The new Ashford.com

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Posted on: 2008-01-29 by Consuela Taisia

A few months ago I had the feeling Ashford.com was closed, maybe because every time I've try ed to visit it was down.
Anyway, yesterday I've found it up an running, not much different from the old one, at least from the design point of view.

Even not so different, still in red&gray, first impression was a new Asford.com with significant less products.

And I was true: the pens are totally out, and there are only about 24 watch brands (I believe it used to be at least 50).

"OnSale" page, as it looks today, is a real lost of time: 4 out of 9 items listed here has same price under "Your price" and "Sale price" and another 2 lists only "Your price".
A subcategory under "OnSale" page, "Default category" displays an empty page, same as "Semiprecious and Other" page listed under "Jewelry" section in a full-with-errors menu.
Not having a breadcrumb when navigating inside jewelry section, especially, is rally annoying (I admit, you'll find it on the product page, nice and working).
While navigating using the main menu tabs "Mens Watches" and "Womens Watches" allows you to sort your results by name, brand, price, this option is not present when shopping by brand.
What I really don't like is the product review page, which looks outdated, hardly looking like part of the site.

Now, what I like on Ashford.com:

The quality of the images, as always, is very good. Also, very few products without image, which I like it.
"Shop with confidence" section very visible on the main page and all over the site on the bottom of the pages.
"Join the A list" - for product specials and discounts.
Free ground shipping & Free gift wrap (even if I didn't found any information about the last one)
and
30 Day Money Back Guarantee.

Hopefully, the services are as good as used to be some time ago, with no delay in shipping and no payment problems.