unluckiest HMV voucher/gift card purchase on ebay?

[mr_palitoy]

I'll lead with this £80 HMV gift card which sold for £70 yesterday morning.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HMV-GIFT-CARD-VOUCHER-/110998185815?pt=UK_Tickets_Trave_Vouchers_Coupons_LE&hash=item19d801e757



Also noted this auction for a £1000 worth which went for £100 bid made this morning.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HMV-Vouchers-/281051741218?pt=UK_Tickets_Trave_Vouchers_Coupons_LE&hash=item416ffd3c22

Taking a punt on HMV taking vouchers again assuming some of the stores are saved?

And who has a grands worth of HMV vouchers lying around? Sounds like an inside job to me!

:shock:

Jason

 

[itfciain]

Fancy a Jessops voucher as well ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/tesco-jessops-voucher-/160945353924?pt=UK_Tickets_Trave_Vouchers_Coupons_LE&hash=item25791734c4

£60 went for £40 - probably arrived on the doormat the very day the company went bust !

 

[escapist]

Ha it was my birthday on Saturday. Got £30 of HMV gift cards which I had earmarked for the Indiana Jones Blu Ray set. Oh well. I'll cope...

Went to my local today and they said that one guy had £600 on a gift card and kicked off a bit when they said they couldn't accept it... How the hell you manage to get a gift card that big, I'll never know...

 

[itfciain]

You would be gutted if you had £600 but who on earth get £600 worth of HMV vouchers ? Wtf could you buy ?

A friend of mine posed the following question, what would happen if you just went into an HMV store, took £30 worth of DVD/Games up to the counter, handed over the vouchers and walked out - could they call the Police ? What have you actually done wrong ?

 

[Frunkstar]

Excellent point Iain & one I would love to test, anyone want to donate me some useless vouchers to test the theory? :mrgreen:

 

[x-pack]

£1000 HMV vouchers = about £100 quid in real money on Amazon. I'm not at all surprised they are sinking

 

[ODB]

You would be gutted if you had £600 but who on earth get £600 worth of HMV vouchers ? Wtf could you buy ?

A friend of mine posed the following question, what would happen if you just went into an HMV store, took £30 worth of DVD/Games up to the counter, handed over the vouchers and walked out - could they call the Police ? What have you actually done wrong ?

In short yes you could be arrested for theft.

The details are in the T&Cs of the gift vouchers and also in the finer points of administration law. Whether or not the staff would actually co-operate or stop you though is another thing altogether.

 

[jedi_masters]

The only thing HMV were good for is there DVD box sets, £150 box sets for £25. Cant beat that but the rest of the store way over priced. Prob to cover the cost of selling box sets so cheap.

Amazon and the Internet is killing every shop on the high street. Wonder who will be next??

 

[mr_palitoy]

My money's on Argos or Whsmiths.

:shock:

Jason

 

[escapist]

Amazon and the Internet is killing every shop on the high street. Wonder who will be next??

Sweepstake time.

I'd go for Clintons, supermarkets have cheaper cards and Funky Pigeon/Moonpig seem to be doing well...

To be fair, all that will exist in the next 10 years is supermarkets, clothes/shoe shops and Nandos.

 

[jedi_masters]

Clintons have already gone, I was going to say WH smiths as well, bloody expensive and over the years their range of stuff has dwindled. Went in there last week and the one I went into no longer sells computer games, DVD's or CD's.

 

[escapist]

Fair point about Clintons, but it was bought out.

WH Smiths will be a sad loss as I bought my first 7" there when I was little. In the lead up to Xmas I was desperately hunting for a last minute CD to give to my mum. HMV didn't have it so I thought "WH SMITHS! THEY USED TO HAVE CD'S!". Needless to say, bit of a fail.

 

[itfciain]

WH Smiths and John Menzies were twp of my favourite shops when I was a kid - I remember buying my stickers there every week and then the last week of the summer holidays buying all of the stationary that I needed for the start of school - happy days

Trouble is nostalgia doesn't keep companies in business. We all bemoan the loss of these shops but how many of us support them ?

 

[fuzzybuzzytoys]

My money is on Blockbusters ... who on earht goes there these days with Love Fil, NetFlix and cheap dvds killing them stone dead surely

 

[itfciain]

My money is on Blockbusters ... who on earht goes there these days with Love Fil, NetFlix and cheap dvds killing them stone dead surely

100% agree - think they have done well to get this far to be honest - I think it's only the games rentals that is keeping them in business

Another one sure to go soon is Little Chef - never see anyone stopped outside these anymore

 

[itfciain]

Here we go - Blockbuster gone too

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/16/uk-britain-blockbuster-idUKBRE90F0WK20130116

 

[mr_palitoy]

My money is on Blockbusters ... who on earht goes there these days with Love Fil, NetFlix and cheap dvds killing them stone dead surely

Yep, they just went under. On sky news just now. Next?

:-o

Jason

 

[fuzzybuzzytoys]

Here we go - Blockbuster gone too

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/16/uk-britain-blockbuster-idUKBRE90F0WK20130116

Called it didnt we Iain. I dont wanna play this game anymore though, theres people losing there jobs out there. Saying that, I'm calling Staples next.

 

[itfciain]

This is a bit like Weasel's Death Game

It is so sad that these things happen but it is the way of the world - companies have grown and gone bust for the last 100 years. We are in the electronic age now and unless you have a business model that can support this then you will not survive for very long as a big business

The positive to come out of all of this will be that niche stores will start popping up in towns again once rents reach a suitable level and providing they are properly managed then they will do well

 

[fuzzybuzzytoys]

This is a bit like Weasel's Death Game

It is so sad that these things happen but it is the way of the world - companies have grown and gone bust for the last 100 years. We are in the electronic age now and unless you have a business model that can support this then you will not survive for very long as a big business

The positive to come out of all of this will be that niche stores will start popping up in towns again once rents reach a suitable level and providing they are properly managed then they will do well

Fuzzy Buzzy Toys, coming to a high street near you. I would ****ing love that.