RE: [ukha_d] Aldi GPS Sat Nav PDA for £350

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxx>]

Trust me, they do fill up the trailers pretty quickly!  It should only
remain in this status for less than 24hrs.  Normal route is production line
(Limerick) -> Irish logistics -> by sea to the UK -> UK courier
(one of
many, including Getronics, UPS, TNT).  I'm not sure about the Axims though,
they might come in from the Far East, they're certainly not manufactured in
Ireland.  Either way, there's a 747 that leaves Malaysia every day full of
Dell gear.
=20
Pete.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Fletcher [mailto:timfletcher@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 19 November 2003 14:05
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Aldi GPS Sat Nav PDA for =A3350


This might go some way to explaining where your Dell products are...

I ordered my X5 PDA at noon on the 17th.  11AM 18th TomTom delivered, noon
17th Email from Dell telling me PDA is dispatched. First worry, I have
neve=
r
even heard of the courier (Walsh Western), but they have a website (hooray)
and it has Track and Trace as an option (astonished!).

Naturally, track and trace didn't work (Boo) but it did give me a link to
Customer Service Email.  OK, lower tech, but might be OK.  This is the
response

Your order no is invalid in our system, while it may have shipped from Dell
production it will now be loaded on a trailer which will have to fill
befor=
e
departure, once enroute to UK details will become avail on web.=20

So you buy a some cutting edge, high tech product via a sophisticated
on-line secure service but you have to wait for some bog-trotter to drag a
(full) trailer to the civilisation over the water. I hope it takes less
tha=
n
a month to fill the trailer!!!


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