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| Thread ID: 37463 | 2003-09-08 02:05:00 | PC Company ceases trading | Ferris (1087) | Press F1 |
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| 173766 | 2003-09-08 12:26:00 | What a sad bunch you knockers are ... | *Sparky* (311) | ||
| 173767 | 2003-09-08 20:00:00 | Well, some humble pie with a small side order of caveat emptor. According to the MD Colin Brown, it is temporary. Can't help but wonder if he is doing a Chris Turner (Kingz boss and football's answer to Comical Ali). I would reiterate that it is still very dangerous to fuel rumour about a companies financial state. Even if we disagree philosophically with how they glue their products together (they weren't the only ones that used hot glue, PC Direct did it too). That being said, as with Osbourne, PC General, and others, the minute they fold you have people that are totally on their own with warranty issues and support. As ever, PC purchasers (or any purchaser of other durable consumer goods) must be confident that the vendor will be around long enough to stand by their products. It is possibly fair to say that their sales might have been affected by the bad feeling that geeks had about their practices. As an accountant, I would never pay for a computer two weeks in advance, just as I wouldn't for a car, or a packet of cornflakes. Requirements like that always smack of cashflow issues, and without continuous growth a company cannot survive by funding their business that way. News that computers taken in for repair two weeks ago were not completed is not a good sign, either. I suppose some of you have every right to say "I told you so". It's not over yet though. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 173768 | 2003-09-08 20:10:00 | >Even if we disagree philosophically with how they glue their products together (they weren't the only ones that used hot glue, PC Direct did it too). I realise this is off the track of this thread but I never got to make a comment re the glue thingy with the PC Co at the time it was current. Like you say Robo, PC Direct did it too, with good reason. The amount of times someone has bought me their home PC to clean out the rubbish from the HD or whatever, they take it home and then ring to say they can't connect to the net (because the modem has shifted slightly out of its slot on the way home in the car) or there is no video (ditto). I never had this problem with a PC Direct or PC Co machine, unless the modem or vid card had been replaced and was not glued in. I just can't see the hoohaa over this - it is technically an excellent idea (which I wish other manufacturers would follow) with no adverse effects. Did someone think there was an underlying hidden agenda with this glueing situation? |
falvrez (390) | ||
| 173769 | 2003-09-08 20:22:00 | > "PC Company ceases trading" - *Yesssssssssss! ]:) * Why so happy PoWa? Come on tell all why its been your mission to slag off the PCCo at every opportunity. |
Holy Cow (4475) | ||
| 173770 | 2003-09-08 20:28:00 | Just had a note from the Taradale PC Co.They are still business as usual,being a separate business. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 173771 | 2003-09-08 20:43:00 | Falvrez, I think the original complaints about the hot melt glue (from memory) was not necessarily its use as such, but that some builds had far too much, and it seemed that not enough QC and consistent practice was exercised over assembly practices. That would seem to be water under the bridge now. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 173772 | 2003-09-08 21:04:00 | I have to say I find the quote from PC Co a little strange, the one saying that boutique PC shops sell 40-50 a month on smaller margins. Their margins would be tiny, because they pay a lot more for their parts than the PC Co would. And I would be bloody surprised if they sold 40 a month. Go into some of those stores and you could throw a hand grenade and not risk injuring people. If anything, many of them purchase cheap and nasty parts to get their prices close to the PC Co ones. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 173773 | 2003-09-08 21:49:00 | > Why so happy PoWa? Come on tell all why its been your mission to slag off the PCCo at every opportunity. You just revealed to everyone that you post on this forum with another alias. Either that or you have been lurking here for 6months and only started posting in the last month. How interesting. I have my reasons, actually its a good laugh and I still have to get around to writing the story up. |
PoWa. (3243) | ||
| 173774 | 2003-09-08 23:10:00 | How much money you made still depends on the margin . I have only built a few new machines in the last month . I still got paid as of today, but I dont expect more . I can feel how thin the margin is . yes, I have heard PC company got financial problems for months . even if they got bigger discounts from suppliers than small shops . some puter biz are making money not just by are selling PCs . I always got jolted when PC general, PC direct, macrocom were gone . |
yang11 (170) | ||
| 173775 | 2003-09-09 01:50:00 | > It will be even sadder for > the Purchasers of PC Co machines if the company does > not survive. Not to mention people like myself that are having hardware repairs. I had sent in an LCD monitor (purchased Sept 2001) to get some backlight problem fixed almost 6 weeks ago to the day, and am still waiting for it to be fixed and returned. From the numerous calls to their customer service department and the Wellington showroom, I was told the delays were due to the supplier (Likom) sending the required part from Malaysia, but I'm starting to wonder if there are other reasons I'm not being told about. If the company does go under, will I be able to get my monitor back? I know that people who have deposited money for new PCs and are still waiting for them would very likely kiss their money goodbye if the company was liquidated, but would the same happen to hardware that belongs to other people? |
D. McG (3023) | ||
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