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alexnifty
11-09-08, 16:18
The selection of headsets above £10 is pretty slim, I had hoped to buy something like the Creative Fatal1ty Pro Series Gaming Headset which is at the £20 mark.

As it is you have a huge gap between £10 and £45. Do you really need to stock 5 different kinds of headset for under a tenner? Nobody cares about a headset that much if they are going to be that cheap about it.
Stock one at a couple of quid and one at a tenner then expand you range to include some £20 and £30 models to bridge the chasm between £10 and £45.

And another thing (while I'm off on one now) I can't buy a fan controller and fans from Aria, I cant buy a headset, and the GigaWorks T20 speakers I was going to get have now been found at the same price as Aria but free delivery, so thats £9 cheaper.

marsey99
11-09-08, 17:40
your not the only one going elsewhere for things not in stock m8 :(

wonderlust
11-09-08, 17:44
certainly not, the free delivery offeres take some beating, nearly a £10 saving is a lot of dosh... thats a couple of pints ;)

alexnifty
11-09-08, 17:48
If I could have bought all that together from Aria then I would have, but I can't justify £9 postage for a single item like speakers. So I'm buying nothing.

I heard that up north £9 might even buy you THREE PINTS! :O

wonderlust
11-09-08, 17:56
lol, highly likely

Audigex
12-09-08, 01:50
You've clearly never been to a cumbrian working mens club....

£9 for 2 pints would be extortionate, and nobody would turn up for £3 pints either! That's about right for most clubs.

£9 will get you up to 5 pints (£1.80/pint if you get to the right place early on in the night), and almost always 4 (well, £9.20 @ £2.30/pint) of house lager. £2.50/pint is considered expensive, and I'd expect a very minimum of 3 pints for my £9.

That's what you get for living in the uncivilised south lads.

(Reference: http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.104081)
"The bread and butter business of a pub is its straightforward beer. But the average price of a pint in the Carlisle area is £2.50." and where I live is cheaper still :)

alexnifty
12-09-08, 10:52
We basically pay London prices in Cambridge as lots of people live here but work in London. On top of that land is at a premium because of the University owning half of it. Higher rent means higher beer prices. :(

£2.90 Is probably considered about right for Cambridge prices, there are some cheap places like Wetherspoons, but thats where the council estate residents go :P

Monkey
12-09-08, 11:42
Do aria have any USB headsets with stereo or surround sound and a mic?

alexnifty
12-09-08, 12:07
Hard to tell, the descriptions are rubbish.

Monkey
12-09-08, 12:46
Thats what i thought, i was hoping someone who worked at aria could answer, but nevermind :P

jonwoad
12-09-08, 12:51
unfortunately the purchasing department rarely comes on here :(

nft99
12-09-08, 12:53
unfortunately the purchasing department rarely comes on here :(

or answer their emails :(

jonwoad
12-09-08, 12:54
true true... still waiting on an answer for forum improvements that I sent a week or so ago :S

Monkey
12-09-08, 13:05
I dunno, us valued customers get nothing.

All we ask for is fan controllers, good headsets and cheap monitors! and what do we get :P

EDIT: i was only joking about the monitor bit... i must say the monitors on aria are cheaper than most

jonwoad
12-09-08, 13:06
how do you feel about us? we have to work with them day in day out!

Monkey
12-09-08, 13:08
What do you mean how do i feel about yous?

jonwoad
12-09-08, 13:09
well if we dont sell something you can go somewhere else... we cant go anywhere if we need purchasing to do something.

and I dont think yous is a word... :P

Monkey
12-09-08, 13:13
Ha ha, whatever!

I know exactly what its like though, we have people higher up than us, (as in any job)

And you cant ask them to do anything

If i had been here longer, wore more "apropriate" clothing and spoke clearer i would be higher up in the job, doing NOTHING!!!

jonwoad
12-09-08, 13:14
but purchasing arent any higher up than me or mr NFT99... just work in different department

alexnifty
12-09-08, 13:45
I know exactly how you feel jon, I worked at play and the buyers were a bunch of jerks.

nft99
12-09-08, 14:09
I know exactly how you feel jon, I worked at play and the buyers were a bunch of jerks.

Sounds about right :) is it a requirement for the job??

alexnifty
12-09-08, 14:24
They seem very self involved, like their department is the most important and everyone else is below them. Which is total ****.