It should be easier to buy a new phone

[andrewducker]

I've been keeping an eye on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus* to see what the price was like**. It originally went on sale for £580, dropped to £500, then £450, and today I checked Amazon to discover it was only £400. Which was just too good to pass up on.***

I was about to click "buy" when Julie suggested I try a few other sites, to see if any were better. So I did a quick search and was amazed to see Expansys had it for £340. I think I just about broke my fingers clicking buy on that, as it was beyond a bargain.

And, indeed, it was too good to be true. An hour after arriving at work I noticed the order was "pending additional information", and an hour later I received an email from them telling me that the order was in error, but they'd let me have it for £399, which was still a saving of £50 over their "actual" price. But not a saving over Amazon, who hadn't pissed me off with silly mistakes, and thus got my cash.

In any case, the new phone should arrive tomorrow (better than the three days Expansys were promising), and I have the day booked off to recover from erindubitably and marrog's legally binding ceremony of togetherness, so I can spend it playing with new tech****.




*Because I wanted an open phone that didn't have any manufacturer or carrier overlays/software installed on it.
**Aided by poisonduk
***I'd been planning on waiting until March, when I should have some more cash, but I can juggle money around and make this work, so long as I get it all sorted before the wedding, which won't be a problem.
****And doing all the washing up I haven't been doing over the last couple of days while I've been working until 7:30pm

Comments

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

Lol. I refuse to be implicated! I was being 'helpful'

[andrewducker]

You were helpful! I've been checking Amazon daily since that point...

[dreema.livejournal.com]

plus with amazon purchases you can get nectar points (if you collect them, that is)

[fearmeforiampink]

Reminds me of my recent netbook purchase.

I initially found it at a decent price at play.com. They checked my card details — not unreasonably, given I was buying a high value object as my first purchase from them and asking for it to be delivered to not-the-billing-address — but they failed to actually update on their website to tell me if the the card was declined, accepted, or they were still thinking about it.

Whilst I was pondering this, I noticed Amazon had it on, for the same price or slightly less, and I've a long history with Amazon, so they're rather more likely to trust me.

It hasn't really helped Play's chance of seeing me again that when I sent their support/feedback people an email about why I cancelled my order (said email starting as the 'Have you made up your minds yet?' question, before I noticed it available on Amazon), they managed to mispell my name (how do you do that, online?), and when I pointed out it wasn't the checks, it was not knowing what state those were in they just parroted back the 'security, security' line again at me.

7:30 pm?

[allorin.livejournal.com]

You been on half days? ;+)