German electronics webshop www.conrad.com ? I'd say: [AVOID]

Any comments on this site?

Seems like a reliable seller with decent selection of stuff available.

I'm after just some specific and cannot find it much elsewhere with fast shipping, so I guess this is it :)

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Yep they are reliable, but rather expensive when nothing is on a special sale. I like Reichelt.de better. I just bought a android 4.03 tablet with 1.2 GHz from conrad.de for 95,- € ... this one to be precise. Shipping took a day within Germany.

have heard of reichelt.de and conra.de but never ordered anything from them. i prefer amazon. realy.

Conrad and Reichelt are real electronics stores, where you can order small stuff like a single resistor and PIC/ATMEL chips like the ones used on drivers. So offers are really different to Amazon.

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Thanks for links. Reichelt.de does not seem to sell this.

5€ Voucher for singing in newsletter :o how obvious, did not notice that, thanks!!

Haha, I demand a full-blown review. ;-)

It is the older, the V1 version of that. Let's see, maybe I take some pics or vid :D

They are here sold (not a 100% sure fact, my wife said it looks just like that one) at 250EUR so a bit too much to my budget for a toy that came to market several years ago.

Conrad is very budget compared to locals, even with DHL (12EUR).

They are not the cheapest but reliable. I get their catalog and direct mail advertising. Expensive freight is the bad thing.

I too can recommend Conrad.

They have a reppresentative in Slovenia, who receives the ordered items from Germany within a week, grouped, at a small surcharge over Conrad's domestic prices.

Quality has never been an issue and their assortment is huge.

I know both stores (Conrad and Reichelt) - if you need something for a eletronic hobby (resistor,electrlytic capacitor, soldering iron/station/flux), it is a really good shop. They have a lot of things (for the garden, eletronic parts, something for the car and tools) and if you need them fast, they are perfect.

I now noticed, they claim 2 years of warranty on all (?) products on their page?

That's kind of mandatory for all German shops, so it's nothing special.

Ahh, ok.

I have some expedience with them. Very complicated way of paying since they have to send me a proforma-invoice. Then I have to transfer money, which is about 11.5 Euro for any sum of money I transfer to other EU countries (bank transfer). They have sent some wrong items. I have sent them back at my cost. After two week of waiting for the replacements I contacted them to find out that they have not sent me the replacements yet.

You have only the high bank transfer fee, if your country has not the Euro. I can send money to all Euro countries and it costs me nothing.

Other way: Paypal

They do not accept Paypal from my country.

I have used my account which is in EURO, but my country does not use EURO at national bank level. The bank I use is Dutch.

How can you send anything without any fee what so ever? What does the bank gain from that? Does that mean you have a high administration fee on the account?

Send, yes. That's because the recipient pays the fee.

On one instance, I wanted to pay the transfer fee myself (as a sender) and the bank replied that they have to charge the recipient.

Update:

Received the toy, which functioned about half an hour.

Took contact to customer care, answer was something like “try changing the batteries”.
Did it and replied = no answer.

Took another mail to them stating, that I’m not very pleased with a not-misused toy which does not work.
Then wait…
Got mail to send them back for refund a) the toy and b) the shipping back.

Now, some time ago got 2 receipt to mail.

Not sure but getting the idea, there will be no refund but DISCOUNT on future purchases…. meh…

Just remembered this case I’ve tried to forget, sent another mail asking what’s this all about.

Certainly nice shop, no doubt. But still, I have had in general much better customer care from chinese sellers.
Really hoping to get refunded, not too eager to shop again. :expressionless:

No, within the Euro countries I do not pay anything if I use the IBAN and SWIFT number.
With ebay I sold some items to people of different Euro countries and they use the same way (IBAN and SWIFT number) and I (as the receiver) do not pay any fee. The people were from Spain, Belgium, Austria, Italy and France.

I know, that there is a regulation in Euro-Countries, that a bank transfer to other Euro countries cost the same as a transfer in your country, if you use the SWIFT and the IBAN number. In Germany I do not pay anything for a domestic bank transfer and this is the reason why I do not pay anything for a transfer to an foreign Euro country.

Do I have a high administration fee?
Not really. I have two bank accounts. One hasn’t any fees (is a internet bank with only one office - I communicate with staff via. email or telephone and work with internet banking, the other cost 2,50€/per month and has many branchs).

In Germany more and more banks have not adminstration fees anymore.