough luck! But, as Billy said, if the Sale Consultant told you it'd work on your computer, with the specifications, correctly given, then by all means, they carry the responsibility for it to work! Cheers BillyT ;-), |
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| 251804 | 2004-07-15 11:59:00 | > I feel the need to defend myself. > > I got his info from someone who worked there - and he > ain't one to lie. > However, I didn't mean the WHOLE barcode, i meant the > last few digits. And having gone in there and seen a > few, it's understandable. > > And as far as the Harvey Norman near me, they put > their own barcodes on. With the standard barcode of 13 numbers, it is as follows: First 2 - Country Code eg 94 = NZ; 93 = OZ Next 5 - Manufactures Code Next 5 - Product Code Last 1 - Check Digit Finally, 10 Yrs @ K Mart has paid off!! :D |
MartynC (5610) | ||
| 251805 | 2004-07-17 07:23:00 | > Friend of mine told me how the Harvey Norman people > are so negotiable - > > Apparently on the barcode, the last four or five > digits, read backwards, will give them the price the > store paid to get it in :D Made a little investigation trip down to Harvey Norman today . Sorry but I will have to reject your idea of the barcodes . Although some of the products could have a possibility of barcodes in the format you suggested, it certainly didn't go for most of them . E . g . there were goods selling for 899, but the barcodes reading backwards as you suggested read something like 102353 . . . now it can't be $102 or $1023 . However, having said that, checking some of the boxes of goods brought from HN over the past, I can believe that the barcode format was used . So to conclude, the barcode format no longer applies in the shop I went to, at this time . However, I did score a deal which I eventually walked out with . $0 . 99 for a France-made Sony 180 minute recording tapes ;-) |
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