CCR Retail Equipment online shop

Why buy from CCR
We are a small family run company and have been in the cash registers business since 1979. We are an established business and have been trading since 1988. We are contactable by post, phone, fax and email, all of these details are on our website. If you type CCR Retail Equipment into a search engine, you will find us listed. You won’t find us on any auction websites. You can find us on Yell.com. We only sell cash registers and associated shop equipment products.

What you see is what you get
You will see that that we don’t sell all brands of every kind of product. This is because not all brands are the same. We sell Casio, Volumatic, CAS Scales, and Motex because in our opinion they are the best in their field. There is plenty of rubbish sold on the internet but hopefully not by us.

Once I have bought it
Buying online can be quick and easy but it can also be fraught with potential problems. Before you enter your personal details and sign up to a Merchants online store, just ask yourself, who are these people and what will they do with all of this information. Will I be bombarded with continuous emails, will my details be sold to marketing companies etc.
How do you know what you are buying? If you are not technically minded will you be able to make it work if all you get is a lot of boxes and cables. Does it need programming? We won’t sell you a pile of bits and pieces but we will supply a system that we have and tested before sending it out you.

Who am I dealing with?
Make sure that the company's website has a proper phone number and physical address. If the “contact us” page is merely an email form, ask yourself, Why is there no address? What will you do it you have problem? “they don’t answer my phone calls or email” How many times have your heard that one? Sadly we hear it frequently from people that have purchased goods online elsewhere.

Not all business is good business
We are here to make a profit, if you think that profit is a dirty word then please look elsewhere. We are often told that a product can be bought at a price that is cheaper than our “trade price”. Ask yourself why, any fool can give something away, so why do they need to? When we ask our suppliers how are they able to sell goods at these prices, our suppliers usually say, “we don’t supply them” so where do these goods come from, how can they sell them so cheap? And why!

There is no such thing as a free Lunch!
If a company looks like they are all things to all be men, be wary. Make sure that you buy from a company that knows about the products/services that they are offering and is able provide informed advice before and after the sale. The lowest priced item may not be the best deal for the consumer.

If it looks to good to be true, then it probably is
Some websites are often established traders posing as a different company. Why?
Find the postcode and enter it into google or yahoo, or go Yell.com and see if they are listed in the yellow pages for that area and product type. Do a Whois search and find out who the domain name of the website is registered to. Call the company back and check with your directory enquiries to see if the phone number actually belongs to that company. The best protection would be to work with a merchant you know and trust. For major purchases ask for references or testimonials and check them carefully.

From the BBC website
Card fraud in the UK is also rising sharply. The Association of Payment Clearing Services' latest report, published last month, shows an 11% jump to £135m in fraud involving remote transactions - those over the Internet, by mail order and phone - although the organisation does not yet distinguish how much of the fraud is due to Internet transactions.

Although all authorities agree the majority of Internet traders are genuine, paying upfront by credit card over the Net for goods and services unseen is the biggest source of Internet rip-off.
Despite the obvious dangers of sending payment to unknown parties, the practice continues to catch Net surfers who are all too trusting or cannot resist the convenience of online shopping.
Impressive websites can often make bogus operators look like legitimate businesses when they are not.
Consumers can also be duped into thinking a site is the official website for a well-known company or brand. These 'copycat' sites are a major problem identified by the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA).

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