1/5

posted Nov-08-2002
I have mixed feelings about this company. The good is, they have alot of older computer parts that others dont'. However, the bad is their quality customer service.
I purchased an older model Abit motherboard on October for my friend's birthday. My friend told me he didn't receive it 2 weeks after I made the order online.
I then e-mailed them but go no response. So I called them and found out that they put my order on hold because they have found a problem with my billing address, which I am sure I gave them all the correct information. What piss me off is, why didn't they noftify me as soon as they found out they cannot charge my credit card. Why I have to be the one called first and discover the problem. I mean, if I didn't call, my order will then be placed on hold forever?
Anyway, I called them, get the billing address thing sorted out.
I was expecting my friend to receive the motherboard in a week because he was going to move out of that address after 2 weeks. He lives in another town 2 hours away from me. Because of this delay I pretty much sure he won't be getting it before he move out. Therefore right after I give them the billing address again, I told them to update the shipping address immediately so that it will be shipped to me instead of my friend. The guy promised me they will update the shipping address.
Another week has passed and neither I or my friend have received the package. I checked my order status again on their website and found out that the motherboard has been shipped out, AND it was on its first day of shipping via UPS to the OLD ADDRESS. That drove me nuts.
Since I know there is a service from UPS for you to change the shipping destination for your package online immediately. I called PCliquator again. The same guy picked up the phone. I told him the situation and asked him to use that change of address service from UPS website. But he kept telling me that it couldn't be done. Obviously it was not true and he was just too lazy and did not want to go thru that much "trouble" to do it for me.
Thus, I and my friend both have to call the 2 UPS local offices in his town and my town to get those UPS people to forward our package. Fortunately, those UPS staffs weren't as irresponsible as that PCliquator guy and helped us forwarded the package smoothly.
You may say "since we can sorted this out ourselves, what do we still have to complain about?"
The points are:
1) They put my order on hold and did not contact me.
2) They could change the delievery address easily with a few mouse click and save some shipping time and they refuse to do so.
I would only recommend this company to other people IF they have the item (usually older model) you want and you can't find it anywhere else. Then go for it and make sure they are able to charge your credit-card and you going to be stay in that shipping address until you receive the item.
Otherwise I won't recomment it to anyone.
If you can find the item you want somewhere else, don't take the risk.

This review was modified by
misbehave on November 08 2002 05:32:04 PM