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- From: cs92dty@brunel.ac.uk (Danny T Yates)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Watford Electronics
- Message-ID: <C1K9qK.6sH@brunel.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 11:11:04 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.142359.10103@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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- D.Pead (rsxdp@unicorn.nott.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Just out of interest - has anybody managed to get Watford Electronics
- : to answer the 'phone in the last few days? I'm counting myself lucky that
- : I haven't currently got anything on order from them...
- : Maybe their switchboard has gone west or something.
-
- Are you ringing the Watford or Luton branch? I generally find the Luton branch
- are very good at answering the phone.
-
- On the subject of ordering from them, I bought an A3000 back in June/July 1991.
- While I was at it, I ordered a Philips TV tuner (to allow me to watch TV on
- the monitor). It was advertised at 79 uk pounds (+ vat) at the time. I
- chased them for four months and kept getting responses like - "they are on order
- from the suppliers, they'll be here in about a week" or "We have no idea when
- they will arrive". Eventually they admitted to us that they had been having
- difficulty obtaining them, they had NEVER carried a stock of them, and in fact
- they had never seen any of them.
-
- Needless to say, I was furious about this, and rang the Advertising Standards
- Authority. I explained the situation to them, forwarding all correspondence,
- the original receipts etc. (yes, they had debited my credit card for the full
- amount) They contacted Watford, and I got my money back in full. The next month
- the advert for the tuner was removed from their advert.
-
- I have never placed an order for anything with them since, instead I tend to
- go to Beebug (or is it Risc Developments? I can't fathom this one!) which is
- a little out of my way as I live in Luton. But at least they are reliable.
-
- Has anybody else had a similar problem with Watford?
-
- Dan.
-