News Time called for Tiny?

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  1. GreatOldOne

    GreatOldOne Wannabe Martian

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    GreatOldOne, 27 Jul 2005
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  2. Da_Rude_Baboon

    Da_Rude_Baboon What the?

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    A sad day for the employees but a good day for the consumer.
     
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  3. TheAnimus

    TheAnimus Banned

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    bad service, bad management. The only thing missing now is a goverment bailout.
     
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  4. Da Dego

    Da Dego Brett Thomas

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    Haha...wrong country, Animus. :) Only *WE* do that. ;)
     
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  5. MrWillyWonka

    MrWillyWonka Chocolate computers galore!

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    They'll go into administration..
     
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  6. Mattt

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    only ever purchesd from them once,a geforce 2 mx and that was when the Geforce2MX was considered a high end card all those years ago. :D

    got the card ultra cheap with them compared with other places, however this was the time they were startin to do away with selling componets.

    but appart from that im glad to see these shops go, if only pc world would as well i would be happy. dont like gettin talked down to in shops when i know alot more then the person talking to me and espcaily dont like it when i over hear the sales people telling some old lady that she needs a 3.0ghz comp with a gig of ram to recive e-mails from her grand kids.
     
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  7. rupbert

    rupbert What's a Dremel?

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    At last.

    Produced truely awful machines, hideous looking, underspecified, overpriced, abysmal support, etc...
     
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  8. atanum141

    atanum141 I fapped to your post!

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    thanks god!!

    hopefully if they have a clearance sale.....i'll be a happy man...and pick up some bargains.

    @rupbert......i love mandy more dude......shes gonna be my wife!!!!
     
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  9. rupbert

    rupbert What's a Dremel?

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    Get in line :D
     
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  10. Rich_13

    Rich_13 What's a Dremel?

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    They deserved to go down, there support for customers was awful years back when I dealt with them.
     
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  11. lord nicon21

    lord nicon21 sexy *******

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    "Time Computers closes 78 retail outlets 'for now' because of issues with its bankers, but its mail order business continues"


    it sound like they will do a dell and just be a internet shop thing :duh:
     
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  12. RTT

    RTT #parp

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  13. flibblesan

    flibblesan Destroyer

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    Tiny went bust in 2002 but the brand was bought by Time (big mistake). Now, the parent company of Time - granville technology - have gone bust.

    Time/Tiny have finally gone. Unless Dixons buy them (hope not)
     
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  14. MrWillyWonka

    MrWillyWonka Chocolate computers galore!

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    Dixons is in the same group as PCWorld, so is currys. So Tiny/Time if brought by Dixons will probably merely become anoter PCWorld, not what we want!

    However, we seriously need a high street chain store that will rival PCWorld, I rather go into a shop and buy componants than buy them off the net tbh. So setting up Time/Tiny to rival PCWorld would be good.
     
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  15. RTT

    RTT #parp

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    Ah, well that sorts that out then, cheers :D

    Welcome to bit by the way ;)
     
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  16. DougEdey

    DougEdey I pwn all your storage

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    They have a clearout out already by the looks of it

    www.p400.com

    Check the whois info on it.
     
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  17. herbs

    herbs Nobody but us chickens

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  18. Guest-16

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    Awesome! Thanks :D
     
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  19. battery

    battery What's a Dremel?

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    I have a friend that currently works / worked at Time's "customer services" operation. Last week he said that he and his work colleagues were trying to keep their jobs before the redundancy as the managers were finding ways to dismiss them, pre tits up time so that the company wouldn't have to pay up redundancy pay!

    To the poster who asked if they were selling stuff cheap - Time has had a knock down priced outlet called Emit (Time backwards!) for some time.
     
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  20. cpemma

    cpemma Ecky thump

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    Also check out Contact info.
    Awesome. :grr:
     
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