Pattaya Software Center

[bartender100]

Plenty of great hardware and mobile shops.Packed today.

Also many stalls of software, the Panthip kind.

[monty]

Pattaya TukCom,

just been there, they opened probably a week early, as most of the shops were still unpacking, or even just decorating!

Seems like 90% of the units are rented out, and only for hardware/software my guestimate would be around double as much shops present compared to SriRacha.

Many of the Pantip shops who never bothered to open a branch in Sri Racha are here in Pattaya now!

I guess it's going to be hard on Wattana, DCO, liberty and the likes with competition like this...

Monty

[Rice_King]

What is the address / location in Pattaya of this store?

[Merlin]

it's on Pattaya Tai - just along from Wat Chai, between 2nd and 3rd roads.

[astral]

What is the address / location in Pattaya of this store?

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Pattaya South Road

Traffic in that road is pretty awful at the best of times.

Avoid Tuesday and Friday which are market days!!

The Sri Racha Tuk Com may still offer a better option!!

[Phil Conners]

It's the old day-night department store that's been redecorated. It was closed for years after someone died in the building and the Thai's refused to come there, afraid of ghosts....

When I heard about the new store months ago my first though was where they intend people to park. With usual Thai foresight they seem to have completely disregarded that little detail.

I had a brief stroll in there yesterday and the one thing I did notice is that instead of offering good competitive prices to get business started as would have been the case most everywhere else in the world, at least the software shops have clear signs of 150 baht per CD - compared to the 120 baht asked everywhere else in Pattaya and Si Racha. I didn't stay long enough to find out if hardware was equally overpriced. Unless they get to their senses and become competitive, prices and lack of parking will make this a half-failure, catering only to short-term tourists who don't know better.

[astral]

I thought the same about the parking, but motorists are being directed to a multi-storey park round the back.

[Merlin]

I looked at a few CDs there - picked 3. Said "100 baht, ok?" with the money already in my hand...

In the end, I got the 3 for 340 baht.

Today I noticed they have a trolley bus to ferry customers to/from the car park.

[monty]

Hardware prices are certainly not overpriced, since most of the shops use the pricelist they recieve daily from BKK. This is the same pricelist as in Panthip, SriRacha,...

A lot of those pricelists can be found on-line as well!

Example : http://www.famous.co.th/price/brochure.cgi

They have shops in all IT centers, including the new Pattaya one...

Just bought a 256 Mb thumdrive at 1120 Baht ! go try and find one at Wattana

Edited January 1, 2005 by monty

[krider]

Great news this has opened.

Will be handy for those extended stays in PTY - means I can get on with some work etc... after building a PC and then give it to the favourite girl when I leave

K