
Truly Awful
Not surprised one bit. Awful to look at and navigate. So never bought anything online from them period.
ebuyer come top?
Dixons Group's websites for Currys and PC World are among the worst online shops for electrical appliances, according to a new study by consumer rights group Which? Out of the 25 sites listed by the research, Currys and PC World came joint 22nd, with only Asda and B&Q rated worse as places to buy electronics online. The poor …
>> Dixons Group's websites for Currys and PC World are among the worst online shops for
>> electrical appliances, according to a new study by consumer rights group Which?
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I'm quite stunned at that result. I'm not a particular fan of any of the high street stores but I have to my amazement found Currys to be the cheapest store on a number of occasions recently (as cheap as my usual online haunts).
In contrast I find John Lewis's site to be slow and way over priced. For example the WD MyPassport 500gb drive is £49 at Currys and £69 at John Lewis?
See my post about Home Delivery.
I've also noted that PCWorld has been as competitive (if not more so than) online sellers such as Amazon, that led me to recently purchase online from them as opposed to Amazon (partly due to price, partly due to availablility of the particular product I wanted. I never found their website particularly badly laid out (all online stores have recently gone to a layout that defaults to 'most popular purchases' when you search for something, which I've found irritating recently, try any of them - they all hype what 'most people who searched this term bought...' and you have to dig further to find the lineup of products for that category.
They ALWAYS come up "tops (or rather "bottoms") in those polls. Perhaps they should rephrase their statement:
"We have (always) aimed to provide a good service to our customers, it's just that we've never made it!
...but the fac that the real tops for electronics is John Lewis says something about the Which clientele ;)
Your stereotyping isn't very accurate - I certainly wouldn't lump "Which", "John Lewis", older women & The Express together. John Lewis'(they are Waitrose as well,remember) stereotypical customers are Observer/Guardian & maybe Telegraph readers. The Daily Express is read by EDL symps who think John Lewis is a bloke they met in the pub. The sort of dicks who read the Mail shop at Dixons/Currys/PCWorld etc & then moan about it to anyone but the actual shop.
'Which' actually does do some proper testing of consumer goods. For a mainstream publication they do a fairly good job, its their Marketing droids who have damaged their rep with their dodgy junk mail, & crap press releases.
we finally decided to "look at" the possibility of getting a dishwasher. Starting with "dishwasher" in google, we picked off Comet, Currys and appliancesonline. All seemed equally priced, with links to the same reevoo site, so we could start to see what people rated in various models.
Finally decided seemed to be a choice between Bosch or Hotpoint. Went to a local Currys, to investigate further, and got the sales droid who really didn't want to be selling dishwashers - had no idea what adjustable racking was, and thought the outstanding selling point was the choice of colour (for those of you old enough, recall the Jasper Carrott "it's a microwave" routine).
As luck would have it, there was an Apollo2000 on the way out of town. We popped in, and were amazed that the higher-spec Hotpoint, I'd scoped at £275 on appliance-planet (although delivery was free) was on sale at £250. As we started looking, a very knowledgable sales lady came over, and explained all the features and comparisons with the other models in the line-up. She was pleasant without being pushy, and pretty much tipped us over the edge. So we left with a dishwasher in the boot. Both my wife and I were keen to ensure that she actually got to make the sale for commission, as she was so good.
But the appliancesonline site was the best of the 3 ......
I recently purchased a piece of hardware from PCWORLD (Home Delivery was the only option).
My product never arrived and I've waited weeks and weeks for my purchase as their reporting system is broken. Nobody replies to emails and phone calls always yield confusion from staff not having gotten correspondance and issues never get raised or get lost in communication.
Yodel the delivery carrier was at fault (because a very poorly filled out delivery card arrived through the door), but DSG has a very broken Customer Service division which has led to me still waiting for my purchase after more than a month.
I've had few problems with buying instore or even collect at store (I've never had to use their Tech Guys), but this experience means I will never be using them again for Delivery to my home.
I have been waiting 10 weeks for a refund on a failed PSU from them.
For similar problems with the local PC store 3000rpm you get it swapped there and then (if in stock), so why can't big organisations actually manage things in any reasonable time?
dabs/BT also used Yodel to collect the PSU, that along took 4 weeks until they actually came, but I don't know quite who was to blame :(
"29% put security at the TOP" - does not mean 71% are not interested in security and would buy from an insecure site.
Question - when looking for a wife put the following in priority:
1. Is not a convicted man-hating mass murderer
2. Is not a cannibal
Whichever you pick as TOP does not imply you are happy to marry the other.
I'm now hesitant about ordering anything that won't fit through the letter box. This is mainly due to several dreadful experiences with the Home Delivery Network, on behalf of Amazon.
If it's coming by courier, then I try to find it in person, or from someone who will ship by Royal Mail. At least they leave a card, have semi-sensible opening hours and you don't have to ring them before going to collect it.
Online shopping is great, couriers are a PITA.
.. I buy from Amazon a lot, lot less than I used to. Their shitty 'delivery network' companies are unfit for purpose. I tried to explain this to them, and got some 'customer service' agent prissily explaining to me how they actually knew better than me what I wanted. Nothing I could do then to help them stop me diverting most of my custom elsewhere.
I try to avoid and dislike Currys/DSG, but they have proven cheapest for several large items, my Fridge Freezer and washing machine.
Was annoyed as for some reason I could order the washing machine online (wuth a large quidco rebate) and have that delivered, but the fridge freezer - "sorry but home delivery is unavailable in your area" - I live in an average town, 15 miles from a major city! but popping into the store and ordering - home delivery was fine!
Pixmania which is also part of currys was also the cheapest place for tellys - again with money back from quidco - so thats where 2 50"plasmas arrived from - John lewis was nowhere near in price!
but i suppose it all depends on whats on special at what shop at any one time...
Been using them for years, many many times and never had a problem. Dealing with a couple of returns their customer service was pretty good, hassle free. Their prices are amongst the keenest and you often get free delivery.
John Lewis is the nicest mainstream online and definitely in-store (free extra 12 months warranty on Apple goods anyone?). Amazon - easy online, keen pricing, returns system excellent, sometimes sending out the replacement before returning the original.
Dixons group? ... nasty, English bed-wetting types...
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How specific was the survey?
Many of those pissed with DSGi, may be the ones who've rumbled that the online price is wildly different to the instore price. Obviously relying on suckers seeing DSGi group web results being competitive and then blindly walking into the store and not checking the price.
"Around 40 per cent of shoppers found paying a high price, *** or indeed any price ***, for postage and packing annoying,..."
I run an e-commerce site. So far I haven't found any organisation that is willing, FOR NO FEE, to come and collect the items from my premises each evening and then deliver them to any location within the UK the next morning.
Rather than price everything so that the charge I have to pay is included (hidden?) within it, I charge a price PER DELIVERY - reflecting my actual cost. So if someone purchases multiple items they aren't paying multiple (hidden) delivery costs.
I consider this approach gives the best possible value to my customers and would have hoped they appreciate it...
(Incidentally, once the order gets above a certain value then I take a margin loss and do not charge for the delivery.)
Now I'm being told 40% of people find any charge "annoying".
** SO ** - Perhaps any of these 40% can advise me where any of these magical free packing and delivery service can be found so I can start using them? Perhaps Santa's elves are available for most of the year (excluding December of course)...