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EnergyEclipse
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"Maplins, because at least we're not Currys" is the saying I shall now live by dearly.

 

So I recently walked into a Maplin's store and as normal walked down the 'Computer components" aisle glaring into Corsair Carbides and admiring the hilarious prices of DDR2 RAM. But then I looked at the prices of a an ASUS Strix 1080 and my eyes kind of just fell out, rolled all the way to Currys and back again, pretty normal.

 

Maplins price: £759.99.

 

Currys PC World price, as with Scan UK (Note, they are the exact same, brand new cards, with no obviously advertised warranty bonus from either retailer): £621.99

 

Congratulations Currys! You have for once officially selling a product for a 'reasonable' price! xD

 

 Maplin's also kind of just played themselves big times suppose since losing to Currys is like losing to your 94 year old grandfather in a 50m walking race... LEL

 

If you want more funny prices I have more should you so desire to hear of them... XXD

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I forget to grammar a lot as probably obvious

I once did the unthinkable, back many headphones ago...

I split an audio split, again

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Interesting story.. :P 

 

Although it should be as a status update. :):P 

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2 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

Interesting story.. :P 

 

Although it should be as a status update. :):P 

I partially agree but I seriously think given the kind of savings you get by taking a leap and buying from Currys for once is something I wish to share for once xD 

 

It takes a lot from me to recommend going anywhere other than Maplins if you want a physical store, especially since this is Currys were talking about lol :P

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I split an audio split, again

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Let me tell you amazing pricing

 

PC has 1070 and 6700k at frys. found it retails for around 1.5k online. They had it for 650.

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/Mf3Zcc My build

 

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Id didn't get it cause I've already got a good system but damn.

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R.I.P Donny- Got banned. We will always remember your spamming of "Cancerbooks"

 

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5 minutes ago, Himommies said:

Look at Canadian Best Buys

You think Best Buy is bad at this point? You haven't seen everything yet lol

 

Maplins are now selling super generic 'RGB LED' 120mm gammax fans, which are 'Chinese eBay' quality for £18.99 (Note, these fans included just the fan and now accessories and the only lighting controls listed on the box were just solid red, green and blue colours), each. And guess what! You actually control the fan's 'RGB lighting' in any way shape or form without spending an extra £32 on a remote control. And I'm actually not joking at all on this which makes it worse XDD

 

Plus, no obvious retailer added warranties either to define the pricing any further.

 

Unless I somehow had to many blue smarties before I read the prices in store which is rather unlikely.

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I split an audio split, again

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1 minute ago, ♠FlamieMeister♠ said:

Let me tell you amazing pricing

 

PC has 1070 and 6700k at frys. found it retails for around 1.5k online. They had it for 650.

Trolling isn't allowed on this forum...

I once did the unthinkable, back many headphones ago...

I split an audio split, again

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maple and curry?

both delicious but i dont see how its relevant to technology

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10 hours ago, Tsuki said:

maple and curry?

both delicious but i dont see how its relevant to technology

 "Maplins" and "Currys PC World",  are both electrical apllinaces retailers . Currys is a online but have various superstores around the Uk, however is widely regarded as terrible, having undertrained staff in nearly every store and have had prices nearly always which do not introduce any sense they want to compete in price to performance graphs.

 

Maplins have a not regularly well updated online store but in store generally have better trained staff who are polite and have a really good selection for things like CCTV equipment and professional hobby electronic supplies. They also have a more enthusiast grade computer components.

 

Lel maple and curry XXD 

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I split an audio split, again

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Holly shit Curries/pc world is "normal" price for once (still £30 less to buy online) which is massive as normally they are selling 1070s for 1080 prices. And maplin DDR2 RAM what's it at, cause their 16GB kit of DDR3L RAM last time as really well priced (£60 when online you could get it for £80-£90, no special offers etc. just a really well priced)

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look IT Sale.se instead, FX 6300 and 750TI, $800.

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11 hours ago, Tsuki said:

maple and curry?

both delicious but i dont see how its relevant to technology

 

36 minutes ago, EnergyEclipse said:

 "Maplins" and "Currys PC World",  are both electrical apllinaces retailers . Currys is a online but have various superstores around the Uk, however is widely regarded as terrible, having undertrained staff in nearly every store and have had prices nearly always which do not introduce any sense they want to compete in price to performance graphs.

 

Maplins have a not regularly well updated online store but in store generally have better trained staff who are polite and have a really good selection for things like CCTV equipment and professional hobby electronic supplies. They also have a more enthusiast grade computer components.

 

Lel maple and curry XXD 

by the price to preformance thing what is meant is a £150 laptop online etc. is sold in currys/PC world (both the same company now), for £250-£300 by people who couldn't tell the difference between a CPU, RAM, and a motherboard. One of which actually though that a desktop tower was called a monitor (I'm being serious here) so most people walk out with laptops with atom CPUs which will last them a year tops for £250, then get annoyed and complain about PCs cause they only last them a year before they are painfully slow because they were told to buy the wrong thing.

 

They once tried to sell me a "gaming PC" which was a core 2 duo + 4GB of RAM no GPU or anything like that for £400 it was worth £200 at the time

The owner of "too many" computers, called

The Lord of all Toasters (1920X 1080ti 32GB)

The Toasted Controller (i5 4670, R9 380, 24GB)

The Semi Portable Toastie machine (i7 3612QM (was an i3) intel HD 4000 16GB)'

Bread and Butter Pudding (i7 7700HQ, 1050ti, 16GB)

Pinoutbutter Sandwhich (raspberry pi 3 B)

The Portable Slice of Bread (N270, HAHAHA, 2GB)

Muffinator (C2D E6600, Geforce 8400, 6GB, 8X2TB HDD)

Toastbuster (WIP, should be cool)

loaf and let dough (A printer that doesn't print black ink)

The Cheese Toastie (C2D (of some sort), GTX 760, 3GB, win XP gaming machine)

The Toaster (C2D, intel HD, 4GB, 2X1TB NAS)

Matter of Loaf and death (some old shitty AMD laptop)

windybread (4X E5470, intel HD, 32GB ECC) (use coming soon, maybe)

And more, several more

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What is this? Curry? GTX 1080?

 

When I hear curry I think of spicy Indian food

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1 minute ago, MilfShake said:

What is this? Curry? GTX 1080?

 

When I hear curry I think of spicy Indian food

Indian food + 1080 = awesomeness. 

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4 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

Indian food + 1080 = awesomeness. 

A. -. Flipping. -. Greed.

 

Gotta get frame rates just as spicy as those onion bhajis!

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1 minute ago, EnergyEclipse said:

A. -. Flipping. -. Greed.

 

Gotta get frame rates just as spicy as those onion bhajis!

Yup. And that tasty curry with rice and that awesome naan bread stuff..... 

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I point blank refuse to use either store now , its akin to being mugged by someone perky then told to have a nice day 

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