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| Thread ID: 70339 | 2006-06-30 00:03:00 | Sad day | dolby digital (5073) | PC World Chat |
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| 467379 | 2006-06-30 00:03:00 | This only really effects people with PC's in Lower Hutt... but Quay Computers on Queens Drive closed last Saturday :( They still have their main shop in Wellington. They opened 14 years ago before the internet took hold. There are now no pc shops in the Lower Hutt CBD unless you count Dick Smith. |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 467380 | 2006-06-30 01:40:00 | :( That was a good shop. Not the cheapest, but still a good shop. A pity. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 467381 | 2006-07-01 10:37:00 | Last one out of the Hutt turn the light off. | Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 467382 | 2006-07-03 10:56:00 | Last one out of the Hutt turn the light off. Lights... we don't have power :D |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 467383 | 2006-07-03 18:44:00 | I think the day of the small computer shop nay have passed. Firstly , half the shops in town seem to be selling cheap rubbishy computers. They are,in the main, staffed by people lacking in knowledge of their products. Secondly, people who want a better, or different, computer are building their own. Thirdly, computer parts. No shop can carry anything like a full range of parts.You go in to buy something and nine times out of ten you get the response, "we can have one for you tomorrow". Not good enough. I want it now! Seems to me that internet shopping has taken over the part's market. A simple E-mail and you can get what you want the following day, and probably at a better price. I went into a shop yesterday to get a packet of floppy disks. "Nobody sells them any more. We can give you CD's, they are better than floppy disks." So looks like I will have to get my floppys per internet. I used to try and shop locally, but I've virtually given up on that. When I hear a computer shop has closed I'm afraid I couldn't care less. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 467384 | 2006-07-03 22:50:00 | I think the day of the small computer shop nay have passed. Firstly , half the shops in town seem to be selling cheap rubbishy computers. They are,in the main, staffed by people lacking in knowledge of their products. Secondly, people who want a better, or different, computer are building their own. Thirdly, computer parts. No shop can carry anything like a full range of parts.You go in to buy something and nine times out of ten you get the response, "we can have one for you tomorrow". Not good enough. I want it now! Seems to me that internet shopping has taken over the part's market. A simple E-mail and you can get what you want the following day, and probably at a better price. I went into a shop yesterday to get a packet of floppy disks. "Nobody sells them any more. We can give you CD's, they are better than floppy disks." So looks like I will have to get my floppys per internet. I used to try and shop locally, but I've virtually given up on that. When I hear a computer shop has closed I'm afraid I couldn't care less. And that I think sums it up. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 467385 | 2006-07-03 22:55:00 | Yes I buy 90% of my computer stuff over the net. The other 10% I get from DSE which is useally a cable of some sorts. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
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