Had an e-mail today re. this - almost dumped it as I couldn't unforget
giving B&Q my addy, but a preview showed it to be OK.

The site is a lot quicker than B&Q's (not difficult), seems to have a
reasonable range although many items out of stock.

Is it riding on Screwfix's stock and delivery systems and just another
outlet to broaden the market? It would be a cheap way of doing it.

http://nextday.diy.com/app/jsp/home/homePage.jsp
--
Peter.
The head of a pin will hold more angels if
it's been flattened with an angel-grinder.

PeterC wrote:

Is it riding on Screwfix's stock and delivery systems and just another
outlet to broaden the market?

Yep. From a quick shufti at the screws they do it's a limited subset of
Screwfix's stock, even using the same code numbers, but with a 40%
markup on the price.

What modern business is all about: Branding, PR, advertising & meetings
of people in suits without anyone actually producing very much!

--
Scott

Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?

PeterC wrote:

Had an e-mail today re. this - almost dumped it as I couldn't unforget
giving B&Q my addy, but a preview showed it to be OK.

The site is a lot quicker than B&Q's (not difficult), seems to have a
reasonable range although many items out of stock.

Is it riding on Screwfix's stock and delivery systems and just another
outlet to broaden the market? It would be a cheap way of doing it.

http://nextday.diy.com/app/jsp/home/homePage.jsp

The fact that its using JSP alone is a big clue that its using the SF
back end code.

Interestingly, you note they have rebuilt the mains site as well now to
use the same back end. diy.com has just got an order of magnitude faster!


--
Cheers,

John.

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On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:31:53 +0100, John Rumm wrote:

PeterC wrote:

Had an e-mail today re. this - almost dumped it as I couldn't unforget
giving B&Q my addy, but a preview showed it to be OK.

The site is a lot quicker than B&Q's (not difficult), seems to have a
reasonable range although many items out of stock.

Is it riding on Screwfix's stock and delivery systems and just another
outlet to broaden the market? It would be a cheap way of doing it.

http://nextday.diy.com/app/jsp/home/homePage.jsp

The fact that its using JSP alone is a big clue that its using the SF
back end code.

Interestingly, you note they have rebuilt the mains site as well now to
use the same back end. diy.com has just got an order of magnitude faster!

By 'eck, it is too!
Didn't have that lobody thing re. survey in a few minutes of browsing
(ping! - that's how it got my addy - I complained about the pop-up), by my
Hosts file has ~137,000 entries so that probably stopped it.
--
Peter.
The head of a pin will hold more angels if
it's been flattened with an angel-grinder.

PeterC wrote:
Had an e-mail today re. this - almost dumped it as I couldn't unforget
giving B&Q my addy, but a preview showed it to be OK.

The site is a lot quicker than B&Q's (not difficult), seems to have a
reasonable range although many items out of stock.

Is it riding on Screwfix's stock and delivery systems and just another
outlet to broaden the market? It would be a cheap way of doing it.

http://nextday.diy.com/app/jsp/home/homePage.jsp

Makita, Sparky, Blue Bosch, DeWalt, Hitachi - not normal B&Q fare.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

PeterC wrote:
Had an e-mail today re. this - almost dumped it as I couldn't unforget
giving B&Q my addy, but a preview showed it to be OK.

The site is a lot quicker than B&Q's (not difficult), seems to have a
reasonable range although many items out of stock.

Is it riding on Screwfix's stock and delivery systems and just another
outlet to broaden the market? It would be a cheap way of doing it.

http://nextday.diy.com/app/jsp/home/homePage.jsp

Its search is still as odd as ever. Pointed the new site out to partner
and she tried "plant pot" (I kid you not! :-) ). Result was a load of
door furniture handles.

--
Rod

On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:39:41 +0100, Rod wrote:

PeterC wrote:
Had an e-mail today re. this - almost dumped it as I couldn't unforget
giving B&Q my addy, but a preview showed it to be OK.

The site is a lot quicker than B&Q's (not difficult), seems to have a
reasonable range although many items out of stock.

Is it riding on Screwfix's stock and delivery systems and just another
outlet to broaden the market? It would be a cheap way of doing it.

http://nextday.diy.com/app/jsp/home/homePage.jsp

Its search is still as odd as ever. Pointed the new site out to partner
and she tried "plant pot" (I kid you not! :-) ). Result was a load of
door furniture handles.

It's an extension of the in-store 'help'.
--
Peter.
The head of a pin will hold more angels if
it's been flattened with an angel-grinder.

On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:39:41 +0100, Rod wrote:

Its search is still as odd as ever. Pointed the new site out to partner
and she tried "plant pot" (I kid you not! :-) ). Result was a load of
door furniture handles.

It is definitely a weird search engine - tried variations on that including
flower pot, pot and p*ss pot - which last produced two results.

--
Geo

Rod wrote:
PeterC wrote:
Had an e-mail today re. this - almost dumped it as I couldn't
unforget giving B&Q my addy, but a preview showed it to be OK.

The site is a lot quicker than B&Q's (not difficult), seems to have a
reasonable range although many items out of stock.

Is it riding on Screwfix's stock and delivery systems and just
another outlet to broaden the market? It would be a cheap way of
doing it. http://nextday.diy.com/app/jsp/home/homePage.jsp

Its search is still as odd as ever. Pointed the new site out to
partner and she tried "plant pot" (I kid you not! :-) ). Result was
a load of door furniture handles.

I tried 3" plant pot once and got newell posts :-)


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk