<< Well I cant argue with your customer service reseller ratings post. They speak for themselves, hwoever the assumption that any yahoo store site is worthless can be debated. Are you familliar with SVComputcycle.com? They get great reviews on this site. And yet they are a yahoo store. Maybe they are the exception to your rule, or maybe the assumption is wrong. Who knows, Im gonna take chance here. Maybe Ill get burned. I will post results when I get them.
To actually view the reseller ratings most negative comments are from people who bought custom rigs. Not compenents. This does not excuse the service, Im betting the case comes sealed, hard to screw that up. I hope mine works out of the box, if not I may be in trouble. >>
I'm sure some yahoo stores are good. But lets face facts here. Anyone can setup shop in a few minutes on the net. If you run a real computer company, why not install a real custom site? After all you are a computer company. Maybe I'm wrong but you are foolish to take a chance like you state. Unless you are rich and it doesn't bother you to miss the money. Check the rattings here on Anandtech. Price isn't everything.