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> - one click "deliver to my closest branch and I will pick it up and pay there so I don't have to muck around with online payments" option I've started using

> - one click "deliver to my closest branch and I will pick it up and pay there so I don't have to muck around with online payments" option I've started using this as much as possible, especially during christmas. You find something, "in stock", supposed to be delivered the next day or a day after, you order, then nothing one day, two days, three days, then you call, "yeah, it's still with the distributer, it'll be ready tomorrow", two more days pass, you call again, want a refund, they "cannot refund now", because the product is supposedly in the mail already, then you wait, christmas goes by, and around 15. january you get a call, that they cannot get the item you wanted, and try to upsell some either more expensive or worse option. Now I just order for physical pickup and "pay there" option.. and if it's not there, cancelling is easy, because they don't have your money yet, and they cannot lie about the item being already sent.

smcl 4y ago
You have more patience than me. If that happened to one of my orders I wouldn't just change from delivery to in-store pickup, I would simply stop ordering from that store altogether.
- foobarbecue 4y ago
  What ajsnigrutin is describing recently happened to me with Lenovo (2nd offense) and backcountry.com (1st). It seems like companies are getting more "approximate" about their inventories :-(
  - smcl 4y ago
    Ah damn, that's gotta be pretty frustrating :-/
Abishek_Muthian 4y ago
In India when the major e-Commerce companies opened shop they realised that having just online payment wouldn't work due to inherent distrust with online payments, lack of card access etc. and so 'Cash on Delivery' where we pay to the delivery personnel was critical for their survival. Nowadays people prefer to use UPI[1] over cash in even local store counters making India the largest real-time payment transactions country. Its amazing that both of those happened within a decade, Largely synonymous with mobile compute & Internet penetration. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface

smcl 4y ago

You have more patience than me. If that happened to one of my orders I wouldn't just change from delivery to in-store pickup, I would simply stop ordering from that store altogether.

foobarbecue 4y ago
What ajsnigrutin is describing recently happened to me with Lenovo (2nd offense) and backcountry.com (1st). It seems like companies are getting more "approximate" about their inventories :-(
- smcl 4y ago
  Ah damn, that's gotta be pretty frustrating :-/

Abishek_Muthian 4y ago

In India when the major e-Commerce companies opened shop they realised that having just online payment wouldn't work due to inherent distrust with online payments, lack of card access etc. and so 'Cash on Delivery' where we pay to the delivery personnel was critical for their survival. Nowadays people prefer to use UPI[1] over cash in even local store counters making India the largest real-time payment transactions country. Its amazing that both of those happened within a decade, Largely synonymous with mobile compute & Internet penetration. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface