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Best place to buy Nexus Tablet in UK?

carwacster

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Ideally I would like to buy one from John Lewis for the 2yr warranty ad excellent customer service but not in stock due to manufacturing delays. Anyone know when there coming in?

Tesco direct - in stock order and collect but normally 28 days to return to store if faulty.

Ebuyer - in stock and loads are they grey imports ? What's the returns like

Google direct - heard stories of people waiting in excess of two weeks for replacement/repaired units.
 
Got mine from Carphone warehouse even though the staff did not know that they had them in stock. Suggest you call their central number first to find out which stores have them. The store I got mine from only checked their stock computer after I told them their head office said they had them - poor staff training me thinks ( in the main Brighton store they did not even know what a Nexus 7 was!).
 
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Ideally I would like to buy one from John Lewis for the 2yr warranty ad excellent customer service but not in stock due to manufacturing delays. Anyone know when there coming in?

Tesco direct - in stock order and collect but normally 28 days to return to store if faulty.

Ebuyer - in stock and loads are they grey imports ? What's the returns like

Google direct - heard stories of people waiting in excess of two weeks for replacement/repaired units.

I have a Nexus 7 on order from John Lewis as I added it to my wedding gift list much to my wife's disapproval. Anyway, best man bought it for me :D. Anyway John Lewis delivered all our gifts this week minus the Nexus 7 but phoned to say that they expected it to be in stock on the 30th of this month.

The amount of manufacturing problems (especially screen lift) mean John Lewis is without doubt the best company to buy it from as their service/returns absolutely destroys the competition on the high street.
 
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I couldn't get one in store anywhere near me. So I went with Tesco Direct. Good thing about it was that I could pick it up in store as I'm never in during the day. I ordered and picked it up next day. It's still covered by DSR too.

Exactly how I did it. Ordered online at 2pm on Tuesday, picked it up from my local store at 1 pm the next day. You also get a tracking number just like if you were having a delivery to home.

Well impressed - and one in the eye for PC World who just laughed at me when I asked them in store if they had any in stock!
 
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Ideally I would like to buy one from John Lewis for the 2yr warranty ad excellent customer service but not in stock due to manufacturing delays. Anyone know when there coming in?

Tesco direct - in stock order and collect but normally 28 days to return to store if faulty.

Ebuyer - in stock and loads are they grey imports ? What's the returns like

Google direct - heard stories of people waiting in excess of two weeks for replacement/repaired units.


Google is fine, and they've sorted the replacement issues they had. My fiancee and I both have one and they sent out a brand new device before we had to return the faulty one. Excellent service, and no problems. Jump right in!
 
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