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posted Jul-22-2004

BUYER BEWARE!!!!!!

I was directed to this site by www.pricewatch.com. I was in the market for a 250Gig HD SATA. ADOSytems.net advertised one for $168. This was the lowest price I could find anywhere, so I decided to take a chance and order this drive. BIG MISTAKE.

After placing my order, I decided to check the site to see what the status was. This was on Thurs 7/15/04. Their Order Status page was down, saying the Online Store was closed due to Server Maintanence and that it would be down Thurs 7/15 to Thur 7/16. Right there I was worried. Seems that I was not the only one with this problem.

I sent an email to the Sales email and received the canned message back saying a rep would contact me soon. Yeah, right, and the sky is green!!

Although I did receive an email, it bascially told me that their system was down, but that they would upgrade my shipping to Next Day and give me a $25 gift Certificate. So I decided to give it a day, and on Sunday 7/18/04 I still had no notification that anything was shipped, and their site was still down.

I sent a somewhat nasty email in response to the last one I had received, and was suprised to get a response from Oliver himself. Although all it was was a receipt that my order has been refunded, it was some good news. Later that day, I got another email from sales saying that my order would be cancelled and that I would see the refund on my card. I waited and waited, and sure enough, I actually did get a refund. Guess Oliver was getting worried that ppl might start to file lawsuits against him and his company. I was all ready to send a compalint to the Attorney General of New York.

So just a little bit of advice.. IF the offer looks too GOOD to be TRUE.. It's a trap. Hope no one else falls into this trap, while I did get my money back, it seems some ppl did get royally burned by this company.*

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