Re:Swiss retailer Galaxus now displays warranty score and re...
by smcl on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:44AM
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You have more patience than me. If that happened to one of my orders I wouldn't just change from delivery to in-store pickup, I would simply stop ordering from that store altogether.
Re:Swiss retailer Galaxus now displays warranty score and re...
by foobarbecue on Friday January 27, 2023 @08:58AM
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What ajsnigrutin is describing recently happened to me with Lenovo (2nd offense) and backcountry.com (1st). It seems like companies are getting more "approximate" about their inventories :-(
Re:Swiss retailer Galaxus now displays warranty score and re...
by smcl on Friday January 27, 2023 @09:24AM
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Ah damn, that's gotta be pretty frustrating :-/
Re:Swiss retailer Galaxus now displays warranty score and re...
by Abishek_Muthian on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:22PM
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In India when the major e-Commerce companies opened shop they realised that having just online payment wouldn't work due to inherent distrust with online payments, lack of card access etc. and so 'Cash on Delivery' where we pay to the delivery personnel was critical for their survival.
Nowadays people prefer to use UPI[1] over cash in even local store counters making India the largest real-time payment transactions country.
Its amazing that both of those happened within a decade, Largely synonymous with mobile compute & Internet penetration.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
I've started using this as much as possible, especially during christmas. You find something, "in stock", supposed to be delivered the next day or a day after, you order, then nothing one day, two days, three days, then you call, "yeah, it's still with the distributed, it'll be ready tomorrow", two more days pass, you call again, want a refund, they "cannot refund now", because the product is supposedly in the mail already, then you wait, christmas goes by, and around 15. january you get a call, that they cannot get the item you wanted, and try to upsell some either more expensive or worse option.
Now I just order for physical pickup and "pay there" option.. and if it's not there, cancelling is easy, because they don't have your money yet, and they cannot lie about the item being already sent.