Just awful
Wow... Where to begin...
TL;DR version:
Only 1 star because 0 stars is not an option. Bought 5 products from Datatronic, of which only 2 were ultimately shipped. The others were all out of stock or unable to be sourced from the supplier, despite allowing >2 months for the whole affair.
Customer service was completely nonexistent and I had to be the driving force in every interaction in order to get answers/updates on what was going on. Basically gave them a no-interest loan for a couple of months.
Full version:
I live in Finland and am putting together a new PC. I used pcpartpicker.com (great site, do recommend) and they flagged that 5 of the products I wanted to purchase were available via Datatronic. As they were the cheapest, I opted to purchase from them. Big mistake.
On October 23, I ordered:
- AIO from DeepCool
- Motherboard from ASRock
- SSD from Kingston (Fury Renegade)
- GPU from Gigabyte
- Windows 11 install USB (in English)
And then I heard nothing...
Initially, I wasn't surprised as the order confirmation said that they didn't have some of the items in stock and would need to order them. Fair enough.
On November 15 (>3 weeks later), I emailed to ask what was going on. The answer I got was that they were having trouble sourcing the AIO from DeepCool and if it would be okay to replace it with a similar one from Arctic instead. I accepted this (and the compensation in price difference), thinking that would be the end of it. How wrong I was...
Fast forward to November 24 (>1 month after the original order date) when I contacted them again as I hadn't gotten a confirmation that the order had shipped. I was told that the SSD I ordered (Kingston Fury Renegade) was not in stock with a request that I accept a replacement from Samsung instead. Not being keen on that option, I declined and ask when they imagine it'll be in stock again. "In about a week", so I wait...
3 weeks later (December 17), I still haven't heard anything, so I contact them to ask what exactly is going on. They say that Fury Renegade is no longer available and offer me (a marginally worse) replacement product for the same price. On top of that, the Windows 11 USB isn't available in English, only Finnish (not my native language), which they offer instead.
Just being tired of the whole process (and conscious that it's already taken 2 months), I decide to accept the replacement SSD and declined the Finnish Windows USB (bought it from Jimm's instead, a superior store - ordered on Christmas Day and shipped before NYE).
The kicker to all of this was that the whole time, the same products they said were out of stock/unavailable were still for sale on their site. I could log on and create an order with the exact same items.
Long rant, but the moral of the story is: do _not_ do business with these clowns. They might be the cheapest on paper, but the few Euros you save will be offset by having to deal with their awful, nonexistent customer service. Just bite the bullet, pay a bit more, and go to Jimm's/Proshop/Verkkokauppa.
EDIT: Just read the reply from Datatronic. As confirmed by your customer service in our emails, I was never sent one of these "proactive" messages, but was rather the one who was forced to be the driving force in trying to resolve all issues. Rating stands. Would still give 0 stars if I could.
Reply from Datatronic