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mi1ez   09-09-2009 at 02:28:05 PM

Check out some of the answers that Maplin give to customer questions, as well as the false product description!

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=99127

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randomizer   09-09-2009 at 02:45:40 PM
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I'm more interested in the questions.

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mi1ez   09-09-2009 at 03:01:09 PM
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You mean "are batteries included?" and "what does this do?"

They are pretty funny. You have to wonder how these people actually ended up on the maplin website!

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randomizer   09-09-2009 at 03:08:53 PM
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Well it doesn't specify "Batteries not included" so it's quite ambiguous. http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w179/random1301/twitch.gif

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moricon   09-09-2009 at 06:53:04 PM
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Thanks for the giggle, really funny questions, but then I ahve had a lady on the phone to me asking why her box is still running when she has switched the monitor off!

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Scotteq   09-09-2009 at 07:29:55 PM
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Devastator_uk   09-09-2009 at 08:12:40 PM
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How do people that stupid manage to even eat?

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djcoolmasterx   09-09-2009 at 09:44:45 PM
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Devastator_uk wrote :

How do people that stupid manage to even eat?



There must be someone feeding them.

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Bronze CPUs badge ulysses35   09-09-2009 at 11:24:30 PM
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Maplin are not the only ones.... CP world (UK) are just as bad - try asking anyone of the "Tech Guys" anything remotely high end and they just give you any old bullshit.

I stopped them flogging a pensioner a £300 Video card once and gave him a cd instead with new drivers... game worked a treat :)

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djcoolmasterx   09-10-2009 at 01:01:36 AM
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Ouch.

Some people I know got laptops from PC world, spent hours getting rid of the preinstalled crap including advertising and a prompt for "The Tech Guys".

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shrex   09-10-2009 at 01:30:59 AM
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what exactly are they selling, it says pentium dual core, but the picture shows pentium d, and it doesnt even say what clock speed it is.

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djcoolmasterx   09-10-2009 at 01:32:01 AM
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If you buy from them, you are not likely to know the difference anyway :P

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mousemonkey   09-10-2009 at 03:26:10 AM
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It will be out of stock anyway.

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