Comet (Shop)

...there's an Argos Superstore and Comet next to each other. Argos, again, didn't have what I wanted so the only other option was Comet next door. The place is the size of a small airport hangar and all the sales personnel looked very, very bored and harassed. At least I knew where to call for help if I ever needed some. The layout of the store didn't look very appealing to me. It was kind of the "stack 'em high, sell 'em cheap" kind. There was audio-visual ...
...My tip for shopping at Comet - and any other of the electrical superstores - do your homework. Know what you want and need, make a list of everything that is required. Don't bother asking any of the shop assistants, most of them won't even know what you are talking about. Don't fall for the extra insurance trick. If you have a high value good and want to have an extended warrantee, contact the manufacturer direct. Most of the time they will be able ...

Tempus_Fugit 01.03.2008 · Read full review
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...a mini disc player. Comet let us buy now and pay later...what a mistake that turned out to be. We checked the date for the payment to be taken with the date our student loans got paid in, and all seemed fine. Comet decided to take the money out a couple of days early, so we got charged! After much complaining we realised that we were wasting more money by calling them and let them off on this one...rah! Very annoying situation though. The next incident ...
...went on to explain that Comet has such low prices because they buy the service agreements from the manufacturers and do them themselves. So, the Hotpoint man couldn't fix it! So, Comet came out (after two months of waiting!) - do they not realise that teachers cannot leave work early!?! "Oh, I don't think that we'll be able to fix it, as it is just cosmetic damage!" was the response "but I'll see what we can do. I'll log it and be in touch". He ...

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...service that the electrical chain Comet provides. In general, they sell somewhat shoddy items, which only tend to last as long as you keep the guarantee. I don't know what it is with me a lasers but they never seem to like me! It all started about 2 years ago, I had bought a new Aiwa midi system 2 years previous and was pleased with my system, that was until it started playing up that is. The Aiwa system was one of my best buys until it decided ...
...the repairers, which proves that customer service is not their main priority. As you can tell from this opinion, I do no hold Comet in high regard and although the second Midi system is currently faultless, the customer service communication received the actual products are far from perfect. ...

15091983 21.05.2002 (04.06.2002) · Read full review
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...Range of goods: Comet stock a good range of items,and each item is stocked in a variety of makes and models to suit just about all budgets and requirements.I don't think there has ever been an appliance I have been unable to find in their stores yet. -------------------- Availability of goods: This is where Comet start to have problems.Whilst smaller items kettles,fryers,videos etc are almost always in stock..nearly all larger items,washers and ...
...The highest point of Comet stores is their pricing,and just about without exception you will struggle to find a more competative price for any of their goods.The only store I have ever found as competative being Currys, which still does not always compare on prices.But please not this does not nescessarily mean value for money..read on and make your own mind up on that point! -------------------- Service: Oh my gosh,I do hate to be so negative,but ...

babajane32 09.08.2002 (14.11.2002) · Read full review
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...letting a store down, and Comet is no exception. ~ The Plan ~ I wanted a DVD player, no more than £200, and since comet were offering three DVD’s with every DVD player they sell it was obviously the obvious choice. Comet is quite far from where I live, and since I don’t have a car, I looked at Comet’s site on the Internet to see what they had to offer. Now the website is pretty good, great layout, easy to negotiate and quite a wide selection of ...
...in order to get to Comet to find out if they had the product I wanted. ~ In the Shop ~ I think everyone’s been to a Comet, but just incase you haven’t, it is a very large store selling fridge’s, freezers, cookers, computers, TV’s, videos, mobile phones and DVD players of course. The Bedford store had seven sales staff on the shop floor when I got there, there was two customers, one buying a TV and another buying a fridge. This seemed great, as ...

sarahbethy 24.05.2001 · Read full review
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COMET claim these days that they don't have sales, just permanently low prices and state on TV that they price check around 34,000 prices every week (or some silly such figure) and are deemed to be one of the cheapest and best large electrical dealers around - having said all this, with the exception of Currys, alternative choice these days seems to be limited to small local companies who provide the personal touch, but charge the earth, or mainly ...
...I would never shop in Comet again. Well, they do say never is a long time. STORE CARD Despite being reluctant to give me credit, a couple of weeks later I received a Comet store card giving me £x,xxx credit; The TIME card can be used in Woolworths, MVC, Comet, NEXT, B&Q and Superdrug, and operates on the same basis as a credit card, allowing you up to a maximum of 7 weeks interest free credit, a minimum payment (which is actually set at 5% of your ...

sue.51 28.03.2002 · Read full review
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...off down to his local Comet (well actually it was just the first TV shop he came across) to buy a new one. He wanted a 21 inch Panasonic, since that was what he had before and he liked it. Unfortunately they didn't have such an appliance, so the 'kind' and 'thoughtful' sales assistant offered him a 21 inch Sony TV. He took it, paying extra for delivery. Here's where things get strange. The delivery dudes came as planned, but the TV didn't come with ...
...rat and went to the Comet website. Turns out, the Sony TV was by far the most expensive 21 inch TV in the shop at £329 - there were at leat 10 cheaper alternatives. My dad was a tad angry, so he phoned Comet and demanded to know why they had conned his father (85 years old, I'll remind you) into buying the most expensive 21 inch TV in the shop, especially since it didn't come with a stand, this being his only requirement. By this time all we wanted ...

JaySee 30.06.2001 · Read full review
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...chaffeured hubby to the local Comet store. In my town we have a choice of Comet or Curry's as our major electrical retailers and our stores have quite a lot to choose between them. Whenever, I have the misfortune of entering the Curry's store I am either : Pounced upon by every sales assistant in the store since I am the ONLY customer or ... Desperately trying to catch an assistants eye since they appear to have vanished into thin air ! My local ...
...to say NO !! Comet are another one of those stores that have a store card similar to Marks & Sparks. The price of our goods was entered onto our newly acquired store card which arrives within 6 weeks and as long as we pay in full, there is no interest to pay. Extended warranty crunch time then arrived. Our knight decided to advise us against purchasing any additional warranty for the dishwasher since the cost wouldn't really warrant it ! Well that ...

bandoo 28.04.2001 · Read full review
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...Shopping » Electrical Shops » Comet (Shop) I’ve thought long and hard about writing this opinion. I try to ensure that all of my opinions are balanced and show both good and bad sides of whatever it is that I am reviewing. Having stumbled across this category when looking for something to write on, it occurred to me that I really should write about an experience I had with Comet last year when I bought a new cooker. Firstly, let me give you a little ...
...many years before. However, Comet were in the process of moving from their existing site, at the end of an Industrial Estate, to a bigger site based at the entrance of the same estate. This meant that they were running down the stock in their current store, which in turn meant that there were several goods available at knockdown prices. Bearing in mind that by this stage Mel was expecting any day, and we had a 21 month old who was quite happy to ...

SeasonTicketless 03.06.2003 · Read full review
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...and thoughts of my local Comet branches located in Crayford and Charlton. I think that this is going to be a long opinion because I am covering my usage of the store over a five-year period. Before I tell you of my experiences, I will tell you what Comet is (as if you didn't know already). Comet is an electrical equipment store that sells a wide range of home electrical equipment. You can pick up most types of item from computers and hi-fi systems, ...
...throughout this opinion, I find Comet to price it's products extremely competitively and over 90% of the electrical goods that my family have bought over the last few years have come from Comet. It was too late for the things that I have bought, but just the other day, I found that Currys operates a Comet price match policy. If the nearest Comet store has an item in stock at a lower price (they normally do), then Currys will match the price and then ...

bigdgaff 09.01.2002 · Read full review
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COMET PRICE - Apparently the cheapest and best electrical dealer, cheapest, probably yes.....best (no swearing allowed), definitely not. Am I experienced to say this? read on....... Three years ago when I bought my first house, I needed a PC, and decided to visit my local Comet. No thanks to the staff in-store (the computer expert only worked two days a week) I found what I wanted, a very nice Siemens Nixdorf machine complete with colour printer, ...
...I would never shop in Comet again. Well never is a long time. STORE CARD Despite being reluctant to give me credit, two weeks later I received a Comet store card giving me £x,xxx credit; this card can actually be used in Woolworths, MVC, Comet, NEXT, B&Q and Superdrug, and works on the same basis as a credit card, where you get up to a maximum of 7 weeks interest free credit and then interest is charged. A WORD OF WARNING - USE THIS CARD, BUT YOU ...

sue.51 01.07.2001 · Read full review
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Comet - good brands of all types of electrical appliances at reasonable prices. I give Comet this much credit, but a word of warning is do not opt for their interest free credit schemes available on most major appliances, unless you really have to. The credit option is run through Time Retail Finance (TRF), as a subsidiary of the Kingfisher Group that owns Comet. Interest free should read more like this; Interest free* *As long as you can actually ...
...supplied no contact telephone number, Comet store had the wrong telephone number) *As long as you realise that despite what TRF tell you, the balance has to clear ten days, yes ten days, before the actual balance settlement deadline date, or else the interest is yours to pay. *As long as you realise that you cannot clear the balance with a credit card, but only with a Switch or Delta. I bought a new Zanussi washing machine at £350 for my new flat ...

Nicola21 29.05.2001 · Read full review
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I had not visited Comet for some years, mainly as I thought they were a bit 2nd rate, this seemed to be confirmed by reviews I have read here on Ciao and elsewhere. However, when our washer broke we decided to give Comet a try. There is a local store which has ample parking and is situated on a small industrial estate, so that was helpful for a start. We visited on Good Friday, and were pleasantly surprised at both the easy layout of the shop, and ...
...by quite dim lighting. Comet have a website: http://www.comet.co.uk. This is worth a look, and whilst it is quite busy, the special offers that come and go do seem very, very good. I don't know about any other Comet stores, but I take my hat off to the Barnsley Branch, happy, helpful staff that told the truth (they did deliver next day) and seemed to know their stuff. The Comet van, duly turned up on time and the guy was quick, efficient and knowledgable, ...

paulhanton 23.03.2008 · Read full review
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Comet have a Clearance store at a retail park close to me ( its right next to Wembley Stadium actually). There are no elaborate displays, none of the usual inviting colour schemes or layouts, it just looks like an abandoned shop thats being used to clear stock which is basically what it is, just rows of appliances divided up into washing machines, cookers, dishwashers, dryers etc and a section for TVs and other entertainment goods. The products ...
...worth anything as long as Comet stay in business, but its no different to the 12 month guarantee that comes with a full priced appliance from the regular store, so if they go bust they go bust regardless of how much you paid or which store you bought it from. I recently bought a washing machine that retails in Comet for £399 for £244 in this store. It had a scratch down one side that cant be seen once its in place. On the day I was in there, they ...

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...He went in to Comet for the second time that day and decided to ask about a stereo. (He had to ask because he had been in twice and no-one had spoken to him despite the fact that he had been staring at the same stereo for ten minutes.) He listened to a stereo that was more expensive than he wanted (he had set a budget of £300 and the one he was looking at was £350). He decided that since he was a prince, he would have the stereo he was looking at. ...
...Unbelievably, I went back to Comet to try, once again to buy a stereo. I wanted a micro system and they had the one that I wanted. I asked one of the assistants if they had one in stock and he went away to find out. He came back and said... ...wait for it... ..."Sorry, we've got one on order. It might have come in this morning. I'll just check with the warehouse." Five minutes later he comes back. "They don't know what's been delivered yet. Can ...

adamdavid 17.07.2001 (24.01.2003) · Read full review
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