Question about E-Machines

[Desslok]

I was talking to a girlfriend and she used to work in a call center that handled the account for E-machines. WOW the horror stories she had from there. My question is how are these guys still in business? She is not the only one I have heard horror stories from.

 

[weezie]

Some genius at one of our divisions bought 24 e-machines about 20 months ago. We have since replaced the power supplies in 9 of them.
As bad as that sounds, we haven't had any trouble with them except for power supply issues.

But that's a lot of issues....:disgust:

 

[Smolek]

my brother has an Emachine computer, had it since 2001, and hasnt had a problem yet.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Get a brain.

If she had worked for Dell, Gateway, Compaq, HP or any other mass manufacturer of computers all she would have ever heard from the customers are horror stories and problems. Nobody calls tech support to tell them how well their computer is working.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

My question is how are these guys still in business?

Because their $hit is cheap. People that don't know jack about PC's see big numbers (2.x GHZ, 1 zillion GB HDD, etc.) and some jerkweed at Best Buy tells them it's the $hiznit and people go gaga. Add to that they kick the prices down even more with BS ISP deals. Bottom line. I have a friend that got suckered into one of those "It's basically free when you sign up with Crampuserve" deals and I have worked on that POS many a time now. They sucked then, the still suck now.

 

[Swag1138]

I have an emachine. Except for the power supply, its going great. In fact, Im posting from it right now.

They just need a little work.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Originally posted by: CptObvious
Their power supplies are TURDS....some proprietary 110W POS, that you can only get from them (some E-MAC only form factor BS). They die because they are overworked pushing the POS PC's they are attached to.

EMachines is still in business because they pioneered the free PC (MSN 4 year deal for 400 off)....they most certainly got kickbacks for those deals

I have a local PC shop that stocks those PSU's just for this reason. :Q

 

[Desslok]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Get a brain. If she had worked for Dell, Gateway, Compaq, HP or any other mass manufacturer of computers all she would have ever heard from the customers are horror stories and problems. Nobody calls tech support to tell them how well their computer is working.

For a Diamond member you sure post some useless information. If you read my post it said that "...I have heard these stories from other people too.

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: Desslok
I was talking to a girlfriend and she used to work in a call center that handled the account for E-machines. WOW the horror stories she had from there. My question is how are these guys still in business? She is not the only one I have heard horror stories from.

They are cheap.

 

[AUMM]

one of my computers at home is an e-machine, never had any problems with it for the past like 3 years. it was dirt cheap too

 

[Deeko]

Actually, Emachines aren't near as bad as they used to be, and you do get pretty good stuff for the money, compred to other OEM's.

 

[jonmullen]

My server is and Emachines and I have not had a problem with it. Granted over time all that is left is the motherboard and processor and surprisingly the power supply

 

[MacBaine]

My dad got my mom one a couple years back as a cheap upgrade. About a year ago, we had a problem with the HD failing... so we returned it under the warrenty and haven't had any problems since.