play.com sale - XP pro for 99 sterling

savemejebus

Play.com have just started their sale and have loads of stuff discounted, this caught my eye though, i think its the full retail version of xp pro, for £99.

check it out here

herobear

thanks for posting the link :P

Tony

Recently tried to buy something from play.com and they said there was an address problem even though its identical to my credit card statement, anyway they wanted me to ring them (international number) even though i gave them the security code via email. Would have thought that they should bear the cost of the call, guess they have enough customers.

Disappointing as they seem to be held in high regard by many.

dub45

savemejebus wrote:

Play.com have just started their sale and have loads of stuff discounted, this caught my eye though, i think its the full retail version of xp pro, for £99.

check it out here

If you look around the usual computer shops in Dublin you can pick up the 'academic' upgrade version of XP pro for €120. It contans a full install you just need your old windows disc briefly during the install.

pete

Tony wrote:

Recently tried to buy something from play.com and they said there was an address problem even though its identical to my credit card statement, anyway they wanted me to ring them (international number) even though i gave them the security code via email. Would have thought that they should bear the cost of the call, guess they have enough customers.

Disappointing as they seem to be held in high regard by many.

ditto

kazzer

If you look around the usual computer shops in Dublin you can pick up the 'academic' upgrade version of XP pro for €120. It contans a full install you just need your old windows disc briefly during the install.

Do you have to prove your academic status during the installation?

Guy:Incognito

kazzer wrote:

Do you have to prove your academic status during the installation?

yeah it asks you to answer a few 3rd level essay questions.

Nukem

Tony wrote:

Recently tried to buy something from play.com and they said there was an address problem even though its identical to my credit card statement, anyway they wanted me to ring them (international number) even though i gave them the security code via email. Would have thought that they should bear the cost of the call, guess they have enough customers.

Disappointing as they seem to be held in high regard by many.

Hey guys.Had this prob id say about a month ago. Its because they changed there shipping whatz it. It goes nuts when it sees the postcode for England not selected and Ireland as the country with no postcode.

When you ring its takes 1min and they take the postcode option off your ordering window. Its no problem its happening loads but and e-mail from them would have helped a lot.

Tony

Nukem wrote:

When you ring its takes 1min and they take the postcode option off your ordering window. Its no problem its happening loads but and e-mail from them would have helped a lot.

But why wont they ring you, their problem after all. What can a phone call do that an email cannot?

Nukem

Tony wrote:

But why wont they ring you, their problem after all. What can a phone call do that an email cannot?

Oh something to do with needing your credit card details and they want to get it from you.Not over the internet. I know its a b*tch but honest takes about a min and they were spot on and all apologies.

silent

Nukem wrote:

Oh something to do with needing your credit card details and they want to get it from you.Not over the internet. I know its a b*tch but honest takes about a min and they were spot on and all apologies.

it's extremely anoying IMHO. had to do it once about 1 year ago, somehow kicked myself to phone them, then when my creditcard run out I changed the expiry date to the new one (same card number, same address too) - placed an order and they asked me to call again. so I send them a lenghty email full of lovely wording about how I value their wondefull ordering system, and wowed myself never to order there again. FFS, change the ordering system to accept security codes. It's not like dvd's are high priced items.

What is it with the majority of european shops forcing you to provide additional details to prove you are really the card holder (scanned/faxed papers etc)? Why is the security code not enough? Must be a european thing to fight the progress that is the creditcard :-/

gandalf

Not sure what you lot are bitching about. I would be far more worried if they didn't do checks like this. I can just imagine the moaning and wailing from you all if your cards were used illegally.

lynchie

So does anybody know if this is indeed the full retail version and not the OEM as its priced extremely cheap for the retail version

FX Meister

Tony wrote:

Recently tried to buy something from play.com and they said there was an address problem even though its identical to my credit card statement, anyway they wanted me to ring them (international number) even though i gave them the security code via email. Would have thought that they should bear the cost of the call, guess they have enough customers.

Disappointing as they seem to be held in high regard by many.

That's happaned to me in the past before, you have to ring them. They once sent me a double order, 8 DVDs in total, and I had the call them to sort it out and post them back at my own cost before I got my CC refunded. I got the money back out of them another way though.

Nukem

lynchie wrote:

So does anybody know if this is indeed the full retail version and not the OEM as its priced extremely cheap for the retail version

Ya was wondering that myself

Tony

Nukem wrote:

Oh something to do with needing your credit card details and they want to get it from you.Not over the internet. I know its a b*tch but honest takes about a min and they were spot on and all apologies.

I still dont get why they will not call me rather than the other way around, who is the customer here?

Tony

gandalf wrote:

Not sure what you lot are bitching about. I would be far more worried if they didn't do checks like this. I can just imagine the moaning and wailing from you all if your cards were used illegally.

Well great, thanks for your constructive post. I have no problem in then doing checks at their expense. I take credit cards myself and i would never dream of asking a customer in the UK or Europe to phone me so I can get details from them that I should already have. I would phone them at my expense, I believe in putting the customer first but I guess you dont get that.

Please dont reply unless you have something constructive to add

Tony

FX Meister wrote:

That's happaned to me in the past before, you have to ring them. They once sent me a double order, 8 DVDs in total, and I had the call them to sort it out and post them back at my own cost before I got my CC refunded. I got the money back out of them another way though.

Next time just ring your credit company, it is the merchants responsibilty to prove you ordered the stuff.

Tusky

Tony wrote:

Recently tried to buy something from play.com and they said there was an address problem even though its identical to my credit card statement, anyway they wanted me to ring them (international number) even though i gave them the security code via email. Would have thought that they should bear the cost of the call, guess they have enough customers.

Disappointing as they seem to be held in high regard by many.

Happened to me too - had to ring them up. If stuff was posted from play.com on the 20th (last monday) whats the chances of it getting here tomorrow ?

Stephen

Very slim, given christmas post and all.

Neuro

The reason it's so cheap is probably because it's old SP 1 stock that they're trying to get rid of.

You could also purchase a Windows 98 to Windows XP Home Edition SP 2 upgrade for about €160 in PC World.

Nukem

Neuro wrote:

The reason it's so cheap is probably because it's old SP 1 stock that they're trying to get rid of.

You could also purchase a Windows 98 to Windows XP Home Edition SP 2 upgrade for about €160 in PC World.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............................
Head scratchin continues


EDIT: Dunno why that happened hope its ok now.

JohnK

@Nukem: That link doesnt work...