Datakits

Steer well clear!

I wish I'd checked the forums before buying an external hard drive from datakits. With no delivery after 3 weeks I chased the order. They claimed it must have got lost in the post, but it's fairly obvious they never had it in stock in the first place. They said they'd post another one and I feared the worst, but a week later a package arrived. I say package, it was a plastic courier bag. Inside the bag a box was wrapped in a sheet of loose bubble wrap, and inside the box the drive was also loose and rattling around like a snake. I plugged it in and instantly realized it had been used before and was obviously a 'return' or 'second'. All the system files were missing and the format had been changed. If Amazon are the best reason to shop on the internet then datakits must be the worst.