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Post by salopstick on Dec 19, 2011 22:14:03 GMT
They have been over priced for years compared to everywhere else.
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Post by starkiller on Dec 20, 2011 4:50:08 GMT
Serves the cunts right for charging £17.49 a CD ten years ago.
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Post by NG4POTTERS on Dec 20, 2011 8:25:39 GMT
Serves them right for stopping selling vinyl. What goes around comes around!
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Post by wembley4372 on Dec 20, 2011 8:37:54 GMT
Last Christmas .... they won't see another one
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Post by salopstick on Dec 20, 2011 10:30:10 GMT
Whilst It is sad to see a firm goes bust they have relied on people just paying their crazy prices.
Instead of lowering prices and going for volume.
Virgin was the same
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Post by mistersausage on Dec 20, 2011 11:25:08 GMT
So why doesn't Cameron let them off with their tax to save the company?
After all, he did it for Vodafone didn't he ???
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Post by jonah77 on Dec 20, 2011 11:36:24 GMT
Serves the cunts right for charging £17.49 a CD ten years ago. totally agree.i've got c.d.s from the 90s with the price sticker still on them,and abbey road cost me £17.99 17 fuckin years ago. |
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Post by Mason_Stokie on Dec 20, 2011 14:51:20 GMT
Surprised it's lasted this long with the likes of Amazon around. Multiple retailers over here in the US are in trouble. Circuit City (Big electronics retailer) went to the wall a couple of years back. Talk that "Best Buy" will soon be going the same way.
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Post by mrred on Dec 20, 2011 16:55:02 GMT
I'm saying by next Christmas, they'll have gone the way of Zavvi.
They never adjust prices accordingly.
HMV Boxset 1- £30
HMV Boxset 2- 35
Elsewhere - £20 for both.
HMV Game - £39.99
Elsewhere - £12
HMV Pre-owned game - £35.99
Elsewhere- £15.99
HMV are their own worst enemy.
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Post by Plain Jane on Dec 20, 2011 17:05:34 GMT
It was heavily rumoured last Christmas that they wouldn't see this year out. You have a source for this Salop?
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Post by salopstick on Dec 20, 2011 17:09:01 GMT
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Post by diaofan on Dec 20, 2011 17:56:48 GMT
Popped into the Chester store the other week to kill some time and possibly pick up some cheap dvds. Anything worth getting was over £15 and some old boxsets were going for upwards of £30.
It's also extremely noticeable how much more of the store is dedicated to mp3 accessories and tacky t-shirts where the space used to be allocated to CDs and DVDs
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Post by funkyphantom on Dec 20, 2011 21:27:02 GMT
They need to fill the store up with something, considering how many albums/singles get downloaded nowadays.
Its weird, I hadn't been in for ages, and i thought there was a fair few bargains to be had. I.e Archos tablet £10 cheaper than Car Phone Warehouse, skull Candy headphones half price etc etc.
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Post by santy on Dec 20, 2011 23:24:04 GMT
They sell CD's, DVD's and Games mostly. They aren't the best value for any of them usually within 200 metres, never mind looking at other options. It will happen to a lot of shops Currys are experiencing the same, Comet are, PC World will likely be another to follow soon.
Stores that preyed on the ignorance of customers, prices artificially inflated and viewed as sustainable because for a while people knew no better. Ten+ years ago the average person had little idea how to burn a CD or DVD, or even how to download music and movies, then combined with poor compression and slow download speeds etc as this country caught up with other nations in terms of bandwidth it became much more accessible.
HMV is probably one of the first to suffer more because on all fronts of its core business its been getting bombarded from all sides, the internet ravaged their CD sales, Sky+/On Demand and now online rentals for movies etc through xbox live/lovefilm have destroyed the DVD market. There's no point in paying £10+ when you can pay a few quid, watch it once and then be done with it. Then games, I remember for a while I would buy most games from HMV because they would sell 2 for £50, which was better than paying the £35/£40 for one game. Now they don't even attempt compete with the rip-off merchants Game who are usually lurking nearby in most city centres.
When you look at it and realise they offer nothing special and aren't even the cheapest, what hope do they have? Too many people will be busy sitting around pocketing what they can without anyone ever actually saying "Actually, we're a bit wank".
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Post by SamB_SCFC on Dec 21, 2011 5:36:01 GMT
Shops like HMV going bust is just the modern day equivilant of things like blacksmiths and cobblers closing down. They simply don't have a viable business model any more in these days of cheap instant online downloads and online retailers who can sell the physical products far cheaper too. Just as the local blacksmith was shut down by cheaper mass produced metalware and they were left with nowhere to go, HMV is now being left with large expensive store units full of expensive outdated products which no-one wants to buy. As has been said the big electrical retailers may soon suffer the same fate.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2011 9:01:22 GMT
I'm staggered that PC World still exist, as Santy alluded to, they have made a killing over the years a) selling overpriced product b) persuading people that don't know any better that they need x,y,and z at massively inflated margins/prices (support services etc) and c) generally making money out of technically inadequate people that think PC World have some kind of monopoly on the word 'PC'.
I went in there when I had an hour to kill a few weeks ago. I nearly died.
USB Keyboards £19.00 (£8 elsewhere)
3m HDMI cable £23.00 (it was a pretty standard one, so £6 elsewhere?)
It's obscene. There were plenty in there though, they must be mad, or have money to burn.
A retail analyst on the TV around 3 months ago predicted that several, longstanding & recognised retailers from the 'high street' were one bad Xmas away from folding. Given that the reports coming through for this year to date, are pretty poor fare...the 'high street' might look a little different come 2012?
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Post by NG4POTTERS on Dec 21, 2011 16:39:04 GMT
Surprised it's lasted this long with the likes of Amazon around. Multiple retailers over here in the US are in trouble. Circuit City (Big electronics retailer) went to the wall a couple of years back. Talk that "Best Buy" will soon be going the same way. Bestbuy are fucked here mate. When i got made redundant i was out for 6 months, nearly took a job with them at the new 'superstore' in nottingham, i was offered another job the morning that they offered me that one and i politlely declined. 6 months later all the stores in the uk are shutting down! Lucky escape. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2011 17:50:41 GMT
I've never been in a HMV shop.....
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Post by Mason_Stokie on Dec 21, 2011 17:53:10 GMT
Surprised it's lasted this long with the likes of Amazon around. Multiple retailers over here in the US are in trouble. Circuit City (Big electronics retailer) went to the wall a couple of years back. Talk that "Best Buy" will soon be going the same way. Bestbuy are fucked here mate. When i got made redundant i was out for 6 months, nearly took a job with them at the new 'superstore' in nottingham, i was offered another job the morning that they offered me that one and i politlely declined. 6 months later all the stores in the uk are shutting down! Lucky escape. Didn't even realise Best Buy were in the UK! Must been out of the country too long... (2 1/2 years) |
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Post by Yorkshirepotter on Dec 22, 2011 6:07:12 GMT
Serves them right for always having a shite metal section (apart from the branch in Leeds).
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