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The winners of Christmas 2007
masterkay
Posts: 296 Forumite
I started a losers of Christmas 2007 thread to name and shame the companies that let you down this Christmas so I thought I'd do a winners thread as well. Apart for two major problem everything went well though I did notice in general items were slower coming out this Christmas than previous Christmas. I will start ordering in November from now on.
The winners for me have to be.
Firebox.com Yet again scarily fast delivery, no problems with the products and has always been top notch from start to finish. My number 1 for gadget gifts all year round. Highly recommended. They also tend to get the new gadgets in stock before most other sites.
Amazon.co.uk Top quality as usual. I use them because if things do go wrong they normally go to extreme lengths to help you. Nothing went wrong though items took slightly longer than normal to arrive but I did use the free delivery option.
Tesco Direct has always been great. Kept me informed and quick delivery even considering the time of year.
Threadless.com Excellent t-shirt site from USA. I ordered late and took a chance that the items would arrive on time because the shirts were too good to miss. They arrived 10 days later. Look out for their $10 t-shirt sales, even when you add in postage that's cheaper than most UK sites and you won't get the designs anywhere else. Note that each design has a limited number of prints so make sure you don't miss out.
Baseacid.com UK t-shirt site. Great range and quality of the t-shirts. They were offering shirts for £5 delivered as a Christmas special. I actually worked out that if you ordered more than one of Christmas specials it would combine postage and all other shirts would be £3.75 delivered. I even got a free t-shirt because I ordered so many.
Play.com A good solid performance from play. I mentioned them in the losers as well because the sent a wrong item but they did fix it.
Game online Free delivery and everything you'd get in your normal game stores without the queues. Kept up to date with many emails about the status of the order so no worries or problems.
As you can see the winners completely out number the losers for me but it is always the losers you remember that's why I thought I should give some credit to the companies that did well.
The winners for me have to be.
Firebox.com Yet again scarily fast delivery, no problems with the products and has always been top notch from start to finish. My number 1 for gadget gifts all year round. Highly recommended. They also tend to get the new gadgets in stock before most other sites.
Amazon.co.uk Top quality as usual. I use them because if things do go wrong they normally go to extreme lengths to help you. Nothing went wrong though items took slightly longer than normal to arrive but I did use the free delivery option.
Tesco Direct has always been great. Kept me informed and quick delivery even considering the time of year.
Threadless.com Excellent t-shirt site from USA. I ordered late and took a chance that the items would arrive on time because the shirts were too good to miss. They arrived 10 days later. Look out for their $10 t-shirt sales, even when you add in postage that's cheaper than most UK sites and you won't get the designs anywhere else. Note that each design has a limited number of prints so make sure you don't miss out.
Baseacid.com UK t-shirt site. Great range and quality of the t-shirts. They were offering shirts for £5 delivered as a Christmas special. I actually worked out that if you ordered more than one of Christmas specials it would combine postage and all other shirts would be £3.75 delivered. I even got a free t-shirt because I ordered so many.
Play.com A good solid performance from play. I mentioned them in the losers as well because the sent a wrong item but they did fix it.
Game online Free delivery and everything you'd get in your normal game stores without the queues. Kept up to date with many emails about the status of the order so no worries or problems.
As you can see the winners completely out number the losers for me but it is always the losers you remember that's why I thought I should give some credit to the companies that did well.
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I don't do any on-line Chritmas shopping in December. I buy everything in November. The following companies delivered everything efficiently to me in November and I have no complaints-
Boots.com - Order came very quickly
Amazon.co.uk - Ordered loads - all came without complaint
Game.com - Order came quickly - No problems
Toysrus.com - Order came quickly
As I said on the other thread M & S were carp and wont use them next Christmas - if ever again:mad:0 -
Tesco deal vouchers- ordered online p.m., arrived following morning!0
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Amazon - did multiple orders and no problems as usual - i use them almost weekly and they have never let me down - xmas service was no different
Also used Boots, Toys R Us, ELC, Play.com - all orders arrived promptly with no problems.0
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