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Comet chief fed up selling cheap gear

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Old 17-06-2007, 11:40 PM   #1
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Post Comet chief fed up selling cheap gear

The managing director of the Comet CE retail chain Hugh Harvey has blasted consumer electronics companies, claiming that they are not producing enough high-end kit. Speaking at the trade-only Intellect CE Conference, he said brands need to put value back into the market. “I want to sell your best products - not your cheapest ones [...]
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Old 18-06-2007, 9:12 AM   #2
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Re: Comet chief fed up selling cheap gear

So what he's really saying is he wants the CE companies to train his staff how to set up and sell the top gear
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Old 18-06-2007, 8:31 PM   #3
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Re: Comet chief fed up selling cheap gear

The staff knowledge is impeccable;

The girl told me yesterday that under at 42" there is no difference between LCD and Plasma.

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Old 18-06-2007, 9:22 PM   #4
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Re: Comet chief fed up selling cheap gear

What an idiot, it seems the job of the Ceo to screw things up, with their delusions of grandure, if only the spent soom time on the shop floor meeting the public (damn commoners, he says) he might realise that trapped in the towers of ivory, his world isnt a real one!

Pay peanuts get monkeys - a truth that stands the test of time (and inflation).


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