[Atreyu]

Just a heads up --- do not order from http://www.micropro.com. They have no idea where my speakers are and their "customer service" is about equal in quality to that of Verizon's (worst possible). They are the epitome of idiocy and I will find as many places as possible to curse their name.

Ahhh yes... I feel somewhat better now.

Since we're at it, why don't we start a thread where we can praise or curse online merchants. I'd like to see what experiences y'all have had. I've got a long list of merchants that I wish would fall from the face of this earth... I'll list them when I get home from work

[clutch]

I had started one a while back asking for good ones, but fortunately nobody had been burned in a while. Maybe there's a way to make a sticky post here. I'll take a peek around...

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[Atreyu]

LOL

Clutch do you dream of NTCompatible? I think you must carry your new pocketPC around all day long with NTCompatible loaded up on it or something cuz you are like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon with this board.

edit: I wrote that because he replied within one minute of my posting.. da nut.

I have another online merchant to stay away from http://www.pc-beyond.com "Beyond Computer Inc." Not only are they out of stock on much of what I wanted to order (which their website does not accurately represent), but it's one of those places that nobody who works there speaks English as their first language. They called me "dude" once when I was talking to them. Stay away.

[Brian Frank]

He could be psychic;)

[Helmann]

Maybe he found a way to wire his body into the forums server.
Freakyyyyy!

[donald]

dont use dabs.com there Customer Support sucks, i bought a Gigabyte GA-8IRXP from them and it arrived damaged, they refused to take it back until Trading Standards got involved.

[sapiens74]

I ordered some ram from OCZsystem, and they have been great.


Also the best company I have ever dealt with is MWAVE.COM

I've spent like 7k over the last year with them. THey rock

[Atreyu]

That's the kind of info I'm lookin' for... thanks! It will help us all out from getting screwed in the future.

[JP-]

Id have to come to the defence of dabs.com i think they are the best UK online retailer of computer hardware without a doubt. Unless you want overclocking type stuff that is.

I must have ordered a huge amount of stuff from them over the years and had 1 problem (Crucial ram broke and it took 4 weeks for a replacement).

Ive had alot of problems with other online retailers, most notably www.overclockers.co.uk

Also i have to say that no one could be more suprised than me at jungle.com, they were excellent every time i used them, i really expected them to be poo but i was very suprised.

[CrazyKillerMan]

For the canadian junkies....www.ncix.com is the best thing that has happened to me since the computer.

Cheap prices, and cheap, reliable delivery.

Ordered Thursday morning, recieved tuesday afternoon.

[BladeRunner]

[clutch]

I can recommend both www.crucial.com and www.mushkin.com for memory needs, and http://www.coast2coastaz.com/ for software. They occasionally have some incredible pricing on software (we got MS SQL Server 2K Enterprise Ed, 1 CPU License) for about $13,000US cheaper than what our regular vendor would sell it to us for.

[Atreyu]

I checked out MWAVE.COM per sapiens74's recommendation. They seem to be pretty good and the shipping costs were very, VERY reasonable. I'll probably try to grab my 641's off of there, but not until I get the morons at MicroPro.com to credit my card. The fools charged me (not a temporary authorization) while they didn't even have the product in stock... and furthermore they didn't have a record that my card was charged. Well if I go to my credit card's website, it says very clearly that I was charged $167 on 3-19-02.

I feel like I'm on a conquest here... I'm just tired of getting shafted by these online scams. If you're going to run a business, know that your customer is its life-blood and treat them like royalty. If they don't treat me as such, vengeance will be mine!

[Atreyu]

http://www.enpc.com seems to have pretty good prices and average shipping costs. I've never bought anything from them though so I cannot comment on their ability to function as a business. Anybody have insight to this merchant?

[pimpin_228]

i have a kicka ss place for you all. www.tccomputers.com i have been buying from them for a long time. i am very plezed with thier telephone support, and thier site. i haven't had any prob with them so far. when i ordered my gf2 mx 32 meg they didn't have it in stock so they sent me a better brand of it.

[tsonta101]

[Atreyu]

Wow.. we seem to have a lot of folks from Europe on this board, I never realized! When I get some money together I'm gonna head over there for vacation. I've been to the U.K. before, for two weeks, and I loved it. That was the neatest thing I have ever done. I want to get down to the Italy/Greece area next time I go (maybe do some online shopping while I'm there :-) ).

Anyways, I dig you European folks. How are things going with the Euro? Bla bla.. I'm super bored at work today, can you tell?

[sapiens74]

micropro did same thing to me. i told credit card company and they sent me a new credit card

[Brian Frank]

I've only ordered on-line twice, both times from Newegg. They have great, prompt service. All parts were shipped FedEx and came in perfect condition.

[Atreyu]

WOW Really? That's crazy. Yeah they were supposed to call me back by the end of the day confirming that my card has been credited. They have not yet called, and my card has not yet been credited.

I will be calling them AGAIN tomorrow to make sure they took care of things. This ordeal has been going on since Tuesday. I cannot describe my disguist accurately... I'm so ticked.

I will also be contacting the Better Business Bureau to file a complaint against the company... I suggest you do as well.