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Re: OT:(ish)COMET "CREDIT" - BEWARE!!!! Dixons are the same

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From: GH
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 18:17
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I only bought it from Dixons because of the buy now pay later option, which
as it turns out wasnt the offer anyway!
 usually i woulnt touch them with a barge pole

"loz" <lawrence@nospam.wilkesworld.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "GH" <mrblonde@YourBra.sundissential.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > In January I bought a Sony DV Cam from Dixons, i was told buy now pay in
> > 2002... duely bought said item for �1100, with a �100 deposit.....
> > Got the credit agreement thru from HFC Bank, and after reading it
through it
> > suddenly dawned on me that all was not well.
> > Anyway cutting a long story short the deal was Interest free NOT buy now
pay
> > later, i've gotta pay �35 month until December then they chuck a bill
for
> > the final balance at me otherwise its onto interest payments!
> > >
>
> > >
> > > They had their chance though, I suggested that in the interest of
goodwill
> > > they could waiver the amount of the interest as I was certain it was a
> > > mistake on their part that cost me, their customer, this money.
> > > The last laugh is on Comet, every time I walk right past their door to
> > line
> > > the pockets of their competition.
> > >
> > > Please approach these situations with
> > > caution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> I am sorry you guys had hard time at Dixons and Currys, but it does beg
the question of why anyone buys anything from
> these stores.
>
> The poor service from these stores seems such common knowledge that I find
it amazing that folks who are able to come
> and surf these groups and post comments, are at the same time gullible
enough to get suckered in by their sales staff.
> My god, what were you even doing in there in the first place?
>
> Is the British public that lazy that even though they are almost certain
to have a friend, relative, colleague or
> neighbour with a Dixons/Comet/Currys/Powerhouse/etc horror story, yet
STILL they go there like lemings just because they
> are convenient?
>
> It is not like it is hard to find a thoroughly reputable retailer like
John Lewis.
>
>
>
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