Comments on: Pixmania UK selling sim-free i8910 Omnia HD for £399

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:03:07 +0000

Hi I was just thinking..does anyone know if the Samsung i8910 being sold on Play.com is a UK spec phone or is that a French/European spec model?

By: i8910_FTW

i8910_FTW — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:11:33 +0000

Hi guys, I’m really tempted to buy this phone. However, does it not make no difference that it’s a european(french) model ? Am I right in thinking that only the manual and the charger are effectively different than what we would get if we bought in it the UK ? (all sites I have been to are selling a european-french version)…

By: waspbloke

waspbloke — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:51:23 +0000

Arrived at 9PM this evening.

Once I got inside the heavily taped-up outer carton, the retail box was slightly crushed on one side so that the “Do not accept if seal is broken” seal was broken! By this time the delivery guy was long gone so I’m just going to hope all is okay. It’s on charge at the mo’. Seems okay, is all French too with an adapter plug for the charger.

Anyhoo…it’s back on offer on pixmania for £409 if anybody else is tempted.

By: Degsi00

Degsi00 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:53:41 +0000

Has anyone heard of or used a webstore called All-In-One-Place.co.uk? They seem to be selling the I8910 sim-free for £419 with stock expected in tomorrow? I can’t seem to find any reviews for them – so don’t think I can trust them to buy from. £419 is tempting!

By: SMa

SMa — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:11:42 +0000

Called back to confirm that Order Validation status will take a minimum of 1 hour to be updated. (Thanks “Mark”)

P.S. Sucks/Expensive to make an International Call! If I get my i8910 Omnia HD hardware as brand new fully functional hardware (in a sealed box), then I’ll be a happy buyer regardless of shipment with French manual and/or wall charger. I’ve got 1 too many Wall->MiniUSB chargers already!

By: SMa

SMa — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:59:09 +0000

@kazgor – Congratulations on a fast delivery.

@waspbloke – I placed my order early Sunday (see first post). I wasn’t happy to be forced to use my Credit Card because their PayPal process failed to complete! [Redirect OK to PayPal but failed to return to order completing after approving the payment in PayPal.]

1:46 PM – I just now concluded a call to Pixmania’s _French_ order validation number: 3rd attempt after line’s busy earlier. They have unusual(?) ‘fraud protection’ procedures, at least for items greater than certain value they’ll ask for more information.
See and this 2nd email from them:

“We are writing to ask you to confirm your contact details on our site.
This security measure helps to protect customers from possible bank card fraud.
In order to process your order as quickly as possible, please contact us within 24 hours on 0033 / 1 45 01 36 67. Our service is open from Monday to Friday between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Your order and payment will be automatically cancelled if you do not contact us within this time. Your bank account will not be debited.

Best Regards,

James Felix
Customer Service Director

To request any further information, please contact our Customer Care
Service on page:
http://www.pixmania.com/uk/uk/c_action/faq_clients/index.html

PIXmania is part of the Fotovista group.
http://www.fotovista.com
”

NOTE: Pixmania are a French company controlled by DSG International == Curry’s & PC World.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixmania
Recovering from fraud: http://www.guardian.co.uk/retail/story/0,,2046400,00.html

By: waspbloke

waspbloke — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:40:14 +0000

@kazgor

bah! still waiting for mine, ordered on Sunday. DHL tracking has no info, status says Invalid Airwaybill Number

By: kazgor

kazgor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:41:53 +0000

and just to confirm.. order at 399 price on Monday and the phone was sitting on my desk on Wednesday morning. It was a French phone with a UK adaptor included.

By: damo

damo — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:20:19 +0000

Hi just to let everyone know this price has finished now its £459 now.
I have used pixmania many times for mobile phones (as they are released in france generally before uk) in the past never had a problem with them

By: kazgor

kazgor — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:08:19 +0000

I’ve bit the bullet and ordered one.. i gave them a call to comfirm the item was sim free and instock which they said it was. also asked if it comes with UK adaptor plug as the site french.. said it should but if it does not to call them and they would supply one free of charge.

Fingers cross all goes to plan