Why aren't you going to electronic retail stores anymore?

LOL, that's the Media Markt in Flensburg.

I was there several times. The Logitech G15 i bought there in 2009 is still in use.

I do, but not to fucking Media Markt.

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There is a small computer store near me that has a gpu showcase filled with 15 years old products. They are asking over msrp for them too

Media markt sells red bull for €1.25, I also once got a cheap USB cable there. That's it. That's basically all they're for.

666 confirms conrad is satan tier therefore the best of all.

Personally a Saturn man but amazon does too.

I did, like two days ago. I asked where the thermal paste was, and they looked at me like I was fucking retarded. On their door, it says PC, phone, and tablet repair. How the fuck do you have a repair service, and you've never heard of thermal paste!?

this

Notice the nigger in the image. 10 AM

I don't know for retail but Comrad online is fucking overpriced

i do because ordering stuff online from this shithole is an absolute nightmare, specially when trying to import

>two days later

Really that slow?

But yeah, I would visit physical stores if they had the exact products I picked after researching.
Order before midnight, it arrives next morning.

HARTZ IV trash magnet, always filled with fat-asses busy getting parts for their remotely controlled mini cars. Deutschland

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You can only do this kind of thing in Japan. Yodobashi is goat. Elsewhere is just a waste of time.

>On their door, it says PC, phone, and tablet repair. How the fuck do you have a repair service, and you've never heard of thermal paste!?

Maybe they ship it off for the repairs?
I know photo camera shops usually do that.

>Personally a Saturn man

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Over here most of them have died or are online only.

With the exception of Currys/PCworld the only other decent place to get electronics from is John Lewis. Theres a few smaller ones around, but they tend to be highly regional or single branch affairs.

Doesn't help that Curry's parent company actually controls most of the suppliers of UK electronics.

I work at one AMA

It's what I got close. Also I'm 23 so I don't know about that. When I got the car conrad is bae.

Also fuck mediamarkt, they don't even help their customers properly and you have to stand in line even if you're buying a $2000 TV or whatever.

Their prices are ridiculous

unfortunately you can get everything you want and more from an online store (usually amazon) noticeably cheaper

Literally nothing in my area except best buy which doesn't sell anything useful at all.

Happened to me literally today.

Most stores have drastically improved their price matching and supply chain to compete with Amazon.
I honestly find collecting in store a lot more convenient since i find couriers unreliable.

More expensive and less convenient than online stores. You have to drive there, seach your thing, buy it, and then drive home again.

Meanwhile, you could just seach Amazon, order it, and do something else in the time saved.

t. 30 year old boomer that upgrades his desktop every 2 years to whatever model the best buy rep tells him to get

Too expensive.

Why do Americans buy everything on Amazon instead comparing prices and availability on multiple online stores?

All I have left is a Best Buy. And they barely even sell parts anymore.

>Saturn near me often has buy 2 games get 1 free promotions
>usually marks up the price of the games the night before
>forgets to change the prices in the cashier system

Also they don't give a fuck about release dates. Fucking fantastic way to buy Nintendo games. But I think they wisened up now.

Maplin went out of business recently, sad because it had been around for ages but it was weird
>too techy for normies
>not enough selection or quality products for people who knew what they were doing

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>Need HDMI cord
>Don't want to wait 4 days to have it delivered or pay extra shipping charges
>$50+
>$20 online
>I'll wait

Literally everything. Even fucking Menards and Lowe's has cheaper cables and connectors

The one in my area doesn't "barely" sell parts, they just plain don't sell parts. My mom went there to buy a TV and I looked around, no RAM, no video cards, no internal cables, no hard drives/SSDs, none of it. They had mice and keyboards but only a small selection of Razer stuff.

Wide selection. I used to try and favor Newegg over Amazon but NE's been giving me fuckery with randomly declining payments that go straight on through on Amazon.

>Really that slow?

>Don't have prime
>Takes 3 days no matter what
>Unless it isn't sold by Amazon directly then fuck who knows how long it will take

I only buy used crap or from chink land.

>willingly creating monopolies for convenience
I swear modern consumers are retarded.

They expanded too hard during the "good times" and ended up with a ton of debt. Then their credit got downgraded which meant they can't get insurance for their stock, and suppliers won't sell to them without insurance.

Economics are an evil clusterfuck.

>implying monopolies are bad

>find thing online
>maybe store has it, so I can pick it up and use it today
>go to store
>they have it, but at a price that is so ridiculously marked up compared to online that I just leave disgusted and end up not buying the thing at all

How is saving time and money retarded?

>HARTZ IV trash magnet, always filled with fat-asses
What else do you expect from Germans?

Lmao enjoy getting ripped off

Half the electronics stores problem was they drove most of their local, smaller competitors out of business or bought them up in the 90s, and ended up with local monopolies that they were able to exploit up until online shopping became mainstream.

And now we have a lack of local choice and these uberstores who after 10 years still haven't figured out how to compete with online stores.

I do. I feel happy there.

I do. To try shit before buying online. Once in a blue moon I do find a good deal though.
>couple weeks ago got a 240Gb for 50€ when they are still online at 55-60.

>*240Gb SSD
Fuck

And just that the stuff we're interested in (PC components and not TVs and smartphones) is no longer mass-market stuff like it was 20 years ago. Normies used to buy that shit, and then pay a fat markup to proto-geeksquad to install it. Now they don't care, and retail space is so expensive that it doesn't make any sense to stock all but the most high-volume stuff. Online sellers can cater to niche markets because they don't have the massive overhead of bricks and mortar.

>Maplins
>£14.99 for a Cable
>Online
>£2.50 for the same Cable

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Oh yes, can't forget that property value has increased in such a way that landlords have jacked up the prices so that only large corporations can afford to inhabit their lots.
And then they cry about it when half their retail park is empty.

well I have actually started noticing that, too, lately. I actually prefer going to the store and getting stuff with my own hands as it were. And whenever I can I try to avoid online stores, especially amazon

>>arrives two days later
More places are matching Amazon now. Best Buy will price match if it's shipped AND sold by amazon. Plus they've got a 15 day return policy that's pretty good.

because the two nearest microcenters are both over an hour away, i don't want to talk to some dick head that knows significantly less than me about technology because all they know is "gayming", don't want them getting commission by putting a sticker on my boxes while not doing anything, i don't want some pencil dick white basedboy following me around because im black and he thinks i can't afford anything (despite making over 5 times his whole departments salary), i don't want to wait in line with a bunch of racist fucks that give me that "hurr nigger must be paying with his drug money" because im buying shit they can't afford, and i don't want to pay more.

last time i was there it was on 1080 Ti release day. I got up extra early and got there before they opened. the fuckers charged me an extra 50 bucks for both 1080 Ti's because they're faggots, and i had to wait till 1PM till i was allowed to purchase it because of a nvidia NDA that said i had to wait till California stores opened (which they could have told them to fuck off, it wont impact sales). I wasted a whole day just for two GPUs. Fuck em

Now i can go to amazon, not deal with said dick heads, get what i want for much cheaper, and i can take care of other shit in the meantime.

Man, i can't wait till my work in machine learning spreads like wild fire and automates these shitheads out of jobs everywhere.

>betrete Media Markt Filiale
>begebe mich zur Kabelabteilung
>HDMI Kabel, 17€ inklusive Steuer
>das ist ja der hama
>drehe mich dreihundertsechzig Grad und verlasse das Kaufhaus

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Wow, dude, can't say i know what it's like to be in your position but thats some serious salt.

I like "real" shops, and seeing, feeling things in person. Though i suppose for PC components thats somewhat unnecessary unless you are shopping for something subjective as a display.

best price guarantee

You do know that being angry that your skin color makes them uncomfortable just propagates the negative stereotype that black people are violent.

Maybe if you fucking greeted them like a normal human being instead of thinking they are all racist cracker assholes, you would be treated better.

I've never had it that bad but his story does ring true, what with the markups and shitheaded salesmen.

>Go there
>Look for thing
>They don't have thing
>They argue with me because they want to sell me some other thing I don't want
>They are not capable of understanding what it is that they are selling anyways

Or

>They have thing
>It's 50 euros more expensive because... fuck you and that's why

Because i go to supermarkt.
They had sale which was close to the online prices.
Also warrenty is easier and faster to be done through physical shop rather than webshop.

Anyone here ever work at Frys? Considering getting a job there for the lolz if I decide to start school next year.

You are one delusional mother fucker.

Same. For all the college students coming and going, they don't seem to be bringing too many electronics stores. Or any new anything, really.

They are just too expensive. A mouse that costs literally 90 cents on aliexpress costs 15€ there. That's an almost 17x times higher price.

They even sell mousepads for 80€ LOLLLLLL, that must mean somebody actually buys them

As a bit of context I live in the third largest city in my country (3 million people+):
>No internal hard drives larger than 1TB
>No external hard drives larger than 2TB
>No SSDs larger than 128GB, only off brand, no M.2
>Monitor selection consists of 10 models
>1m HDMI cable costs 40€
>No USB-C cables, nor any male to female or female to female cables
>2m CAT5e costs 80€, no chance in hell of CAT6/7
>Literally no PSUs or CPUs or Cases and so on, a few GTX960s if you are lucky
>RAM only available for Notebooks, 4GB costs 80€+
The list goes on and on and on, and this is the absolute fucking state of the 10 largest electro/IT retail stores closest to me.
The prices are inflated as fuck, the selection is shit at best, RMAing is a huge pain in the ass.

If I order online at any online retailer am*zon or something else I get:
Same day delivery, the best prices, the largest selection possible, the easiest RMA process and so on. If you are not buying online you are only fucking over yourself. Retail is dead and that's a good thing.
And since I just know someone is gonna cry about funding the monopoly, I don't give a single fuck. If the conditions are best at the monopoly I will buy there.

they don't carry what I want to buy, except for very basic things like microSD cards, which I actually do buy in a regular store

people forget that not all monopolies happen because of underhanded shit. Some of them happen because a company drives its competitors out of the market with better service and prices.

conrad has 20% markup on everything nigger

conrad is the place where you go when you realize you ordered the wrong mosfets and the prototype is due today

Last time I went to a retail store was because I needed an HDMI cable and didn't want to wait for shipping. iirc it cost around $40.

Went on monoprice the same day and paid $5 including shipping. Returned the retail cable when the monoprice arrived a couple days later

When I need something quick
>Check the website if itme is available
>Go to Store
>Pick Up Item
>Go to department service, tell them the price on Amazon
>They reduce it for me to the Amazon price
>Buy and leave
Pretty much the quickest was of getting shit, works every time

I do, sometimes when i want to look at something irl.
But as of now with current laws in country when you order online you have 30 days return policy, this does not apply when you buy it in store.
Computer screen for example, i returned it for a new one 5 times to get a proper 2560x1440 120hz ips when that was the newest shit.
Just as a failsafe incase the manufacture dont see it as a rma case.

Oh, and last time I bought something in one, it broke after about a month of usage. The salesman then wanted to jew me, by telling me immediately "well, that thing was not designed for apple computers, we cannot provide warranty for inexpertly used devices", until he actually looked at the box and realized there was a "made for mac" sticker on it (even I didn't realize that until then, as I didn't expect to be told such horseshit).
I mean, seriously. They try to tell normos that the software they used will break the hardware, which is a complete bogus claim.
Still he refused to exchange it, I had to discuss 5-10 minutes to actually get my refund.

Went online and found that thing for roughly the same price there, delivered to my door though, which I interpret as better service.

And micro USB cables for fucking 15€. These prices are completely nuts. HDMI cables fucking 30€. USB chargers 10€ minimum.

They've got bargains from time to time, but all in all it's just too damn expensive.

And best price guarantee is a scam as well, manufacturers will change one letter in the serial number for these big stores so these stores can refuse to go through with the rebate because "It's not the same serial number!!!11" & other muh autism acting.

Another thing that pisses me off is how they always think I'm trying to steal something and blatantly just watch me look at stuff expedited. Fuck them. Let them go bankrupt, they deserve it.

>360grad
Soso du drehst dich also im Kreis bevor du gehst? Deutsche Bildung

This. For the price I would have to pay for a 10m CAT5e cable at my local store online I could get:
A 200m drum of CAT5e and a crimp set, including same day delivery and shipping costs.
Why would I buy at my retail store then?

pficks eich

>post image of worst electronic store ever
>all items at list price or more
>shit employees
>shit selection
>worst products in terms of reliability

I've had broken USB sticks, Broken network adapters and leaking rechargable batteries from there.

Fuck media markt

>verlasse das Kaufhaus
mit oder ohne hama?

saupreiß

Oh and a broken USB audio adapter.
At least they're quite easy RMAing their shit, since it probably happens a lot.

conrad salespeople can help you though. they are really competent. gotta admit that. they are the first brigade in terms of an irl helpdesk when it comes to question about soldering'n'sheeit.

I like conrad.

Are you from germany?

Na bei den Preisen nur mit hama und garantie verlängerung!

Wow
In the long term, once the monopoly is established, they can basically do and charge what they want. Americans would have you believe that competition would arise at this point but the cost of entry to compete with Amazon is unattainable.

sadly yes

>garantie verlängerung
29,99 EUR

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Das nennt man Humor, Walter-Torben Bahnhofsklatscher

Humour wird mit ou geschrieben.

Billigscheisse aber überteuert. Irgendwo muss der ganze Mist ja hin, den online keiner kauft.

In the future all there will be is Amazon and Walmart

>check local store website, such as bestbuy or fry's
>says the have it
>go to it
>they don't
>go home
>order from newegg
>

>sadly yes
Why sadly :(

There is so much retarded implying going on here.
>implying there is no other online store competing with amazon
>implying that the EU antitrust is as retarded as the American equivalent
>implying that a monopoly will last forever and not inevitably break up on it's own or be forced to break up
>implying this list wouldn't go on forever if I wanted to