Jessops memory prices
 

Just had a look around for Sandisk 1GB Extreme III Compactflash Card .
Picstop = £17.90
Jessops = £79.99

Do Jessops actually sell any memory cards? if so who is buying from them.

My guess is people who don't have computers, therfore go to jessops anyway to have the pics printed.

Yep, hands up...Jessops is not the cheapest place to buy memory cards....
Sold an 8Gb ExtremeIII the other day......£349.99!!! I nearly had a heart attack!

But we're also not the most expensive,
just one example for now.....
check out the prices in Argos (regular shop catalogue prices...not the deals we all had over xmas) next time you go in ;)...horrendous


Net prices are more likely to be cheaper than any high street shop...however...

I did buy several rolls of Tmax400 not too long ago... 96pence a roll in Jessops (without staff discount)!!!....there aren't many places I could get it cheaper than that

To be fair, picstop, and similar outlets, do not have the overheads of renting and running a shop in a prime location on the high street. Jessops have to cover these costs somehow, this kind of mark-up goes a long way towards covering these costs, and then some.......

To be fair on Jessops price £11.91 is going straight to Gordon Brown.:rolleyes:

One assumes that Picstop is making a living on their markup.

Yet on the otherhand I heard via my son who is friendly with the local independent camera shop deputy manager that they were selling a Nikon DSLR at £10 loss. They could not get a better deal out of Nikon.

I recall a long departed friend of mine who ran a small electrical goods shop in the high street. ( Selling Radio, TV, Kettles & Irons etc ) This was some 35 yrs ago, before VAT and Argos had just arrived on to the scene. His markup was 30%. Dispite Argos being 50 yards away he kept going for a number of years with the trade he had built up until his death.

Rob,
I totally agree with your posting.
However, I should point out that far from me bashing Argos...but for many things it isn't neccessarily the cheapest place to shop, contrary to popular belief....as an example I can recall, about october last year the Panasonic FZ7 was around the £250 mark in Jessops....in Argos they had the same model for £350! I'm sure there must be other exceptions too, and I'm sure Argos must also be cheaper on other things ....as ever, it pays to shop around

People should also be aware of where their internet shopping product is actually coming from, many shops will look like they're UK based....many will arrive on your doorstep with a little customs sticker on it saying 'gift'...technically illegal! (unless it is actually a gift!)....others will simply not arrive, but instead a card through your letterbox stating the duty to be paid and where your local sorting office is to collect it once it's paid....I know of a few occasions people have been stung that way (including myself in the past :( )


As a footnote...(I'm not going to get into trouble as a Jessops employee for posting this, as it's available to anyone who knows where to look and how to get it, but...)
Many genuine Photographic UK based websites are owned, or atleast have a majority share owned by........

you've guessed it.....

Jessops! (so there's an extra bit of info' to rattle a few cages! LOL)

Oooh. Is this site owned by Jessops? :D

we need admin to tell us that. hopefully its still all part of the birdforum group.

With all due respect, weren't we talking about UK photgraphic retailers?
Unfortunately, I had credited those on the forum with some form of common sense in following the topic thread.
Ok, maybe I should explain every word next time

Are efforts to explain reasons why, or indeed hopefully add something to a topic for discussion and maybe even the benefit of others not a good thing?. I guess from the last two posts not all of us feel the same way.

I'll leave this one to those that know best to pace it out with handbags at dawn! :p

Coming at this from another angle, could the £17.90 card be fake? There are a number of Sandisk fakes out there. I am certain that Jessops would not sell a fake card and if they did would sort the problem with minimal fuss. Whereas the sole Internet trader might have done a runner or would not have anything to do with it.

Would not have thought so Stephen - 7day shop are selling them for a few pound more and the are available from dozen of different places for less than £30. Picstop and 7day shop both ship from Jersey and anything less than £18 does not carry any vat.

How do I know if the Canon lens I bought from Jessops was a Grey import or not ?

U.K. Warranty card or not?

My point the warranty card was missing along with the plastic bag the lens normally comes with. Easy trick to pull if you buy the lens on display.

Morrisons have just reduced their memory prices, although they dont sell all types they are pretty cheap, look out for ink cartdidges going down in price as they make way for an updated range!:)

A common mistake. :)

I can only assume that Jessops don't really care about selling memory cards, so they just pitch them at a high price and hope they pull in a few customers. I guess the problem with these cards is that the prices fall each month, sometime dramatically, so in order to make a profit you need rapid turnover, to avoid being stuck with stock that cannot be sold without a loss. So you are serious, and sell lots at competitive prices, or you only sell a few but at high prices. Jessops take the latter route.

I recently recall a conversation with someone in respect of various media cards. It could be one of those urban myths I'm not sure but he took great delight in informing me, like PC processors there are only a few companies who manufacture the cards and then badge/label them accordingly. So off the same production line Jessops cards may be sitting next to Fuji's etc.

It's a bit like the sport top syndrome, you can choose to pay a premium price for the luxury of advertising, (i.e. wearing), a branded/logod spots top...

Yes I think this is true of many products. I suspect they are graded and the low grade versions are then sold on to become cheap unbranded.

If I recall correctly video magnetic tape was made in 12 foot wide stripes. The high quality center section was keep for themselves and the outside offcuts were sold off and used to make low grade budget tapes.

I've seen the same sort of thing with hard disks. A model of drive supplied in a top name server seems to last much longer than other sources.

Surely it would have been easier to say SanDisk at a realistic price and SanDisk at a ripoff price, once you mentioned ripoff we'd all know who you meant, at least the photographers with their heads out of the sand would !!

nirofo.

It's true. Both CD/DVD media and flash cards are made by a relatively small number of manufacturers. There is a wide variation in quality of CD and DVD media. I'm not so sure that is true of flash cards. But if you pay more, you get higher read/write speeds.

I would not expect Jessops cards to match the best. The latter tend to be high speed, which is where the cost lies.

I have recently had to return a defective "easydrive" 2 gig cf card to an ebay seller, the label on the card save for the name was identical to the Sandisk Ultra ll. I wasn't conned but it is easy to see how people could be.

As to Jessops, I know most of the staff in the branches local to me, Crewe, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stoke, my policy is that I usually buy the cameras and lenses there if the price is close to the online price at places like warehouse express (and they usually pricematch anyway), the benefit is that I collect the item and usually have some instructions in the shop. The staff in the branches local to me seem to stay with the company although do seem to rotate around the branches and most seem to be fairly happy with their jobs in a "British Rail Employee" sort of way (I spent 30 mostly happy years with British Rail).

One interesting thing is that I recently bought two Raynox macro convertors at a bargain price on line from an anyomous sound sounding company, when they arrived they had come from Jessops, and the instructions were in the case of problems to contact my nearest Jessops shop!

SW

Down to £14.99 (delivered) on play.com now.
http://www.play.com/Electronics/Elec...archtype=genre

Duncan

Yep, Memory prices are still falling - I have been using an unbranded 1gb cf card from 7dayshop for about 9 months now with no problems and this card is now down to £5.99.

I've just bought a 2GB Extreme III card from Picstop for £26 - excellent deal.

Jessops current price £64.99 - if that's not trying to rip people off I don't know what is.

simon

I hope you didn't pay any postage on that Simon?
Did you check the prices at your local Jessops today before putting up your posting?
As from today, memory prices have been halved.
This includes all high street branches as well as Jessops.com

This helps to please more folks who come in asking, but undoubtly there will always be those who'd like them even lower.

Credit where it's due. The price from picstop is actually £26.90 at the moment, plus £2.50 postage makes £29.40, so that's not too far off the Jessops price of £32.50, assuming it's halved from £65. For the convenience of being able to walk in and buy one, I'd say I'd have gone to Jessops. :eek:

Not sure if the price reduction has been driven by Jessops executives reading this thread ;) , or if they felt the need to do something drastic to resurrect the share price. Given the overheads of running a high street shop, I can't see that they can make a profit at the reduced price.

Mr Jessops,

If high street prices have been reduced the company still seems happy to rip-off its online customers, here's the current online quote:

http://www.jessops.com/Store/s29758/...s.aspx?&comp=n

try your local branch..
In all honesty the website may not have been updated as quickly as high street stores did today.


There's a few other offers on starting today too.....FINALLY high street branches will match jessops website prices.....
bonus is some cameras and camcorders can be further ruduced in-store by using 'vouchers' on the current flyers.....outside stores from today


Yelvertoft, in answer to the cards vs profit, yes I think some will be sold at minimal/nil profit. obviously I can't let on trade prices...but needless to say it isn't as good a deal as I thought it should have been first time I ever looked!....yes, the card prices reduction is temporary unfortunately :(

Good luck with the marketing campaign ;)

I think that's a bit unfair.

Hey, don't worry about it Leif. I'm pretty thick skinned.
My intention was to inform those here, rather than market Jessops in particular. I find it way more constructive.
In answer to the postings from a while back, there's also some other price matching policies started up. Without giving too much away, now would be a good time to go buy this months more popular photography magazines....not that I now intend to market any particular magazines! LOL LOL!

Guess you might have to be a bit thick skinned working at Jessops, sure you meet the odd disgruntled potential customer

I'm fully supportive of people providing the wider community with useful information, providing it's accurate & unbiased. I guess this was the intention of the original thread poster, highlighting the difference between prices at different retailers.

Anyway considering the Jessops shareprice I hope they become more competitive & manage to turn things around - I certainly wouldn't like to see the company in trouble - believe it or believe it not I have actually bought one or two things from their shops & probably will in future, with one eye always on competing prices

simon

Yes, the Jessops share price took a bit of a nose dive recently folowing the press release indicating sales well below forecast since the xmas period. I think these new offers and a few more to come are efforts to get those sales back on track.
I know from some recent company info that whilst there's well over 300 stores now within the UK so far, and still plans for new ones opening, The new Cardiff 'World camera centre' (the larger format city store types like those in Leicester, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London etc) does still indicate Jessops as a company is healthy and continuing to grow.
The company do have their fingers in several pies, other things like the recent Tecno takeover branching into other electronics markets, does perhaps indicate a taster of things to come.
It's certainly not all doom and gloom just yet.
It's just a shame my surname isn't Jessop.....I don't think I'd need to save up for any new DSLR's if it were!!!

Judging by the level of customers present in the World Camera Centre in Birmingham over the Christmas period, I'm amazed they are still open. The staff levels were out stripping the customers.
We have three Jessops in Birmingham. The only one worth it's salt is on Colmore Row, this was a Cequip store which Jessops bought out. It is the only store where the staff have any knowledge of there products.
The last twice I used Jessops World Camera Centre I had bad information. The first was when I needed a Nikon Remote for my D70s, I enquired how much they were only to be told, after he consulted the till, was £176.00. When I asked why they were that much the assistant said it's because it has Nikon written on it!! In reality it cost approx £14.
The last time I wanted a USB 2 PCI card, only to have the assistant tell me that they didn't stock them as he clearly did not know what they were. I insisted they did and he went off and returned with one in his hand, which I bought.
It isn't just prices that people baulk at with Jessops, it's bad advice and service as well as the prices. Thank god we have a Jacobs in Birmingham were the staff are friendly give good advice and match web prices.

It's a shame really because Jessops could be "Number 1 in photography" as their display material suggests if they got these problems sorted out. Customer satisfaction seems to be the except at Jessops rather than the norm.