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Dodgy Online Record Stores (pg. 15)
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| T:REBEL |
When ordering online, I usually avoid anything that says HARD TO FIND or RARE.
From experience, it'll take forever and you may not even receive the record at all. |
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| Simcut |
oh, do NOT get me started guys, I have been ripped off a number of times, what I like is how Dance Music Finder (alleged fierce rivals of HTFR) keep slagging off HTFR on their site, saying they stole a website address from them, bla bla bla and how crap HTFR are. Well, let me tell you, Dance Music Finder are absolutely NO better than HTFR, I went on the DMF site and found a lot of stuff that they said were "in stock" and I had ordered them all, there was some massive rare stuff like Auranaut - Ppl Want To Be Needed on Barracuda and a few other bits, including a Dance Opera release of Airscape - L'esperanza with the alleged DJ Tiesto Remix as well as a couple of others, so I think to myself, woohoo, Im gonna order these, about a week after I've ordered I get a parcel in the post that was rather um, light? I thought, hang on a sec here, where are all the tunes? I open the parcel up pull out the 1 record that was in there with the invoice and I read the invoice that says just Airscape on there, and I look at the record and guess what, they sent me the Xtravaganza release of L'esperanza with the ing Original and Svenson Goes To Loveparade Mixes which I already have, so they sent me the wrong record, and charged me £15 ing quid for a record I could so easily get on ebay for about £4-£5! so I go bananas and I ring up DMF and tell them that they had sent me the wrong vinyl, they apologised to me and took my customer number etc and said to send it back to them and they would give me a refund, so I take some extra time off at lunch time to head down the post office and get it sent to them, paying about £3 in postage, I then hear nothing.....1 week I think, hmm, oh well I'll just wait for the bank statement to come through, it comes through and I see no refund made by DMF but their charge appears on there (charging me about £18 in total, including the postage). So I think, dont worry, I'll give them a call on Monday (I got the statement on Friday) - I then ring them up and ask them if they had got the record back and then the guy said "hold on" (no please or anything) and 5 minutes later he comes back and says "yes? what do you want?" I then explain the whole issue again as this was a different guy, he checks on the system says they have records of it being sent back to me, and that they would refund me as soon as possible, to cut the story short (err, short you say? I've typed about 500 lines!!) about 3 weeks later I still had no refund and I was wasting my time and money ringing these ******s, so I was screwed out of £18 and they even got the record back, bunch of wankers! This was a few months ago now, but what a bloody disgrace, nobody *EVER* use Hard To Find or Dance Music Finder!!!!!!
The other records I later found out they never had in stock and just as well they didnt charge me for those, if they did I'd travel to Birmingham to ing kick some serious arse! :whip: A friend of mine told me that when he travelled to the HTFR shop there was a guy there who's wife was in a wheelchair and he was taking her into the shop, and the staff told her to go outside as they didnt allow wheelchairs in the shop, what sort of company are they? discrimation or what! the guy went nuts at them (and quite right too!) and they booted him out of the shop and refused to serve him - trust me, AVOID!
Also, avoid dotvinyl too, they have been having a lot of problems lately, where people have ordered stuff and the order has never been sent to them and people are having problems emailing and phoning the company.
The only record shops worth looking at are Above The Sky, Replay, Chemical, Juno, Recess, Only-DJS and GermanTrance
Kind Regards,
P.S. ing hell I need a pint after typing all this out! :O |
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| T:REBEL |
| quote: | Originally posted by Simcut
oh, do NOT get me started guys, I have been ripped off a number of times, what I like is how Dance Music Finder (alleged fierce rivals of HTFR) keep slagging off HTFR on their site, saying they stole a website address from them, bla bla bla and how crap HTFR are. Well, let me tell you, Dance Music Finder are absolutely NO better than HTFR, I went on the DMF site and found a lot of stuff that they said were "in stock" and I had ordered them all, there was some massive rare stuff like Auranaut - Ppl Want To Be Needed on Barracuda and a few other bits, including a Dance Opera release of Airscape - L'esperanza with the alleged DJ Tiesto Remix as well as a couple of others, so I think to myself, woohoo, Im gonna order these, about a week after I've ordered I get a parcel in the post that was rather um, light? I thought, hang on a sec here, where are all the tunes? I open the parcel up pull out the 1 record that was in there with the invoice and I read the invoice that says just Airscape on there, and I look at the record and guess what, they sent me the Xtravaganza release of L'esperanza with the ing Original and Svenson Goes To Loveparade Mixes which I already have, so they sent me the wrong record, and charged me £15 ing quid for a record I could so easily get on ebay for about £4-£5! so I go bananas and I ring up DMF and tell them that they had sent me the wrong vinyl, they apologised to me and took my customer number etc and said to send it back to them and they would give me a refund, so I take some extra time off at lunch time to head down the post office and get it sent to them, paying about £3 in postage, I then hear nothing.....1 week I think, hmm, oh well I'll just wait for the bank statement to come through, it comes through and I see no refund made by DMF but their charge appears on there (charging me about £18 in total, including the postage). So I think, dont worry, I'll give them a call on Monday (I got the statement on Friday) - I then ring them up and ask them if they had got the record back and then the guy said "hold on" (no please or anything) and 5 minutes later he comes back and says "yes? what do you want?" I then explain the whole issue again as this was a different guy, he checks on the system says they have records of it being sent back to me, and that they would refund me as soon as possible, to cut the story short (err, short you say? I've typed about 500 lines!!) about 3 weeks later I still had no refund and I was wasting my time and money ringing these ******s, so I was screwed out of £18 and they even got the record back, bunch of wankers! This was a few months ago now, but what a bloody disgrace, nobody *EVER* use Hard To Find or Dance Music Finder!!!!!!
The other records I later found out they never had in stock and just as well they didnt charge me for those, if they did I'd travel to Birmingham to ing kick some serious arse! :whip: A friend of mine told me that when he travelled to the HTFR shop there was a guy there who's wife was in a wheelchair and he was taking her into the shop, and the staff told her to go outside as they didnt allow wheelchairs in the shop, what sort of company are they? discrimation or what! the guy went nuts at them (and quite right too!) and they booted him out of the shop and refused to serve him - trust me, AVOID!
Also, avoid dotvinyl too, they have been having a lot of problems lately, where people have ordered stuff and the order has never been sent to them and people are having problems emailing and phoning the company.
The only record shops worth looking at are Above The Sky, Replay, Chemical, Juno, Recess, Only-DJS and GermanTrance
Kind Regards,
P.S. ing hell I need a pint after typing all this out! :O |
I'll take a Guiness...
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| MichaelBoogerd! |
| quote: | Originally posted by barryfigiel
Yeh I use Chemical records quite regularly...they provide a very quick, very professional service in my opinion. Not like the clowns at HTFR...
BTW people, if you've had any problems with any record store (like those I've had with HTFR) then let us know about it! It's about time we told each other about the cock-ups these record stores make, so that people stop using them and therefore the stores don't get chance to do it to others...Us TAs have to stick together!
lateRZ,
barryfigiel |
I used to visit HTFR store in Birmingham every week for my vinyl. I got tired of waiting extra weeks while they didn't hold the right imports i wanted. Thankfully Massive Records are not so picky on imports and of course chemical records is the best for service i've found. That thing about the mixes has happened to me before as well - i ordered Gabriel & Dresden remix of Beachball on Ultra earlier this year, only to find that i got the LK Remix on Superfly. i was furious as i'd only ordered that same record a week earlier on a previous order.
They pretend to be professionals, and are good for old records... but i agree HTFR are overpriced and amateurish |
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| Balbo |
Hi am new to the boards.
I have been buying tunes off the web for about a year now and have found that www.abovethesky.com has given me the best service. Their website is easy to use and has mp3 of each tune so you know what you are buying.
Also if there is a tune you want and can't find it on the website drop the guys an email or give them a phone and they will try and find it for you.
Also if you order early afternoon you will get your purchase the next day as long as you are in the UK. |
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| Nemesis44 |
Agreed,
ATS are the best in the business in my opinion. My experiences with www.globalgroove.co.uk have been pretty good too even if the site is perhaps a little messy looking. Likewise for http://www.ukdancerecords.com/ as they have been very helpful to me although I have not used them enough to know what they are like all the time.
Cheers
Nem |
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| teo |
ok guys...just some advice...im thinking of ordering some stuff from dancegrooves.com (not vinyls , just some cd albums that i dont have) and i havent used that online shop before,so..any1 ordered anything from there? is it safe? what about shipping? any problems?
thnx! |
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| Simcut |
| quote: | Originally posted by teo
ok guys...just some advice...im thinking of ordering some stuff from dancegrooves.com (not vinyls , just some cd albums that i dont have) and i havent used that online shop before,so..any1 ordered anything from there? is it safe? what about shipping? any problems?
thnx! |
yep, dancegrooves have a VERY good reputation, I know lots of ppl that use them :) |
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| teo |
| ok thnx Simcut..i was also thinking of ordering Armin's remix for ATRC from there...any1 had any problems with dancegrooves.com ? |
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| heaven scent |
I bought my first set of decks and mixer from htfr - the mixer I ordered was worth £300, tho the one they sent me was worth about £80. When I rang them up, they claimed the one I had ordered was out of stock and they had sent me a replacement... cheers! :rolleyes:
After playing up they then decided to swop mixers, tho I had to pay for the postage to send it back (recorded delivery on a heavy mixer doesn't come cheap) and had to wait nearly a fortnight. The replacement mixer they sent wasn't even the one I ordered, it was the model below with £25 store credit
I will never ever order anything from these monkeys again, they are absolutly diabolical |
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| WillEastbury |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spad
Not only that but they really are bloody hard to find!!!
* flashback of Spad, Miss Prox, Ant, Coup & Volksjoolz driving round Birmingham for 2 hours on a Saturday afternoon *
(we never found them) |
Do I take it you asked someone local for directions then :)
If you go back PM me and I'll meet you somewhere and show you where it is . . . .
It's not that hard to find ;) |
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| WillEastbury |
| quote: | Originally posted by Simcut
oh, do NOT get me started guys, I have been ripped off a number of times, what I like is how Dance Music Finder (alleged fierce rivals of HTFR) keep slagging off HTFR on their site, saying they stole a website address from them, bla bla bla and how crap HTFR are. Well, let me tell you, Dance Music Finder are absolutely NO better than HTFR, |
They're both as bad as each other, not bad if you go to the store though. |
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