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cdroms |
books |
t-shirts |
toys |
what is good |
what is bad |
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cheapbytes
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X |
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(delivery is too pricey)
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- |
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site is very clean and uncluttered |
don't sell *bsd and some other stuff outside us; once were down for ~2-3 days;
delivery of heavy stuff is too pricey
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| copyleft (disfunctional) |
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(no cheap ones)
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X |
X
(big choice)
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X |
answer on emails; provide orders history |
one january (2000) order arrived in july; silly huge countries dropdown box;
site is too heavy/slow
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| infomagic |
X |
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(only 2-3 primitive guides)
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(only one or two)
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- |
provide old cdroms for free |
cdroms are not so uptodate;
once idiotically insisted that my credit card is invalid; brain-damaged plugin
on almost every page! no search on the site;
at October 22, 2000 site was down (displaying error
from zope)
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| linuxmall |
X |
X |
X |
X |
cdroms are nicely labelled and packaged |
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| linux system labs |
X |
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(delivery is too pricey)
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(only a few)
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(only tux dolls (well, they are cute, but not enough these days...))
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sell *bsd stuff outside us, unlike others;
very cool packaging material - little plastic pieces which you may throw on
somebody; often offer new cdroms for free (for a limited time);
answer on emails immediately and reship lost orders.
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the most of their cdroms are just plain unlabelled CD-R's often
unreadable on some of cdrom drives; use asp (yuk!); have cookies/sessions-related
bugs (not surprising, eh?); silly huge countries dropdown box and
moronic mandatory "state" field; delivery of heavy stuff is too pricey
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| thinkgeek |
- |
X |
X |
X |
answer on emails; site is nicely organized |
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