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| Subject: | Re: UKNM: "Good News" UK e-commerce story? |
| From: | Stefan Magdalinski |
| Date: | Thu, 23 Dec 1999 16:59:01 GMT |
Chris Heathcote wrote:
>
> At 9:51 pm +0100 on 17/12/99, Tomski wrote:
>
> >..I remember someone looking for one a while back
> >(15,000 online virgin mobile sales a month, at an average of 100UKP per
> >phone, that's 1.5m UKP online sales in their first month, not including
> >on-going subscriptions... bet their conversion rate is an order of
> >magnitude better than boo.com's too, since the site does what it says on
> >the box - sells phones)
>
> Don't talk to me about Virgin Mobile - they promise 24 hour delivery,
> both on the site and in their paper brochures. 4 days of waiting
> later, 2 hours of being on hold, and 5 calls to jovial but clueless
> call centre minions,and they still couldn't organise delivery, and
> wouldn't divulge the delivery company's number so I could physically
> go and pick it up from them.
>
> So one cancelled order - and then walked into a Virgin Megastore and
> managed to buy one in under 3 minutes.
>
> I only ordered over the Internet because they were offering free
> insurance if you did - worth 20 pounds. If you offers deals like
> this, they should make sure their fulfillment can handle it. Bah!
>
::hangs head in shame::
> On a happier note, Jungle have delivered my new digital camera 10
> days earlier than they expected to have stock - (unexpected) result!
>
> c.
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