Choosing a telly

[sonycentre]

Your not doing yourself any favours with your ill considered comments on this forum. It's clear your comments are biased because of the fact that you work for a high street shop.

I certainly don't want to see my local hifi shops disappear but most can't compete on price with online retailers. With the way things are at present, it becomes all the more important the high street shops distinguish themselves from online retailers and, as I said before, sell the benefits of buying from them.

I haven't seen Jeff Randell's Sky programme so can't really comment. But just because Sky says so doesn't make it so. There's always 2 sides to a story.

Having read a number of your comments on various posts, IMO I don't think your doing Sony Centres any favours either.

Just a suggestion, but you might want to try a more balanced approach to your responses in the future.

 

[sonycentre]

So then lets put this in context then.

its not just sky who commented on this.hard talk on bbc news 24,the money programme,ken bruce on bbc radio 2,shall i go on?.What the media are saying and i can see this to,as i work six days a week is that the uk,s landscape is changing and not for the better.Pub are shutting at a rate of about 50 a week,so then your saying that a 15 pack of beer fron a supermarket is gonna taste better then a hand pulled pint from a good pub then?.We all want our money to go further i know that retail is the lowest paid job and i think we work the hardest for the least amount of money.I will put this to you If i dont make sure that my cust do not get the right leads and so on i lose out and so does the cust.so if i dont earn money i cant go out/or save to buy nice new things.And that has a knock on effect on most of the uk.But then bankers who work under stress and get bouneses get crippled becouse some of the public resent that.Some people seem very blasey,untill something affect them.with my posts i just say it as it is.Like the classic lone from the film the dead pool "opinons are like ***,everyone has got one"

 

[Anonymous]

i know that retail is the lowest paid job and i think we work the hardest for the least amount of money.

Try running your own business. Even if you sell nothing all week, you still get paid a salary. If I sell nothing, I get paid nothing. Not only that but I still have to pay all my expenses of running the business.

Concerning bricks n mortar vs online retailers, if the bricks n mortar businesses can't compete on price then they'll have to compete based on the benefits of buying from them. If they don't 'sell' the benefits then they're likely to go out of business.

 

[sonycentre]

Yes i can only imagine how hard it is running your own business,when we have staff meeting sometimes we work out how hard it is,when you count costs,staff wages overheads,and then profit,makes you wonder,is it all worth it.then we have a lot of very happy customers.our company encorage us to treat our store as"like it is our own".And it does make you think,thats why i sometimes voice my opinoins on this forum its a good way to get thing off your chest.Think sometimes we can walk around with our eyes closed and dont always see the bigger picture.

 

[Andrew Everard]

sonycentre:and dont always see the bigger picture.

...presumably because Sony tellies only go up to 52in?

 

[sonycentre]

very good andrew,your sarcasam keeps me going through the day.

 

[Anonymous]

In many respects, what we're seeing today re. the high street vs online mirrors what we saw in the 70's with the arrival of cars from Japan. I was only a boy then, but I remember distinctly all the ads that popped up on tv about 'buy British' this or that, and yet the consumer voted with their wallets, because pound for pound the Japanese cars offered better value for money and that was the deciding factor for enough people that the British car industry shrunk dramatically in the space of just a few years.

I believe that this is what we'll see happening to the market for expensive electrical goods like hi-fi's and tv's. Noting the comments above, I believe it's starting to become a common-sense perception that people have no good reason to simply pay Currys or Dixons extra money, often running into hundreds of pounds, just because they're Currys or Dixons or happen to be on a High Street.

People will vote with their wallets. They'll find the best price, source the best warranty trade-off on price, look for the best delivery option, and do all this after visiting forums such as this one to find out what 'real people' as opposed to salesmen actually think of a product before making their own minds up.

I believe that within 10 years Currys and Dixons, and chains like them, will more or less have ceased to be, and that the independent specialist stores will move 'upmarket' to higher-end goods to stay in business, which they'll do.

Is this a good thing? In my opinion, yes. The market must serve the needs of consumers, not the other way round, and if that means the death of these types of High St outlet, so be it. Dixons and Currys, to name but two, have been slow to change, and seem to have taken a 'head in the sand' stance to what consumers actually want.

And what do consumers want? The same as ever - good value. It's not rocket science.

 

[Anonymous]

seasiders rock:
just bought a 42" Panasonic ÿTX-P42X10B , internet price about £550 ish.

we paid £649 from a high street retailer near Bolton, 5 year warranty and if it goes wrong, pick up the phone and a home visit for repair.

try doing that if bought of tinternet, worth the extra £100, it,s a no brainer folks.....

Not really mate. My brother just bought the same tv on a price match with a certain online retailer from john lewis' and got the exact same tv with a 5year warranty for £569. Now that's a no brianer.

 

[Big Chris]

baldemort:seasiders rock:
just bought a 42" Panasonic ÿTX-P42X10B , internet price about £550 ish.

we paid £649 from a high street retailer near Bolton, 5 year warranty and if it goes wrong, pick up the phone and a home visit for repair.

try doing that if bought of tinternet, worth the extra £100, it,s a no brainer folks.....

Now that's a no brianer.

 

[Big Chris]

sonycentre:very good andrew,your sarcasam keeps me going through the day.

And your italics keep me squinting through the day.

:-(