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Article #632828Re: Has any one here......?
From: Tom Ciaramitaro
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 00:00
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xl...@juno.com wrote: > > If you order from www.onsale.com, good luck getting your order. I > have had > problems getting my merchandise. > > If you order from www.onsale.com, good luck getting your order. I > have had > problems getting my merchandise. > > They charged me $17.90 to ship to 2 keyboards. A lot of money. After > 3 > weeks, one keyboard arrived with a bill for two. I never recieved the > second keyboard. > After calling them, at my expense since they do not have an 800 number > and > they do not accept collect calls, they gave me 2 shipping numbers > since > they claimed to have sent them separately. I contacted the shipping > company and they said the two numbers are invalid. I sent email to > their > customer support and they said: "if you have not received the 2nd > unit we > will trace and reship, there > are NO REFUNDS." > > Who knows, maybe I'll get it, but its several weeks and for the price > I > paid for shipping, I should have received it within a few days. > > keywords: www.onsale.com onsale.com onsale problem scam never buy > from > where is my keyboard > > On 24 Jun 1997 18:30:23 GMT, Shpsh...@aol.com (Adam B.) wrote: > > >Over the last 18 months, I've purchased about a dozen or so items through > >OnSale, either from OnSale itself, or a vendor they represent. With the > >exception of CRA Systems of Waco, Texas, I've been happy with every > >purchase. (The 17" monitor I bought from CRA arrived DOA, as did the > >replacement, and _I_ had to pay for the shipping of these 60 pound > >packages back to Waco. Not fun. They made _some_ restitution, but it was > >no fun, and I was without a monitor for a few days.) For the most part, > >every item was a savings over retail. Memory was especially cheap; I paid > >$65 for a pair of 8-Meg DIMMs for a Macintosh when the normal price was > >about $50 for one. I just bought a new hard drive for about 15% less than > >retail and it arrived in two business days. They give you an email > >"invoice" that even includes the carrier's tracking number. I say if you > >would normally buy it mail order and have it shipped to you, place a bid. > >I'm just not buying anything over 20 lbs. again. And nothing, EVER, from > >CRA. One guy's opinion, your mileage may vary. > > > >In article <01bc796e$dfc4a060$459a51d1@default>, "Lawrence Watson" > ><knl...@stratos.net> wrote: > > > >> Has anyone here ever bought computers or parts from onsale.com? and if so, > >> how was their delivery? Was it as good a bargain as it seemed? > > > >-- > >Adam B. Mark > >ABM...@advn.com > > > >? WHAT? > >Ready. > >> I've had success in dealing with them so far. No problems. I did notice lots of refurbished items that are selling close to new retail prices. Can't figure out peoples' reasoning there. -- -Tom -------------------------------------------------- To reply, remove the * in front (junk mail filter) --------------------------------------------------
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From: Tom Ciaramitaro <tomc...@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Has any one here......? Date: 1997/07/05 Message-ID: <33BEC2AC.4113@earthlink.net> X-Deja-AN: 254877096 References: <01bc796e$dfc4a060$459a51d1@default> <Shpshdbay*-2406971429500001@140.244.28.50> <33be4860.57640766@NEWS.EARTHLINK.NET> Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. Reply-To: *tomc...@earthlink.net Newsgroups: alt.ads.forsale.computers,alt.folklore.computers,aol.commerce.computers.forsale,aol.commerce.computers.wanted,aol.computers,asu.announce.micro.computers,aus.ads.forsale.computers,ba.marketplace.computers,biz.marketplace.computers.discussion,biz.m MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit