Advantages: Compact, includes Digital tuner, can be used in cars Disadvantages: not tiny, no battery compartment, fairly basic specification
monitor - if a little bit small, and expensive.
Worth keeping an eye on for 'special offers' if any o f the mainstream manufacturers choose to produce a rival.
The one word which springs to mind is 'unremarkable'.
As an alternative, if you have a 'spare' PC with a TFT monitor, you might consider buying a USB-TV receiver (Maplin have a very good one on offer at £20 this week!) ...
Advantages: Decent selection of products Disadvantages: Woe betide ye who try to return a defective one!
I've bought a lot of computer and radio - related bits from Maplin over the years, but never again.
Having had the misfortune to get a defective unit I returned it.
It seems that Maplin think that customers, regardless of a history of buying from them, are not to be trusted, and would not contemplate replacing a product without first sending it to their engineers to examine. Couldn't they just try it, please, thereby quickly proving it to be broken?
Apparently not. If I wanted a replacement urgently I would have to buy another one!
A Manager entered the conversation uninvited and was sadly both unhelpful and astonishingly, breathtakingly rude. Appalled by the repellent demeanour of this young lady, I left the shop.
Customer service is a foreign tongue here .... shop elsewhere! ...
Advantages: Huge stock range covering most electronic/techncial fields Disadvantages: Not all prices as low as elsewhere.
expected to know the stock number of your items, and this is where a copy of the catalogue comes into its own. Even when using the web site for your ordering, a foreknowledge of stock numbers helps, as finding things can depend on whether you know its precise name. For example, many sites include hard disk drives under ?Mass Storage?, and if you don?t know this, you can only hope that they?ve got a cross-reference to ?Hard Disks?.
You can also send in the order forms supplied with the catalogue by post or FAX. They send you some more with your delivered order.
The catalogue contains a whole sheaf of discount vouchers, amounting to about 5% per purchase.
Price-wise, Maplin is something of a dilemma. Perusal of their pages will trigger such thoughts as ?Hmmmm, cheaper in Argos? or ?Heh, that?s cheap!? in equal quantities.
However, to ...
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