Pixmania aren't all that bad.

*cough* did I say that?

They are cheap, but their delivery does stink. I ordered a Digital 8 camera from them not so long back, needed it for the weekend to convert a tape for a client, paid the extra to get it delivered next day and tracked the order online.

Within the space of a few hours it went from Paris to Calais to Dover and then a few stops throughout the UK before finally arriving at their courier's depot some 4 miles away from me in the early hours of the morning it was to be delivered.

And there.............it sat
Tuesday came and went
Wednesday came and went
Thursday came......
I was getting a bit aggro
I phoned up the depot number and keyed in my tracking number, to be greeted by a nice friendly computer voice that said "your items have arrived and will be despatched shortly"
Thursday went........
Friday came..........and so, eventually, did the parcel, although the delivery driver didn't look at all bothered that I wasn't impressed by their service.

So I ordered it monday, for next day delivery, and saw it sit 4 miles down the road for four flaming days.

However, when I complained about it to Pixmania, they did refund me the whole postage, so in the end I only actually paid for the item itself.

And the moral of this story........

If you order from them, and you choose next day, and don't get it, complain, and the postage should be free, or refunded to some extent

P.S. They've also started shipping items with those funny euro convertor plugs that you just pop the plug in and screw it down to become a normal 3 pin plug, rather nifty I thought.