I have nothing but praise for the B&O store opposite Harrods - allways helpful and very knowledgable about B&O products past and present. So I am glad that this store is not the one closing down. The one in Hannover square is hidden away behind the cross rail construction mess and is not very obvious when you pass by (small sign and very small shopping window), so I am not surprised that this store is closing or relocating...the footfall cannot have been very large which kind of defies the whole idea of a flagship store.

mcm wrote:

I have nothing but praise for the B&O store opposite Harrods - allways helpful and very knowledgable about B&O products past and present. So I am glad that this store is not the one closing down. The one in Hannover square is hidden away behind the cross rail construction mess and is not very obvious when you pass by (small sign and very small shopping window), so I am not surprised that this store is closing or relocating...the footfall cannot have been very large which kind of defies the whole idea of a flagship store.

Maybe they will have a loss of profits claim against CrossRail.

This is my local B & O store. The staff have always been incredibly helpful. Very sorry to learn it's closing. The only consolation is that there are several more in London.

Paul W wrote:

That's really nice MarkLeeDee. I looked in the window many times at the A8 before I bought one from the Apple store a while back. To me, it just did not look inviting. But seriously, these people are simply selling dead, materialistic products. Any fool can buy something. I guess it's human perception. Now if they were selling a prevention for cancer or ageing or offering to pay for me to study for my PHD, then i'd understand ;)

Seriously, just stop.  You are recognised by most as the most materialistic person on this forum, you cannot mention a single item without it having a designer name in front of it, and now you have started posting born again, new-age hippy sh1t. You have become a laughing stock.

If the thought of people owning a large TV or aspiring to new speakers offends your sensibilities then please find a new webhome with people of a similar outlook where your views will be embraced, maybe raffia_shirts.com instead of Paul Smith or papiermache_bicyles.org instead of Cervelo.

Duels wrote:

Puncher. Much as I agree with your sentiments I think Paul w is now simply doing this to wind people up.

Paul W is just being Paul W. I checked the archive to look for earlier wind-ups, in the days when Paul W was Paul Winn. To my surprise all of Paul Winn's posts have been deleted, and Paul Winn does not exist in the list of members. However a search for Paul Winn brings up all the replies to his posts where the reply included a quote of his original.

Graham

vikinger wrote:

Paul W is just being Paul W. I checked the archive to look for earlier wind-ups, in the days when Paul W was Paul Winn. To my surprise all of Paul Winn's posts have been deleted, and Paul Winn does not exist in the list of members. However a search for Paul Winn brings up all the replies to his posts where the reply included a quote of his original.

Graham

Duels wrote:

vikinger wrote:

 

Paul W is just being Paul W. I checked the archive to look for earlier wind-ups, in the days when Paul W was Paul Winn. To my surprise all of Paul Winn's posts have been deleted, and Paul Winn does not exist in the list of members. However a search for Paul Winn brings up all the replies to his posts where the reply included a quote of his original.

Graham

I will bow to your greater experience of this phenomenon Graham!

It's all still there. If you use Google rather than the Beoworld search function it all comes up.

355f wrote:

The b&o flagship store just off new Bond Street will close very shortly

Am I right or wrong in saying that this store has only (fairly) recently opened? 2015?

Slightly worrying if B&O themselves - making more of a profit from their own products - can't make their own store work. Doesn't give out a great signal to potential new franchise owners!

Did someone say there's a Play store in Marleybone? I might pay that store a visit on Monday when I'm in London. Where's it located?

9 LEE wrote:

Paul W wrote:

That's really nice MarkLeeDee. I looked in the window many times at the A8 before I bought one from the Apple store a while back. To me, it just did not look inviting. But seriously, these people are simply selling dead, materialistic products. Any fool can buy something. I guess it's human perception. Now if they were selling a prevention for cancer or ageing or offering to pay for me to study for my PHD, then i'd understand ;)

Am I the only person to think that post was, ummm, baffling?

Why did you buy a B&O product from the Apple Store for starters, when your local B&O dealership needs the money far more than Apple?  

Secondly, if B&O are simply dead, materialistic products - why do you buy them, and come on here to talk about them?!

Lee

 

Exactly! Get him! 😠