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Article #30GSCI and AuctionPC-FRAUD ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: dark_guardian
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 00:00
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I am posting this message in an effort to protect others from being
ripped off by GSCI and AuctionPC.I (and obviously many others from
reading past posts) have dealt with both these companies (they are both
online auctions)and have had the same experience with both.They started
out with OK service and went downhill quickly from there.At first they
shipped there product as advertised-then slower and slower and the
products began NOT being as advertised (as an example AuctionPC -"won" a
Canon 610 printer listed as factory refurbished-what I got was a printer
with the printer head installed,black ink cartridge empty,and 2 others
half full-obviously a return or demo-there response-hey you got it
right?!?!?).Then ordered a batch of ink cartridges (before getting
printer <sigh>) and credit card was charged promptly and nothing.Repeated
e-mails and calls finally yielded a reply of-fight with your credit card
co to get your money back-if you can (REAL CUTE!). As for GSCI-I ordered
a motherboard over a month ago and have sent e-mail after e-mail with no
reply (well-1 reply-a week and half after close I inquired about it and
recieved a very terse reply that there policy is 10 bus days and not to
inquire till then-well-there have been 4 emails since then and not a
peep-WAY PAST 10 days guys!) but my card was charged right after auction
close without shipment yet ( a violation of the merchant agreement they
signed per mastercard) - and they are still "selling" it on there site.I
called the local BBB there and was refered to the SD State Attorney
General's office because of all the complaints-this should say everything
about them! Besides-according to the article in Yahoo Internet Life
magazine most of there "starting' prices are more than what the item can
be purchased for 'retail" on the web so why bother with them!
Henry
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107ecf,2dc7d637e2e6aeac,start X-Google-Attributes: gid107ecf,public X-Google-Thread: fd747,2dc7d637e2e6aeac,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfd747,public X-Google-Thread: 110c0e,2dc7d637e2e6aeac,start X-Google-Attributes: gid110c0e,public X-Google-Thread: f8c6e,2dc7d637e2e6aeac,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c6e,public X-Google-Thread: fd775,2dc7d637e2e6aeac,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfd775,public X-Google-Thread: fec28,2dc7d637e2e6aeac,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfec28,public From: dark_guardian@ibm.net Subject: GSCI and AuctionPC-FRAUD ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Date: 1997/10/24 Message-ID: <877747728.9131@dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 284798433 To: cservice@gsci.com X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/3.0 (Win95; I) X-Originating-IP-Addr: 129.37.221.68 (slip129-37-221-68.ny.us.ibm.net) Organization: Deja News Posting Service X-Authenticated-Sender: dark_guardian@ibm.net X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Oct 25 02:48:59 1997 GMT Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers.discussion,aol.commerce.computers.forsale,cix.auction.bids2,misc.forsale.computer,misc.forsale.computers,misc.consumer