Robin
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It wasnt stupidly over priced, just Amazon didnt bother paying tax so they could price everything lower and still make more profit.
Albums have always been £15 ish and singles about £4, nothing has changed.
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dannymccann
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I've never enjoyed looking in HMV, nothing was ever organised, but then I guess when you sell hundreds of thousands of tiny items in one place it always is going to be difficult to keep it organised, so much easier just to type it in a search box and pay less for it
edit - thats not to say it is a shame to see it go, one of the icons of the high street
[Edited on 15-01-2013 by dannymccann]
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pow
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When you can download a 12 song album from iTunes for £9.50ish at 79p a song, why would I want to pay a shop £5.50 more? If they were the same price/slightly more I'd support HMV no problem, but they is a 50% increase on practically everything
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Robin
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There isn't  there's a 50% REDUCTION on iTunes as there's next to no overheads.
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Robin
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Anyway, I never knew that the name came from a trademark of RCA (who sold to EMI), which used to be 'Victor' which then became JVC!
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baza31
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Making way for a New World Order imo, ran by lizards and the Illuminati.
this
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Whittie
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http://www.find-dvd.co.uk should sort you out.
Shame, but inevitable, havent read the link, but does it say anything about Waterstones? think they're the same group?
http://www.find-dvd.co.uk/bluray/?sort=lowestprice
Some bargains there
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mwg
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Said on the news this morning that they won't be accepting gift cards or vouchers
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Robin
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I don't understand how they can not honour them
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Hammer
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What are gift cards and vouchers? Fabricated items by HMV, they can do as they wish with them.
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Robin
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Which someone has at some point given them money for, the should be forced to honour them.
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Gary
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I don't understand how they can not honour them
Should be regulated. ie for every voucher you sell you must have the cash stored away to honour it
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Hammer
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Morally they should be yeah but it's fairly simple, they offered a gift card or voucher (which they withhold the right to refuse) in exchange for money.
They have went into administration i.e. they are no under different control and they can refuse to honour them if they wish.
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A2H GO
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Once under the creditor as the owner of a gift card, HMV owe you money, however at that point you're at the bottom of the list.
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Mattb
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Amazon
best of all my sister inlaw works there so gets staff discount 
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Jambo
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
When you can download a 12 song album from iTunes for £9.50ish at 79p a song, why would I want to pay a shop £5.50 more? If they were the same price/slightly more I'd support HMV no problem, but they is a 50% increase on practically everything
Last time i checked iTunes gives you lossy material, so an extra couple a quid for lossless is fine by me.
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Jambo
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lossy?
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Ian
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Compressed so as to lose bits to make the file smaller.
Gift cards are just a debt to you and yes, there's probably a long list in front of you. I would think the banks have more chance of getting back some money from the closing down sale than customers do.
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Gavin
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times have changed, and some companies just failed to keep up
I havent been in a music store for 6-7 years, nevermind the last time I spent anything at HMV
However, I do feel for those who are out of a job now. I have a lot of mates who worked for Comet (I used to work there 8 years ago during my Uni years) and they have struggled to find work... and been left to fend for themselves
Wonder who will be next?
pew pew pew pewwwww
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LeeM
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security must have been the first thing to be cut back, just walked past the one in town as the alarm starts going off and some trackeid up yoof comes running out scattering half the stock of dvds across the floor. no one inside seemed to notice or care
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Cavey
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Wonder who will be next?
Can't imagine DSG (Dixons group, Currys, PC world, Dixons) will be doing too well, although they are pretty much the only electrical suppliers left on the high street (or retail parks) so probably get 90% of those sales
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Robin
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Homebase.
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Cavey
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Originally posted by Robin
Homebase.
Always assumed they had some link to Sainsburys as they're always next to Sainsburys stores up here?
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Scotty_B
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quote:
Originally posted by Cavey
quote:
Originally posted by Robin
Homebase.
Always assumed they had some link to Sainsburys as they're always next to Sainsburys stores up here?
They not linked to Argos?
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