Hi, I'd be very interested in any comments on trading experiences with this source, or at least a one of similar name. He seems to be a perfectly legitamate dealer, but there are a number of things which make me suspicious.
1. It seems as if he is willing to supply anything you wish, even very hard to get items, provided you buy enough.
2. Refuses to accept payment via PayPal, for orders less than £100GB. Which is odd, as it is more usual for Indian concerns to trade in $US, and £100GB is strangely arbritrary. He uses the excuse that PayPal only pay out by cheque in India, but that shouldn't affect each individual transaction.
3. He sent me a price list initialy in Euro, obviously unaware that in the UK we don't yet use Euros. The 'corrected' list in £GB had the same amounts, so 1Euro=£1GB! (actualy, Euro=£0.68 roughly.) Claimed this was a mistake.
3. The shipping weights for some items were excessively padded. Some items were listed at more than four times the actual weight, and then a whole kilo added for the box on top of that!
4. Insists on calling quotations invoices. (There is a big difference, you don't have to pay quotations.)
5. Can get quite rude if you point out these errors. (Claims not to know that email in capitals is considered extremely offensive!) Also uses the 'I've been doing this for (Insert an arbritrary number) of years' line. That's always a warning sign. No customer really cares how long you've been 'in business' for, just as long as they get what they want, in one piece, at the right price, and sometime soon.
6. Makes a surcharge for PayPal transactions. (If the sum is larg enough! See above.)
7. Western Union don't want to send payments to them. Surprising, as that is one of the payment methods preferred.
Now these may all be a co-incidence, and I may well be talking about a completely different business, but I can't find any reference to the business on the internet except for this one, that has'nt been placed there by 'O' themselves.
I would expect that a business that had been trading reliably for the number of years claimed would have a bigger internet prescence, and that it would not be too hard to find references to them on the web.
So if anyone has anything based on a real transaction, ie, how much did you pay, how did you pay, did you think that the shipping charges were reasonable, and did you get the goods on time, (or at all!) I would be very happy to know!
Probably better to have a central collection place like Peninsula.