Harvey Norman con-artists!

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Dont wanna turn this site into a Joe Duffy appreciation club but last Saturday I went to Harvey Norman in Nutgrove Looking to buy a laptop. I was looking at a Sony one but yer man directed me to a different one.

The laptop had a displayed price of 999 euro. Said he could give me a huge discount and knock the price down to 749.

This seemed like a good deal but alarm bells were ringing in my head!!

While he was inputting the details of the transaction into his system I noticed that the actual price of the laptop was 749 euro and not the 999 that was on display!!!

After seeing this I made my excuses and left.

Hate most sales people lying bastards.

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Those creeps will be gone the same way as Land of Leather shortly enough lad.

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Cheeky prick. I would’ve taken the cunt to task over it and suggested a new knock down price of stick the piece of shit up your hole.99

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That’s common practice in a lot of places i’d say. I used to work in a tv store years ago and whenever a brand new product was being put on display the sale sticker and marker would come out with “sale price” ie RRP and “reduced from price” ie RRP plus random 10-20% depending on how generous you were feeling. The amount of auld ones who’d be in walking around pointing and commenting on all the “price reductions”. Nobody ever questioned how a line of tvs which had never even been available before would be put on sale.

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Not so sure bout that SS.
Each Hardly Normal is a franchise so is ‘individually’ owned.
Scariest thing was on arriving in Ireland, thinking i had seen the last of those ads, and hearing the HN ad on the radio - identical to the one in Oz except for the irish accents on the jingle. things nightmares are made of.

Only good thing was i could walk into any store here and know exactly where everything was - the layout is identical, even down to the uniforms.

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Drat. They always struck me as a proper spiv outfit, thought they were a Dublin invention. We have you lot to thank for them then?!

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Yep didn’t you recognise the accent? and i cringe every time i hear them. A bit like hearing fingernails on a blackboard.

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Are you sure they are a franchise?

Your man who owns them was on the radio awhile back saying that opening stores in Ireland was the worst decision he ever made and that things here were worse than the time of the potatoe famine.

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[quote=“The Runt”]Are you sure they are a franchise?

Your man who owns them was on the radio awhile back saying that opening stores in Ireland was the worst decision he ever made and that things here were worse than the time of the potatoe famine.[/quote]

Absolutely certain. Previous job I worked in called them into question and they proved it.
Which man was that and which HN(s) did he own?
Gerry Harvey (aka harvey norman) set the parent company up then franchised it.
http://www.harveynormanholdings.com.au/companyprofile.htm

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[quote=“chrish”]Absolutely certain. Previous job I worked in called them into question and they proved it.
Which man was that and which HN(s) did he own?
Gerry Harvey (aka harvey norman) set the parent company up then franchised it.
http://www.harveynormanholdings.com.au/companyprofile.htm[/quote]

Cool, ya it was the Gerry harvey fella. I’ll see if i can find the comments.

Here they are. Def sounds like it’s a chain to me:

RETAIL giant Harvey Norman has compared Ireland’s economic downturn to the return of the “potato famine”, writes Billy Cantwell.

Speaking at yesterday’s annual meeting, chief executive Gerry Harvey described the performance of his 13 Irish stores as “catastrophic” and said he regretted expanding into the Irish market. But he added that the investment was too big to pull out now.

“In Ireland, we are down 25- 40pc like for like on last year. It’s catastrophic,” he told reporters.

“Ireland is a real worry. I’ve never seen something get belted like Ireland. In Slovenia, it’s holding up quite well, Singapore’s sales are quite good, Malaysia is good. New Zealand, like Australia, its not that bad, but Ireland. Phew, just imagine you opened in Ireland; you’d want to go and cut your throat. The potato famine, someone said, the return of the potato famine in Ireland.”

He said the two newest stores, in Northern Ireland, were “a bad mistake”.

“Take me back and let me hindsight them,” he said.

The company’s CEO Katie Page said: “It’s a depressing time for a lot of people, certainly for the executive directors here; we are working so hard, we wish that Ireland wouldn’t return to a potato famine.”

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If they’re not happy in Ireland then it may be a case of go Harvey, go.

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To have both the CEO and Chairman of this poxy firm equating the death of a million people to them not achieving super normal profits is a bit much. Surprised Joe Duffy and his cohorts didn’t exact a large contribution to Focus Ireland for such disrespect and insensitivity.

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Still plenty of chips floating about.

Little known fact: Harvey Norman is actually Greg Norman.

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friend of mine in Oz is somehow related to Ian Norman, think its her uncle or something like that. He’s a rich mo fo anyway, and seems to keep well away from spotlight.