badgers are brilliant

According to the jessops.com site all stores are now closed

@Sicknote

You’re really cool.

Well it’s now so bad they don’t even have closing down sales. I am sorry for all of the staff.

@Sicknote: You are a disgusting human being. Your behaviour is appalling. I hope it comes back on you. I am really sorry for all the staff there and for the High Street. At the end of the day, shop on the internet and give to Amazon who don’t pay taxes but then don’t moan when you have to pay more in taxes for shittier services and higher welfare.

I think advice in electrical and specialist shops should not be free. You should be made to pay for advice so if you then order online you lose that 50 for advice. It would stop the leaches that went in to Comet and Jessops from buying online. Regardless, online isn’t cheaper not in all cases

@Sicknote

I didn’t study particularly hard at school and Ill be driving a Mercedes next year so fuck you!

So what happens to staff that are owed wages. This administration process took days unlike Comet which took over a month. There are going to be a lot of stressed people left wondering what to do on Monday.

The comments on here are indicative of what’s wrong with this country; everyone thinks they’re owed something by someone else and ooh the poor staff..blah..blah..blah..

About 15 years ago I was made redundant and shortly after that I started my own business. Today I am still successfully running that business from the tax haven of Malta, I am personally wealthy, my wife has a choice of which Rolex to wear and which expensive car drive, my 3 boys are in private schools and anyone outside my front door can go fuck themselves.

I have not one cent of sympathy for the staff and the best & brightest of them will go on to start their own businesses or get snapped up by other employers. The wasters will grizzle about what their owed and by whom they’re owed.

As for this specific business; they should have cut their losses months if not years earlier instead of shovelling the firm into more debt and further risk. Shame on them and shame on their lenders for letting this happen.

^ What he said ^

Sicknote you are a wanker and your wife is a transvestite.

@Gabriella

Yes, every morning in the shower and yes my wife does wear the occasional trouser suit and tie; but you madam are an uneducated overweight shit-flinging shaved orangutan with your knuckles scraping the ground as you stride along the high-street of your local town.

@Gabriella – concerning paying for advice.

I might pay for advice if it was given by an expert. But many of the people that work in Jessops, HMV, Comet, etc are not experts. They are regular people that sell things, often with little knowledge of what they are selling. I remember being told by a Comet salesman that LED TVs are better than LCD ones as the liquid crystal part breaks down over time. He wouldn’t have it that the LED refers only to the backlight and that LED TVs also contain the same LCD TFT elements as a regular LCD TV. Jessops staff are normally no different. One I spoke to once didn’t understand how the f-stop numbers and aperture size where related. He thought bigger f numbers meant a bigger aperture.

I used to use Jessops to try out a lens or two before buying elsewhere. If their prices were better then I would have bought from them, but when they could be £40-50 more expensive on a £200 lens, I would go elsewhere after trying it out. £40 is too much to charge to try out a lens for five minutes and for advice from someone that knows less than me. I even once asked if they would price match and got told no, so they knew they could either make a little profit from me by making a sale or nothing, and they still chose nothing.

I find it quite an emotionally tangible shame that Jessops have gone. HMV today have gone, too, but I can’t honestly remember buying anything in HMV in the past 20 years (tending to prefer the Virgin megastore just a few shops down on Oxford Street (which is now a Primark anyway) and more often Towel Records, before that).

However, I was walking around Maplin this lunchtime thinking to myself that if they ever went the same way, I doubt I’d feel the same sort of sense of unfair loss.