Maximum PC

THREE THUMBS UP:

Newegg
Fry's
Both arrived a day early.


EVGA - very happy with the mobo, vid card, and the company support and warranty

Thumbs up to Newegg.I ordered a Gigabyte 9800GX2 at 3:56PM on March 21,2008. 5:00 PM on March 21,2008-Step 5:Your order has been shipped.
A bit over 1 hour from order submission to notification of shipment.I'm thrilled.(Haven't gotten my tracking number yet,but I think I'll get it by 9PM.)
(Times are as listed by Newegg on my order status page.)

Thumbs up (again!!) for Newegg. I ordered a Seagate 250GB SATA 16MB cache hard drive for my backup Linux PC. I placed my order at 3:02 PM PST on Sunday,April 13. At 7:25 PM on Sunday,April 13.. my new hard drive had already shipped out via UPS Ground. I'm impressed once again.
(Did I mention Newegg rules!!).

Not exactly a company but the zune is awesome. I have a flash based one and It is awesome. The interface is better than an ipod and I can code my own games. Every one should buy one. thumbs up

Something's happened recently with newegg and my new location. For the past year, newegg has just been ultra slow. With their shipping out of products being their major perk for me, that wasn't cutting it.

Welp, the last week things have been getting here in a day. Eight orders in 10 days, all showing up lightning quick once again. Thumbs back up.

YAY

possibly Digital Storm depending on whether or not they will build what I want

FedEx



NAY

Alienware

VooDoo

(see a pattern here??)

Thumbs up: newegg.com


Thumbs down: e-bay

thumbs up : hp

thumbs down: dell

Thumbs up:

Best buy
Newegg
Radio Shack
Tiger Direct



Thumbs Down:

HP
Dell

W00t:
Newegg: The items were in excellent condition (Given one dent on the front mask of my case, but it's not a big deal), were processed and shipped right away. Then, when UPS failed to deliver decently, they refunded 24.99 of my 36 dollar shipping fee for my case.

Gigabyte: For making a cheap, and very capable motherboard.

A-Data: For making a huge, excellent quality Flash drive at a great price.


sh00t:
UPS: For fucking up two orders and sending my case to NJ forcing me to wait an agonizing two days after I got every other component in order to get it. Then the other (Flash drive) ended up staying in the same place for two weeks. I ended up finally receiving the damn thing 9 days after the egg saver passed.

Thumbs up: Newegg and Fedex. I ordered a Promise FastTrak TX4650 RAID card on Saturday,Dec.27,2008.(I added rush processing and FedEx Overnight shipping beacuse I needed it by Dec.31.)

Shipped out on Monday,Dec.29,2008. I had it waiting on my doorstep today: Tuesday, Dec.30,2008. I've said this before,but I'll say it again: I love Newegg!!

Thumbs up: Gigabyte. I bought a new GA-MA790GP-DS4H to replace my old Gigabyte GA-M57-SLI-S4 that burnt out due to a too-high-wattage CPU.(125W Phenom 9950BE). The new GA-MA790GP-DS4H fired right up first try with the 125W Phenom 9950BE,and even accepted my Seagate 1.5TB hard drive with no problems at all.

Thumbs up: X-Plane.com.
I ordered X-Plane 9 direct from xplane.com on Sunday,March 1,2009.
The time of order was 1:58 PM PST. I got the shipment confirmation (USPS First Class) at 7:21 PST. (Less than 5 and a half hours later..)

Quite happy with this situation..

UP

DFI - Susana - Great RMA
DirectCanada
Directron
NowDirect


Down

Mobile Computer - 99 Eastchester Ave.
UPS
Fed Ex

Thumbs up: Qwest (both for internet and phone service..).(I've lived in my new apartment for about 3 weeks now.The internet hasn't gone out, and neither has my phone once in those 3 weeks.)
Thumbs down: Comcast.

Thumbs up: Notebook-batteries.net. Delivered the correct battery with fast shipping and processing time. Customer service was friendly.

Two big thumbs up to B&H photo. If I had more, I'd wag them in the air.

The prices are what get me first. You want a big fat Plasma $600 cheaper than anyone else? They got it. $200 off an AV/R normally $600? They got it. And they'll deliver it at very low cost in under a week.

What I really like and drew me to them: they answer your questions correctly. Call up Crutchfield, and they advise you based on what they sell. B&H constantly tells me "that may not be what you want, and we don't carry it...try here". After hearing that, I usually call back and say "based on what you have, what do you got?". It's usually everything I can think of and go ahead and buy, and am very happy I did so.

But beyond all that, they're still the only camera shop I'd go to. Even if it's "just" saving $50 off a $720 lens, I'm there.

B&H is awesome. And if you're into DSLR parts, look into Beach Camera too. I've spent oodles over there.

Thumbs up (again) for PC Power & Cooling. Both my Turbo-Cool 510 SLI and my Silencer 750 have been running flawlessly,ever since I bought them nearly 3 years ago.(My Turbo-Cool 510 SLI I bought in June 2006,and my Silencer 750 I bought in December 2006.) The Turbo-Cool 510 SLI is now in my backup OpenSuse 11 Linux PC,while the Silencer 750 is in my main Windows Vista PC.

Done deal. Ordered a 15-200 VR lense, same price as B&H, and it's great stuff too. Took 3 days to get it even after hours on the shopping cart process. Nice lense, but good company too for all I know. One order, 100%, and will try them again some day I'm sure.

I cream on B&H for their other stuff though. I saved $600 on my 46" Plasma, and was shipped very well. The guy dropping it off was just awesome. Crutchfield "white glove" of sorts.

I'm 5 blocks from Best Buy. Why pay $600 more to drive that far? Their tech sucks balls.