Reply to: Simply Electronics

[NotAllThere]

Read it.. you moderate it.

FTFY

[MarillionFan]

Total non story. Company offering stuff cheaper on Internet has crap customer service and in most cases cannot fulfil orders or order process.

Basically it's a classic buyer beware of Romans bearing gifts and looking a gift horse in the wallet.

You get what you pay for.

[barrydidit]

Not this lot but ordered another cheap car safety camera recently. It took 8 weeks to get here from Hong Kong and I opened up the box to find an alarm clock. Not a big deal as it was 12 quid but probably pays to Google before buying things online.

Lol, just set the alarm for 2 minutes before you crash, then whip out your phone and record the incident. I bet the guy you ordered it from knew the mandarin for 'he who dares wins, Rodney'

[xoggoth]

Not this lot but ordered another cheap car safety camera recently. It took 8 weeks to get here from Hong Kong and I opened up the box to find an alarm clock. Not a big deal as it was 12 quid but probably pays to Google before buying things online.

[mudskipper]

Read it.. you wrote it.

FTFY

[Pondlife]

I'd read that.

Read it.. you moderate it.

[GB9]

How about Googling QSSupplies.

Or how about a piece on Ryanair's online booking software that books you the whatever was last captured by their cookies, regardless of whether or not its actually what you want to book. And then they deny it, until you tell them you know what the problem is....

[NotAllThere]

... An idiot with an internet connection... a tale of online stupidity...

I'd read that.

[EternalOptimist]

Des, this is a non-story. A quick google is an immediate red flag, it's been covered widely

why not do a 'Ten ways to avoid being e-ripped' and use this as your prime example

[Pondlife]

Not sure there's any mileage in some online journo piece about the perils of buying dodgy grey imports from some company based in HK. The first page of Google results screams stay away.

What will the article say? I ordered a phone that was $100 cheaper than anywhere else from some online shop based in china and didn't get what I wanted. You might as well title it, An idiot with an internet connection... a tale of online stupidity.

Seriously, you think this counts as journalism. More likely you want to scream "don't you know who I am" down the phone to some guy who doesn't speak English.

[Dominic Connor]

So it will be an unbiased piece then?
I'd never heard of them, but a quick google search was enough to make sure I'd never use them. How come you got caught?

I was stupid, didn't google them. partly because I confused them with Simply Computers who used to do cheap n cheerful PCs.

Amongst their antics were sending me a Spanish phone, their returns process is a nightmare, their customer support line doesn't work either.

After I'd got their payment processors involved they called me. It did not go well for them, they claimed the support line worked, so I made the twat listen to me call them and be cut off.
At this point the conversation started to revolve around whether I had a magic phone.

[NotAllThere]

Anyone got stories to share about this bastards ?

So it will be an unbiased piece then?

I'd never heard of them, but a quick google search was enough to make sure I'd never use them. How come you got caught?

[Lockhouse]

I've had issues with them. I ordered something then cancelled when I realised it wasn't UK spec. It took a threat to report them to Watchdog and Trading Standards before they paid up. Even then I had to get my bank involved.

[BrilloPad]

writing like that - bordering on a libel case aren't you?

If you have hard evidence to back it up then its hardly libel.

[MPwannadecentincome]

writing like that - bordering on a libel case aren't you?