Check delivery times I ordered a Cinema Paradiso dvd which eventually proved to be unobtainable. It took some time to sort this with Moviemail but they eventually agreed to provide, as an alternative, another dvd I also wanted. This was somewhat more expensive but they absorbed the extra cost. I suggest phoning to make sure your title is available in a reasonable time.

Unscrupulous company Awful company with practices which border on the criminal. They'll take payment for items which they know (but don't tell the customer) are out of stock and then don't issue a refund, even though they know they won't be despatching the item, unless the customer chases it up....very unscrupulous

They cancel orders without refunding On both occasions I ordered from MoveMail, they cancelled either the whole order or 90% of it. Their excuse is "we are out of stock", despite it still being advertised as available on the website. However, they did not tell me this – they just removed the order from the outstanding orders page – no email, no paypal refund. I shouldn't have to chase up something like this if they cancel the buying contract. They were perfectly happy keeping the money, without sending anything. Last time the paypal refund failed because the funds at their bank did not clear! It was 10 days before I got my money back. My advice would be to shop elsewhere if at all possible – Amazon, Play.com, base.com, etc. If you must use them, use Paypal to give you some protection.

Moviemail was great - SimplyHE sucks Moviemail was great - they had such a wide stock, and though it could take a while, you would get your stuff. But I will never order from Simply Home Entertainment again. I live in Denmark and naturally assumed that I was still ordering from within the EU, as when I ordered from Moviemail. Turns out, they are now situated on Guernsey which apparently is not part of EU. I got a letter from the postal service in Denmark, that they are holding my package and I would have to pay 300 kr (app. 37 GBP) to get it. I called SimplyHE (expensive). They could not even see my order, but promised to call back. They did not. I then wrote, but they say, they can't help me or compensate me. I'm not going to pay, letting the package be sent back. I hope I will get my money back, we'll see.

They never reply; you'd think they do not actually exist! Before Moviemail was taken over, they were an exceptional company. Not always the cheapest, but at least they were a small family-owned and -run business, with exceptional service. Then there was a takeover which smacked of a fire sale, it took place so quickly. Since then, the service is utterly appalling. Items which are shown as being in stock turn out not to be, so sit in your order history without any updates apart from "On order, despatched within 5-7 days". Emails are not responded to, not even auto-acknowledged. How the mighty are fallen. Avoid Moviemail at all costs.