AS THE ADVICE ON MN IS TO DO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING .......ONLINE........PLEASE SHARE YOUR BEST/WORST ONLINE SHOPS HERE....

[RTKangaMummy]

AS THE ADVICE ON MN IS TO DO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING .......ONLINE........PLEASE SHARE YOUR BEST/WORST ONLINE SHOPS HERE....

AND ANY DISCOUNT CODES YOU KNOW ABOUT {with expiry dates}

THEN WE CAN ALL HAVE A TOTALLY STRESS FREE SHOPPING EXPERIENCE

PLEASE SAY IF YOU USED THEM LAST YEAR AND IF THEY WERE GOOD OR BAD

RE DELIVERY TIMES ETC.

PLEASE ALSO TELL US THE BAD ONES

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If the men in your life like golf then golfonline.co.uk is a great site. It has lots of things reasonably priced and each time i have ordered i have received them the following day even though i have only paid standard P&P rate.

Another one is buyagift.com. At the moment if you add /sun to the address you can get 2for1 offers on a couple of things. I got 2x spa day for 2 vouchers for £20 (one for an xmas present and the free one is a treat for me)They also arrived within 2days of placing order

Tridias - quote "STOCKING" at the checkout for free P&P (the previous code has run out now)

I've just bought Snazaroo Face Paints direct from the snazaroo site. Ordered it Friday. Delivered on Monday. Brilliant!

Haven?t read through the whole thread so may have already been mentioned, but this has some amazing stuff ? prices not bad too and you can collect ipoints.

prezzybox

Hawkins Bazaar - stocking filler stuff
quote : FP7911 for free p&p

m&s reliable, but alwys take forever to deliver stuff.
next, good delivery, but i find thewesbite annoying
play.com positive experience
amazon, never had a ny problems,
book people pbrilliant
lkelnd my favourite
vertbaudet and laredout=btm, dont bother
figleaves, fantastic
boots, fine
elc, fine,

aanyone know anything about faith.co.uk?

Particularly like these:

Invisible playing cards

And if only
I had the cash and the room for it!! [sigh]

Last year Play.com privided "Santa" with the last remote controlled Dalek, free delivery, for the retail price on the web. Santa couldn't thnak them enough.

Moral: it lasted about 1.5 days ....

Amazon - never had a problem if I watch delivery dates and weed out non-Amazon sellers. Had very good personal sevice from letterbox and free delivery with Hawkin.

Wish I'd found this site before I'd bought for my friends www.iloveyoumorethanchocolate.co.uk/

no idea whether it is good but I LOVE the idea!

World Vision for alternative charity gifts. We've bought primary teacher & TA's school books & a library card for children in Africa.

Amazon have been fab so far. I know they can sometimes give you long despatch days at the last minute but then at least you can cancel easily and they do warn you.

Hawkins and Natural Collection also fab (can find a 10% off NC if you just search on NC Offer on google - effectly got me free postage!)

Play.com delivered DH present as promised within 2 days - unlike HMV who sat on the order for 10 days and when I phoned them up said they didn't know if and when more would be coming in and when I complained commented that the 400 people ahead of me in the queue were not complaining!!!!!!

John Lewis also spot on with their free delivery

Argos- pretty hopeless as they told me a beanbag inner was in stock right through the chechout then said it had been removed from the order as it was out of stock. They still tried to send the outer though and then the managed to deliver the rest of the order in 2 batches. Imagine sending a delivery van for one electric blanket.

Book People do fabulopus books at bargain prices and nicely packaged. Wonderful. Their delivery is also good - even delivered on a Saturday at no extra cost for some reason. But WHY WHY WHY does it have to say "BOOK PEOPLE" all over the boxes.

Mind you play.com not much better. Chap handed large white box with play.com on side over and said "See you've got someone and xbox for christmas". Gulp! Good thing DH wasn't home.

The Book People - arrived really quickly as usual.
Toys r Us - placed order on Tuesday for something which had just reappeared as in stock and was out of stock again by next morning , it is "processing" so fingers crossed.
Waterstones - placed an order on Monday with a discount code for seven books , six of which were on a 24 hour turn around, but it has all been back ordered as having to be ordered in from a supplier. These are just regular kids paperbacks and last posting for their destination is next week. If still no joy by the weekend will cancel and go to a real bookshop

Also placed order with waterstones on monday and is all on back order!

So cross as I kn ow they are in the shops!

HAWKINS DEFFO BRILL

TESCO DIRECT were deffo brill

£50 off the price of LEGO MINDSTORMS so {£129 rather than £179}

M&S
ELC
Amazon
cdwow

all good

pressies4princesses.co.uk are good, lots of gift ideas and free super fast delivery.

Amazon have been fab, really quick.

iwantoneofthose.com not great. Although I ordered and paid for next day delivery on Thursday last week at 3.30 pm, I only received the items today. So not next day then, but ONE WEEK, mr iwantoneofthose.com.

And WHY isn't there an festive angry smiley?

this site is good

I've been impressed with;
Amazon (great for books, dvd's etc, quick delivery)
M&S (reliable, use them all year and they're always reliable)
onevillage.com (fairtrade- great gifts and stuff for the house, prompt delivery)
ELC (have always been good- buit slow to collect returns last year though)
Lakeland (again, I've always found them reliable)

@ waterstones spykid . Did you use the code too by any chance or coudl they just be "busy"

I've put an order in with Amazon this morning. I've just seen that I can't cancel or change it tho because the products are already being 'prepared for despatch'. The annoying thing is that 3 books are from 3rd party sellers (ie not Amazon) so I've ended up paying 4 lots of delivery chages (one for each different company and one for Amazon) at aound £5 each so I've added £20 onto the cost of what I wanted to buy.

Grrr.....I should have worked it out before I ordered it but it's too late now. I just hope the things get here before Christmas.

I should have read this thread first and gone to a site with special deals! Rookie Internet shopper that I am...

you can cancel up to 7 days after you receive the item..that is the law on distance selling

Does that mean you have to send the items back tho? It all sounds a bit if a faff to me...

Play.com
Firebox
thebookpeople
computermanuals (for the geek in your life...)

Pippa Designs - nice bits and bobs and beautiful Xmas wreaths here

Myriad Natural Toys

Tridias (toys)

Holtz Toys

The Wooden Toy Catalogue here

2 out of 5 possible links....must try harder...

Mindware - great games