Wizlah
07-07-2011, 12:36 PM
Because I generally rate the rps community's nous, I wondered whether it was worth putting up a list of trusted sellers (and could it be stickied?). I used to use the Hexus trusted sellers list, but that was back in the mists of time (a good 5 years ago), so I'm sure it's all changed (and more than a few companies have gone bust since then).
Anyway, if other pepple thought it was a good idea, I thought it might be worth looking into. dunno what kind of options the forum has for this kind of thing, or do we just keep editing a long list.
I'd suggest a couple of criteria, because ultimately, if you've only bought something from a place once, it doesn't really tell you how good or bad they are:
1) have you bought from 'em regularly (say 3-4 times within a year?) and never had a problem
2) have you had to return stuff, and found the experience straightforward
3) have you had to speak to them about technical problems/stuff being shipped in a banged up state, and how did they respond.
For example, for now my two main sellers have been scan and ccl, because I've never had an experience like 3) and they tick boxes 1 and 2 no bother.
By comparison, I recently read here that people are quite happy using overclockers uk, which surprised me, but I presumed they'd got significantly better then when I first started buying components.
Worth doing, or do people find there are better sites to use?
Anyway, if other pepple thought it was a good idea, I thought it might be worth looking into. dunno what kind of options the forum has for this kind of thing, or do we just keep editing a long list.
I'd suggest a couple of criteria, because ultimately, if you've only bought something from a place once, it doesn't really tell you how good or bad they are:
1) have you bought from 'em regularly (say 3-4 times within a year?) and never had a problem
2) have you had to return stuff, and found the experience straightforward
3) have you had to speak to them about technical problems/stuff being shipped in a banged up state, and how did they respond.
For example, for now my two main sellers have been scan and ccl, because I've never had an experience like 3) and they tick boxes 1 and 2 no bother.
By comparison, I recently read here that people are quite happy using overclockers uk, which surprised me, but I presumed they'd got significantly better then when I first started buying components.
Worth doing, or do people find there are better sites to use?