Our old friend from Delche Gaming and…
Our old friend from Delche Gaming and Gamerium IS BACK!! Yes, it’s Gurpaal Deol back once again, due to lack of popular demand… he returns with his next scam site Game-Hive.net…. to take more good people’s money and fail to provide the goods or just completely ignore them. The fact that on an almost yearly basis this guy shuts down one site and opens up another with himself down as “Director”, just goes to show how bad Trading Standards are at keeping track of these scammers!
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that every single order will be like this - I did receive one or two purchases from the original site (never pre-orders - always those items that were “in stock”), but he then went completely silent for weeks around updates on pre-orders that had long passed their release date (and been sent out by all other proper retailers) and it was only via a complaint filed via my bank (with evidence submitted of the orders that hadn’t been delivered) that I was able to get my money back for multiple orders that just never got sent to me and several other orders which I had asked him to cancel which went ignored.
It’s up to you if it’s worth the risk to save a couple of quid (he marks his prices down compared to most of the other retailers to tempt you in and everything is “low stock” or “only 1 left” etc.), but the hassle of having to go through your bank or credit cards to get a refund is a big one and for me I would rather pay a little more but go to sites that generally get the job done more times than they mess up (ShopTo, Hit, VGP, Bazzar Bazzar and ItemDrop have provided multiple video games orders to me - ranging at times into the hundreds of pounds - with no issues whatsoever).
Also, both the previous sites noted had their TrustPilot scores removed as they noted fake reviews being used to bump up his ratings whilst the negative reviews were buried under endless bot ones. TrustPilot and buyers beware!!!