Rather pay more and go to your nearest retailer, takealot thinks they have the monopoly.

Truly pathetic service, can't say that I'm happy with them for some time now. Ordered an item, get a mail that says delivery will be in 2 weeks, WHY? Because no stock, site did not display date.

Next, the item arrives, NOT THE ITEM ORDERED. It's like ordering a Samsung TV and getting a Sinotec for the same price without them letting you know. How is that acceptable?

They confirmed in an email that they don't have stock of the item ordered only when I logged the return, not beforehand. Also that they made a mistake at the warehouse and packed the wrong item, I call bull****. They thought they would get away with it. So the item will be collected, that will take 2 days, then their team of special Einsteins will investigate to confirm that it is indeed not the item ordered and refund it, another 2 days, let's say I order a new item on Thursday, then it will only be delivered the following week.

Great, now I've wasted about 3 weeks for a R400 item which I could have gotten from my nearest retailer.

Truly pathetic!