🚀 go-pugleaf

joseph <joseph@youcandeletethis.jeongs.net> wrote:
> what happened with onsale.com? i remember buying from them a long long
> time ago (say around 1998 or 1997) but then i got too broke to buy
> anything....

My monitor, scanner, printer, vcr, and one of my hard disks I got off of 
onsale.com before the buyout.  Couldn't be happier with 'em.

...but then it went downhill.  It started out as a rash of DOA/soon-dead
merchandeise.  *Everything* I bought from them after the buyout has been
returned, generally DOA or not lasting out a week.

Currently, 90% of the "auctions" on egghead.com are "SmartDeal" clearance
things. (out of 10 mages, probably 9 are nothing but "buy now" blinking 
.gifs)  They have a big inventory of, say IBM Thinkpads, and try to get
um, $600 for 'em.  Not an auction at all.  And not worth it considering
the equipment is refurbished and only has a 30 day warranty.  Alongside
this there's a genuine auction, usually 1-2 items.  Gets bid on like mad.  

If you loose, they have the audacity to e-mail you when you loose an
auction and tell you "Another item similar to the one you bid on will be
coming up for auction."  Lo and behold, it's an identical Thinkpad, and
they're only auctioning 1-2 of them again.  Wash, rinse, repeat.

They're asking way too much for their "SmartDeal" "auctions", and then 
they artifically limit the numbers under auction so that there's a bidding 
frenzy on what there is available.   Or worse yet, listing an identical 
item ten times instead of once with a quantity of 10.  So you have to bid 
on several and pray you're outbid on the extras to guarantee you'll get 
one...

Anyway.

Egghead.com sux0rs.  Avoid them at all costs.

 - Pizza
-- 
Solomon Peachy                                    pizzaATfucktheusers.org
I ain't broke, but I'm badly bent.                           ICQ# 1318344
Patience comes to those who wait.
    ...It's not "Beanbag Love", it's a "Transanimate Relationship"...