I'd just like to have a short rant about the likes of Currys and Comet. As it's personal experience I don't think it will be against house rules but I'm sure 'the mods' will 'slap' me if I cross a line!
Ok - first why do they even bother having the tv's turn on. Image quality on the signal (usually a sky repeat feed) is so bad you just can't tell what the PQ is going to be like. There are one or too unit's running Blu ray discs but these are mostly samsungs which they favour for some reason and the odd 50" plasma.
A short story in how to lose a sale!
Ok so I've been dithering about upgrading the old CRT for over a year now but a redecoration of the rooms has force my hand. The problem is they don't produce the perfect tv yet (well not for the right money lol). So we decided to go for something cheep for now and then look at upgrading again in a few years.
Any how in comet yesterday spent ages eye up tv's with the boss and swatting off salesmen every two minuets till we'd decided what we were doing. We plumped for a 40EX503 which was more than I wanted to spend on what was a stop-gap tv. So along walks Mr Saleman 27!
"Can I help"
"Yes I'm looking at the 503 and wondered what your policy on returns over backlight bleed was?"
Slightly confused look... then
"All repairs are done in the home."
Ok he'd lost the sale at that point but it would be come evident that he didn't want to sell a £900 tv.
In fact he started to tell me how it uses fluorescent tubes for lighting and that they were rubbish and that I needed a LED one (que the samsung).
"Do you have Sony LED?"
"Yes we have the NX.... but have I shown you this other samsung... It's my favorite!"
Incidentally were now at the £1300 mark
He then started to tell me that LED was better for backs as the can be turned off individually..
"Yes but that only on a full array backlight" - i asked.
"No sir the edge lit panels do it too!"
but wait the then states
"LED are also better as the turn on and off many more times a second giving soother motion and better response time!"
Now I could be wrong but I always thought response time was down to the panel and refresh rates were the electonics and that the backlight was just that, a light.
By the end of this he had walk me round and shown me most of samsung.. (cos clearly the shop must not have stocked anything else!)
But finally brought me to the £1800 3d err... Samsung and told me spending £500 more on 3d and future proofing would be sensible...
Err.. £500 but I was looking at a £900 TV. Even his maths was bad.
So he'd had us for a good 20 mins
"hum... interesting can we have five minuets to talk it over?"
"Of course sir"
"Run woman, run and try to dodge the twelve salesmen guarding the door!"
THE END
I feel so much better now..... rant over lol
Ok - first why do they even bother having the tv's turn on. Image quality on the signal (usually a sky repeat feed) is so bad you just can't tell what the PQ is going to be like. There are one or too unit's running Blu ray discs but these are mostly samsungs which they favour for some reason and the odd 50" plasma.
A short story in how to lose a sale!
Ok so I've been dithering about upgrading the old CRT for over a year now but a redecoration of the rooms has force my hand. The problem is they don't produce the perfect tv yet (well not for the right money lol). So we decided to go for something cheep for now and then look at upgrading again in a few years.
Any how in comet yesterday spent ages eye up tv's with the boss and swatting off salesmen every two minuets till we'd decided what we were doing. We plumped for a 40EX503 which was more than I wanted to spend on what was a stop-gap tv. So along walks Mr Saleman 27!
"Can I help"
"Yes I'm looking at the 503 and wondered what your policy on returns over backlight bleed was?"
Slightly confused look... then
"All repairs are done in the home."
Ok he'd lost the sale at that point but it would be come evident that he didn't want to sell a £900 tv.
In fact he started to tell me how it uses fluorescent tubes for lighting and that they were rubbish and that I needed a LED one (que the samsung).
"Do you have Sony LED?"
"Yes we have the NX.... but have I shown you this other samsung... It's my favorite!"
Incidentally were now at the £1300 mark
He then started to tell me that LED was better for backs as the can be turned off individually..
"Yes but that only on a full array backlight" - i asked.
"No sir the edge lit panels do it too!"
but wait the then states
"LED are also better as the turn on and off many more times a second giving soother motion and better response time!"
Now I could be wrong but I always thought response time was down to the panel and refresh rates were the electonics and that the backlight was just that, a light.
By the end of this he had walk me round and shown me most of samsung.. (cos clearly the shop must not have stocked anything else!)
But finally brought me to the £1800 3d err... Samsung and told me spending £500 more on 3d and future proofing would be sensible...
Err.. £500 but I was looking at a £900 TV. Even his maths was bad.
So he'd had us for a good 20 mins
"hum... interesting can we have five minuets to talk it over?"
"Of course sir"
"Run woman, run and try to dodge the twelve salesmen guarding the door!"
THE END
I feel so much better now..... rant over lol
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