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by **robbro** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 5:49 pm

anyone know any good hardware sites to get a good graphics cards for chep-ish ? :/ Rob.

by **Geekgirl** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 5:56 pm

I always say, you get what you paid for

I purchase alot from NewEgg

by **liljim** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 5:58 pm

www.pricewatch.com

www.buyaib.com

all US though

by **Cactus** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 6:12 pm

TIGER DIRECT

USA
http://www.tigerdirect.com/

Canada
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/indexca.asp?S ... MP=IL22454

UK
http://simply.co.uk/

Cactus

by **robbro** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:16 am

thanks for the sites dood/doodetts

ill take a look

P.S i know i dont know all of you very well but you seem nice people, would any of you buy a card if i send you money because ive heard things are cheaper over the US or wouldnt that be possible ? :S just a question dont have to answer back heh

Rob.

by **Restek** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 12:53 pm

by **robbro** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 12:49 am

by **liljim** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 12:52 am

by **robbro** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 1:58 am

by **SweetDream** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 6:20 am

Do not buy from buyaib.com

You can just do a search in google for buyaib and you will see several forum topics where people have been ripped off by this company.

check out http://www.resellerratings.com/seller2870.html to find out the real info about this business.

This company also operates through pricewatch.com . Ignore the reviews posted there under this company as the company has been known to give themselves positive feedbacks. This is obvious with very similar "good communication, good to deal with, very fast shipping" etc. feedbacks and especially those containing AAAA or AAAA+++++ similar feedbacks.

This business is the same as http://www.stlpcsales.com and http://www.dccsales.com

With reviews
stlpcsales: http://www.resellerratings.com/seller4522.html
dccsales: http://www.resellerratings.com/seller5169.html

Pricewatch is also fishy in regards to this company. I have found proof that pricewatch has deleted some negative feedbacks towards these businesses.

Ex: http://www.google.com/search?q=buyaib&h ... rt=30&sa=N

This was a google search in which there are 2 negative feedbacks for these companies under pricewatch, but when the links are clicked, those feedbacks are no longer there... they have been deleted by none other than pricewatch.com

Think the BBB would do something about it dont you? Nope, the only thing they've done is this:

http://www.labbb.org/scripts/cgiip.exe/ ... &hAddrID=2

http://www.pricefile.com/state

Has something to say
and this business has been taken off of yahoo! shop because of their poor business practices.

Just be warned about this business. I'd hate to see someone going around recommending it to others...

by **liljim** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 9:03 am

by **robbro** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 2:23 pm

cool thanks for more info on sites

, Ebay is not that bad i got a gcard off there just got low 3dmark results tho maybe my drivers i had before on messed it up :S aww well, thx Rob. P.S card i manage to buy off ebay was radeon 9800 pro 256mb lil jim , not bad i guess but not best on the market these days can never keep up with the prices and the technology

.

by **SweetDream** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:35 pm

Well if you read the honest reviews on RR you'll see some people did get the stuff they ordered or didnt have too many probs getting a replacement.

But see, my husband and I just bought 2 AData PC4000 1gb for $236 from them with free shipping thru pricewatch.com. On the PW at the time their feedbacks were %80 positive. But with research, I've seen that their scores in the past have been %54 positive or less.
The package was supposed to be shipped usps but was shipped UPS. When we opened the box... there was nothing in it at all. No peanuts, no packaging, no invoice, and no memory. The package had arrived unopened and was well taped shut without any major dmg to the package other than the usual shipping dmg packages get. Didnt look like someone had broken into the box after it was shipped off so we called the company. We were lucky and some girl answered on the 1st call. However she said it must have been UPS' fault and that they would immediately file a claim for it.
After reading the reviews about this company, we made a visit to UPS. They had Not filed a claim. We suspect this business is trying a new scam and alerted UPS which is now doing an investigation of their own. Since then we've tried to contact buyaib but there is no answer on any of their phone lines and it automatically disconnects after 10 rings. We've called 15+ times daily during business hrs and so far no luck, guess they're scared of us now or something.

by **liljim** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 6:16 pm

by **robbro** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 12:49 am

i scored 5k something on 3dMark 2003 and 15k on 3dmark 2001 ::( sucks! .

And i got a AMD Athlon Barton XP 2600+ 1.5gb ddr400 RAM, and 160gb hard drives well 120gb+40.

But thats low score for 3dmark 2003 for a 9800 pro 256mb isnt it ? ii saw some guy get 11k or so

or more the CPU test on it lets me down for some reason i dunno why liljim ? , Rob

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