I need to vent!

[kurdt_the_goat]

I use a Netgear DG834g modem/router and don't get any dropouts. After about 2 years, the power cable fried itself somehow, but other than that it's been much better than the Billion and Alcatel modems i had beforehand.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Also a tip for any net users out there, don't buy your web hardware from DSE, I made a huge mistake doing that. I asked the people working there if the modems were good and they didn't know what they were doing apart from easily taking my $$$. That's also another thing to rant on while I'm here, what DSE is becoming - I went to my local one recently and asked for a Funway Electronics starter kit - the girl there had NO IDEA what I was talking about - Dick Smith Electronics eh? More like Dick Smith Cashsuckers...

Dick smith have been going downhill for years now. They are owned by the same bunch as Tandy (which have always been crappy IMO) and the two shops have been interchangeable for the last 5 years at least. Its almost getting to the point where they wo't even have circuit borads and fuses to buy. Just crappy rmote control cars and cheap (quality) electronics...

[jazzcomp]

thought that method was for hard drives it works for modems too?

[Hursticon]

Dick smith have been going downhill for years now. They are owned by the same bunch as Tandy (which have always been crappy IMO) and the two shops have been interchangeable for the last 5 years at least. Its almost getting to the point where they wo't even have circuit borads and fuses to buy. Just crappy rmote control cars and cheap (quality) electronics...

You can thank Woolworths for that, as they are the parent company of both Dick Smith and Tandy.

My Father went into Dick Smith a month or so ago to get some things, as he couldn't find them where they had been only a week prior, he was promptly told by a 17y/o staff member, quite obnoxiously, that Dick Smith hadn't stocked that sort of thing for months and that if he wanted it? go to Jaycar.

Woolworths has gone on record as saying it wants to compete with Harvey Norman in regards to Electronics - I guess they're gonna use Dick Smith to do it?, here I was thinking that maybe Big W was the most suitable - then I remembered that Woolworths wants to compete with Harvey Norman in White Goods too.

Did you know that Woolworths is also it's own insurance company?
(I shit you not, they are - so they can handle claims against them "Internally")

[kurdt_the_goat]

That's not unheard of though. Wesfarmers owns Coles, Target, Kmart, Bunnings, Officeworks and Harris Technology! Plus they too have an insurance division.

[Hursticon]

That's not unheard of though. Wesfarmers owns Coles, Target, Kmart, Bunnings, Officeworks and Harris Technology! Plus they too have an insurance division.

Indeed, it isn't unheard of though, IMO, being your own Insurance Company is quite questionable to be honest - it raises the question of who they're actually looking out for?

Isn't it absurd how many businesses are under corporate umbrellas?, no wonder Australian consumers are starved for Retail Competition.

I have to laugh though when I hear people saying that they went to Harvey Norman, Joyce Maine & Domayne and found that all 3 stores had the exact same products for the exact same prices and still think that they are independent retailers.

[jazzcomp]

What's the logic behind ebay same starting bid and buy it now price?

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Day after a 2-day drinksfest = Odie feels bleurgh.
And the psych chick hasn't called back which is kinda a bummer.

[SkyWarp91]

What's the logic behind ebay same starting bid and buy it now price?

No logic?

[jazzcomp]

No logic?

if your starting bid is the same as the buy it now price, why bid?