This electronics store has managed to save me more than once. It sells everything from adapters,…read moresockets, phone equipment, music cables, TV cables, computer bits, screws in every size and colour, power adapters, sat navs, car equipment, tools to lava lamps. It really sells it all. Now, I will admit that as a typical girl, I am probably a DIY imbecile, and yet the staff has always been very patient and helpful with me, which I will forever be grateful for. This is the perfect shop for all your electronic needs whether you are a tech expert or just desperately trying to fix a household object.

Maplin is a great little electrical store. I've been here a few times looking for various things…read moresuch a a baby light bulb for a special lamp that I have, a cable that I needed for my old turntable. You name it they have it. The guys in here are always ready to help and must find it pretty amusing when I try and explain in nontechnical terms what I'm looking for like "oh you know that things that connects the little plug with the even smaller one" and they are like oh you mean the male/female adaptor.

Don't shop here. I made a purchase today…read more Was ill advised by the staff and paid way too much (Over double what I could find it for online) My error. I wont make it again and advise you not to follow my example

I recently bought 2 converters for my pc screen. They did not work so I returned to the shop to be…read moretold there was a no refund policy on that particular product ( which I was not told at time of purchase and was told that "I should have read my receipt" which you only get AFTER you have bought an item). I was offered a store credit so went ahead and ordered a pair of Logitech headphones so that I would not lose out on the money now tied into the shop. I was quoted a total price of £84.99 (priced in other stores at £60) and told it would take 3-4 days. Over the next 5 weeks, several phone calls which were NEVER returned and visits back to the store I finally get a call saying my item was ready to pick up. At the counter the same sales assistant happily smiled and said " that will be £139.99 please"... 20 minutes of lame excuses followed and I was told that there was nothing they could do, they could not sell for the original quoted price or give a refund on the original. I ended up being given the original converts back with absolutely no use for them at all now.... Will NEVER buy from there again.... Terrible attitudes, customer services and very over priced items...

Amazing and quite loaded with older video games for the past gens of consoles. Definately recommend…read morevisitng it and would so visit it again.

Like the other Maplin stores, this place has a real diverse range of electrical products and music…read moreequipment. From touch pad keyboards, remote control airplanes, wires, tape, hi fi's, televsions and electrician supplies - you'll be sure to find what your looking for. The prices are pretty good, and rate well on Kelko reviews. As a high street store, this is probally your cheapest option for electrical supplies

I walked into this tech head heaven and was found out the moment I opened my mouth. I needed to…read moresplit a feed from my Nintendo Wii to a projector and a TV. After perusing the web the night before I thought I knew how. The attendant told me otherwise. He was right! Brownie points to Maplin. I am not going to pretend I know what all the electrical and tech things being sold in this shop are. What I do know is that there are lots of useful things here that someone in the know would probably juice themselves over. The attendants know what they are talking about too. Maplin... your alright!

We visited London with our 3 year old and had a day trip out of London planned. We booked a car but…read morediscovered they do not offer car seats. So we had a baby equipment delivery service/vendor lined up to have a far seat delivered to our hotel. Closer to our date, they informed me they were fully booked so that left us without any other option but to buy a car seat. I wasn't about to spend £££ on a luxury car seat (which is all we were finding in London) for one day use so I started googling and came across Argos. I browsed their site and saw the car seat that met our specifications which ended up being the same price as it would have been to rent from the vendor plus their delivery/pickup fees. We hate being THAT customer but we arrived 15 minutes before closing on the night before our planned day trip and we were able to purchase the car seat right then and there on their systems. Then walked a few steps over to their counter where they brought it over. We were in an out in 10 minutes. Service was fine although I realize a clueless customer rushing in so close to the end of your day might be slightly irritating. After use, we listed the car seat on Craigslist to anyone who wanted to pick up from us at our hotel lobby free of charge which worked out great since we didn't need to schlep the car seat to a local charity shop.

I ordered a real baby from the Argos website #myfirstbaby and it came missing a few limbs!! I am…read moreabsolutely furious! His name is Jonathon and he is now crippled. He died today, currently typing this at his funeral Peace

If there is one place that I can choose to went in for my…read morecomputer accessories, PC Worldwas my first choice, why? First of all, because there are many choices here, and another thing is the prices, it is very important to me, where I can buy a very affordable accessory but have a high quality performance and this shop provide avery low prices gadgets, PC's accessories etc and the staff here is simply gorgeous, I like their presence.

I have to agree with the other reviews. Terrible, awful, do not use currys. I'm literally…read moretraumatised and they give zero for your customer experience. ordered fridge, didn't come, wasted my whole day trying to sort it out and they made zero efforts to help. impossible to get any help. Just sooooo unacceptable.

I'm obliged to have a fondness for this place... it saved my life, well... rather my film…read more It was a Sunday... it was our day of shooting. Days before, I'd spoken with my camera guy about how much tape we needed. "Do you think we need more than a couple hours of tape?" he asked. "Yes," I said. "Okay," he replied, "I'll be sure to get some." So there we were, on a Sunday afternoon on Kings Road in Chelsea, setting up the shot with all of our rental equipment, when the camera guy says to me, "uh... I need to go to a store somewhere and buy some more tape." "What?" I asked. "Yeah, I mean, if you think we'll need more than an hour of tape..." "Of course we need more than an hour! We'll need well more than an hour...." "Yeah, so, I need to go to a store and pick up some more tape..." I looked at him incredulously. "This is crazy... I have no idea where in the world you think you're going to find HD mini DV tapes anywhere near King's Road on a Sunday at 4:30 in the afternoon..." He looked up and down the street... then pointed to the Sony Centre, which was miraculousy a stone's throw away... as if it had materialized out of nowhere right then and there... I'd never even noticed it there before... "They might have some," he said. And what do you know? They did. We bought their last tapes. I consider myself indebted to Sony for even contemplating setting up such a shop on King's Road.... so here's a big public thank you to Sony for the shop's very existence in Chelsea... and another big thank you for keeping it open till 5pm on Sundays!

This busy audio visual shop offers everything you could want from any big brand name in the TV,…read morehifi, camera and computer industries. The Hi Fi Surplus Store also has great prices on DJ equipment, though some of it is not as refined as what you'd find at West End DJ nearby. There's always a friendly salesman on hand to answer any questions, and the better you are at bargaining yourself a good deal the easier it'll be on your pocket. A cool product I saw in particular was a huge 58" rear projection screen for a thousand quid: thoughts of Call of Duty 5 on Xbox Live and a hi-def DVD of "The Day The Earth Stood Still". Another interesting fact to note is that it is very difficult for most men to walk past this window without the glint of technology catching their eyes. Beware: you'll still find a lot of the items available in this store cheaper if you buy it online.

Hi Fi Surplus Store sells electronic goods of all types. It reminds me of electronic stores on the…read morestreets of New York City. It's a medium sized store packed of electronic gadgets and one really needs to ask the staff to find out if they carry the product or not. I had to buy a socket converter so I could plug my recharger into the socket. I asked for a North American socket converter, and the staff at the counter immediately showed me the huge stack of it. He even let me test it out and it worked too. So, I decided to buy it and I gave him the money, but the staff at the counter forgot to put the socket converter in the bag, and foolishly, I left the store without the product. Oh, if you're wondering, I did come back to the store, and I got the socket converter back!