Jessops camera chain in administration

[Elton]

Troubled High Street camera retailer Jessops has gone into administration, with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) appointed as the administrator.

Article here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20958659

[Old geezer]

No great surprise. They've been teetering on the edge for some time. There was some gossip about someone like Panasonic buying them, but to be honest they haven't had the retail clout they used to have.

[Magi]

As already stated ... No great surprise !!

 

Jessops have been staggering behind the market for a number of years, and with the advent of cameras on mobile phones

and on line shopping they could not offer anything to keep pace. Cheap end items and poor salesmanship didn't help either.

 

The bad part is that if you have an item in for repair, or if you have a warranty, or if you got Jessops vouchers for Christmas ..

... Forget it !!

 

Because of the immediate shutdown of the company none of these claims can be pursued.

 

Shareholders come first .... Customers second !!

[Colin Brett]

As already stated ... No great surprise !!

 

Jessops have been staggering behind the market for a number of years, and with the advent of cameras on mobile phones

and on line shopping they could not offer anything to keep pace. Cheap end items and poor salesmanship didn't help either.

 

The bad part is that if you have an item in for repair, or if you have a warranty, or if you got Jessops vouchers for Christmas ..

... Forget it !!

 

Because of the immediate shutdown of the company none of these claims can be pursued.

 

Shareholders come first .... Customers second !!

 

Not correct! The tax and vat man come first, if there's anything left there's a share out between creditors. Still doesn't help the customers.

[John S]

Jessops have been staggering behind the market for a number of years, and with the advent of cameras on mobile phones....

 

If anyone thinks that a mobile phone will give the same results as a DSLR or even a small compact, they are just deluding themselves. There is no way a poxy little lens less then 2mm across can hope to equal a lens even 5x that size.

 

Not correct! The tax and vat man come first, if there's anything left there's a share out between creditors. Still doesn't help the customers.

 

Or the people working for the company, they're the last to get paid.

 

It's a real shame they are going out of business (unless someone buys them up). Back in 1980 my dad and I travelled by train to Jessops in Leicester (they only had two stores at the time, the other was in London) to buy my christmas present, a Canon A-1. It was cheaper to go there than buy it in one of the local camera shops! Once they opened a shop in Hull I used it almost exclusively for buying my B&W papers and chemicals (and later colour paper/chemicals). The service I got was always beyond reproach (though I sometimes suspected that's because I knew what I was talking about).