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LavidDichterman

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Originally posted by: cyburzaki
More from the FAQ:

  • Q. Why has my order now been ?processing? for five months? Is there any chance this indicates a glitch in your system? And is it something I should be concerned about?

    A. It is absolutely nothing to be concerned about. In our commitment to be the uncontested low-price leader, we sometimes offer special items at well below cost. Of course, since we also prefer to stay in business (to serve you, our cherished customer!), we naturally hold these orders in ?processing? until actual wholesale prices drop below the agreed-upon transactional price. Given the rapid pace of technological obsolence and marketplace depreciation, this waiting period is usually quite short?almost never more than six months. In fact, in our entire history of online reselling have we only once (for a recent fire-sale of 7900 GTX video cards) grudgingly envisioned keeping a batch of orders in ?processing? for perpetuity. Not a single other online reseller can boast of a nearly perfect record like that!
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haha. it did cross my mind that that might happen.

i bet that they're looking through all their orders, by hand, for any of the cheap GTX orders. that could be the only explanation for the hold up... right?
 
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vadp

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Originally posted by: djaz
Originally posted by: InSuboRdiNaTioN
Originally posted by: djaz
I read somewhere that their website goes down when they are mailing out videocards.
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From their FAQ:
"Q: Why does your website go down so often?"
"A: We often have to divert our servers to processing mass amounts of orders when shipping throngs of grossly underpriced videocards."
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hahaha
Nice
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LOL LOL
 
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electronicaddict

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Originally posted by: cyburzaki
More from the FAQ:

  • Q. Why has my order now been ?processing? for five months? Is there any chance this indicates a glitch in your system? And is it something I should be concerned about?

    A. It is absolutely nothing to be concerned about. In our commitment to be the uncontested low-price leader, we sometimes offer special items at well below cost. Of course, since we also prefer to stay in business (to serve you, our cherished customer!), we naturally hold these orders in ?processing? until actual wholesale prices drop below the agreed-upon transactional price. Given the rapid pace of technological obsolence and marketplace depreciation, this waiting period is usually quite short?almost never more than six months. In fact, in our entire history of online reselling have we only once (for a recent fire-sale of 7900 GTX video cards) grudgingly envisioned keeping a batch of orders in ?processing? for perpetuity. Not a single other online reseller can boast of a nearly perfect record like that!
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does this mean they will hold our orders in processing until the 7900GTX starts really selling for around $250??? Should we just cancel, wadda y'all think? ;) Seriously though, what would stop them from just ignoring it?
 
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InSuboRdiNaTioN

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Originally posted by: electronicaddict
does this mean they will hold our orders in processing until the 7900GTX starts really selling for around $250??? Should we just cancel, wadda y'all think?
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LOL!

 
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Ricochet

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Originally posted by: cyburzaki
More from the FAQ:

  • Q. Why has my order now been ?processing? for five months? Is there any chance this indicates a glitch in your system? And is it something I should be concerned about?

    A. It is absolutely nothing to be concerned about. In our commitment to be the uncontested low-price leader, we sometimes offer special items at well below cost. Of course, since we also prefer to stay in business (to serve you, our cherished customer!), we naturally hold these orders in ?processing? until actual wholesale prices drop below the agreed-upon transactional price. Given the rapid pace of technological obsolence and marketplace depreciation, this waiting period is usually quite short?almost never more than six months. In fact, in our entire history of online reselling have we only once (for a recent fire-sale of 7900 GTX video cards) grudgingly envisioned keeping a batch of orders in ?processing? for perpetuity. Not a single other online reseller can boast of a nearly perfect record like that!
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:roll: Simply unbelievable. How could such a business model work? If customers are aware of this, who in their right mind will deal with them?

6 months is short my @ss! WTH are they smoking?


 
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Trey22

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Sarcasm meter in this thread goes from one end of the spectrum to the other LOL.
 
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djaz

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They just sent me a coupon if anyone wants it:

10OFF
"Take 10 weeks off our normal processing time on your next order"

 
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LavidDichterman

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I think that that FAQ can't be right; since the site dies so often, they must be shipping out many cards. Unless they only get a portion of the card shipped with each site outage.
 
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latino666

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Originally posted by: LavidDichterman
I think that that FAQ can't be right; since the site dies so often, they must be shipping out many cards. Unless they only get a portion of the card shipped with each site outage.
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or they are giving false hope to the people they ripped off
 
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MrMet

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hmmmm, no emails but site is down AGAIN. They are somewhat on my way home from work. Might have to stop by tomorrow!!!!
 
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