A long time ago I stopped using play.com because it began taking a week or more for deliveries. Originally it took a day. The stuff only had to travel from Jersey to Guernsey. It takes amazon.co.uk and most other services a day or two for delivery.

I decided to give them another shot and ordered some Sennheiser CX 500 earphones and some cables to connect my PC and HDTV on Tuesday. The next day I receive three emails a few seconds apart telling me they'd been individually dispatched. I didn't receive an email for one component, which play.com listed as in stock. Looking at it now:- its no longer in stock, for say by play.com (originally was, now only playtrade) and has increased in price by £10. Okay...

On Friday I get home to find three ridiculously sized boxes. Each box could easily fit five more of the product it was carrying inside. Every single box had it's own invoice. What the fuck? What a complete waste of boxing and paper as well as the postal services time. If other online shops can manage to box an order up together, play.com has no valid excuse.

I was also disappointed to see the limited manufacturer options I had for these cables (not counting playtrade, as I'd rather avoid the third party stuff). I noticed that they had no problem stocking Monsters rip-off cables, though.

Oh well, at least the delivery time is more resonable again!