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5th Mar 2018, 10:07 pm | #241 |
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Re: Maplin stores
I bet a lot of unsold stock ends up in a skip. They will have to vacate premises in a given time and any extensions to clear stock will be very expensive. J.
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5th Mar 2018, 10:56 pm | #242 |
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Re: Maplin stores
I've just been talking to someone who went into the Lincoln branch yesterday to purchase one of those halogen heaters for his newly built 'shack'. He was hoping to pick up a reduced price bargain due to the forthcoming closure, but found that everything was normal price and was told by staff that they weren't closing down.
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5th Mar 2018, 11:21 pm | #243 |
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Re: Maplin stores
Being in administration doesn't inevitably lead to shutting down. In theory all or part of Maplin could be sold as a going concern. In practice, the staff probably know no more than we do about their future.
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6th Mar 2018, 12:18 am | #244 |
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Re: Maplin stores
I agree. I think the staff were looking on the bright side and keeping hopeful that someone would come along and save the company and were not going to accept defeat just yet, and good for them, I say.
The down side was that my pal had to pay the full price for the heater, although he tells me he's very pleased with it and it's toasty in his new shed. |
6th Mar 2018, 9:27 am | #245 |
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I just ordered "Click to collect" yesterday. I wanted to pay online, but when selecting either card or paypal, I got an error message saying: "Vendor terminated". I paid in store. When I told the chap at Maplin's he wouldn't believe me.
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6th Mar 2018, 10:36 am | #246 |
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Yes that's normal. When I worked for a payment processor, we pulled the plug on anyone pretty sharpish who might suddenly stop fulfilling orders on the basis that we didn't want to handle all the chargebacks. high chargeback rates make the processor look bad by not validating and authenticating their customers properly!
This isn't the same system as their retail POS payments so those will probably work. I really wouldn't buy anything from them at the moment personally unless you fancy taking a risk. If you do it'll have potentially no warranty or refund rights if it goes wonky. |
6th Mar 2018, 10:49 am | #247 | |
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6th Mar 2018, 10:53 am | #248 |
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Re: Maplin stores
If it is over £100 then Section 75 applies to credit card purchases. Under that figure, there is a discretionary chargeback scheme for debit cards, but no automatic right.
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6th Mar 2018, 11:00 am | #249 |
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Actually it's not quite that simple. If you buy it through a third party merchant, which most online stores including Maplin use, then your payment may not protected because the supplier part of the transaction is from the merchant, not the retailer. If you try and make a claim under section 75, the card issuer will likely decline it.
This is one reason the merchants cut them off because they know there's going to be short term chargebacks and long term section 75 claims against them. It's a battleground. The legal protection is difficult to enforce. The card issuer and merchant are only concerned about keeping hold of the money, charging interest and top slicing fees, not the retailer or the customer. |
6th Mar 2018, 2:11 pm | #250 |
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That is an important point, but I would hope that shop transactions were direct to the card processor. Certainly third party processing like Amazon, Paypal and all the others would remove the S75 protection except at the discretion of the card processor.
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6th Mar 2018, 5:16 pm | #251 |
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Well yes and no. Section 75 only covers breach of contract or misrepresentation so if you receive the goods in the shop and they break then the sale contract is completed. Also there was a loophole introduced in CCD section 75A which suggests that the borrower must make reasonable attempts to settle the claim with the provider of the goods. That is impossible then.
If you walk in there and buy something, don't expect a usable warranty or recourse from it. |
8th Mar 2018, 9:50 am | #252 |
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Re: Maplin stores
Visited store in Llanelli yesterday and bought some wire etc. Spoke to member of staff and he said “they are waiting for a buyer but it doesn’t look good”.
Lovely store and nice staff, such a pity. Cheers John |
8th Mar 2018, 5:04 pm | #253 |
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Re: Maplin stores
I visited the Swindon Greenbridge shop today and it seemed to be business as normal. No discounts and still plenty of stock on the shelves. It will be interesting if stock gets replenished from their suppliers as it runs down.
This was always a very helpful and knowledgable store. Anything they didn't have in stock they would get within a few days and no hassle. Last edited by saddlestone-man; 8th Mar 2018 at 5:06 pm. Reason: Adding to original text |
9th Mar 2018, 2:05 pm | #254 |
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Re: Maplin stores
I went to the Rugby store today. It says in the window that there is a closing down sale and some things are 10% off and some things are 20% off. The shop assistants didn't pounce on me 2 feet into the shop which is very unusual.
I bought some multimeter leads there. Was £9.99 now £6.99 and the 3 watt white square wire wound resistors are now 10p each. There was only 1 or 2 other customers there and about 4 staff members wandering around so its rather obvious to see how they got themselves into a mess. Christopher Capener
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9th Mar 2018, 5:39 pm | #255 |
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Just had an email giving at least 10% off everything and up to 50% off components.
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9th Mar 2018, 6:22 pm | #256 |
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Just had the same email from Maplin.
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9th Mar 2018, 6:27 pm | #257 |
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9th Mar 2018, 6:36 pm | #258 |
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And you probably didn't need half the parts you bought in the maplin sale either
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9th Mar 2018, 7:19 pm | #259 |
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Yes - just had the same e-mail.
Maplin is firmly in the hands of the joint adminstrators who now manage Maplin's affairs - not Maplins management. 10% of everything while stocks last. 10% off CCTV. Up to 30% off Hobbies and Toys. Up to 50% off components. http://emailmarketing.maplin.co.uk/q...qY3m2bbYzBP/wv It's the stores that have dragged them down. Too many of them, often in the wrong places, with high staff and premises costs and low footfall. It's evident from this thread - though we aren't by any means a representative cross section of Maplin's customer base - that the low stock levels of low value/slow turnover stock is a source of dissatisfaction. It's also clear that many would-be customers object to paying the higher prices associated with Maplin having local stores rather than just an internet presence. Maybe if - instead of opening more stores they've have closed the less profitable/loss making ones and improved their website to boost their online turnover - they've have managed to survive. It must have been evident to them for some time that more and more of their business is via internet where - in terms of daily page views, visitors and pageviews per visitor - Maplin's level of activity compares well with CPC/Farnell and R.S: Maplin: Daily visitors 69.2K Daily pageviews 187K Pageviews per user 2.7 https://www.easycounter.com/report/maplin.co.uk CPC/Farnell: Daily visitors 29.8K Daily pageviews 140K Pageviews per user 4.7 https://www.easycounter.com/report/cpc.farnell.com R.S online: Daily visitors 63.4K Daily pageviews 216K Pageviews per user 3.4 https://www.easycounter.com/report/uk.rs-online.com I doubt that the adminstrators will find a buyer - who would want Maplin, and what for?Just a possibility that someone might take on the online presence but I doubt it. Too many others meeting the needs of that market, not to mention Ali Express, Bang-good et al. Every day the shops stay open, the losses will be mounting. The sad thing is that the shops which will be making the highest losses will most likely be in areas of low disposable incomes with few employment opportunities for displaced Maplin staff.
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I share your pessimism. No one will want the shops and most others in the sector have already got a good Web presence. It's a shame, especially for those of us that remember them at their pinnacle, but I guess all companies have a finite lifespan .
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