On 21/04/17 12:41, tim... wrote:


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 20/04/17 12:28, tim... wrote:


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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Not for the first time, nor for the second, do I find that my (from a
very limited sample) recent purchase is either CFU or fails within
a few
months of buying it.

Why do people swear by this means of shopping

Things may be cheap(er) but if they are useless and you have limited
(practical) means to get redress, what's the point?

Gimme the pound shop any day, at least I can take things back :-)

tim


Nothing I have ever sent backl to aasmazon hasnt been either replaced
or refunded as a matter of courese.

after 5 months?

After 18 months actually. In the case of the longest one.


or because it doesn't work as well as an "original" replacement when it
was clearly described as not an original replacement (and priced
accordingly). I was prepared for it to not be as good as an original
replacement - but it performed worse that the worn out original item I
was looking to replace.


I accidental;y ordered a TV wall bracket for a friend and it turned
out the TV had unusually wide fittings, so it went straight back no
problem Even postage was refunded.. My mistake. I should have double
checked.

Ebay? well generally iof you push you can get a refund there too.

But ebay is caveat emptor,

HOWEVER the last 2 items I got from ebay to repair the lefthand side
sockets on my laptop (where it fell off onto the floor) were 100%
perfect.

The thing I should have taken back was the totally crap office chair I
got from staples, but that is a 45 mile round trip. Utter crap. Beyond
utter crap actually.

Well I wouldn't buy that sort of thing untested

How can you test iit?
you have to put it together first.,

don't they have samples in the shop to try out?

Assuming that they conform to what is in the box, sort of.

In this case the screws that hold the seat on are so long they poke
through the totally inadequate foam padding to become a literal pain in
the rectum.

The shop one didn't have such long screws. And the fact that the back
starts to wobble after a few hours isn't apparent either

Basically with the flimsy A4 filing cabinet I bought that is not even as
substantial as Fiat bodywork, staples can **** off forever as far as I
am concerned.

In short I get a better shopping experience online than in any 'high
street;' or retail park, with one notable exception.

Books.

E books are a complete failure as far as I am concerned because DRM
makes it impossible to use them in the way I'd like, on loads of
different devices.



tim





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