Good & Bad places to buy from...

rbrescia · Post by **rbrescia** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:52 pm

a few that i've bought alot of stuff from:

fast shipping, good prices
http://www.jab-tech.com

good prices, shipping is medium, everything comes sleeved and they have great support.
http://www.performance-pcs.com

great prices and shipping bought my digi cam here for 30 bucks less than anywhere else.
http://www.compuplus.com

good prices and shipping
http://www.xpcgear.com/

striker8000 · Post by **striker8000** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:32 pm

I've got to get my .02 in on this one

Tigerdirect
Most of my computer came from here, no problems. One warning...They put large writing on their packages (for UPS this spells mangled, big time). Even with the expected mangling (more than usual???), not a single damaged (the motherboard for my computer came in a box with distinct fork marks (forklift type) through one side, the contents were undamaged).

no negs yet, I've got what I need (so far)

[edit]Add http://www.laptopsetc.com to the list of worthwhile places
needed a zip drive for this Dell Latitude that I just got, the part arrived almost before the payment cleared...cool

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:31 pm

Bought a Hard Drive and a DVD/CDRW Burner from TigerDirect last saturday and sunday. 5 days later I got them both and they actually came quicker then they were supposed too.

goobee · Post by **goobee** » Fri May 14, 2004 2:43 am

Try not to buy from Lynn Computer Products.

Here's a couple links summarizing my troubles with that vendor with poor sales practices.

http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50323

You guys can make up your mind whether or not to do business with them.

http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50705

Spread the word.

SweetDream · Post by **SweetDream** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 10:52 am

http://www.buyaib.com and http://www.dccsales.com are the same company and so is http://www.stlpcsales.com you can just take a look at their websites to realize this since they're almost Exactly the same too.

If you ever really need to know how good a business is then look it up under resellerratings.com

All of those companies could not get a score above a 3, when 5 is considered a bad business.

For buyaib the BBB has to say this:
http://www.labbb.org/scripts/cgiip.exe/ ... &hAddrID=2

Good luck doing good business with them, we certainly dont consider it good business when they send us an empty box and try to rip us and others off.

iKwak · Post by **iKwak** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:08 pm

No doubt Newegg is one of the best place.
Wonder how that company got so big.

Member · Post by **Member** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:42 am

loop2kil wrote:http://www.newegg.com - prolly the best i've used on the net

http://www.jazztechnology.com - they did rma a bad board without any problems. pretty good prices and the only complaint is they are slow.

used these like only one time but have no complaints about them:

http://www.mpcparts.com

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/componentauthority/

This is the only place that i will never use again as it took them 4 weeks to get me my sound card i ordered

http://www.computergeeks.com

Yes I agree with ya loop on the ComputerGeeks.com purchased many things, etc..) and it took for ever getting here plus was missing things and, was sent things not in my specs

Now I agree with ikwak with the newegg there grate ordered mobo's ect: when and if things go bad theres quick to make it right with ya keeps me coming back

erdiko · Post by **erdiko** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 5:33 am

iKwak wrote:No doubt Newegg is one of the best place.
Wonder how that company got so big.

This is so true- I have seen some comment on the high shipping, but alot of times they have FREE or .99 FedEx Saver Shipping (three days or less to NC from CA).

I've ordered THOUSANDS of dollars worth of products from them for building custom systems for various people/buisnesses and have yet to have an order that has not arrived three days or less after I clicked "Checkout", nor have I had any damaged/RMAed products.

NewEgg rocks, and I do wonder how they got so big and also wonder when they are going to go public

cchooper · Post by **cchooper** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:32 am

JTMON wrote:I forgot a bad one:

gameve.com:

Not only did they ship the wrong part, but the wrong part they shipped was broken.

Crap ... I just put an order through on the 12th too

It hasn't even shipped until yesterday, and I only have one tracking # saying a 6 lb package was sent. Hmm let's see, I ordered a case, a hard drive, and a video card ... I'm sure that's more than 6 pounds. I'm going to try calling today to see if I can get the other tracking #s out of them

Also, pcmods.com is now known as frozencpu.com

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:57 pm

Word to the wise, don't buy from this company..

http://www.geeks.com/
Computer Geeks

They ussually sell old "closeout" stuff.. which you think would be good.
However.. it is common practice to sell broken "refurb" stuff..
and another trick, destroying the hardware's serial number.

Late shippment is a common factor as well.

Shinobi

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 11:27 am

NEVER BUY FROM DELL!

Their customer service is the worst I have ever received. Their system is built to piss people off and have probably cost buyers many additional charges if they tried to return a deffective product.

MadMax350 · Post by **MadMax350** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:23 pm

http://www.newegg.com --

I did have a bad experience with them last year when I tried building a PC for a family member. The bad experience was with DOA parts, not customer service so don't misunderstand. I just built a new PC within the last month using mostly newegg parts and everything worked great. Fast shipping as usual.

http://www.compuplus.com --

I bought an ATI AIW X600pro video card from them and shipping took a week to get it here. Price wasn't that great either, but was within $10 of newegg. However, the reason why I bought it from them was because they had it in-stock and newegg didn't. Long story short, I should have just forgotten about the AIW altogether because it wouldn't work with my system. For some reason I couldn't load the ATI multimedia center to watch TV programs on my PC, nor could I run any of the ATI diagnostic programs. Comp-u-plus wasn't any help. They don't have tech support (they refer you to the mfgr), and their customer service line is busy 99% of the time. ATI's tech support wasn't that great either since they couldn't resolve my issue after 7 days of trying different things. I did get an RMA return for a refund by comp-u-plus, but they didn't credit me with the refund amount for over a week after they received the defective unit back. Beware they don't refund ANY shipping costs and you get charged a 10% restocking fee if the item is not received back within 7 days of filing an RMA.

Phantomwalker · Post by **Phantomwalker** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:13 pm

Joel wrote:Just read over the whole post and didn't see Tiger Direct listed once.
Everything for the last 3 computers I have built came from them - Freaking speedy S&H too. I haven't had to experiance their customer support because I haven't had any problems with what they sent me.

When shopping from them, one thing you want to look out for is rebates. You can save $100s of dollars from rebates over there. I like it.

Highly recommended!

I'd have to say I agree with you on that 100% here..

I only had one problem with them but I never took it to techsupport and that was that I had ordered a HDD from them and when I came home from work one day my roommate told me... "Ohh your HDD is on your desk it arrived this morning" so I went to get it all excited and found ummm A hard drive on my desk... no box no manuals no cords no nothing else.. so I go back and I'm like uhhh where's the box...... he goes... "what box..." I'm like duh the one that it came in.... and his responce is ohh its over there... I look there's a brown box no shipping label or anything... I'm like okayyyy where's the outter box... he's like no outerbox thats it... thats what it came in... so I'm like right well whatever... set it up in my computer and after about 2 weeks it started making this uber cool clicking noise then failed all together never to work again... needless to say... I figured my roommate messed it up and decided human error nothing more to be done about it and didn't even bother to call tech on that...

But all in all I'd say the 5 or so purchases I made from them showed up when I was expecting them didn't cost me too much and with the exception of that package, always arrived in working order and so far are still working...

Phantomwalker

striker8000 · Post by **striker8000** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:41 pm

for oddball items thinkgeek.com

by the way, 3 new computers from tigerdirect parts, all A64 3000's, no problems

Shagster · Post by **Shagster** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:51 pm

No longer buying from zipzoomfly

I entered my billing address and clicked the box that said 'make your shipping address the same as your billing address'. I cliked continue and placed my order. It didn't tell me until after the order that it was shipping it to another addy it had on file. I immediately emailed them saying their system fubared and to change the shipping address to my billing addy and they said they would charge me a reshipping fee to change it's destination.

Their screwup and they wanted me to pay to fix it, sticking to newegg's customer service from here on out.

Shagster · Post by **Shagster** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:40 pm

More drama trying to resolve a situation with zipzoomfly. They will not respond to my emails or to requests made through their website.

I just noticed at reseller rating that their old rating was 9+ but their 6 month rating 6.44 and dropping.

Stewie Griffin · Post by **Stewie Griffin** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:27 pm

I prefer New-Egg for my computer supplies

graham_stilwell · Post by **graham_stilwell** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:16 pm

i have a hd cleaner in my computer and it good all the time it work wen i have just put the computer on and if u need help i will be a sicnce for u all i am a microsoft maker i make windows xp software work and hardware work good with the new duo core 4.9 cpu £600

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:11 pm

graham_stilwell wrote:i have a hd cleaner in my computer and it good all the time it work wen i have just put the computer on and if u need help i will be a sicnce for u all i am a microsoft maker i make windows xp software work and hardware work good with the new duo core 4.9 cpu £600

HUH?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:16 pm

CableDude wrote:HUH?

I sure hope you dont expect hsi answer to make any sense. I really wonder why all these people post on different forums that cant communicate at all on any level greater than a dead horse.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:20 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:I sure hope you dont expect hsi answer to make any sense. I really wonder why all these people post on different forums that cant communicate at all on any level greater than a dead horse.

lol.

David · Post by **David** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:28 am

At this point, everyone should know that Monarchcomputing is no longer a place to make purchases.

Quite sad, they used to provide excellent service.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:40 am

Hell_Yes wrote:At this point, everyone should know that Monarchcomputing is no longer a place to make purchases.

Quite sad, they used to provide excellent service.

Yup, good reference here:

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1132728

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:23 pm

Awesome place for coaxial cables (hope it's not out of topic) but they are 4.5ghz, my picture improved by 25% (more crispy compared to RG6 2.1ghz)

http://www.broadbandutopia.com/coaxial.html

Fast shipping, easy communication, highly recommended.

prerog1 · Post by **prerog1** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:20 pm

Bastid wrote:http://www.amamax.com/ they were pretty kewl, got me Noblesse case when promised, reasonable on price, didnt have to mess with cus service, so no advise there... all round good exp i spose

I like amamax too. I have ordered a few times from them with no problems. I'm not sure about how responsive their customer service is either but the fact I did not have to contact them for anything keeps me ordering from there.

I also found a good place for computer memory upgrades at http://parts-quick.com the price was really good compared to some other sites so I was skeptical about the quality of the memory but everything was just as it said it was so I went ahead and upgraded my other two machines with a second order. so far so good.

Shagster · Post by **Shagster** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:44 am

I've been hearing a lot of good things about Ewiz. Prices are definately as competitive as newegg and zipzoomfly. Newegg has been really slacking on getting the item out in a timely manner. ZZF's customer service has never impressed me.

I don't know about ewiz's customer service but I placed an order today at 5pm and din't expect it to go out today, but it did.

So +1 for ewiz.

Shagster · Post by **Shagster** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:51 am

Hrm, gonna get to see how good ewiz's customer service is after all. The motherboard I bought was DOA.

Asking to get a refund and at the same time I'd order a different motherboard from them. Just asked for free shipping on the new one to counter balance the cost I will pay to ship the broken one back.

Very fair, interested to see if they screw me over or not.

xekushnr · Post by **xekushnr** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:04 pm

I know its been mentioned a hundred times before but...

http://www.newegg.com!

Every part I have used to build and upgrade my two computers were purchased through newegg. They have the best prices. I have never had to RMA anything. Processing and shipping has always been quicker than they advertise. I ordered 2 gigs of RAM earlier this week on MLK Jr Day, and it showed up on Thursday. I can't speak for their customer service department because I've never had to use them!

Just checked my account on there, $2500+ in 6 orders, no problems, always arrived early. Gotta love them.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:05 pm

I would like to add http://www.frozencpu.com/

It’s an awesome place for case modders, they have tons of stuff. I’ve never returned anything but I called once and they handled the question quick.

DearBrands · Post by **DearBrands** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:28 am

hi,nice to meet you all!

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Good & Bad places to buy from...

BAD: ComputerGeeks, do not buy from..

cool if u need help i will be there