While I do order things online now and then, sometimes I am happier to walk / drive to the computer stores as it works out either quicker, cheaper or both and of course much easier to return. By random chance, after looking at Dell Refurb – I spotted that they featured a ATI Radeon 4670 Graphics card and this set me off to look at what this offered.

Once I had chosen the device and spotted you could buy this card with a Passive heat sink for total silence – I searched around various online and offline stores. Amazon not only sell stuff from them but also many various stores you never heard of. Now I promised myself that I would not pay top banana for postage just so I can have the thing a day earlier. Had I went for the model with 1GIG DDR2 Ram plus a Heatsink / Fan, not only would I pay less but either get Free postage (3-5 days deilvery) or next day for a small sum.

The one I wanted though was out of Stock everywhere and only one store had it – so I paid the extra money (£10 or $15), I did not now want to pay another £10 postage, so settled for the 3-5 Working days. I ordered it Wednesday, it got despatched on Friday 9am and I honestly thought it would arrive by Monday even though they have Window all the way up to Wednesday night.

Not a single package arrived today, this means I now have to stay in tomorrow and the next day, I did email the company which was either media.tv or u-SM.com (1st is company listed on Amazon & 2nd is the company listed as despatched from) but I heard nothing back. In the future I will not go this route, while I am not in a Hurry for this item, I do not want to waste my time waiting around, a tracking number would have been great.