John Lewis and an honest salesman
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Mutley said:
Trevelyan said:
I have an old 21" CRT I was given when I bought my house 2 years ago, with the old 4:3 ratio (not widescreen). Does it work? Yes. Is the picture ok? Yes. Do I plan to put a perfectly good TV in the skip just to replace it with a nice looking widescreen LCD or Plasma? Nope. When it goes bang it'll get replaced, until then I'll spend my money on something more important.
+1 My Sony CRT is nearly 20 years old, and to date i've not had a problem. Yes i'd like a flat screen, but when/until it goes pop, i'll replace it, but why spend when you don't have to?When we got a new LCD TV was a definite step back in quality.
I happened to have been involved with setting up the TV departments in new John Lewis stores, and I had a similar conversation with the director of the company who installs the signal distribution kit, and he agreed that plasma and LCD still can't beat a good CRT for picture quality.
Only reason I can see for new flat screen is the space it takes up.
k all worth stealing in there!" paddyhasneeds said:
My post was meant to be praising good honest customer service.
Why on earth has it been moved here..
Have to say I agree with you on the customer service front. John Lewis are brilliant. To be honest, these days if I can buy a product I want from JL, I will. We registered for our wedding there, and I buy most of my gadgets there too. In fact in the last month I've bought a PlayStation 3, two bales of towels (to match our nice wedding present ones), two watches, some aftershave, a champagne gift basket thing, a Le Creuset casserole dish, a pair of shoes, a tie, a jumper and a laser printer from John Lewis. The only major thing I can think of having bought anywhere else was a Dell laptop, because my mate works for Dell and got me a massive discount. Oh, and some Ikea furniture because we had some vouchers.Why on earth has it been moved here..
I have a small retail business. Quite often I will advise a customer not to buy an item if it is not suitable. Not sure if the customers appreciate it or not. In the same way I will not stock fireworks as they can be dangerous and I do not want anybody injured as a result of me selling them something. People will still buy things I try to dissuade them from purchasing. Classic example is trading cards which I think are a waste of money. I take every opportunity to tell my customers this, but they still buy them
clarkmagpie said:
We have a 32" Bang & Olufsen CRT and i cant find anything i like 1/2 as much.
I still think it looks modern and stylish. It always gets admiring glances and remarks.
was looking at the 60" bad boys the other day and boy, they are impressive!
Totaly agree with this. We have a couple of the B&O CRT's which are fantastic, brilliant SD picture and sound. Aesthetically prefer them to our bigger B&O LCD's. The form of the Avants is so completely differant that they completely hide their bulk.I still think it looks modern and stylish. It always gets admiring glances and remarks.
was looking at the 60" bad boys the other day and boy, they are impressive!
paddyhasneeds said:
I was shocked, I thought they were supposed to be trying to sell me stuff 
As nice as it is to find a sales bod who (1) knows what they're talking about and (2) doesn't try to push the first thing you walk up to at you followed by an extended warranty, you do have to wonder what this chap was doing working in the Telly sales dept...Bloobird said:
paddyhasneeds said:
I was shocked, I thought they were supposed to be trying to sell me stuff
As nice as it is to find a sales bod who (1) knows what they're talking about and (2) doesn't try to push the first thing you walk up to at you followed by an extended warranty, you do have to wonder what this chap was doing working in the Telly sales dept...Balmoral Green said:
An HD CRT is still the best picture quality though, but they are a very rare thing.
So rare in fact I'm fairly sure they've never been released in the UK.There was a grey import Samsung (I think) but no official release, as far as I am aware.
The chap in John Lewis may we have given the OP a warm cosy feeling inside.
Its not correct, if you measure the image in complete terms but he made you feel good and thats the important thing.
grumbledoak said:
AngryApples said:
I didnt realise there were poor people on here
Er, he was in John Lewis, not TK Maxxx! 
The old adage is very apt- "Quality, Value, Service - pick two." I doubt I'm the only one here old enough to have changed my mind on which one to drop.
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