29 May
2012
29 May
'12
11:03 a.m.
Hi to all,
ordered some stuff from itspot (specifically a bunch of corsair usb
drives) more than 2 weeks ago. never been delivered, no response to
e-mails. has anybody else had similar experience?
can you suggest another online shop?
cheers
30 May
30 May
12:58 a.m.
On 29/05/12 21:03, stripes theotoky wrote:
Hi to all,
ordered some stuff from itspot (specifically a bunch of corsair usb
drives) more than 2 weeks ago. never been delivered, no response to
e-mails. has anybody else had similar experience?
According to whirlpool threads, itspot are borderline outright scammers.
I've had no experience with them myself.
can you suggest another online shop?
Pricing on USB hard drives seems fairly competitive even in
bricks-and-mortar stores, at least in Melbourne. Even Officeworks is
quite well priced!
(A quick check showed, for a Seagate 1T USB3, $94 at that ITspot site,
$78 at officeworks, and $119 at MSY)
1 Jun
1 Jun
10:09 a.m.
On 29.05.12 21:03, stripes theotoky wrote:
Hi to all,
ordered some stuff from itspot (specifically a bunch of corsair usb
drives) more than 2 weeks ago. never been delivered, no response to
e-mails. has anybody else had similar experience?
I've only ever ordered one item from them. When they hadn't shipped it,
despite having debited my card a week earlier, I cancelled, and received
a refund.
can you suggest another online shop?
Since then I've been more than happy with City Software, from whom I've
now bought a printer, a laptop, a scanner, and other odds & ends. When a
mouse once arrived crushed, they arranged for pick-up and had a new one
on the way quickly.
The only caveat would be that if there's a cash-back on a purchase, then
activating that seems a little complicated to me. (But then I'm into my
second half-century, so that's not necessarily indicative.)
Erik
--
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and
it holds the universe together.
- Carl Zwanzig
2 Jun
2 Jun
7:17 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 08:09:28PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
The only caveat would be that if there's a
cash-back on a purchase, then
activating that seems a little complicated to me.
i despise cashback offers. they're a scam, a pseudo-discount offered in
the certain knowledge that most purchasers won't bother to claim it, or
will be prevented from doing so by the annoying hoops they have to jump
through. and that's assuming there's actually a genuine intention to
honour the claim at all...quite often there isn't.
in some cases they constitute, IMO, illegal kickbacks or bribery as
they can often be redeemed by an employee who purchaed them with their
employer's money.
IMO, cashback offers should either be banned outright as a scam or be
required to be honoured on the spot by the retailer (who then has all
the hassle of dealing with the supplier to get the discount as either
cash or a credit note). i.e. handled similarly to Australian Trade
Practices law which prevent retailers from avoiding their statutory
warranty obligations by attempting to pass the buck to their suppliers.
overall, seeing a cashback offer (or a "get something extra for free
by redemption" offer) makes me MUCH LESS likely to buy the product.
even if the cash price before the cashback is lower than the price of a
similarly-specced alternative.
craig
--
craig sanders <cas(a)taz.net.au>
BOFH excuse #423:
It's not RFC-822 compliant.
3 Jun
3 Jun
5:15 a.m.
Thanks for all the useful information.
Itspot finally delivered after messing around for several weeks. They
only responded after I e-mailed them to say that I was contacting VISA
to declare the transaction fraudulent. They sent me tracking numbers
with the original transaction but no idea who the courier was supposed
to be. Only after I told them I was declaring the transaction
fraudulent did they bother to tell me who the courier was and the
couriers website told me that they were twice unable to find Latrobe
University in Bundoora (I didn't think it was that small and
insignificant) and that they had finally delivered it 4 days ago to a
guy called David. Of course no one has any idea who David is and the
signature is illegible. 2 days after this the original package or a
replacement was delivered and signed for by another staff member so I
still don't actually know what they have sent me.
All in all a bad experience I certainly won't order anything from them again.
Stripes
On 2 June 2012 17:17, Craig Sanders <cas(a)taz.net.au> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 08:09:28PM +1000, Erik
Christiansen wrote:
The only caveat would be that if there's a
cash-back on a purchase, then
activating that seems a little complicated to me.
i despise cashback offers. they're a scam, a pseudo-discount offered in
the certain knowledge that most purchasers won't bother to claim it, or
will be prevented from doing so by the annoying hoops they have to jump
through. and that's assuming there's actually a genuine intention to
honour the claim at all...quite often there isn't.
in some cases they constitute, IMO, illegal kickbacks or bribery as
they can often be redeemed by an employee who purchaed them with their
employer's money.
IMO, cashback offers should either be banned outright as a scam or be
required to be honoured on the spot by the retailer (who then has all
the hassle of dealing with the supplier to get the discount as either
cash or a credit note). i.e. handled similarly to Australian Trade
Practices law which prevent retailers from avoiding their statutory
warranty obligations by attempting to pass the buck to their suppliers.
overall, seeing a cashback offer (or a "get something extra for free
by redemption" offer) makes me MUCH LESS likely to buy the product.
even if the cash price before the cashback is lower than the price of a
similarly-specced alternative.
craig
--
craig sanders <cas(a)taz.net.au>
BOFH excuse #423:
It's not RFC-822 compliant.
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