Just a side note from personal experience, i have in the past ordered various things from vendors on pricewatch with mixed results. Some well known vendors like newegg and zipzoomfly have stuff listed on pricewatch, but there are also alot of really crappy vendors that post too. Price watch is nothing more then a place for online vendors to post their product prices, nothing more. Pricewatch in no way polices the vendors and as such there is no gurantee that the vendor you select is honest or will deliver what is promised in their add.
To find out whether a reseller has a good standing in the community of online vendors you can go to
http://www.resellerratings.com/ and do a search for the vendor you are thinking about purchasing from and see how many people have reviewed them. The great thing about that site is that if you havn't purchased from the particular vendor, then you cannot post a comment about them as it requires a number from the transaction you made with the vendor, so as to keep people from company bashing without having bought from them.
After all the research i did on some of the companies listed on PRICEWATCH i decided it was time to find one really good online vendor to purchase from. I decided on
www.newegg.com In my oppinion, they have about the cheapest prices on stuff online that you are going to find. Period! Most of their hot deals give free fed-ex shipping and from california to indiana it NEVER takes more then 2 days to get my stuff. THATS AWESOME! Neweggs defective return policy is right on par too! I had a new motherboard within the week.
Try doing a search on that ratings site for BEST BUY and see what people say. LOL. Their score SUCKS BAD. lol.
Some of the bad experiences from price watch vendors i had included the following:
1) Wrong item shipped to me and was of lesser value then i paid for and the company never did exchange or refund money.
2) took 2-4 weeks to send me a replacement for an item
3)took my money and i never heard from them again. The last i knew i the credit card company was still trying to sort it out .
So, long story short, LIVE AND BUY by reseller ratings!!! I have built 15 complete computer systems with all parts bought from newegg over the last 4 months and i had to have 1 item exchanged and like i said it was back to me within the week. I Don't care what vendor you buy from, whether it is at a best buy store or a vendor online, sometimes you are just going to get unlucky and receive a bad item. This doesn't make a company bad because the product was bad. Sometimes it just happens. How that company makes it right is to me what makes ALL the difference on whether i do business with them again and like i have said several times, NEWEGG has been steady and true! Most likely i will buy all of my stuff from newegg in the future, unless something really screams gotta have it, hehe.
Hope this advice gives someone some food for thought. Getting screwed over online purchases just plain out SUCKS and with a little guidance and wisdom you can avoid most if not all of the pitfalls of online purchases.
Good luck and stay.........
GROOOOOOVY` ~
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