Finally, digitec.ch finally sent me the three 516MB SIMMs I'd ordered a few days ago. It's time for 4 year old PC to get its RAM upgraded.
Installing RAM is normally a piece of cake. As long as you get the right type of SIMMs compatible with your motherboard there should not be any problem. So, having installed all the three alongside an existing 516MB, things seemed OK. The machine booted up fine and Windows started to show up and .. damn! .. all of sudden the whole thing just hung. Normally this is caused by loose SIMM, but unfortunately it was not the case this time. I tried swapping the positions of the SIMMS, pressing them in harder etc., but the problem didn't want to go away. For some reason something was not right. I wasted almost two hours pissing around with the tightness of the SIMMs and their positions only to discover later the network card was the culprit. Apparently it came off the socket slightly when I pushed the SIMMs in. 2 hours just got wasted for something stupid like this.
Coming back to digitec.ch, it's probably one of the best business models I have seen in recent years. They sell mostly electronic stuff and some clothings. And the due to the simple setup their prices are very competitive. A few months ago, I got myself a Nikon D40X with two lenses at 500 CHF cheaper then any other places in Switzerland. The way it works is that you order what you want online and then you can either go and collect the items from their collection point in Zurich or a few other ones in Switzerland or they send to you at a minimum extra charge. If you decide to fetch the ordered items, just pop by to one of the collection points, key in your order number on the registration kiosk, wait for your number, collect, pay and go. Easy, fast and efficient. The drawback, you can't open and check the items when you collect them. Take as they are and should there by any problem then only you return them. The SIMMs are my second order from digitec.ch, and they are definitely not the last.
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I have to say that my experience with digitec.ch is very bad. The worst I ever had with any online store.
I ordered some products a while ago via the website, payed using my VISA (a non-swiss one), and after a day, they were signaled as sent. I checked my credit card, and the money had been taken from the card. So everything seemed to go well. After 4 days I still didn't receive the products, and thought it was weird. Checked again my credit card, and was amased to see that digitec had credit an amoount some euros lower than what I had payed. I contacted them promptly to see what was happening.
They canceled the order without saying anything about it because they were suspicious that my card was not legit. But never contacted me to ask anything. It was me that had to contact them to figure out what was happening. After many emails back and forward, they wouldn't give me the money I had lost with the transaction (that amounted close to 30 euros). They never even admited to their mistake, they blamed on me or on my bank. End result: No products, and I lost almost 30 euros. That's the way they treat costumers.
Also the https is broken most of the time.
I wish better luck for anyone that decides to buy there.
Hi penepoisson,
Sorry for the very late reply. I stopped blogging for a long time and didn't even realise that comments were set to require moderation.
Anyway, I'm sorry to hear about your experience with digitec. I've only experienced using Swiss credit card and for big / more valuable items I usually collect them myself at the store, which is much better in case I want to inspect the items first etc.. So far so good. One advice though with purchasing products from online Swiss merchandisers (although it's probably wrong for me to single them out), that there are very much into so called "service" / "admin" fee or something similar. So, if you decide to return the product, you may not get the service / admin fee back. In a case not specific to a Swiss merchandiser but involved a Swiss organisation, a friend of mine bought something from a UK web site. For some reason he was not happy with it and decided to return it. The Swiss Post charged him some admin fee! For what ?? When he expressed his unhappiness, the Post officer simply replied "she also needed to feed herself" or something like that ... which was a bit &%รงรง2@#°! you what I mean ...
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