When purchasing software online you expect the process to go something like this:
- Choose your software
- Add to cart
- Pay
- Download Software
nice and simple & stress free. Unfortunately some companies don’t get it – Tomtom I’m looking at you.
Yesterday I decided to purchase the Tomtom maps of Western Europe in preparation for our holiday next month, so I spent £60 (approx $120 US) on the map and nearly a day later I’m still waiting for it to be “delivered”.
The Tomtom map purchase experience goes like this:
- Choose map
- Add to Cart
- Confirm your Tomtom account details
- Pay
- Get a screen that thanks you for your purchase and tells you that you will receive download instructions “shortly”
- Receive thank you email
- Receive invoice email
- Wait!
Now the thank you screen did say that if I waited more than 24hrs for the download details to get in touch, but frankly I think having to wait more than a few minutes is too long – if I’m buying a software download I want it now, not tomorrow. Come on Tomtom, sort it out.