Comet - They Live Electricals Me - I Love Electricals!

Advantages: Great website, easy to use, take all major credit cards.
Disadvantages: More sale items would be great!

...Comet - We Live Electricals, at least thats what their website tells me! The website is in the following categories: Kitchen & Home, Home Entertainment, Computers, Portable Technology, Shop by Brand, Services, Advice, Business Services, The Sale I think the categories are pretty self explanatory and the website is very easy to navigate. There is a section on the homepage called as seen on tv where you can see all the products which have featured on Comet's adverts. There is also a section for more great deals where you can see miscellaneous products which are on offer at present. You can select your products and buy online or reserve and collect from your local store (subject to store stock holdings). Apparently you can reserve online and collect within 30 minutes. You can also purchase Comet gift cards online if you...

katyeverett 27.03.2009 · Read review
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comet electrical store

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: too many

...I have recently persuaded myself to return to comet and give them a second chance after a terrible experience in the past! Unsurprisingly they still seem to be as dysfunctional as ever. Why do they insist (as if we didn't know.) in trying to tell complete bul***it about the products in store? Do they send the staff on non training days in order to wipe their brains of any useful information? I am a reasonable guy and appreciate that staff can only know so much about the products, but to make up information.....? I was trying to buy a digital photo frame for my girlfriend. I knew which one i wanted and with the help of an assistant managed to eventually find the item in the store! i was advised to buy a specific memory card for the frame and a card reader/writer as i had no other devices compatible with that make. I...

chad1234 01.01.2009 · Read review
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Comet Clearance Store, Wembley.

Advantages: Could find a bargain
Disadvantages: What you see is what they have.

...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 they sell are shop soiled, returns, refurbished and cosmetically damaged in some way. Each item has a sticker telling you what the problem is and everything you buy comes with a full 12 month guarantee. I know these are uncertain times and a 12 month guarantee is only worth anything as long as Comet stay in business, but its no different to the 12 month guarantee that comes with a full...

lavender43 02.01.2009 · Read review
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Refreshingly good service from Comet.

Advantages: Cheap, efficient, helpful.
Disadvantages: Small range, not enough delivery staff.

...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 the number of staff working. The products we wanted to look at just happened to be the first display in the shop, and all the washing machines were displayed with their energy ratings, cost and whether or not they were currently in stock. After going to the counter and asking for some assistance, within seconds a really helpful guy appeared and spent some time not only explaining...

paulhanton 23.03.2008 · Read review
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That's Comet NONsense

Advantages: Cheap, good range
Disadvantages: They lie!

...Over the Christmas period our fridge freezer broke down. Against our better judgement, and only because we felt we really needed refrigeration with 2 babies in the house, we ventured out into the post-Christmas sales. We found a great model (which I'll review in a few months time!) in Comet. I will say, it was a great price, at only £499 for an LG all-singing-all-dancing USA-style unit. But, actually buying the thing was not easy as the store was heaving. Eventually my husband and myself managed to tackle a passing assistant and pin him in a corner where he couldn't escape! The assistant SEEMED very helpful. We pointed out the model we wanted and he looked on the computer system to see when it could be delivered, and most importantly, plumbed in, since it had an ice-maker/dispenser. We pointed out that (a) we had never had a plumbed...

Ali1000 11.01.2005 (16.07.2005) · Read review
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Comet Conmen

Advantages: Price, initially friendly, handy locations, good website
Disadvantages: Rude staff, hidden information...lots and lots more!

...that this was included in the delivery charge and we had also sent my dad away earlier, adament that we would be ok without his help! Eventually, after much complaining, they gave us our delivery charge back. That was nice of them actually...but I was still very irate. The washing machine started to crack on the top, so we arranged for someone from Hotpoint (as instructed on a piece of paper included with the washing machine) and they arrived. "Yes, it needs replacing. If it continues cracking, the water could get into the electrics. Can I see your receipt please?"...he then 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...

vikstar 31.08.2005 · Read review
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Curse the comet

Advantages: can give you encyclopaedia definitions from the comfort of the webpage you are visiting
Disadvantages: spyware, superfluous

...The comet cursor may look like a funky little dooberry so enhance your website and give it a bit of originality, but in actual fact the cursèd cursor (fine archaic orthography!) contains a nasty payload. Whilst you obliviously let the comet cursor guide people across your websites, you are actually giving a spyware application free rein to reveal your surfing habits to third parties, and pry on your internet habits. Aside from being an example of spyware, what does the comet cursor do? Well simply put, it should help improve the browsing experience of the site (its claim - Yeah right!) with "Smart Cursors" which give you definitions and references or search results, on the end of your mouse pointer. The Smart Cursor works as follows: if you click on a word on the Net, you can then search the Online version of the Encyclopaedia...

Morgenhund 12.04.2001 · Read review
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Comet's credit trap

Advantages: Good products, reasonable prices.
Disadvantages: Staff fail to tell you important details of their credit schemes until the last minute.

...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 get hold of Time Retail Finance before the date which the balance has to be due to avoid them piling on 24.9% APR interest. (The company 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...

Nicola21 29.05.2001 · Read review
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IS THERE NO END TO COMET'S GENEROSITY?

Advantages: Exchanged faulty product, price promise works!
Disadvantages: Some staff lacking expertise, finance deals

...I have never really been I fan of large electrical retailers, believing them to be in league with each other over prices and also guilty of sucking people into debt with deceptive finance deals and ridiculous extended warranty prices. I can't really explain why I chose Comet for some recent large electrical purchases - probably convenience, lack of available time to go checking prices elsewhere and a lower than average IQ. My first big purchase, at the end of last year, was a JVC television, video, DVD package which came with a half priced offer on a digibox. The whole package was on a special offer so I felt reasonably happy with the price that I paid. I had to wait awhile until a knowledgeable assistant became available to help me but when she arrived everything was dealt with smoothly, everything was in stock and I managed to...

inycon2 20.07.2004 · Read review
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Comet For Sound Advice

Advantages: Very friendly, polite staff and a well laid out store
Disadvantages: So much choice

...have three kids) the washing machine was a tad more vital. I was then torn between looking a gift horse in the mouth and pursuing my original goal - ohhh what to do ?? After a few more gentle words of persuasion I achieved glory, infact I even surpassed it ! We now have a dishwasher AND a new washing machine !!! Now after that little bit of background to the standard appliance purchasing ritual, let me get back to the subject of the review. I decided to strike whilst the iron was hot, so to speak, and 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...

bandoo 28.04.2001 · Read review
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