Jessops reincarnated?

[Guest DaveW]

See:-

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/mar/27/dragons-den-jessops-peter-jones

 

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/tv-dragon-breathes-life-jessops-071409949.html

Edited March 28, 2013 by DaveW

[NannyFerret]

I saw it on the TV this morning.

I think a lot of people will still be wary of shopping with them until it has proved a stable business.

[Black Pearl]

Got an offer to go back but not high enough to tempt me.

Good luck to him though and I know most of my staff either have jobs or are now going back which is fantastic.

[Leon]

excellent news  hope it goes well, Peter I'm sure would not take the risk if he was not going to turn it around with such a reputation to live upto?

Edited March 30, 2013 by mrwall

[NannyFerret]

Just seen this on Ephotozine:

 

London (Oxford Street) and Birmingham stores have opened today, and Manchester, Aberdeen, St. Albans and High Wycombe will open over the course of the Easter Weekend.

Edited April 1, 2013 by NannyFerret

[Black Pearl]

Metro Centre opens soon - wonder if I can still swing a bit of discount?

[NannyFerret]

Metro Centre opens soon - wonder if I can still swing a bit of discount?

It's worth a try lol

Jessops did a lot of trade when they price matched. The shop in Coventry was always packed out then.

There used to be two and both were always very busy at one time.

[Guest DaveW]

Trouble with many price matches is they only match local stores and many actually exclude the Internet.  When buying an 18ft greenhouse I asked for another quote from a fairly large firm with considerable buying power that claimed they price matched and quoted them what a small local agent for the greenhouse I wanted had quoted me.  Their reply was we only sell that make of greenhouse we don't make it so can't match that price. The local agent also sold several makes of greenhouse and he did not make any of them either and probably got a smaller discount on them than they did.  So much for price matching claims, it often looks good in print but often does not mean very much in practice! However it never hurts to ask them for their best price, but we Brits are not very good at negotiating better prices than those marked, something most other nationalities seem to accept as normal trading methods.

Edited April 1, 2013 by DaveW

[NannyFerret]

You used to be able to take an internet price print out into Jessops and would negociate a price. Maybe not as low as the internet but taking postage into account and also that they used to sock most of the cameras and you could generally take it with you on the day of purchase you didn't come off too badly.

Sometimes they would throw in a memory card or filter.

Edited April 1, 2013 by NannyFerret

[Guest DaveW]

Yes some will match offers not with the same price but with "freebies" to make up the difference.