Re: Poll: Buy online or buy from conventional store?
 

I lived in Australia for 2 years and drove around the entire country in a run down 1972 Mazda 1300. I was stopped a couple of times for speeding by police there and escaped without a ticket each time.
I'll never forget the look on the police officers face after he pulled me over. I was stopped in Northern Territory. I was driving an out of state car from Victoria and I had an international Canadian drivers license. He didnt' know what to do. Why bother ticketing me since I wouldn't be around very long to pay the fine. We had a nice chat about my travels, then he let me go with a warning. If only every ticket could be that pleasant an experience.
I received a parking ticket in Perth as well while I lived there for a while. It made a nice addition to my travel journal where I taped it in for decoration! :lol:
Sorry to have gotten off topic with this story! :wink:

Re: Poll: Buy online or buy from conventional store?
 

i'm an american but i've been living in the philippines for quite a while now. i'm going with conventional stores for a couple of reasons. first, see my post in the general discussion group about my (and apparently PornoPablo's) problem with the apacer device. sometimes having a manual to read before buying can help. of course, it didn't help me cuz i didn't read closely enough...
second, has more to do with not trusting the mail system or customs here well enough to want to risk on line buying, but that's probably just a parochial concern.
sigh. you all have no idea how lucky you are to live where traffic laws (and other laws) are enforced. tickets for speeding? never heard of it here. of course traffic is usually too thick to allow it, and too many people driving on the wrong side of the street, and pedestrians turning the roads into some real life shooting gallery video game. oh dear, now you've got me started...
a couple of days ago my wife got caught for going the wrong way in a u-turn slot (it was dark and no signs). she didn't get a ticket, she had to buy the traffic cops dinner at kentucky fried chicken.
third, almost forgot, convential stores allow you to look around more to find things you wouldn't have thought you needed/wanted. well, maybe thats a vote for the internet, come to think of it.

online because here in india there are not many shops which sell mp4 players but there are a lot of indian websites which do :D

That is a good reason, but even in a crowded country like Holland it is cheaper to let the mail bring it to you for 6 euro, than drive 40 miles to a shop that just has what you want. Most shops are so fast and use online banking, ordered and payed before 16.00, and you will have the stuff at home the next day. Who wants to go out, it is 2 above 0 Celsius!

Better like stories, in Denmark you can get it returned if you dont like it, errors or fabrical damages ^^ but if i need to buy from QXL, ill had to send an email to the seller, and wait two days for every sentence i want to say to him -.-