Can I trust Pixmania?

[sam_p_lay]

Has anyone had any experience buying from Pixmania? Any issues I should know about before buying from them? They often have good deals on stuff, though they have countdown timers on prices to imply you have to buy quick, but when the countdown hits zero it goes straight back up to 24 hours and price stays the same. Pretty car salesman-ish sales technique, but not enough reason to avoid them without a little bit more research!

 

[bigcyco1]

I've never heard of them.Going to look into it though.Wikipedia Quote: Pixmania was founded in 2000 and is an European e-commerce website with sales of over $1,041,440,000. Pixmania promotes a variety of products including consumer electronics and baby products. As well as operating a website, Pixmania runs bricks-and-mortar retail stores in Europe. Pixmania claims to be active in 26 countries.

The Dixons Retail Group (also known as the Dixons Store Group) acquired 77% of the Pixmania Group in 2006, leaving the remaining 23% with the original founders. In 2007, Pixmania launched PIXplace, allowing third-party vendors to sell products on the Pixmania website.

 

[sam_p_lay]

Hi cyco! Been a while 🙂 You're a mod now! Thanks for your research - it's reassuring they're owned by a big company. Means they won't run off with my card details at least 🙂 I've read a bunch of Google shopping reviews (4.2 / 5 average over the past year) and although there's 500+ 1 / 5 reviews on there, it sounds like they're fine unless you need to return something. If you do, you have to pay for delivery to France (unless you have the option of dealing with the manufacturer direct). It seems they operate as a UK business but are only accountable to French consumer law. I think I'll take a chance on them and hopefully won't have problems with the purchase.

 

[bigcyco1]

Hey bud i thought that was you but wasn't sure lol!Yes i am a mod now was ask to be one about a month ago.Good to hear from you.Yes i think you're fine might want to wait for more replies but seems like it's legit to me good luck!

 

[sam_p_lay]

Yeah I got a little bored of the same old discussions so retreated to the Linux section, but things are getting a bit more interesting now new stuff is coming out! Not that's there's any great progress of course, but it's still new 🙂 How is it dual-wielding the banhammers? ;-) Is there a time commitment of minimum hours or whatever spent in the forums?

And I will wait to see if anyone has some experiences to share, but agreed - Pixmania are probably fine. I've bought from sites I wasn't sure about before for good smartphone deals (Handtec and Valuebasket come to mind) and neither ran off with my card details to never be heard from again, so I'm a little more open now to trying to retailers 🙂 Plus I've been seeing Pixmania come up in Google product search for years so they've been around a while.