Dallans Computer shop, Gaol Road

[Markerat]

Can anyone tell me if the advert outside saying laptops from £30-150 is actually legit.

I know laptops are a fairly fast moving commodity these days but that seems damn cheap.

My daughter is having a birthday soon and has asked for a laptop since the age of 4 1/2 + one half fag end.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

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[wildwood]

Is that Dalans on Gaol Road you mean?

Never been in that shop.. but when they started off upstairs in the Guildhall (when there were 2 floors) and latter moved to opposite the library... they sold nothing but tat! Personally would steer well clear... but others may have different experiences.

 

[tek-monkey]

Heard a few dodgy reports, but all hearsay and nowt first hand. Just check it for security markings first.

 

[wmrcomputers]

Could be legit, but either way I wouldn't expect anything better than a low end Pentium 3 for £150. A better option is to spend £180 on a brand spanking new Aspire One netbook for her (16Gb hard drive version) and possibly put Windows XP on it
Despite a few bad reports when they first started out, they're actually a good piece of kit now and I can't fault them. Converted one to XP for a customer only last night and he's extremely impressed with it.

 

[Wookie]

I was in there the other week, and most of the laptops looked fairly old; I suspect one of them could have had the y1k bug.
I've bought several things from them over the years, never had any problems with anything. As a matter of principle, though, don't buy anything without at least turning it on first.

 

[highguyuk]

I'm surprised that this shop has survived everything in town, and especially with the move out to near the Jail.

 

[wmrcomputers]

IMO they make their profit and stay successful by cashing kids up £5 for PS and XBOX 360 games and then re-selling them at prices almost as high as buying them new!! But for them and many game shops it seems to work for them. I just feel sorry for little tommie jones who uses his paper round money for 4 weeks to buy a new game, plays it and completes it in 3 days and then gets the equivalent to 4 or 5 days paper money back for it. Poor blighters!

 

[djwellis]

He sold me a security camera once - it was ace.

Maaaaan I miss that place - I haven't really been in it since it moved to the Prison.... er, to "by" the prison, should I say.

I love shops like that, all sorts of odds and ends!

 

[Mrs M]

I went in about just before Christmas. It stank of fag smoke for a start and whilst I was in there a couple of dodgy looking geezers were trying to sell there wares !!!! I don't know the outcome as I left.

 

[Scoot Doggy Dogg]

did anyone spot my "Twins" VHS tape whilst they were in there? Got about 50p for it about 8 years ago. Went straight in Joxer's coffers as I seem to remember

 

[Scoot Doggy Dogg]

Or, alternatively, if you look at it another way... straight in to the toilet I suppose

 

[Alan B'Stard]

Have they moved or closed down? Hopefully the former as I've had some cracking deals off them over the past few years.

Does anybody know.



Admin edit: Threads merged.

 

[Miss Red]

Gone! went ages ago.....shit aint it!

 

[Glam]

The bloke who originally started Dallans buggered off to Norway a while back,or so he says he started it(?) Doesn't want the ex wife finding out whereabouts he went.

 

[Withnail]

buggered off to Norway... Doesn't want the ex wife finding out whereabouts he went.

It is either a good thing or a bad thing that there is a lot of nothing in Norway.

Sort of thing.

 

[Glam]

It int the same bloke that were running Dallans up till recent months. Started talkin to him on a chat programme year or so ago,he almost cakked himsen when he found out I live in Stafford,said he didn't know if he should be talkin to me,cos I might know the ex wife n kids. I know hardly anyone in town,let alone his mrs.

 

[Alan B'Stard]

buggered off to Norway... Doesn't want the ex wife finding out whereabouts he went.

Wonder if she's on the forum?

 

[andy w]

The bloke who originally started Dallans buggered off to Norway a while back,or so he says he started it(?) Doesn't want the ex wife finding out whereabouts he went.

Maybe he was pinning for the fjords

 

[ToriRat]

Sign in the door before they closed said something about online...

 

[Glam]

buggered off to Norway... Doesn't want the ex wife finding out whereabouts he went.

Wonder if she's on the forum?

Dunno,but you should've seen his face when I said I came from Stafford. I think he (Allegedly) owes a lot of people a lot of money.