Play.com

Abbafan1972

Our normal rubbish is collect once a week and our recycling is collected every fortnight. We have a really small bin for cardboard/paper and we just crush it up small or tie it with string.

I ordered a Wii motion plus from there about a month ago and you know how slimline these are, it came in a box about 6 times bigger. :eek:

DCFC79

So your council dont provide collections for cardboard but dont you have the cardboard recycling banks at the supermarkets

Helix

DCFC79 wrote: »

So your council dont provide collections for cardboard but dont you have the cardboard recycling banks at the supermarkets

The supermarkets near me don't. The nearest place around me to recycle cardboard is the local tip.

Bowling_4_Gold

I ordered a 50-DVD spindle from them... turned up in a not-sealed jiffy bag, inside what can only be described as an office file cardboard box... about 6 times bigger than the actual item

Helix

thriftymanc wrote: »

I have the same problems with HMV and Amazon when I order CDs. If I order CD singles from HMV, they always send them in giant 12" record mailers - they always send CD albums in the small CD boxes though so don't know why they can't use them for CD singles! And Amazon sent CDs in the massive wrap around boxes they use for books, which annoyed me as the CDs were always rattling around in the middle and often arrived broken. I stopped using them for this reason - do Amazon not have CD-sized packaging at all?

Any CDs I have got from Amazon have come in a smaller version of the book packaging and looks like its been designed to fit a CD.

mrcol1000

Paparika wrote: »

my god your bin gets emptied twice a week, it once a fortnight here you lucky sod

It was actually twice a month! Sorry. By the way anyway walking past my house with me standing in my wheelie bin yesterday I was trying to compact it down to get the rest of the rubbish in.....

mrcol1000

DCFC79 wrote: »

So your council dont provide collections for cardboard but dont you have the cardboard recycling banks at the supermarkets

Nope. I don't drive either so its not like I can take it down the tip either.

HannahIOW

This ticks me off as well, fair enough they can't send the items all in one package but to waste so much cardboard is silly - and not environmentally friendly at all. Still I suppose the fact that cardboard breaks down is some consolation.

Spartacus_Mills

mrcol1000 wrote: »

I ordered 6 t-shirts from play.com as OH forced me to start Christmas shopping early. Yesterday morning my postman staggered to my door loaded with 6 boxes. Each T-shirt had been sent in a box the size of a video player! The other thing is that that my council won't accept cardboard for reycling and give me a tiny bin they empty twice a month for my rubbish and these boxes are taking up a huge part of my bin!
Wouldn't it be cheaper for play to send these items seperately. I can understand if something is not in stock but it seems madness sending 6 items in 6 seperate boxes when all 6 items could fit in the one box!
Apart from that play do give great service and considering I ordered them Tuesday they arrived very quick!

I love Play.com. I have been using them since 2000 and in the early days they were a bit hit and miss. I used to know them as Pray.com. However over the last 5 years they have really developed into a top quality outfit. The stuff they send me always turns up very quickly and on the rare instance of having a problem they always resolve it quickly and to my satisfaction.

I cannot praise them highly enough.