Onvia-How Quickly do they Ship Monitors?

wolfbrother

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Just ordered a Samsung Syncmaster 900NF from Onvia, using their coupon and the whole Pointclick thing. I'm wondering, how quickly do these guys ship out and what's their customer service like? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

On a side note-anyone have much experience with this particular monitor?
 

LordOfAll

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Just ordered monitors from them today (Monday), salesman said I should have them by Thusday or Friday.
 

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Depends on your distance from your local Ingram-Micro warehouse. My shipment from Onvia arrived within 48 hours of ordering. However, I have an I-M warehouse only 200 miles away from where I live. If you've ordered from Buy.Com before and the order came from a local I-M warehouse, you could use this as a guage to see how long your order would take to receive it. Onvia ships as quick as Buy.Com in my recent experiences.

I had to get an RMA from Onvia for one of my monitors. The replacement arrived within 24 hours of me placing the RMA request. Onvia is a great company.

I can't comment on the 900NF from Samsung. I've been happy with my 900P and utilized Onvia to purchase a 955DF. I had one 955DF replaced and I think I'm going to return the replacement also. The 955DF is quite clearly focused in the center of the screen, but the left 1/4 and right 1/4 of the screen isn't as good. On the left and right sides, there is a focus control that you access via the on-screen display to adjust. On both of mine, these areas were too grainy and when I utilized the focus control to perform the adjustment, I could eliminate the grainyness, but then both sides would be too fuzzy and out of focus. There doesn't appear to be a 'sweet spot' for the focus on the sides of this monitor. This really stinks because I feel that the monitor would have a lot of potential if these issues were permanently corrected by Samsung.

When you get your 900NF pay particular attention to the geometry of your images on the screen. Whenever I've owned a 'tron' - whether it be Trinitron, Sonictron or Diamondtron, the geometry always seemed to be a problem. On some these monitors, the issue worse than others. I wish I could get a 'tron' monitor with the near-perfect geometry of the shadow mask monitors.

Good luck with your 900NF!
 

PCAddict

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I ordered my Viewsonic PF790 on a Friday afternoon back in February at about 4:30 PM right before I left work for the day. The following Monday (3 days later) at noon UPS delivered my monitor. I was impressed.

I ordered my digital camera from there too and it came the next day. It turns out, one of their main warehouses is only two hours away from me. So, they are now one of my preferred companies to deal with.
 

gkwok

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My roommate ordered a 19" ViewSonic from them on a Thursday and it arrived the following Tuesday, just as Onvia said it would. We're in California.
 

Leo V

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I ordered my Sony 19" ($10 shipping!) on the weekend, it came on Monday morning! :D
 

Robor

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In my case very fast. I ordered one ground shipping and it arrived 2 days later. I live in Clearwater and it shipped out of Miami. Very nice! :D

Rob
 

wolfbrother

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YES!!!

Ordered Saturday, monitor came this morning(Tuesday). Great service! Ah, sweet 19" loving. I don't think I can look at anything smaller anymore, I've already been spoiled.

To all-thanks for your input.

wje-I'm not quite as familiar with monitor issues as you seem to be. To my untrained eye, this monitor seems quite crisp all around. This grainyness and fuzziness you talk about, is it obvious or is it something that you need to be attuned to? And what exactly do you mean by geometry problems? Thanks for your input.
 

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wolfbrother

How'd you go through pointclick. I'm new to the pointclick thing but I can't find Onvia on there website??
 

wolfbrother

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cape123-Pointclick is odd; it threw me off at first, but I read around the forums and found out that they constantly change the sites on their list. If it's not there when you look, try looking at a different time of day.
 

duragezic

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I ordered a Samsung 900IFT which was out-of-stock about 4 days ago and I got a word today that they have no date of arrival so I'll be waiting long I bet. That is bad because the Samsung $30 rebate ends July 31st!!!

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