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Subject: [Shop-talk] Brass Polish
From: bspidell at comcast.net (Bob Spidell)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:51:51 +0000 (UTC)
FWIW, Deerso is an Amazon.com affiliate (or whatever they call companies that 
hitch a ride on the Amazon cloud). I wanted to bash them in a review on Amazon 
but, apparently, because I didn't place the order through Amazon I couldn't 
figure out if/how I could do it. 

I've been ordering online for many years, with knowns and unknowns, and only 
been burned a couple times (that's when you find out how good your credit card 
company is). 

Bob 

-------------------------------- 
Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA 


Avoid buying from an online vendor unless it has a well-known good 
reputation, or a brick-and-mortar presence! 

The vendors to avoid are ones who offer zillions of different types of 
things, and are vague about their physical location. At best, they 
are just trolling for orders that eventually get relayed to somebody 
else for fulfillment. A few months ago I ordered some welding supplies 
from an online vendor that appeared to be nearby and listed exactly 
what I wanted. I placed the order, and ended up waiting three weeks, 
instead of the day or two that I had anticipated. They address they 
listed (in an obscure part of the web site) turned out to be some 
random house in NJ, and the stuff was eventually shipped from Florida. 

Of course, the concept of drop-shipping predates the internet by many 
years. Go look at some of the small ads in the back of a 1970's 
Popular Mechanics magazine. :-) 

Lots of smaller traditional merchants (e.g. specialist hardware 
stores) do online sales, but they brag about (and tell you the 
location of) their brick-and-mortar establishment. 

Doug 



On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Lee Daniels <lee at automate-it.com> wrote: 
> Regarding: 
> 
>>> http://test.deerso.com/9OZ_METAL_POLISH636896-details.aspx 
> 
> and 
> 
>> Pretty annoying that the website is inaccurate (and our credit card 
company 
>> might be having a word or two with them). 
>> On 4/9/2011 7:10 AM, Mark wrote: 
> 
> Note the review here: 
> http://www.resellerratings.com/store/Deerso 
> Pretty much takes them off my radar forever. 
> 
> - Lee 

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