General Comments on Computer Fairs

General Comments on Computer Fairs: Keep your eyes open (618 words)
by NikkiH - written on 31.07.01 (Very useful, 51 readings)
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Computer Fairs started in the days of the early 286 PC, Sega Megadrive and Amiga. Over the years, computer fairs and computer markets have become incredibly popular amongst home users, businesses and enthusiasts alike. Today you'll find a regular show in almost every large town in the UK, packed out with local computer companies and often attended by thousands of people. You are probably wondering why they have suddenly become so popular. I believe it is because there are less “cowboys”. The sellers are usually businesses with either shops, mail order or internet outlets, so they can be relied on to sell decent quality goods backed up with a reliable ...

No robbery (1345 words)
by MHWake - written on 04.07.01 (Very useful, 2071 readings)
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If there were no computer fairs, my PC would just be a blank space on the desk. I've racked my brains to think of a component that definitely came from a shop and still can't come up with one. Computer fairs do vary enormously in quality from one part of the country to another. I can only really speak about the local ones run by Abacus, which are very good. (I've also found Boaler's Exhibition Centre in Manchester hosts excellent fairs, not as big, but with a wider variety of products than the Liverpool ones. Haydock was rubbish the one time I went there. So was the one fair I've been to in Lincoln.) Abacus hold Computer ...

General Comments on Computer Fairs: Bargains to be had... (635 words)
by MichaelR - written on 11.05.01 (Very useful, 39 readings)
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...but a lot of obsolete/non working/stolen stuff to be had too. Computer Fairs can be rather dangerous places for the naive shopper. I've been to a great many of these events now, and it is sometimes painfully obvious that certain traders are up to no good. I can recall more than one instance of stalls being raided for selling stolen/pirated software, and I suspect that a fair amount of the hardware on sale at some fairs also conveniently floated out of a window or fell off the back of a lorry. Having said all that, most traders at computer fairs are decent, respectable business people offering friendly, intelligent service and a range of ...