DSE / Dick Smith at it again.

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#226025 16-Dec-2017 11:59

I was at a clients place when I saw the ad shown below. Almost choked on my milo. Only DSE would consider a Celeron CPU high end performance and advertise it as such.

4GB ram . 32Gb drive. Celeron CPU. Hmm ... not my idea of high end.

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#1920560 16-Dec-2017 14:10

it says high end performance, and maybe it is for what your paying for and getting.

nothing wrong with a Celeron for a mini PC like that, keeps cost down and still delivers in single threaded applications

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#1920681 16-Dec-2017 21:59

Xubuntu or Linux Lite might run well on that Mini PC. In its favour is having 4 gb of ram, however I agree it is in no way 'high end',

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#1920686 16-Dec-2017 22:15

I wish people would stop calling it DSE... it's not...

It may be dicksmith dot com, but it's not DSE, it's kogan.

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#1920708 17-Dec-2017 08:27

blakamin:
I wish people would stop calling it DSE... it's not...

It may be dicksmith dot com, but it's not DSE, it's kogan.

First world problems if you "wish" people would stop calling Dick Smith, Dick Smith lol

Regardless of who bought DSE out I'll call them by the name they trade under thank you very much, and I would "wish" if you tried not to tell me differently thanks.

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#1920721 17-Dec-2017 08:40

Dial111:
blakamin:
I wish people would stop calling it DSE... it's not...

It may be dicksmith dot com, but it's not DSE, it's kogan.

First world problems if you "wish" people would stop calling Dick Smith, Dick Smith lol

Regardless of who bought DSE out I'll call them by the name they trade under thank you very much, and I would "wish" if you tried not to tell me differently thanks.

What a rude comment - he is actually correct. Kogan brought the use of the “Dick Smith” brand and website. If we are being really correct, it hasn’t been called DSE in years - they dropped the E a long time ago and rebranded to just “Dick Smith”.

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#1920758 17-Dec-2017 11:28

I wonder how much Kogan paid for the brand name? Maybe if DSE had closed all its retail stores five years ago & gone to online only it would have survived.

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#1920761 17-Dec-2017 12:12

Note that Kogan owns the "DSE" domain names so they're still "official" in at least one sense.

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#1920804 17-Dec-2017 15:59

Paparangi:
Dial111:
blakamin:
I wish people would stop calling it DSE... it's not...

It may be dicksmith dot com, but it's not DSE, it's kogan.

First world problems if you "wish" people would stop calling Dick Smith, Dick Smith lol

Regardless of who bought DSE out I'll call them by the name they trade under thank you very much, and I would "wish" if you tried not to tell me differently thanks.

What a rude comment - he is actually correct. Kogan brought the use of the “Dick Smith” brand and website. If we are being really correct, it hasn’t been called DSE in years - they dropped the E a long time ago and rebranded to just “Dick Smith”.

rude? Don't be so precious.

I never said they were wrong, I said I will use the name they trade under.

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#1920808 17-Dec-2017 16:24

I think the only one being precious here is you - and at least 4 others agree with me anyway. Not going to get into an argument over it, have a very merry Christmas.

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#1920919 18-Dec-2017 05:37

BEWARE of DSE, Dick Smith and Kogan.

My monitor arrived broken nearly a month ago and they have still not attempted to sort it.

Luckily I purchased through TradeMe so I have lodged a dispute with them.

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#1921203 18-Dec-2017 11:53

dickytim:

BEWARE of DSE, Dick Smith and Kogan.

My monitor arrived broken nearly a month ago and they have still not attempted to sort it.

Luckily I purchased through TradeMe so I have lodged a dispute with them.

Beware is right! Never again..

https://www.productreview.com.au/p/dick-smith.html

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#1921578 19-Dec-2017 06:17

Well slamming them on Twitter and Facebook has had a reaction.

They actually processed an RA and sent details on how to send it back.

Just such a poor operation, this one is going to be doomed, the service is so poor and Amazon is coming online to drive the nail into the coffin that should have been dead and buried a long time ago.