Tag: Comet
Comet "Fire Sale" will follow administration news, gift cards accepted
Financially-stricken high street electronics retailer Comet will hold a stock-clearing "fire sale" following the news that the company has been put into administration. Items will be sold at "everything must go" prices, with £120 million worth of stock to go….
UPDATE: Comet to go into administration next week
Following on from our post earlier today highlighting high-street gadget retailer Comet's current financial woes, it's now been confirmed that the company will go into administration next week. As many as 240 shops could be set to close, with some…
Trouble at retailer Comet as administration looms
UK gadgets and electronics high street retailer is in serious financial trouble, a report published by the Telegraph reveals today. Owners OpCapita may be forced to put the chain into administration. In an ironic turn, OpCapita now face with Comet…
Microsoft suing retailer Comet for selling pirate Windows CDs
Now here's an unexpected and downright criminal move from struggling electronics retailers Comet. They're being accused by Microsoft of producing and selling some 94,000 forged copies of Windows Vista and XP recovery discs out of a factory in Hampshire. Microsoft…
Dom Joly delivers gadget fakery on a market stall
Electronics retailer Comet is about to start an ad campaign called “A Bluffer’s Guide to Gadgets”, and it’s recruited veteran secret-camera comedian Dom Joly to help. He’s filmed trying to convince the British public that gadgets can do all sorts of insane stuff, like toasting an egg, or putting holograms on your car’s dashboard…
Opinion: Doesn't anyone have anything better to do than shop on Christmas Day?
Jonathan Weinberg writes… It’s meant to be the one day of the year when you can have a total rest. No work (for most of us), nothing to do indoors other than eat, drink and be merry and with no real shops open, no reason to be tempted to spend cash on anything other than spare batteries that you forgot for those gadget presents and some cream for the mince pies.
So what on earth possessed people to finish up their turkey and pigs-in-blankets, watch the Queen’s Speech and then nip upstairs and buy a TV or toaster from the likes of Comet or Currys.
I don’t know, sure Christmas is a time to be with the family, or if not, it’s a time to get drunk on Advocaat or Sherry so that your handy is not even steady enough to use a mouse. It is not the time to be shopping online, no matter how many bargains there might be out there…