RE: sfbay: Fry's in Geneva?

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Have you seen any company in Europe that has American style return
policies?

Migros is pretty good (my wife used to work on their CRM system and has
some hilarious stories about customers returning and rebuying the same
toaster model every month based on the closeness to their payday) and
COOP was ok too, but otherwise I am hardly aware of any retailer having
good return policies.

Best regards
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Remi Mommsen [mailto: ]
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 11:04 AM
> To:
> Cc: ;
> Subject: Re: sfbay: Fry's in Geneva?
>
> Dear Fry's addicts
>
> As there have been a lot of recommendations for media markt, I'd like
> to add two warnings:
>
> - media markt has sometimes very good offers, but there is no
guarantee
> that they are the cheapest. In addition, the customer service is very
> bad and returns are difficult (as opposed to fry's). Best you know
> before what exactly you need and check media markt if they got a good
> price for it. Otherwise look somewhere else.
>
> - the media markt in Geneva and Lausanne are small compared to the
ones
> in Germany or the german speaking part of Switzerland. In addition
they
> have a lot of household appliances.
>
> When I was living in Switzerland I often checked on the web both in
> Switzerland and the US for the best offers. Specially if the dollar is
> low you can save quite some money by ordering in the states. However,
> in case of returns or guarantee claims it might get cumbersome. (I
> lucky never had to try this part.) Now I'm living in the bay area and
> enjoy visits to fry's (-;
>
> Chhers,
>
> Remi
>
>
> On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 06:30 AM, wrote:
>
> > I am not a specialist for Geneva (being from the next town around
Lake
> > Geneva ;-)) and we don't have Fry's on the east coast, but I think
you
> > might find what you are looking for at Mediamarkt:
> > http://www.mediamarkt.ch/. They have a shop near Geneva.
> >
> > For shopping, there are also many large shops in nearby France that
> > offer
> > good value...
> >
> > Have fun in Geneva and keep us posted on what's going on there!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > -- Pascal Marmier
>
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