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Post by Robbing the Dead on Nov 11, 2007 18:10:26 GMT
Does anybody else find the PC World ads really annoying? Firstly, the sales staff are stupidly enthusiastic,
"Great we'll take take one." - "GREAT!!!"
Secondly, the customers are always rubbish and some kind of non-man, or a couple with a non-man in it.
Thirdly there is that specific ad where the salesman perves over the customer woman and says she's "beautiful".
When I ordered my latptop online with PC World I had to wait 20 minutes in store to be seen by a sales assistant on the shop floor to pick it up and pay for it.
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Post by SweatShop on Nov 11, 2007 18:34:52 GMT
I always get the impression that people that go to PC World tend to know pretty much fuck all about computers.
Apart for those who normally know better and are only going because there is an actual decent offer in there and just have to put up with it.
It's like they're representing the usual PC World customer in these adverts.
Chirpy chirpy sales assistant: "This computer comes with 512mb of RAM..." Gleeful customer: "Ooh, that sounds great!" Everyone at home: It's not that good love. Might even struggle with XP, never mind Vista."
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Post by jode* on Nov 12, 2007 11:33:31 GMT
I hate PC World. They do have some good bargains these days, but I'd always prefer to buy all the bits of my computers separately, as you never know what kind of cheap knock-off motherboards they are using.
Plus they offer all these PC "maintenance" things, where for £50 they delete your temporary internet files and defrag the hard drive.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Nov 12, 2007 11:47:13 GMT
I hate the fact that they always try over and over and over and over again to flog you their insurance. With every 'no thank-you' being met with a speech about why we need it.
And my dad was a big racist and embarrassed me in one predominantly asian store once when a supervisor-type asked who was serving him (since he'd fucked off and abandoned us) and my dad said that he didn't know because 'you all look the same', before realising how bad this sounded and pretty much shouting 'IN YOUR UNIFORMS'.
Thankfully I am not like my dad. Terrible people skills and a hairy back are not desirable qualities.
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Post by David on Nov 12, 2007 13:00:53 GMT
And my dad was a big racist and embarrassed me in one predominantly asian store once when a supervisor-type asked who was serving him (since he'd fucked off and abandoned us) and my dad said that he didn't know because 'you all look the same', before realising how bad this sounded and pretty much shouting 'IN YOUR UNIFORMS'. Yes, it's quite intriguing how the TV PC World staff are nothing like the real world PC World staff, particularly from a skin colour point-of-view.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Nov 13, 2007 18:13:20 GMT
I was going to say that, but was worried OfCom might come and shut the website down.
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Post by pauliepoos on Nov 13, 2007 20:10:41 GMT
The staff in the Cardiff store seem to be a mix of pastey, skinny boys or pastey women on the verge of obesity, which isn't really portrayed in the advert either.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2007 20:24:15 GMT
The one in Oldham is staffed by 47 asian men and two fat, middle aged white women. Not one of them has any clue about computers which I gather is a pre-requisite of working there. It's a lovey shop.
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Post by David on Nov 13, 2007 20:31:01 GMT
I was going to say that, but was worried OfCom might come and shut the website down. Yes, quite. The point I'm trying to make, is that if PC World were seeking to provide a true representation of their stores - say, for instance, like ASDA - that they would actually have people of colour in them, both as staff, and as customers. I don't think I've ever seen a non-white person in any role in those commercials.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2007 20:44:02 GMT
Denny from Bad Girls was on one of them.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Nov 13, 2007 22:59:16 GMT
The staff in the adverts seem to be knowledgeable and available to talk to customers, which is totally not the demographic operating in my local branch.
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Post by SheSaysThat on Nov 14, 2007 10:45:09 GMT
And the stores in the adverts are so bright and cheerful! Round my way there's just constant shitty RnB music being piped everywhere and a lot of dust floating around.
And, when i go to buy laptops, that is all i am interested in. I do not want some smelly older man who's career highlight is PC world being all suggestive and weird towards me. I get enough of that with my pervy boss as it is, thanks.
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Post by mackenzie on Nov 14, 2007 13:26:41 GMT
When I was 17 and accidently dropped my first iPod down the stairs and it then kept turning itself of whenever it liked, I took it back to PC World for some advice. Expecting a barrage of unhelpfulness because I hadn't taken out the extended warranty, nor have my receipt, I braced myself. However I was greeted by a sales assistant about three years younger than me (or so he looked), who barely looked twice at it then said, "So, d'ya wat ya money back?" Ten minutes later I was walking out of the shop with £250 cash (I had initially paid by debit card).
The moral of this story? Yes, PC World staff are morons. But sometimes it pays off.
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Post by Teedsie on Nov 25, 2007 1:00:59 GMT
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Post by Bungle on Jan 31, 2008 23:57:15 GMT
These are getting worse.
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