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Refurb Celery 400 system for $249 ($150 for Florida residents)

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sorry, only 1% of celery 400s can run on a 100mhz bus

you might be able to get 450mhz outta it with a 75mhz bus (if the board supports it), if you ask me it's not worth it, although that is about 10% faster . .

doesn't matter now anyway, they're all out 🙁 🙁
 
NICkel,

I ordered 1 for my daughter's 2nd grade class. I was hoping to order another for the kids at home. I hope we get it, because my wife will kill me if she finds out that I blew this deal by blabbing it!

We are a little concerned, because we were originally told that it would ship within a week, with a confirmation email. It has been over a week without a peep from myfavoritepc.
 
The first time I saw the topic of this thread "Refurb Celery 400..." I said to myself "WTF?". I grew up on a celery farm in Michigan and it took me a second to realize what was being talked about here. The only "refurb celery" we had on the farm was called compost. 🙂

Lori "I know, I know, ya'll were talking about Celerons"
 
I gave this information to my friend who was looking to get a computer for his other friend and he was a bit turned off. Anyone here read the user 'agreement' ?. He read it and they said something about placing a cookie on your machine, and something else about how myfavoritepc will sell your information to others. I didnt read the user agreement myself, so this is coming from a third party.
 
I bet the cookie is on the Win98 SE/Recovery CD they give you. So maybe a solution would be to install your own OS instead of using the CD
 
It just says you have to accept cookies while on the site - in order to complete the ordering of the computer:

We may track your visit to our site by giving you a "cookie" when you enter. A cookie is a small
data file that Web sites commonly write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file
contains information that can identify you anonymously in order to track traffic patterns on our
site. The data is encrypted for your added security. MyFavoritePC uses cookies as a way to
measure activity on our site in order to continually improve your experience. Cookies don't
identify you personally, but rather identify your computer when you visit our site. A cookie can't
read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Your browser can be set
to warn you before accepting cookies -- in this case, you will receive the warning message with
each cookie. The use of cookies is now an industry standard, and you'll find them used on most
major Web sites. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but also allow you to you
to reset your browser either to notify you when you've received a cookie, or to refuse to accept
cookies. To purchase from MyFavoritePC, you must accept cookies.
 

mark,

we contacted myfavoritepc yesterday via email. they promised shipment this week. i do not know if i have been charged yet. i will ask my wife to check and report back here tomorrow.
 
Eeks' rule should apply to all hot deals. I can't think of how many hot deals we've lost because of little bitches.

Mark

P.S. They have no listed phone number

P.S.S. I sure hope they ship soon
 
I e-mailed Customer Service earlier today, and got a response back within an hour. They told me it would ship by the end of this week.

When do these $50 rebates expire, anyway?
 
Info with phone numbers from samspade.org:

(I took out the names)

Registrant:
WinBook Computer Corp. (MYFAVORITEPC-DOM)
Micro Electronics, Inc. 4119 Leap Rd.
Hilliard, OH 43026
US

Domain Name: MYFAVORITEPC.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
(LWS28) lws@MICROELECTRONICS.COM
Micro Electronics
MIS 4073 Leap Road
Hilliard, OH 43026
614-777-2729 (FAX) 614-777-2736
Billing Contact:
(JG9733) jgripsho@MICROCENTER.COM
Micro Electronics, Inc
MIS 4073 Leap Road
Hilliard,, OH 43026
614-777-2711 (FAX) 614-777-2736

Record last updated on 31-Jan-2000.
Record expires on 06-Jul-2001.
Record created on 06-Jul-1999.
Database last updated on 19-Sep-2000 15:35:52 EDT.
-----

Lori
 
OK.
If you do purchase one of these POS's go out and buy a brand name modem for it. I fix these damned things and nine times out of ten the modem craps out. F--kin' AMR modems. AAAHHHHHHHHHH.
Also a 145watt power supply is not going to allow you to add sh!t to the thing.

Good luck finding a bigger power supply since the mounting space is to small to accommodate anything other than what it comes with.


SAVE YOUR MONEY
 

mclori,

yep, they are a product of winbook (love their laptops), and micro electronics. i have heard that winbook handles the calls when someone really needs to get through. so far they seem pretty quick with email.


yellowperil,

i haven't seen anything to indicate there is an expiration. the rebate form is supposed to be included in the box.


jeffrylebowski,

thanks for the heads up. personally i don't care if they leave the modem out, this one is going to my daughter's 2nd grade class. we just need for it to run educational games. i'll be satisfied if it does that for a year.
 
Uh oh guys ....I just called my credit card company , and they said that nothing had been charged to my credit card in the last 2 months . So I guess I don't have a computer headed to my sisters in Florida after all . You might want to check yours , too .
 
Relax everybody. I got in about halfway through this thread (ordered on the 13th I think) and I'm in Florida, and I just got shipping confirmation from them with a FedEx tracking # etc. I don't have a charge on my CC yet either, but looks like this deal is good.

Unfortunately I have bad deal timing! I ordered a 13 gig drive from amazon to go with it, and the computer is going to beat it here by days! DOH!
 
I called winbook today and nobody would answer my questions. They were quite rude, but I didn't say anything. They said to inquire via email.

Mark
 
We emailed them again, response was "it will ship as early as friday". What does that mean?

Anyway, they now have the new 466 with 8.4GB hard drive for $299 + $30 shipping. 1 year warranty. Add $99 for 3 year.
 
Hey all I just wanted to let you know that I got my system today - powered it up, it is really pretty decent. Normal MicroATX case, standard floppy and CDRom. (none of that "special faceplate" garbage) Booted fine, will put linux on it next week and see if it's up to the challenge. But overall, especially for us Florida folks, it was definitely a hot deal! The motherboard and power supply are the only two components I'm suspcious of, but I have a backup MATX board ready to go just in case something happens, so this is going to make a good linux server!

(Now Georgia Tech's performance on ESPN tonight.. not a hot deal. <sigh>)
 
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