The Acer Guy

Have you just bought an Acer product and now you want to personalize it?

I don’t know about you but I’ve been there a hundred times before. You hand over your hard-earned cash and then because of the cost of shelf space in that High Street PC shop, you’re left with no option other than trawling through eBay for dodgy, unofficial products that a) are NOT covered by Acer warranties and b), should the worst happen and they fry your notebook, invalidate the cover you thought you had…

Well, Acer have spent the last couple of months coming up with a solution and it’s quite an simple one.

If you live in Germany, France, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden or Italy, click over to your local Acer website and have a look for this button.

That’s right. Acer have opened up their own online store.

Now before cries of “What about the Indirect Model?!?!” come flashing through the mailbox from ingrates, notice that there are no PCs or notebooks on sale here. The idea of the Acer Store is, to use an Acer-ism, to Empower your purchase.

If you want to customize it by buying a spare battery, extra power cord, a docking port or just a specially designed bag, then the Acer Store might just have what you need. And if you want an easy way to extend your warranty, there’s no easier place than this.

Right now it’s open for Germany France and the UK. By the end of the week (fingers crossed) the other countries will be online and ready for business. If you live outside these countries and think you’d like an Acer Store where you live, please leave a comment. You never know who’s reading…

You want comments? We got comments:

1. Colin Welch wrote, on October 31st, 2007:

   

   yeah, id really like one for the united states. its surprising that it isnt one of their first countries that they will sell to.

2. Michael Walsh wrote, on October 31st, 2007:

   

   Hey Colin.

   I hear you. As with most projects for companies on this scale, it’s a question of roll-out, trial and of course, error.

   Acer’s got a very strong ranking over here in Europe (it’s the number one in most of the store launch countries) so that will give it a healthy chance to see and fix any flaws in the service before it goes global. That’s my excuse anyway. If it works don’t think for a minute they won’t launch it State-side. Unless of course I get a thousand “yes pleases!” on this post in which case they’d probably bring it forward…

   There used to be a buy link on the Acer Panamerica site (you can get there from the Acer.com site) but I can’t find it anymore. I heard it was still active too. Anyone know where it is?

3. Jing wrote, on November 2nd, 2007:

   

   I received the email not a few days ago notifying me of the online store.

   Im looking for a spare battery, and this seems the ideal place to get one as I don’t usually trust buying any sort of rechargeable battery online from anyone except the manufacturer direct.

   But at £99 + shipping, batteries don’t come cheap. I may have to shop around, being the poor student I currently am…

4. Michael Walsh wrote, on November 2nd, 2007:

   

   Hey Jing,

   Good to see you back. How’s University life treating you?

   There’s nothing I can do about prices I’m afraid (except let you guys moan about them…).

   It’s early days so give the store time to evolve. I’d love to suggest a number of “initiatives” to get loyalty purchases/repeat customers up and give the store a (welcome boost) but I haven’t been invited to that meeting yet (not sure if I will with suggestions like these either )

   Happy hunting.

5. Shaun Grech wrote, on November 21st, 2007:

   

   Hi, I dont know if anyone can help. I just got an acer 5920, which I am happy about. I have two problems I cant figure out:

   a. I can not turn off the microphone
   b. When the screen is slightly closed while operating, it goes in sleep mpde, and will not wake up ‘literally and have to restart it

   Please help

   Thanks

6. Jing wrote, on November 25th, 2007:

   

   Shaun
   a. Simply right-click the audio icon in the taskbar and select “recording devices”,there you can disable the mic.

   b.That problem is down to Vista no hibernating/sleeping properly. I’m waiting for SP1 to provide a real fix. As I cannot reliably leave external devices plugged in, since they are the cause of my laptop not resuming from sleep.

   —–

   Something like a 20% discount to people who have purchased a new laptop within 6 months would be good. I know this happens already with warranties. It seems like I’m sent information to upgrade my warranty every other day…

7. Shaun Grech wrote, on December 3rd, 2007:

   

   Thanks a lot Jing! much appreciated

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