OT: Bargain at PC World shock horror probe

That's a decent deal by any standards!

Always the same, get all cabled up and sorted out and then this sort of deal comes along.....:-))

probably the impact of wireless networking has made Cat5 equipment drop in price now, the switch alone would have been over 30 quid a year or so ago!

Peter

-- Peter A Forbes Prepair Ltd, Luton, UK snipped-for-privacy@easynet.co.uk

Could be - but the thing that amazed me was that they were selling the exact same 5-port switch a little further along the shelf for 30 quid! Makes NO sense to me whatsoever - especially as I am used to paying over the odds whenever I go in there, compared with mail order prices.

Regards, Tony

Thanks for the tip, I just picked up every one they had at my local PC World Thats cheaper than I can buy them trade.

Regards Stuart

I think this was a "computer error"! Christmas time I'm sure these things were £39.99 a pop. After all, £9.99 is cheaper than the £13.99 "bargain" USB cables they sell, which look suspiciously like the ones that sell for £1.99 elsewhere.

Steve

I'm sure you're right Steve - so if you need some of this stuff, get in there before they correct the mistake!

Regards, Tony

Thank you. I was passing PCW at Leicester this afternoon, so I popped in. At first sight it seemed a one-off pricing error: the network cards were 9.99 each. No 5 port kits. Then I spotted "Office Networking Kit" - 8 ports with 4 cards & cables for 19.99. Just got it home and measured up the cables - 8 fingertip to nose 'yards'. Makers of angle grinders, etc, please copy.

I recently paid 5 quid for 7m at a computer fair and the miserable bugger wouldn't give me a VAT receipt so I've lost nothing even if the RealTek chip is as crummy as the writer of the (provided) FreeBSD driver says.

It's been a good week, bought a pair of DECT 'phones and bases for

Regards,

David P.