the p£ss dont they!?

I bought my currant pc from them a couple of years ago and they recently sent me a letter saying that since it was 2 years old its "probably in need of a spring clean", thats code for "isnt it about time we stole a wad of cash from your wallet"

Oh yeah and on the bottom they kindly attached some vouchers, see pic to save me typing


healthcheck 50 quid and all they do is run a few of the windows cleaning tools and remove any spyware/adware. What a joke, no wonder pcworld hasnt shut down, its because they charge the earth for half hours work and the customers are clearly guilable!

 

I class a PC Health Check as blowing out all the dust from all the inside of the case, running a disk defrag, thorough scandisk, spyware scan and an antivirus scan.

That would usually take a good couple of hours depending on the spec of the machine.

 

Their "hardware" price-list is also quite amusing......£24.99 to fit a new stick of RAM!

Line up, click both ends in place, voila!

 

I get the same thing with my laptop, bring it down for a health check

I'll bring it to you soon enough when the cpu karks it

 

didnt GARY GLITTER ask for a pc health check from pc world

in hindsight FOOK ME WHAT A REALLY BAD IDEA ..BUT AT THE TIME IT SEEMED OK

 

 

Don't take your pc for a healthcheck I work for PC Service Call, we do all the desktop support for PC World, Dixons and Currys customers.
I'm not sure what they do (they should run a disk which basically has antivirus, anti-spyware and a chkdsk & memtest utility)

They normally end up blocking user's access to the internet (through norton) which we have to undo. They will also more than likely slow the pc down, and mean that you have to do a product recovery which make's your £50 worthless.

Mind you, some stores complete them successfully (not found one yet though)

 

There we go, even the staff advise agianst a health check