Why so expensive....jessops
 

why are jessops so expensive..? I know they have overheads, but the prices are the same on their website.

I went in there to look at the lenses, they didnt have the one im after but they had one of the tamron lenses i was looking at.

It is 90 pound more in jessops....Why????

http://www.jessops.com/online.store/...7050/show.html

http://www.simplyelectronics.net/mai...etcurrency=gbp

'Cos some people must buy them at that price I guess.

Because you had the opportunity to go and look and try. You could always buy blind from a cheaper website - your choice.

I spose there is that....but unless you needed the item there and then why would you pay 90 pound more when you could try it in jessops then go home and buy it online once you tried it out.

Then you would have the smug satisfaction of knowing that you helped drive Jessops out of business. There would also be the added bonus that you could then claim that Jessops deserved to go under because they were so expensive.

What puzzles me is that their on line prices are the same whereas most shops with a high street presence and a web site have a lower price on line. People may well handle the goods in the shop and buy there and then while the item is hot in their hand but if you are on the web any way I would have thought you would be surfing around for a good price with no compunction to buy from Jessops.

I agree totally. I guess in alot of places they have the monopoly because they are the only camera shop. You would have thought they would be competitive online.

Having recently had to write a business plan for a (fictitious) photographic company, it's the overheads that are crippling. The high profile, high footfall area shops they occupy will be draining the cash out of them at a faster rate than they can get it back in sales. You only have to look at the recent business reports on Jessops to realise they are in dire straights.

They have to get the cash in somehow, and there's enough people out there who do not shop around before buying to be able to charge the prices they do.

As Mike says, eventually, there will not be the option to go into a shop and handle the goods before buying online.

When Jessops first became well known they used to work out of a pokey little shop in the backstreets of Leicester, they had the best prices in the country and people in there that knew what they were selling and cared, customers used to be queueing at the door to buy their goods! Now there are chains of shops, various sell outs to bigger companies, massive overheads, shop assistants that don't know one end of a lens to the other and care even less, imaginary or non existant stock, overpricing, etc, etc. And they wonder why the shops going down the pan!!! I would suggest if they want to save it they need to get back to basics, shed their big company image, get rid of all the expensive shops in the town/city mainstreets, employ some fully trained and articulate staff who have an interest in the job they're doing, and reduce prices to be competitive with the rest of the trade. Otherwise, "GOODBYE JESSOPS".

nirofo.

I guess they have to run actual shops, which means paying real staff, something which Amazon doesn't have to do. It's a vicious circle, as they lose customers they put in smaller orders for goods from manufacturers which means they get smaller bulk discounts, which in turn pushes up their prices.

They need to learn when to cut their losses, if a particular shop is consistently not doing very well then they should close it and use the resources saved to make sure the shops that are doing well continue to do so. Some cities have more than one shop, why, there are only so many customers they can serve. If mail order is doing so well for other companies, then that's probably an outlet that Jessops should pay more attention to, if they can't compete they can only lose.

nirofo.

You can still haggle quite aggressively in Jessops as well...

I've bought a good couple of bits and bobs in there and haven't once paid full price, they know the prices are available on line and will do what they can to keep business in the store.

I'ld rather pay a little bit more and have a face to talk to if any problems occur than from a website with no comeback...

saw an article in a photograpy mag about how jessops are having a shake up and closing the shops that arnt doing well. Cant see many shops being left open.

May be off topic here but..
I would like to know which could the right place in London to buy 10 stop ND filter?

only slightly off topic...........:eek:

google is your friend.....;)

I'll go with word of mouth here. Google will only throw some names and that's not enough for me. Members experiences have better value in this case. They can suggest some names and I can tell my person to pick it up.

fair shout...:cool:

Hi Rudra,

Long long time since I was in London but this is a link to Calumet who are pro dealers so no junk.
http://www.calumetphoto.com/ctl?ac.u...o.CompStoreLoc

Scroll down the page to find UK stores. Click on a London branch and a new window will open giving phone/fax numbers so you can check if they stock it also a map and full address for directions for whoever may pick the item up.

Don

Thanks Don. I'll check this out soon.

Rudra,

Another London pro dealer
http://www.teamworkphoto.com/

Phone and address at the bottom of the page.

Don

Rudra,

Here is another. They only do Hoya, and of course I do not know if you are after round or square. :rolleyes:

http://www.lcegroup.co.uk/

Store locations at the bottom of the page.

You will need to paste this in to your browser as I now keep being sent to EasyJet when I try and add hyperlink. Perhaps they think I will bring one over for you. :D :D

Don

Rudra,

Here is another possible.

Jacobs Photo ....... 74 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1EU

No time to trawl through to see if they do filters as the boiler repair guy has just arrived.

Another copy paste though as Easy Jet is still my hyperlink :D:D

http://www.jacobsdigital.co.uk/

Don

Thanks again Don. Looks like I need to do a proper study now.

But they really DO deserve to go under for being too expensive!

Have we never heard of haggling in this country? I have used Jessop's many times and have always found that most of their staff are very helpful - the only time I have failed to get a reduction, was when I went in in a hurry to get a CF card and could not be bothered. In case you are wondering, I got my D3 from them and was given a discount of over £300.