overstock.com/douwantit.com/comerxia.com

Posted by: Thomas K on 19 June 2004

Anyone ever used these? I want to order something from overstock (whom I've never heard of), but for international orders they want you to register with douwantit, who no longer seem to use that name, so you get redirected to comerxia.

Quote: Overstock.com has partnered with DoUWantIt.com to offer international shipping to more than 30 countries worldwide.

Cheers,
Thomas

Posted on: 19 June 2004 by Joe Petrik

Mr. K,

I don't think you should use them out of principle. I mean, partner as a verb! That ought to offend you to the core of your grammatical correctness. ;-)

Joe

Posted on: 19 June 2004 by Thomas K

... you'll find that in some respects I'm very tolerant of new developments in grammar. It just depends on how they impact the existing system.

Anyway, I've just e-mailed them for help. Placing an international order with them seems to be an infuriatingly difficult exercise of Kafkaesque proportions.

Thomas

Posted on: 19 June 2004 by Andy Kirby

Hi Thomas

My wife ordered some 'items' from overstocked.com and was very disappointed in the quality of the goods.

The service was fine but when she tried to return it they sent it straight back, even though it was unopened, pointing to the 'small print' and refused to talk further.

Needless to say we have not been to their site since.

Andy

Posted on: 19 June 2004 by Thomas K

Andy, thanks for relaying your experience. Was it just a matter of the goods not being quite what you expected from reading the description, or were they damaged? (I want to order some CDs, so I guess there's not much they could do wrong there.)

Thomas