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To those UK members - or indeed anywhere else in the world this concern has "stores"- I have a little "breaking news" about the mighty "Argos" - over-priced, "free credit" catalogue sellers with High Street premises in a number of cities.
![]() You may decide, like me, that there is little chance of us giving them any of our lolly anytime soon...... A decision I'd reached years ago, but this just reinforces it. Walking into town recently, and remembering some blurb or other I'd seen in a paper somewhen, out of sheer noseyness I popped into the Argos I was passing, and looked up "ereader" in their bulging tome of junk, oops, sorry, goods on offer....... To find two Binatone offerings, at £79.99 & £ 144.99 (yes, that's correct, and the cheapest one was the colour version !), under the delightfully informative heading ....... " An ebook, or ereader as they are sometimes known, is a device ........." etc.. blah blah. ![]() It makes you feel they haven't quite gone into the subject with too much care, doesn't it - especially as with these particular products, and at these prices, they might well be dipping the wrong toe into too deep a pond with the wrong fishing rod ..... well, you know what I mean. ![]() |
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I buy lots of stuff from Argos
![]() There's been a fair amount of discussion about these Binatone devices. They are the typical Chinese-made 7" Android tablets. Cheaply made, but good value for money if you're in the market for such a thing. |
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£150 ? Cor blimey guv'nor, leave it aht ....
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I wouldn't recommend buying one as a bookreader, certainly, but if you're in the market for a low-end Android tablet - eg as a video player - then they're quite acceptable.
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Most staff don't know about the products they're selling. |
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Well, in these places there are no staff in the normal sense, they're usually behind a counter taking your order, and calling you over when it comes up from the basement !
![]() ( And I doubt any of them would know much about any of the 1,000's of products available. ) And my real point was their no-doubt expensively produced catalogue, compiled by no-doubt supposedly knowledgable marketeers, checked by (probably poorly paid ) proof-readers, displayed total ignorance of the difference between an ebook and an ereader .... ( I just thought 'twas amusing........................... ![]() |
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Here, why am I a groupie, incidentally ? !!!
![]() Sadly, them days are lorng gorng, mate.............. ![]() Still, you never know...................... ![]() Many an old toon...................... ![]() |
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If you know it is you want to buy, Argos is a good place to buy. But it's definitely NOT the place to go if you don't know, because you can't "browse", as you can in a normal shop. It's actually very like buying online, now I come to think about it.
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But without the atmosphere...............
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Before the internet and online shopping, it was find the product you wanted to buy in a normal shop, then off to Argos to get it cheaper!
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Someone has to pay for all the free credit by installments ............
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Was that the Binatone ? Couldn't force myself to read the blurb that far.
At the moment I am struggling to keep it under 100, I have to confess. I'm going to fool myself, and put some categories on cards, then I can be as acquisitive as I like ! ![]() |
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