2/5

posted Mar-31-2010
When Buy.com is good, they're really good. When they're bad, they are really bad. I've been chasing RitzCamera for 3 months now over an order dispute and it turns out that Buy.com may have been a big part of the problem. It is Buy.com policy that if there is a problem with your order, take it up with the 3rd party that Buy.com chose to do business with. Unfortunately the man in the middle screws refunds up as RitzCamera couldn't refund the money they owed me. They refund Buy.com and then I have to hope Buy.com has their act together. (it seems they didn't this time.) Also, around July of last year, Buy.com was one of the commercial sites there were news stories on about being linked with "controversial marketers". You can search for this story and read for yourself. Then they told me that "All personal information is kept confidential." But their privacy policy states "We may also share your personally identifiable information with third parties who provide services to us, our customers and web site visitors." I wouldn't say Buy.com is evil, just be cautious. Though they didn't help resolve the problem, they did attempt to make up for it by issuing me a gift certificate and asking for forgiveness.

This review was modified by
gpneuma on April 04 2010 06:35:34 PM
“Customer was issued a full refund by the seller on 3/31/2010. All personal information received from our customers are kept confidential. We have issued you a gift certificate as a sincere apology for receiving the wrong item from the seller. ”