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Photo Forum / General Photo Topics / UK Photography / January 2007Jessops in bargain shocker!
I need some negative files, so after finding 3 places in Leicester that dont have them, I went to the big Jessops on Hinckley Rd. (used to be their Head Office). They did have a few in, turned them over to see the price, and nearly fell over in shock - £10 for 25 files for 35mm films. Err, I think I'll leave it - then at the bottom of the pile was one marked at £6, OK, I'll have that one. Had a quick walk around the store, to find they have no film related equipment in at all - even the films are no longer available in the main shop, you have to go to the processing section. All film cameras and lenses have also disappeared. Then there is the 'bargain table'. Ok, I'll have a look. Manfrotto 141RC tripod head £10, yep, I'll have that, Eschenbach compact 8x22 binos - never heard of them, can I go outside and have a try? Tried them, and christ, they are clear, £5, Ok, I'll have them too. That makes up for the overpriced neg files. Also reduced to £5 and £10 were a number of good quality film compact cameras, mainly Nikon and Minolta, a couple of ex-display spotting scopes at £5, numerous compact binos all at £5, a Minolta 5mp digi camera at £60, a couple of ex-display Sigma 80 - 2 or 300mm autofocus lenses at £30 (I presume these are for some obscure camera mount at these prices), a pile of, mostly lightweight, tripods, and numerous other odds and ends like digi camera docks,and inkjet printers at less than half price. Thats the first time for many years that I have spent more than £20 at Jessops - and I used to spend a LOT there in the distant past. Alan.  SignatureTo reply by e-mail, change the ' + ' to 'plus'. > I need some negative files, so after finding 3 places in Leicester that > dont have them, I went to the big Jessops on Hinckley Rd. (used to be [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Jessops - and I used to spend a LOT there in the distant past. > Alan. Get me to Jessops now! Never thought I'd say that. I feel slightly queasy now. >Get me to Jessops now! > >Never thought I'd say that. I feel slightly queasy now. I wandered into their Norwich branch today. I was gobsmacked to see that they were still selling my Minolta A200 camera. The camera went out of production almost a year ago when Konica Minolta withdrew from the market but Jessops were still selling it a £425, which is £120 more than most retailers were selling it for when the camera was in production. SignaturePaul Giverin British Jet Engine Website http://www.britjet.co.uk >>Get me to Jessops now! >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > but Jessops were still selling it a £425, which is £120 more than most > retailers were selling it for when the camera was in production. the jessops in norwich is nothing like it used to be. in the older days, they would help you out to get bits that were within your price range. i went in there last year for a bigger lens for my nikon D50, i asked them about a sigma lens, and the only lens that they wanted to sell me was a nikon lens, that costs over £800. i also tried the jessops in lowestoft, but got the same answer, i got the impression that the people that they employ these days , do not have the knowlegde about cameras and bits,like they used to have. or they do not want to sell the cheaper items when the originals make them more money. >>Get me to Jessops now! >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > but Jessops were still selling it a £425, which is £120 more than most > retailers were selling it for when the camera was in production. Maybe that why they still have it on the shelf >I wandered into their Norwich branch today. I was gobsmacked to see that >they were still selling my Minolta A200 camera. The camera went out of >production almost a year ago when Konica Minolta withdrew from the >market but Jessops were still selling it a £425, which is £120 more than >most retailers were selling it for when the camera was in production. Entirely typical of Jessops. I gave up buying from them when they quoted me £100 over the manufacturer's list price for an item. > >I wandered into their Norwich branch today. I was gobsmacked to see that > >they were still selling my Minolta A200 camera. The camera went out of [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Entirely typical of Jessops. I gave up buying from them when they > quoted me £100 over the manufacturer's list price for an item. I was somewhat shocked when I looked in there for an idea of what a new lens would cost me, and found Jessops selling them for a touch under £200 when several other retailers (online ones anyway) were around the £100 mark for the same piece of kit. Not even anything particularly noteworthy either, just a Tamron 70-300. Some of the Jessops prices seem to have been made up for a laugh. FR In article <6ngqq2h9m0fqle98fua40h2f78u5tbd2i3@4ax.com>, tp@nospam.net says... > On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:44:45 +0000, Paul Giverin <paul@giverin.co.uk> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Entirely typical of Jessops. I gave up buying from them when they > quoted me £100 over the manufacturer's list price for an item. I was somewhat shocked when I looked in there for an idea of what a new lens would cost me, and found Jessops selling them for a touch under £200 when several other retailers (online ones anyway) were around the £100 mark for the same piece of kit. Not even anything particularly noteworthy either, just a Tamron 70-300. Some of the Jessops prices seem to have been made up for a laugh. FR Or Made up so that they can discount or show a saving in the sale That's the difference between a camera shop and a photographic one. A photographic shop knows what they sell and are enthusiast themselves. Camera shops just SELL stuff. I bemoaned the level of competence when I was in the trade many years ago 1972-'82. I would train staff in what they knew and when they couldn't answer a question they were asked knew from whom to ask to get a correct answer. We even bought in our own prints to example many type of film/paper/chemistry compositions. Or just decent photography to inspire and encourage out customers of whom many were friends in a way. They knew that when they had a problem to solve it wasn't a cash based answer. Cameras that needed fixing were repaired but when it was something the customer had done we'd show them what they did wrong to stop the problem happening. Gone are those days I'm afraid. Not to say there aren't a smattering of decent people running a great shop but they are probably just surviving all their overheads in the face of fierce devaluation of the second-hand market and internet sales of goods and services. These days such shops are not able to service a local demand as it simply has disappeared. Duncan >>Get me to Jessops now! >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > but Jessops were still selling it a £425, which is £120 more than most > retailers were selling it for when the camera was in production. > That's the difference between a camera shop and a photographic one. > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Duncan The punter want the lowest price not advise he is better then that he known's it all. Or he wants to pick your brains before going online. Now in computers you have to pay 50p a minute or more to find out why they messed it up. We gave our Knowledge away too cheap. > The punter want the lowest price not advise he is better then that he > known's it all. > Or he wants to pick your brains before going online. What? >> The punter want the lowest price not advise he is better then that he >> known's it all. >> Or he wants to pick your brains before going online. > > What? When entering the sales establishment the customer is merely in search of the best price he can get for the item he wishes to buy. He rarely seeks purchasing advice from the sales assistant. In those instances where he does engage a sales assistant in conversation he is merely obtaining from him/her knowledge so that after leaving the shop he can go home and buy the same item on the internet for half the price. Or a merangue. Chris This is common practise these days in many trades that people want to pick the brains of the shops and then find the cheapest deal on line. It will erode into shops saying it is what it is and that's it - want it or not. There will be no customer service if there was any to start with and shops will cease to exist. the punter will then have to rely on scant reports and opinions in photo journals and web reports. No doubt they will find themselves here asking for freebee advice and then how to use something that shouldn't have bought as it's unsuited to what they intended using it for. Only bought because some trumped up guru on the web or photo mag said it was so many stars ranked or 1% better in their arbitrary rating system than something that would have better suited. I knew all those years ago it would lead to something like what we have now although I didn't know that it would be on the web. Can we make this a premium rate newsgroup and earn a few pennies for our knowledge? ;-) Duncan >>> The punter want the lowest price not advise he is better then that he >>> known's it all. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Chris There were two decent camera shops in my home town when I was starting out. They've been gone for 20 years, so I can't blame digital for them. Probably just retirement. Or property prices- although I'm not so sure. Boston is up-and-coming now, but it wasn't in 1985. Just my two pennorth. > This is common practise these days in many trades that people want to pick > the brains of the shops and then find the cheapest deal on line. [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > > > Chris |
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