Your best experience with an online shop

beelzbub

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Hi.

I thought it would be nice to start a thread on which online shops are worth going to. If any of you have had a good experience with an online shop, you should post it here, and the website address ... that way we can protect ourselves and make sure we shop in good reliable FRIENDLY places. Also, it is not only restricted to hardware, can be anything.

I will add the first website to this thread:

I was searching for a good graphics card, along the lines of an 8800gtx, and came accross a few shops. Out of all the shops I e-mailed for advice, Digital Addiction was the quickest to respond. He told me everything I needed to know, and replied to every e-mail I sent him within 30 minutes ... even the ones I sent at 11pm at night. As a bonus his price was the best I could find on the internet, so basically they have great prices and great service. More than what I can say for some of the other competitors. When it came time to purchase ... I found out that I couldn't use a credit card on his site, and was a bit worried because he required an EFT or Cash Deposit. I decided to trust my gut, and paid the amount. He confirmed that proof of payment was received and that he would send when it had reflected. About 2 days later, I received the item to my door via his courier company Berco Express. I am very happy with his service, and will definately shop there again. And another upside is all pages requiring some sort of user data are SSL encrypted.
His website address is http://www.digitaladdiction.co.za

Regards

Jonathan.

P.S. Don't forget to place your good experiences in this forum.a
 

Tux

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Jonathan...

P.S. Your website's slow and my 13y/o daughter can design better pages.
 

LandyMan

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hehehe, First post punting a site ... my money is where Gru put his mouth :D
 

Moederloos

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omg

looks like barney threw up in there- especially in Firefox where it fails to render properly.
 

beelzbub

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Firstly its not my site, secondly ya, the site is pretty slow and the design is bad .. I did mention that the site is slow to him ... feel bad telling him bout the design though :p, and 3rdly ... this is my first post because I was searching for peoples comments, and kept arrivinf at sites like oneshop ... and I bet you those are just the website owners reviewing them ... I wanted a source they didn't know about, at least not yet ... so I wrote this ... and I was rather hoping people would contribute to some reviews before other site owners found this ... instead of being critisized for being the site owner ... believe me, if that was my site ... I would have it much better designed. Any way, I wasn't appraising the design and speed of the site, I was appraising the service.
 

beelzbub

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Ok GRU ... now that we cleared that up ... you have a super amount of posts ... don't you have any nice online SA shops to share with us?
 

web

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now my eyes are sore from looking at that site! Thanks just what i need a headache on a friday !!!
 

dotVIBE

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Hey guys,

Now from someone with a slightly more posts.

I recently bought something from digitaladdiction.co.za. Yeah, It might not be the prettiest site out there, but the prices were the best for the item I was looking for (a 1.8" OTG Ext HDD). Now, I have to tell you that it was the most professional experience with an online shop i've had so far. And I've had plenty. I'd def. buy from him again. The guy who helped me was called Etai Itzman, or something like that. The shipping was super fast and cheap, and the best part was the communication. All my emails were replied to fast and comprehensively, friendly but professionally.

And that matters more to me than site design. Two thumbs way up for digitaladdiction.co.za.
 

Wisemansa

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lol...my first post was commending a site for good service as well....got all sorts of spam accusations....the bastards ;)
 

LandyMan

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Ok GRU ... now that we cleared that up ... you have a super amount of posts ... don't you have any nice online SA shops to share with us?

His post count means Jack ... he is a bloody postwhore!
 

eitai2001

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Wow ... someone started a forum with my site in it ... I just registered today ... lol ... fate maybe :p ...

Thanks to the 2 guys who said I have great service.

To all the guys who criticised my site (digital addiction) ... I read through them, and they help me a lot ... I know my site is designed badly, and can't figure out why its so slow???

I have actually hired two brothers who are a developer and designer to fix the site up and they're busy on it ... apparently I have tons of wasted SQL statements. I'm going to start a new forum for tips for me (and anyone else who wishes to ask for help), please can you guys go there ... criticize as much as you can there and also please give me hints and tips for what you think would make the website better, so I can incorporate it when the developers are done with the redesign.

The only thing is please don't tell me I should accept credit cards ... I know I should, but there is way too much fraud out there (4 people have already tried to get me) ... and my company is not big enough to lose money to fraud ... When I am bigger I will accept them ... until then ... EFT and cash are the safest ways to transact.

Regards

Itai Etzman
 

dotVIBE

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Hey itai, good to see you on here!

Yeah, I actually recommended your site on a couple of consumer site thingies. thx again for the great service :D
 

eitai2001

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Cool ... thanks so much ... the reviews really help. The competition is tough to beat ... and there are so many prices to update weekly, so if you need something let me know ... its very possible my price is out of date.
 
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