Dead: Leadtek 6800GT (orders cancelled)

[rwutang]

sigh... i was soooo happy i jumped on this deal, now i'm furious. i went and cancelled my order i made for monarchcomputer.com's eVGA 6800 GT for $379 + free Doom3 to get in on this deal and then iocombo.com ends up cancelling my order cuz it was a "price mistake". ok, whatever i can live with it, i'll just go back and reorder from monarch. so i go back to monarch computer's website to reorder the SAME card + Doom3 i ordered last night and guess what... it's now $399 with no free copy of Doom!!

sadness.... i guess i'll just have to keep waiting till i see some better deals...

 

[Corpun]

Heh, wtf is up with that "list price" of $600 aka %50 more than retail? Which they, whoo-f'n-hoo, discounted to $440. Thats like saying "Normally we sodomize you with a rough-cut 2x4 but since it's your lucky day, we'll use a broomstick instead!" While I can understand that a loss of $15k would be a huge hit to a small online vendor, the whole thing smells bad to me.

 

[CrazyGamer]

rwutang, I did some searching and found the doom3/evga bundle from below for same price $379 shipped free, tried to PM the details to you but it gave me an error that you dont accept messages

evga/doom3

 

[littlebitstrouds]

Originally posted by: Corpun
Heh, wtf is up with that "list price" of $600 aka %50 more than retail? Which they, whoo-f'n-hoo, discounted to $440. Thats like saying "Normally we sodomize you with a rough-cut 2x4 but since it's your lucky day, we'll use a broomstick instead!" While I can understand that a loss of $15k would be a huge hit to a small online vendor, the whole thing smells bad to me.

Anybody notice
this Now that's just insane.

 

[fzaba]

Originally posted by: littlebitstrouds

Originally posted by: Corpun
Heh, wtf is up with that "list price" of $600 aka %50 more than retail? Which they, whoo-f'n-hoo, discounted to $440. Thats like saying "Normally we sodomize you with a rough-cut 2x4 but since it's your lucky day, we'll use a broomstick instead!" While I can understand that a loss of $15k would be a huge hit to a small online vendor, the whole thing smells bad to me.

Anybody notice
this Now that's just insane.

OMG that is retarded beyond belief. Iocombo is messed up man.:shocked:
>$400 for a 9800XT:roll:

 

[Trey22]

Originally posted by: CrazyGamer
Yeah I think I'll rate them on resellerratings, but as long as I get the refund ok I wont mess with the BBB.

For fun I contacted them via email just to tell them I was dissatisfied with their company/service and that I was going to rate them negatively on Reseller Ratings. Here was there response:
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Dear Customer,

Thank you for your inquiry. Please understand that even though an
online store opens 24/7, we, the human who actually works behind the system do
need some time off on the weekend like everyone else.

We noticed the problem with the system using the 128MB price on the
256MB version on the first day of the week and we fixed it as soon as
we humanly can. I know you would expect us to ship it anyway, lose $150 on
each card so you can enjoy the good deal. But if you can see it in your
heart that doing so would mean that we have to probably close down the
company, losing us close to $15,000 in one single day and make me have
to go look for another job, then I would plead for you to do so in hope
that you could see it from our end about the disappointing situation we
had to deal with today.

Online business is not the easiest thing to do; I have angry,
disappointed, hard-to-bargain-with and senseless customers coming at me
on almost daily basis to satisfy. I just want you to know that we, in
ioCombo, are doing the best we can under the circumstances given to
satisfy our customer and to maintain our business (and to do that, we
DO need profit). If that is not enough for some of our customers, we just
have to bow lower and apologize. I hope this email will shed a light to
the situation that you and I have faced today.

As for the ratings, I guess we deserve it. After all, it
is indeed our system's fault. I just hope that you won't lose your
confidence in ioCombo, because we do clean up after ourselves even
though it may not always be using the way that would satisfy our
customer the most.


=====================================
Sincerely,


Al Wijoyo

Obviously this fool isn't aware of the consequences of the AT effect.

Losing $150 per card is BS.

 

[Tylanner]

Everyone should go jump on the eVGA deal at monarch hehe

 

[rwutang]

Originally posted by: CrazyGamer
rwutang, I did some searching and found the doom3/evga bundle from below for same price $379 shipped free, tried to PM the details to you but it gave me an error that you dont accept messages

evga/doom3

hey, thanks for searching for me... i would have jumped on this find, but alas they are located in CA and i get charged sales tax. but very tempting... hmmm