Jessops / Blackburn

[K.S.H]

Anyone use them?
That's 1 out of 81 stores that they are closing down.
Here's a full list

Banchory 74, High St.
Bangor Unit 2 Bloomfield Shopping Centre, South Circular Road
Basingstoke 2/3 Market Place
Bedford 5 Market Hall, The Arcade
Belfast 7 Arthur Square
Birmingham 35 Colmore Row
Birmingham Unit SU521, The Bull Ring
Blackburn 26 King William Street Blackburn S/C
Bolton The Banstand Middlebrook Retail Park
Bradford 44 Kirkgate
Brighton 154 Western Road
Brighton 78 London Road
Bristol Rupert Street
Bristol 8 St Augustines Parade
Bromley UML 203 The Glades Shopping Centre
Buxton 58 Spring Gardens
Cambridge 71 Bridge Street
Carlisle 14/16 English Street
Carmarthen 21 Red Street
Cheltenham 110/112 High Street
Chester 31 St Werburgh Street
Coventry 21A Cross Cheaping
Croydon 6 High Street
Doncaster 3/4 Baxtergate
Dublin 111 Grafton Street
Dundee 22 Reform St
Edinburgh - South St. 11 South St David Street
Ellon 40 Market St
Glasgow U B18 Glasgow Fort
Glasgow 240 Sauchiehall St
Great Yarmouth 7, Market Gate SC
Harlow UA3.5B The Water Gardens, Civic Centre
Hounslow 295 High Street
Huddersfield 75 New Street
Hull Unit 2 The Pod, Junction Retail Park
Ilkeston 25 Bath Street
Inverness
Ipswich 11 Upper Brook Street
Kingston upon Thames 42 Fife Road
Lancaster 5 Cheapside
Leamington Spa 63 Regent Street
Leeds 51/53 Wade Lane
Leeds 26 Commercial Street
London Unit 1, Cannon St Station
London Unit 18, Gallions Reach Armada Way Beckton
London 46 Fleet Street
London 154 Tottenham Court Road
London U8, 1 Poultry
London 11 Frognall Parade, Finchley
Luton 47 The Arndale Centre
Maidstone U2 45 Checkersgate
Manchester Manchester Fort Cheetham Hill
Mansfield 25 Market Place
Melton Mowbray 5 Market Place
Merry Hill U11 PH3 Merry Hill S/C
Milton Keynes 134 Central Arcade 68 Midsummer Blvrd
Nairn 112, High St
Northampton U16B Peacock Place S/C
Northfield Unit 33 Grosvenor Centre
Norwich Unit 5, 9 Westlegate
Norwich 3 St Stephens Street
Nottingham 3 Cheapside
Oswestry 3 Bailey Street
Peterborough 8 Cowgate
Plymouth 15 Armada Ctr,
Port Lethen ASDA Shopping Centre
Reading 7 Duke Street
Rotherham Unit 31 Retail World, Stadium Way, Parkgate
Rugby 39 Regent Street
Scunthorpe Unit 70 High Street The Foundry
Solihull Unit 37, Touchwood
Southampton 89 Commercial Road
Stevenage 13, Park Place
Stockport 76/78 Princes Street
Stourbridge 30 Rye Market Shopping Centre
Watford U162A The Harlequin S/C
WestBromwich 194 High St
Windsor 24 Peascod Street
Wolverhampton 10/11 Queen Street
Wolverhampton 4 Central Arcade
Worcester 30 The Cross

[Gayle]

That's a shame - I got a new camera from there about six months ago, so did Chris.

[KIPAX]

I have used them in the past. You can order pics online and then go collect them an hr later.. very handy... tsk but not anymore

[entwisi]

usual thing of internet only dealers being able to undercut shops. Its also a very competitive market with small margins

[WillowTheWhisp]

T'internet is all very well if you know what you want but I like to be able to go into a shop and have a look at things in real life. I shall miss this shop.

[lindsay ormerod]

Used to be my old Our Price unit; opened it from scratch years ago; had Jools Holland there to officially open it; he turned up in a fabulous grey Daimler. Lovely bloke. Awful dandruff. Signed everything for anybody.


No business is safe these days.

[K.S.H]

Did you know that cameras2u.com is Jessops owned

[entwisi]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

T'internet is all very well if you know what you want but I like to be able to go into a shop and have a look at things in real life. I shall miss this shop.

True, I too prefer to use local shops where possible. When buying my 400D I tried my very best to buy it in Accrington but the shop just couldn't give me a definate date for delivery when I could go to Blackburn and buy it from stock. When it comes to new toys I can only be so patient!

[KIPAX]

Jessops price match and will drop there prices in line with another shop.. They used to do it with the internet.. I got over 100 quid knocked off when I proved a website was selling a panasonic FZ10 miles cheaper... But then they stopped price matching against the internet and only shops...

I once needed a camera I couldn't find (olympus c2100.. out of production but to this day has a cult userbase)).. I was looking in the jessops in lancaster at used stuff and spoke to the manager and he said to leave it with him and he would check all the other stores to see if they had what I wanted... Next day he had found it.. and we got it sent from down south.. Now jessops has closed there used equipment part of the store so thats another downside.

Finally.. Jessops would give a full 1000% money back on any camera you bought if you returned it within a month with no questions asked... in other words even if not faulty or broke... Thats akin to a try before you buy policy that the americans have but we don't (As far as I know)

Sad to see them closing shops down but there not what they used to be.. ordering pictures online and picking them up an hr later was the only real use for me nowerdays. Will miss that.

[K.S.H]

They kept changing their price match policy, sometimes on and sometimes off, they had a spell of just price matching only cameras2u for a while - their own company!
Some stores still do 2nd hand, I was looking at lenses last week in one of the Scotland branches, maybe its just selected stores?
Anyway, we should just think ourselves lucky they never taken over Garth Dawsons or we could now be without a camera shop in Accy