Oh come on, this site is pants! (bol.com)

Member Name: kca101

Product:	bol.com
Date:	15/08/00 (91 review reads)
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Advantages: Pretty easy to navigate

Disadvantages: Poor range, prices and information

As a long-time buyer from Amazon I recently thought I'd give bol.com a try and see if they were competitive on price and service.

Off I went in search of a couple of books that were easy to buy on other sites. Any joy at bol? Not on your life! I thought I’d look for similar titles and instead of a list of books with descriptions at Amazon, bol just gave me the titles of the books. Not very helpful.

Getting slightly annoyed at this point, I checked out the prices on some books I’d bought recently on the internet and bol was more expensive every time.

Selling books over the internet is an incredibly competitive marketplace. If someone the size of Amazon loses money on every sale, there’s no way for anyone else to compete.

So, in summary, bol:

- Doesn’t have a wide enough range of books
- Doesn’t have enough detail of each book
- Isn’t the cheapest

In my opinion this site would be pretty good for people looking for popular books and don’t want all that much information before they buy. If, like me, you want to know everything before you buy go to Amazon.com (Amazon.co.uk still doesn’t have a full catalogue in stock).

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