eb.uk.com (Electronics Boutique)

Many of you will probably be familiar with Electronics Boutique as a name on the High Street or Shopping Mall at least. If you don’t I will give a brief description of what they sell, here it comes… Electronics Boutique is in the highly lucrative computer games retail market and they sell games for all the major consoles and formats on the market. This is not going to be a review about them, but this is going to be a review about their ...
...way the website is www.eb.uk.com, phew nearly forgot that then, that would have been a mistake! ** Home Page ** The home page of a website has to be good otherwise potential customers will either think “What a load of Rubbish” and leave or customers will find it hard to get at the information that they require. The Electronics Boutique home page strikes you are a friendly place to be and the first things that you see are links to the ...

ia_young 21.06.2001 · Read full review
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Review of eb.uk.com (Electronics Boutique)

Eb.uk.com, then, the online arm of the respected high-street trader. Elecronics Boutique. What you might think would be a good place to start your christmas shopping, yes? perhaps not. Recently I tried to purchase a product from the site. I ordered, it was a couple of pounds cheaper than in the high street and delivery was free. The web site told me that my order would be dispatched immediatlely, and that I would receive it within two business days. ...
...to get done in business, but when I still hadn't received my order two weeks later, I was slightly annoyed. I had only ordered it online because it would be quicker than in the high street, where GAME had run out of stock on that particular item. When I emailed EB about this, I received no reply, and then emailed twice more, getting no reply, again. I then resorted to the telephone hotline, but after waiting in a queue for half an hour, I decided ...

mg_45 10.12.2000 (23.12.2000) · Read full review
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There are many online game stores, but EB has the backing of a high street store foundation. Most people usually turn to EB for their gaming needs, but I often think why? Okay... "its convenient" they say. Maybe, but in an online store, every game store is just a click away. The prices online are above average, you're paying almost RRP prices for the latest releases, whereas gameswire.com usually get their latest games in at £30! The layout of the ...

segassassin 14.02.2001 · Read full review
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Here we have a computer software retailer which at this point last year was seeming to struggle. A Profits warning at Christmas and a downhill ride for the share prices, and with that many unhappy investors. This was due to the high discounting that was taking place in the sector. Price was started out between companies such as Tescos & Dixons, Electronic Boutique had to follow suit. The shares hit an all time low of 25p, however the management had ...
...share and to increase their market on the Internet. A partnership argeement was signed with Netscape, EB were granted exclusive rights to Netscape games retailer and in return EB distributed Netscape CD's in store. Cable & Wireless argeed to a similer type of deal to allow EB rights to the forthcoming Open Channel games reseller. Shares have begun to react to this. Brokers are beginnig to change their ratings on EB. The prices is about to change. ...

Muckell 05.08.2000 · Read full review
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