Don't shop about, shop to... (shopto.net)

Member Name: sim721

Product:	shopto.net
Date:	22/01/09 (386 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: cheapest prices guarenteed and great community

Disadvantages: None

An unsung wonder.

I'm very suprised more people don't know about this site. When I ask friends, "where do you buy your games from?". They'll most likely reply with play.com or on the highstreet, or sometimes even ebay.
I found this site a few months ago while looking for a game and I will be truthfull, I have not used another site since then to buy games.


-----Why's it so cheap?-----

Ok so it may not be like £25 for a brand new xbox 360 game on there but it's still cheap compared to anywhere else.
This is down to the large community on the forums. Shopto.net have a policy that if you find a game cheaper somewhere else, they will match it with no arguments, this means the prices are continuously shifting depending on what other members have found and postage is free, which is the icing on the cake and you can often expect to get your game the day after ordering. (Not even play.com can do that every time)


You do need to register a free account to buy with shopto.net but this takes only a few seconds and requires you to fill out a short form including your name and address etc and eventually you will receive an activation email to, (what do you think?) activate your account.

After this you are free to browse and shop and the site is very easy to naviagate. The search bar on the left allows you to search for games by:
Format
Genre
Category (game, hardware ...)
or just by searching the title you wish to find.

Searching is very quick and supplies you with a page of results which clearly show price and the system the game is on, aswell as whether it is in stock or not. Upon clicking a result the site will provide you with some screenshots and trailers available about the game which can be vital when making a purchase.


Shopto also includes some other features such as sellto, which allows users to sell their unwanted games and hardware.
The navigation options at the top make the site very easy to use even for the most computer illiterate of people out there and the tabs show things such as: titles coming soon, the star buys and the stock due in.


-----Shopping-----

I have never experienced a situation where a game I want has been out of stock. If you pre-order you are guarenteed to have your game on either release date, or the day after. And non-preordered games take either 1-2 days to be delivered.
They accept all credit-cards as payment and even solo cards for the younger online shoppers like me.

What's important to alot of online shoppers nowadays is the support you receive off the site and the security of your order.
The only problem I have ever received was when initially creating my account in which I forgot the password I used, and couldn't create another account as you can't have multiple accounts off the same email address.
This did take a while to take out and involved me phoning a very friendly customer service department that soon sorted my problem and I was back to ordering with no problems.



-----Summary-----

If you're an avid gamer, or even just like gaming occasionally, then shopto is the site for you, the site has a great community of people who you can chat to and have similar interests and you can guarentee that the best price on the net for games will be shopto.

5 Stars

(Final note: shipping is free to the UK only)

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