PC world

its all about making money 😉

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GoodisonBlue wrote:

For those not from the UK is a giant computer store staffed by people who know little about computers

I went in there today to get some OEM parts for a client

I had a look at their pc range and one pc caught my eye.

It was a bog standard celeron with 512mb ram and onboard 128 mb shared graphics. Why did that catch my eye ? , because it was showing a promotional video of FSX. The video was looking fantastic with beautiful frame rates and sensational graphics

In reality FSX would barely even start up in that pc let alone produce any sort of meaningful game quality. But I bet a salesman wouln't point that out to any prospective buyer

Really f*ks me off the way these stores set out to trick people who know little about pc's.

The Salesman is only learning a living you know and PCworld can replace them with the click of a finger. Keeping their Job is more important to them than misleading people.If they tell the truth about a crap spec then they will likely find themselves in the office. I'm not saying its right, but the blame really lies with the top dogs in the company itself not the minimum wage Salesman 🙂.
However misleading people is really a wide problem in the PC industry. PCworld is just one out of many and I would advise any beginners to read up in magazines about PCs before they buy 🙂 .

That must be against consumer law under false advertising. I bet you could buy the machine and then complain by arguing you bought the system to run FSX as it was being showcased on the machine and this factor alone made you want to buy that particular model.

To avoid further action they upgrade your machine!

That said by doing it knowingly it would probably fall under a fraudulant act.

Jamie4590 wrote:

That must be against consumer law under false advertising. I bet you could buy the machine and then complain by arguing you bought the system to run FSX as it was being showcased on the machine and this factor alone made you want to buy that particular model.

To avoid further action they upgrade your machine!

That said by doing it knowingly it would probably fall under a fraudulant act.

no-one would know you knowingly did that though...

Quite a good idea to obtain expensive items.. 😂

yeh I hate it when they do that. another thing pc world and other companies do is trick people about hardware. I have a couple of friends who will always say 'macs are better than pcs.' I tell them this is rubbish, it all depends on the hardware etc, but of course they won't listen. It really annoys me how for example, mac are selling a 512mb ram, 80gb hard drive pc with no software above very basic for £550 - I am buying a pc with 4 times better specs for around the same price!. and to upgrade to say 1gb of ram or a 250gb hard drive costs loads of money, probably more than to buy the memory and upgrade it oneself. The companies assume that no-one will know how to do this so they take advantage of it.

GoodisonBlue wrote:

No lol 🙂

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Apologies for my outburst 🙂