COWBOOM Ripoff! Used Laptop w/$149.99 shipping

[wes35]

used $409.98 total, wow, you can get brand new one with overnight shipping for that much


it looks like the cow in cowboom is the costumer and the "boom" stands for slapping the cow/costumer in a head with the shipping charges

I have one of these, purchased brand new at local retail microcenter store for $349

[sportyinc]

Thanks Wes35, I was so shook up when I saw the shipping price I didn't even think to compare laptop prices.

No mention of any warranty, no mention of a floppy drive, has a battery but it's used and I just noticed it states there is no Optical (CD or DVD) drive!!!

P.S. Just click on the "Gotta Have It" button.

[sportyinc]

On the DODTracker.com website they show a link to CowBoom.com where they are showing a RIPOFF on an Acer Laptop.

Go to: Cowboom - crazy deals on brand name electronics!

The item is: Acer Aspire One 8.9in Laptop 1.6GHz 1GB 120GB WiFi (A0A150-1570)

The laptop is used. Price is $259.99 PLUS a shipping price of ONLY $149.99. Hurry for this one.

UPDATE: I emailed CowBoom "Customer Support" using the link on their website. 5 minutes later I received this email:

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: Acer Aspire One 8.9in Laptop 1.6GHz 1GB 120GB WiF
Sent: 1/6/2009 6:23 AM

The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:

'support @ cowboom.com' on 1/6/2009 6:23 AM
Invalid recipient

"INVALID RECIPIENT"????????

Please make sure you bookmark the CowBoom site in case you feel the need to throw money away or to just get screwed.

[saturnotaku]

Take the spaces out of the e-mail address and re-send to see if it goes through.

[sportyinc]

You can take the spaces out of the address. Like I said already, I used the link on THEIR web page. Not my responsibility to fix their problems. I only report what I find.
I attempted to question them about the shipping price but my email was rejected as stated above. The rejected email indicates a sloppy operation.
The shipping price has been changed to $14.99, may have been a typo but I doubt it.