Play.com closing in March (2 Viewers)

[Nick]

Has anybody else read about it? It is a shame as they were usually well priced for games / dvd's and used them a lot.

 

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[ajsccfc]

They're not closing completely as in disappearing, just completely moving over to the shit 'marketplace' that's increasingly crept in to their site so they're basically the eBay nobody will use. Once they stopped showing their own price as default and just listed the cheapest third-party I lost interest. They used to be ace, then their prices went up and delivery speed went down. Once Amazon moved to free delivery I gave up on Play.

 

[Nick]

Is amazon always free delivery?

 

[speedie87]

Pretty much yes

Thy always give the option to pay for quicker delivery but cov seems to be a good place for amazon deliveries they always turn up in a day or 2 anyway

 

[ajsccfc]

Amazon now has free delivery as standard (+ quicker for cost as speedie mentions). It used to be that you had to spend a certain amount to get the free delivery, I remember it was as high as £15 at one point. That's when Play was king.

 

[Nick]

Ahhh i didn't know Amazon had changed. Might start shopping on there again!

 

[dutchman]

Has anybody else read about it? It is a shame as they were usually well priced for games / dvd's and used them a lot.

The loophole by which no tax was charged on postal deliveries from the Channel Islands has now been closed.

 

[SkyBluesAndy]

Used to always use Play but now Amazon is king and you can buy practically anything and everything on there! If you use the free standard delivery option it seems to arrive in the guaranteed time period offered by 1st class delivery.

 

[Nick]

Apparently there are a fair few jobs going too Always a shame to read that, especially in Jersey I can't imagine there are that many.

 

[sw88]

I used to use Play.com quite a but but use Amazon more often than not now.

Not everything is free delivery but you can usually get it on most items (or maybe thats just me looking for free postage items so i don't have to pay p & p )

Equally as good a service as play!

 

[Tad]

Wow. I always thought Play.com was doing quite well...

 

[We'll_live_and_die]

Its not the same thing, but pampers are pulling out of the UK too.

 

[SkyBluesAndy]

I used to use Play.com quite a but but use Amazon more often than not now.

Not everything is free delivery but you can usually get it on most items (or maybe thats just me looking for free postage items so i don't have to pay p & p )

Equally as good a service as play!

There is always an option for free delivery if you are actually buying from Amazon, some items on Amazon are sold by 3rd party sellers who can charge postage

 

[kdrinkell]

Dammit I always used play