Previously I mentioned that aria had gone downhill. I was totally wrong.
Sure, they don't stock some components, which others do - but you'll always find that. And they seem to sell a lot of 'gadgets' and cheap pieces of tat, similar to poundland. But yesterday they showed me that they've still got what it takes.
At around 4:30pm I ordered 4 x IDE Removable Caddys, along with 4 x IDE cables and a 2 port IDE PCI card - around £60 total. Within 5 minutes they had sent me a confirmation e-mail and a second e-mail to say that the order was now being processed by their warehouse. I left for work, expecting delivery on Monday - as they had originally said.
Fast forward to 7:23am this morning and I heard a knock at the door. Sure enough, it was City-Link with my Aria package. That's delivery within 24 hours!
My Foxconn motherboard was purchased from Aria a month or two ago - and it arrived within a day too. So it seems that they're not any worse than the other online retailers.
See for yourself at the Aria website.
Unfortunately for them, they don't stock Samsung Spinpoint HDDs, otherwise I'd be ordering 4 x 250gb IDE versions from them in the near future. Instead, it looks like Scan will be taking my hard-earned cash. Electronically.