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**gabbaman** · 04-12-2006, 08:00 AM

I'm in the UK, I occasionally buy stuff from websites: I've bought computer equipment (printers, scanners, software), stationery and office furniture, the odd book from Amazon, flights, holidays and gig tickets and a couple of things off ebay. I pay with my card and most deliveries are registered (ie, I sign at my end) via Royal Mail or a parcel company and some sites offer tracking. i've never had any problems yet and am not aware of anyone else having problems (nor have i read about problems with mail/delivery in the papers). There are issues in the media with "rip-off Britain" though, for instance iTunes Music Store UK costs about 0.79 per track compared to something like 0.60 in the rest of Europe and its cheaper to buy Eurostar tickets from the US than its here (and UK residents can't buy via the US site)

04-12-2006, 08:00 AM	#4
gabbaman Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 467 Senior Member	I'm in the UK, I occasionally buy stuff from websites: I've bought computer equipment (printers, scanners, software), stationery and office furniture, the odd book from Amazon, flights, holidays and gig tickets and a couple of things off ebay. I pay with my card and most deliveries are registered (ie, I sign at my end) via Royal Mail or a parcel company and some sites offer tracking. i've never had any problems yet and am not aware of anyone else having problems (nor have i read about problems with mail/delivery in the papers). There are issues in the media with "rip-off Britain" though, for instance iTunes Music Store UK costs about 0.79 per track compared to something like 0.60 in the rest of Europe and its cheaper to buy Eurostar tickets from the US than its here (and UK residents can't buy via the US site)
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