Getting ready to buy lots of stuff from Onvia.com - anything I should know?

[Fun Guy]

Getting ready to buy over $1K worth of stuff from Onvia, are there any coupons or other deals I should be aware of that will defray my cost? This will be my first time buying from them, and have not visited AnandTech in a while, so I am out of the loop.

 

[helloedchen]

read up on them in the hot deals forum...there are coupons floating around

 

[compuwiz1]

Expect to have delays. I've never been able to get anything from them in 4 diffent orders. Always says in stock, then get backorder email. Their customer service is not helpful, as in proactive. They are an OPM house (other people's money). They dont stock products, they have them drop shipped from vendors.

 

[ccc]

break them up to several $200...
there are several $25 off $200 coupons.
Don't forget to join pointclick,
its another 10% off, so you should save
around $180 or so.

edit : Onvia Customer Service is the
best that I have encountered, call them
and they will try their best to help you.

 

[Noriaki]

A friend of mine ordered a bunch of stuff from canada's branch of onVia. He had a one item that didnt' work, and they had it sorted out for him really quickly. I was impressed with onVia's support.

 

[duragezic]

ccc: I didn't find any $25 off coupons unless I paid with a American Express credit card (which I didn't). My monitor has been backordered forever and that pisses me off because not only did I not get $25 off, I won't have it in time before the Samsung $30 rebate runs out so I have to pay full price, unless of course it was shipped tomorrow or something :\. I called them up because a lot of people suggested doing so because they actually may have the product in. The service person didn't seem to be very helpful and they still didn't have the monitor in.

eagle

 

[ccc]

There are several coupons lying around that don't
require you to use AMEX.

Your Samsung 900ift probably is a rare one.
I don't want to get your hope high, but usually
Samsung offer rebates for every month.

 

[duragezic]

ccc: Hmph. I guess it's too late even if I did find one. I could cancel my order and reorder but I don't know... I already canceled and reordered once as it is. Thanks for the info though.

eagle