Fitting, really
Companies like Appliances Online are responsible for the downfall of Comet. That and Comet's complete ignorance in trying to understand the online retail market.
The future of Comet's stores hangs in the balance: but the business brain behind Appliances Online has tabled a million pound plus bid for the website part of the drain-circling retailer. As previously revealed, Dixons and Maplins are understood to have expressed interest in only a handful of Comet stores as administrator …
John Roberts, the man behind Bolton-based white goods etailer Appliances Online has confirmed he put in a "seven figure offer" for the web stores.
He said his firm expected to continue using the Comet name on the net
A seven-figure sum for the comet.co.uk domain name, with a redirect to http://www.appliancesonline.co.uk/ ?
No jobs being saved there then?
The warranties are being held up by the insurance company who provided them.
Still I am not sure what is going to happen if you need a new TV etc, because are they going to refund all the money or part of it though.
I would like to see how they are going to be upheld, but when I was working for Comet I was told that if they ever went under people who bought the warranties didn't, have to worry as there was a 3rd party insurer not connected to Comet as a company, other than Comet being a customer of theres.