Advantages: wide selection, fast delivery Disadvantages: naughty with the opoints
I discovered bol.com through ipoints. Bol sells a very wide choice of music, movies, games and books. It really does have something for everyone.
The site is well designed. It is in various shades of blue on a white background, making it easy on the eye. You can read it without squinting, and it doesn't give you a headache with lurid bright colours or flashing/spinning text/images (my personal pet-hate).
Navigation is simple. Click on the tab for music, books, dvds or games, and you're then taken to sub-sections. From here you can go through different genres, authors, artists etc.
The search facility is fast and accurate. You only need to know a couple of words in a title, or one name of the author in books, for example.
Prices on books are excellent. I've bought many at up to 50% off rrp. CDs are more expensive ...
sandrabarber 22.05.2001
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Advantages: The offer ipoints on purchases Disadvantages: Terrible Customer service Department (if there is one)
Sorry about the title, but this is the way I feel about this online company. The reasons for this will become obvious in this short rant of a review.
BOL are a UK based book / CD / Video online store. Their selection is fine and their prices are probably on a par with MVC on the high street. So better than Virgin / HMV but that's not saying much, then you have postage and packing to consider.
I must confess the reason for buying off the site is to gain ipoints (50 for a first time purchase) and they have an excellent compilation of Hellcat Records featuring the brilliant DropKick Murphy's and a reasonable 2 for 22 GBP DVD selection . All well and good.
Several weeks ago my girlfriend tried to purchase a few books. It got to the credit card validation stage , and then just kept asking for the debit card number. She filled in ...
mikeydred 08.08.2001
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Advantages: Very Fast Delivery, Cheap, Easy to use Disadvantages: none
I am a student at Staffordshire University studying a Beng Software Engineering. We were told which books we would need to buy for reading material for the course.
So, tuesday evening at around 9pm, I decided to use my fathers credit card and order the books that I need. I decided to buy a total of 4 books.
I had a look at five different sources, 2 were high street bookshops(WHSmiths & Webleys), 1 was the university bookshop, and the other two were BOL.com and AMAZON.co.uk.
I found that BOL.com and AMAZON.co.uk were considerably cheaper than their high street rivals. So, I investigated further.
** AMAZON.co.uk **
For delivery of books, Amazon charge £2.16 per order, which I only intended on having 1, and a further £0.59 per item within the order. So, £2.16 and 4 items came to a total delivery charge of £4 ...
rjmachin 13.10.2001 (18.03.2002)
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