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Showing posts with label laptop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laptop. Show all posts

Friday, November 13, 2009

My (real) great deal on shoplet.com

I buy my Office Supplies at Shoplet.com This is a follow up on my shopping experience with shoplet.com. After my previous attempt to make the deal of a life-time and buy a ultra-modern laptop for only $0.95, I exchanged emails with Keith B. from Shoplet. After our "rocky" start (as he kindly tagged my "I demand an explanation" emails), he was very eager to help me solve my problem. He even went the extra mile and got me an extra $50 coupon (I already got a 10% discount coupon for my initial order).
Thus, I decided to give it another try. I went on the site and browsed around for some time until I found some things I like. I mainly looked at computer products and office supplies. I selected a few, including a Wii wheel remote, some USB hubs, microSD cards and others, but for now I only bought these:
  • a 2GB DDR2 SDRAM Memory Module - I need this because my last eBay bid did not worked out;
  • Newton Peripherals MoGo Mouse BT - Optical - this seems very interesting; I'm realy currious to see how it looks and works and just in case it's really really cool, I bought a few.
  • a camera pocket tripod - I wanted to get one for some time.
Overall, I was very happy with the content of my cart so I went to checkout. Since I'm familiar to PayPal, I decided to pay using that. Including UPS ground shipping and NY taxes, I had to pay only $13 (thanks to the coupon I got from Keith) and I got some very cool items. Anyway, that's not what I was after; Elena argued that I spent too much time browsing the site, but for me it was very fun. More fun than going to a real computer shop.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

My (almost) great deal on shoplet.com


On Friday I was googling for a present for my niece: I was looking for a laptop with small display (less than 13", because she's still small). Not necessarily something fancy, but something that would not create problems when used by a child (enough RAM and decent processing power).
While looking around I found a deal that seemed too good to be true (and so it was) on shoplet.com: a laptop Asus U20A-A1 for only $0.95. Including taxes and all, that would have been about $9. I refreshed the page a few times just to make sure I'm seeing right, then I went ahead and paid for it. The process went through without any problems, as the site created my account with my details using data from Paypal. I was hoping this is a special offer and not a mistake.
On Monday evening I got an email informing me that the item is "discontinued", my order was canceled, and I got a refund. I went on the site again and checked. It still said the item is "in stock". According to it, I could have ordered another few laptops, too :) However, the marketing person said the IT department did not update the site.
I was quite surprised to find out that such a big website does not have an automated inventory system in place. To be honest, I didn't believe it at first, but someone else from the site confirmed it to me.
Anyway, apart from my own unhappy experience, shoplet.com seems to be a nice place for IT shopping or at least browsing for information on products (since they have very detailed information on them). You can also receive a 10% coupon if you put one of their badges of your blog or site.
The thing that I liked most about their site is their green program where they offer recycled products and they keep track of the outcome of this program.