John Lewis online store

Advantages: Easy, fast ordering and excellent delivery
Disadvantages: None

...I recently bought a guest bed from John Lewis online. Their website is clean, easy to use and navigate, with good, detailed information about their products. It also has pictures of the items from various angles, which was very helpful. The ordering page is secure, and payment was easy to make - however they do not charge your account until the item has been dispatched. This is specified when you order. Immediately after placing my order I received the confirmation email stating that someone will be in touch within the next 7 days to arrange delivery, and that delivery is usually arranged withing the next 14 days. Two days later I had a voice message on my mobile from a gentleman at John Lewis, giving me a suggested date for delivery and a number to call him back to confirm (or change delivery date should I wish). I...

Side 30.06.2007 · Read review
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John Lewis Online

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Utter contempt for good customer care; unable to fulfil online promises

...item was due for delivery on Tuesday. I explained that I was due overseas on Tuesday! But I said, as this item was important to me and I had no way of returning the other items if I was going away, I would continue with the order as long as they guaranteed me it would arrive on tuesday, no more messing and no more uncertainty. They guaranteed me - her name was Mhairi - that it would arrive Tuesday with no doubt. So, here am I on Tuesday. 7pm!! No iPod again. Waited all day, As a consultant to this retailer I am perhaps even more fuming than the rest of you would be, because I hear what the Board says about its wonderful service. Well, this is abysmal and unforgiveable. I recommend nobody to use this store's online facility....

cherylannej 25.03.2008 · Read review
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The online shop I use the most...

Advantages: Easy to find books, free delivery (Super Saver Deliveries), can sell your own things 2nd hand
Disadvantages: not a very reliable review/rating system, some Marketplace Sellers are dodgy

...Marketplace orders. Make sure you get what you paid for. Also, if you buy from very "new" sellers that have a 0 or just 1 or 2 ratings, you should beware... as they might not turn out to be reliable - and don't have an online track record to prove it either! All in all, I love Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com despite all the gripes I have with it. No other online store comes close to the huge range of products and books that Amazon stocks. And the reliability of their delivery services is excellent. Update (29/4/2009): Amazon has now changed its Super Saver Delivery service terms. Now you can get Super Saver Delivery (i.e. Free Delivery) if you buy at least £5 worth of qualifying products!...

rachvt 14.03.2006 (29.04.2009) · Read review
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GALLOPING ONLINE WITH THE BLACK HORSE

Advantages: Track account movements and transfer instantly between accounts. Apply for e-savngs account.
Disadvantages: Access code device doesn't work overseas

... GALLOPING ONLINE WITH THE BLACK HORSE I have been banking with Lloyds Bank (now LloydsTSB) for a long time. For the last eight or nine years, most of my transactions have been online. I had a few worries when Lloyds Bank and the TSB (Trustee Savings Bank) merged, but it didn?t seem to affect customer service as much as I had expected, and my loyalty seemed to be still appreciated. In 1999 I was introduced to the internet, and I had my first e-mail address. I'm not quite sure when LloydsTSB started offering internet banking, but I was quick to take advantage of it. I was sent a user ID number in the post, and I chose my own password. I had to choose a memorable phrase of which three characters would be selected at random (such as the fifth, ninth and eleventh). Drop-down menus of letters and numbers ensured...

jesi 31.07.2009 (03.08.2009) · Read review
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Childhood Memories In The Disney Store

Advantages: Special products, great for children, good quality and nice staff
Disadvantages: A lot of impulse buying

...The Disney Store is a shop that sells Disney merchandise. There are Disney Stores across the UK and indeed across the world. There are Disney Stores in Disney World and Disney Land. If you have never been in a Disney Store you will be amazed at the different types of products that are usually always in stock. Although I must say I think you either love or hate the Disney Store. My husband doesn't understand the appeal of purchasing a Disney character bear for £20 when you can buy another bear somewhere else for half the price. I think if you have been brought up to watch Disney cartoons then you have an automatic liking of Disney. Whenever I have been into the store there is a good selection with plenty of stock and the staff fill the shelves on a regular basis throughout the day. Impulse buying is very easy in this store as you...

Mickie26 16.04.2009 · Read review
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ASOS.COM - The annoyingly addictive online store!

Advantages: High end fashion at affordable prices.
Disadvantages: ADDICTIVE!

...the address, looking over my shoulder every two minutes to make sure my partner had not heard my keyboard strokes, my eyes downsized to the size of two pinheads as soon as the ASOS page loaded. I searched excitedly and frenziedly, alternating between a page displaying womens shoes and one displaying evening dresses. Inwardly reasoning that my purchase of new shoes would go nicely with a new dress, just one I told myself. Then I loaded the page of handbags. Oh, and did I mention I also opened up the accessory page? Yes, I was trapped - sucked into a deep abyss that saw me sinking further and further into ASOSs online store. I knew I should stop. Knew I should exercise restraint, but the prices were just too reasonable and the latest fashions....well, too tantalising to miss out on. Suffice to say I received an ear bashing when I owned up to...

semitysam1978 15.09.2009 · Read review
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Littlewoods - online!

Advantages: Free delivery and returns!
Disadvantages: None That I can think of!

...The littlewoods site can be accessed using the address www.littlewoods-online.co.uk. SImple! When the page comes up, ususally a pop up advertisement appears too. Dont immediately close it, as they sometimes have a super special offer, that you dont see anyhwere else.! At the moment it is advertising the sale on branded products!. To use te site you have to be A) a littlewoods customer and B) registered to use the online facility. If you are not just fill in the relevant forms and hey presto! The first page of the website is full of special offers, Top 10 buys of the week etc. To read more about the offers, you just have to simply click in the relevant spot! Easy peasy! The actual design of the site is ok but the colours are so bright and varied that it tends to clash a bit. But never mind, no-ones perfect!! You log in...

kerryzach 23.03.2004 · Read review
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The mother of all Department stores?

Advantages: Its a real experience
Disadvantages: Expensive, but it doesnt claim to be anything else!

...Well over the past few months Ive suddenly been in a fortunate situation where I have had to frequent Selfridges on a regular basis to buy goods. I'll tell you the story first before reviewing the store. A few months ago I completed a survey at a tube station. There was a slight delay before the train came so I didn't mind doing it at all to pass the time! It was about George Bush(!) and was for a national paper. A few weeks later I got an email to say I'd won £1000 at Selfridges! I didnt believe it at first and ignored it (I thought it was spam mail) I then got a phone call to ask if Id got the email. It was only then that it clicked! I didnt realise that there was a prize draw for completing the survey and it was completely out of the blue! The voichers arrived and since then I have been popping into Selfridges from time to time...

Dan_ep 12.06.2006 · Read review
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Online shopping from Harrods.

Advantages: Nice products, good quality.
Disadvantages: A little Pricey.

...This is a review about www.harrods.co.uk and not the, (rather lovely), Knightsbridge store. I first found out about the Harrods website when a received a Christmas teddy from my best friends in 2003 and commented on the fact that I didn't know they had been to London. The fact was they hadn't and had ordered the bear online. After that point I have used Harrods online several times, mainly for special gifts and sale items. --*-- The Site --*-- The Harrods web-site is quite smart looking using a colour scheme or primarily white, dark green and black. This gives off the classy, sophisticated look that one would expect from Harrods. Top centre of the each page is the Harrods logo in dark green with the sign-in and search boxes to the right and a home button to the left. Below this is a black bar with links to the various...

donnabroom 24.07.2006 · Read review
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Halifax online banking

Advantages: Manage all your financial transactions online
Disadvantages: can't deposit!

...have been a customer of the Halifax Bank for over 30 years now. When they first introduced on line banking I immediately signed up to this and what a boon it has been! Signing up is an easy process and you are required to choose a user name and password and to provide answers to several security questions. Once you have received your logging in details from the Halifax signing in is simple. You just have to log in with your user name, password and the answer to a security question. On gaining access to your acount your account information will be displayed. It is possible to have most of your accounts included in the online service including current accounts, mortgages, loans, credit cards etc Once you have registered you are able to conduct most of your banking transactions online including setting up standing orders and direct...

Krazikas 30.12.2008 · Read review
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