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    Simply Electronics

    Anyone got stories to share about this bastards ?

    I'm doing an article for The Register about them, including the way they shaft customers. The only way I got my refund was using the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 on their payment processor.
    My 12 year old is walking 26 miles for Cardiac Risk in the Young, you can sponsor him here

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    Originally posted by Dominic Connor View Post
    Anyone got stories to share about this bastards ?

    I'm doing an article for The Register about them, including the way they shaft customers. The only way I got my refund was using the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 on their payment processor.
    10/10 for me. Never had a problem with them.
    What happens in General, stays in General.
    You know what they say about assumptions!

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      #3
      Don't do business with people I've never heard of.
      "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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        #4
        Originally posted by Dominic Connor View Post
        I'm doing an article for The Register about them
        So what is our commission for giving info?

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          #5
          writing like that - bordering on a libel case aren't you?
          This default font is sooooooooooooo boring and so are short usernames

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            #6
            Originally posted by MPwannadecentincome View Post
            writing like that - bordering on a libel case aren't you?
            If you have hard evidence to back it up then its hardly libel.

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              #7
              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.
              ...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...

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                #8
                Originally posted by Dominic Connor View Post
                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?
                Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
                  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.
                  My 12 year old is walking 26 miles for Cardiac Risk in the Young, you can sponsor him here

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                    #10
                    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.

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