Software Media Review — Software Comparison (2012)
Software Media established business in 1997 distributing software and other tech products in Seattle, WA. They are now located in Salt Lake City, Utah offering discount software, software-related services and distributing software. Software Media believes that their customers deserve exceptional prices, genuine products and speedy delivery. They also offer a 30 day guarantee return policy.
Software Media offers thousands of titles from top brands merchants. Their return policy is simple and they will pay for the return shipping.
- Free Shipping, both ways
- Large selection
- Delivers to your door
- Discounts and personal representative to corporate, reseller and government clients.
SoftwareMedia.com ships free in both directions. Has 80+ vendors to choose from and offers discounts to their largest clients and resellers/government employees.
Royaldiscount.com offers approximately half of the brands as Software Media. They do not offer Mac software. They do have a corporate discount if the company meets their strict criteria. Royal Discount does offer Government discounts.
Royal Discount also offers free shipping within the US. However their return policy is more strict.
Returns
- Opened, activated, altered or damaged products are not returnable
- Restocking fee of 3.5% on all returns
- $5.00 processing fee on all returns
- Return shipping is at customer expense
Software Media is a much more consumer friendly company than Royal Discount plus it offers many more products.
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Software Media offers state of the art software from top of the line worldwide merchants with a 30 day guarantee return policy.
Categories:
- Academic
- Accounting & Financial
- Business & Productivity
- CAD & Home Design
- Clearance
- Design & Creativity
- Development Tools
- Gift Cards
- Mobil & PDA
- Operating Systems
- Reference & Learning
- SaaS
- Security & Utilities
- Software Gifts
- Tax Preparation
- Video & Audio
Brands include
- ACT
- Adobe
- Apple
- Autodesk
- BlackBerry
- Borland
- Business Objects
- CA
- Enfocus
- FileMaker
- Intuit
- Kaspersky
- Microsoft
- Nero
- Norton
- Nuance
- Open Text
- Oracle
- Paragon
- Peachtree
- Quark
- QuickBooks
- Roxio
- Sony
- Sybase
- Symantec
- Trend Micro
- VMware
Software Media also offers a Mac Section
Categories
- Accounting & Financial
- Buisness & Productivity
- CAD & Home Design
- Design & Creativity
- Development Tools
- DVD Burning
- Gift Cards
- Mac Software Gifts
- Operating Systems
- Reference & Learning
- Security & Utilities
- Viedo & Audio
- Web Design
Brands include
- Adobe
- Apple
- Corel
- Encore
- FileMaker
- Intuit
- Microsoft
- Quark
- Symantec
- Total Training
Software Media offers a Customer Advantage Program for their corporate, government and reseller customers.
Benefits:
- Lowest prices
- Free account
- Personal representative
- Use phone, e-mail or AIM to order
- Fast Quotes
- Licensing service desk
- 80+ software manufacturers
- Free blind drop ships to customers
- Financing options
- No Obligation to purchase necessary
Return Policy
- Fill out a product return form found on website
- Software Media will send you a pre-paid FedEx air bill within 3 business days
- Products with broken seals, activated, registered or damaged are not returnable.
Consumer Comments:
Poonone Dec 16, 2010
cmk674, Nov 30, 2010
Softwaremedia.com has made it on my shortlist of suppliers for all my software needs. They consistently have the best pricing, fast shipping and great customer service. I ordered my Adobe Acrobat Pro software and received it a few days later. Thanks! Keep up the good work.
http://www1.dealtime.com/xMR-softwaremedia++com~MRD-301567~S-1debahl, Nov 13, 2010
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I buy software for my school's IT department and frequently look for online deals and sales to stay within our budget. Along with some of the bigger sites like adobe and buy.com, softwaremedia is good because they post periodic coupons you don't find on other sites. We purchased Office 2010 at 40% off there when they ran the coupon. Just check the site for coupons when you are running a purchase.
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