"Well, I'm a little shocked to read all the negative comments! My experience was positive.

Like everyone else, I ordered the E6300 Core 2 Duo processor at their bargain-basement price. Placed the order online on a Sunday night. Monday, Stalliontek called, explained that they didn't have enough of that item to answer demand, and offered to bump me up to the E6400 for $30. Normally, this would have cost an extra $50 or so. I said "SURE!" I had my new processor the next day, installed it the same evening, and have been running it ever since. It has all the proper markings, the correct CPUID and sSpec numbers -- definitely NOT an engineering sample.

Will I buy from them again? Yup. Will I watch the like a hawk based on everyone's negative experiences? Yup."

"This CPU was mis-represented on their website. It is an engineering sample, not really an OEM part.
Even though that was a bit dishonest, the thing works OK but it has the wrong CPU ID string. The engineering sample has more cache than the retail CPU, they should have just advertised it as what it is, a lot of people would still have been interested. Maybe even me."

"Stalliontek.com are like the other reviews said, SCAMMERS! I ordered a Intel Core Duo 2 E6300 from them because of the low price, $150, thats $50 less than most of the competitors, they sent me an engineering sample, it even says it on the chip.

INTEL CONFIDENTIAL
QLMM ES
L610A731

and obvious prototype engineering sample. i confimered this with my friend that works QA for intel.i have sent numberous emails and called to no prevail. do not order from this company they try to sell used prototype engineering samples as new in the box OEM chips. BUYERS BEWARE. HELP PUT THIS COMPANY OUT OF BUSINESS."

"They are indeed crooks as mentioned below. They sell old used Engineering Samples (ES) as new OEM. My E6600 is marked QLLR ES and the stepping code is L610A730 which indicates it's been around since the 10th week (March) of 2006. So it's 10 months old and has been heavily used by some manufacturer for testing. Intel gives these chips away to their partners and stipulates that they are not to be resold. It is a Rev B0 Stepping 4 while the current OEM and retail CPUs are Rev 2 Stepping 6. This means it contains bugs or issues that were corrected in subsequent revisions before going into full production.

Their new trick is to reject any complaints as spam. Twice my complaint was rejected by their spam filter. All I can do now is to file a complaint with PayPal and see if they have gotten better than they were in the past. Unfortunately I ordered before checking here since I had bought an item from them several years ago with any problem. Stay away or you will be scammed if you purchase what they call "OEM" CPUs.

Also, don't use PayPal from scammers like Stalliontek. PayPal lets you file a dispute, which of course crooks like these guys don't even respond to, and then should you elevate it up to a claim, they automatically and instantly deny it. Yep they don't even read or evaluate what you said. They provide canned reasons, and if you pick them, you get an automatic denial. Stalliontek obviously knows this, so they continue to commit fraud on a constant basis."

"IF YOU BUY FROM STALLIONTEK.COM, YOU WILL GET SCREWED!!! These people are scammers and liars! I purchased an OEM CPU, but I received a dead, obviously used and abused pre-production engineering sample. Intel strictly forbids the sale of engineering samples, yet these clowns sell them as new OEM CPUs.

I contacted them, and they tried to tell me that I was wrong and that it was a actually new OEM CPU. I’m a computer tech – I know what an engineering sample is. They refused to refund my money or replace this worthless piece of junk with the product I actually ordered.

Sadly, as I search the Internet, I see that I am not the only one to fall prey to their nefarious business practices. BEWARE - DO NOT SHOP HERE!!!!!
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"DO NOT BUY FROM!!! They sold me a pre-production engineering sample CPU which has no warranty from Intel, may have features disabled, and are not supposed to be sold!! These are chips for system builders to test their hardware with and may be damaged and/or have defects!"

"DONT ORDER FROM THESE LOSERS. YOU GIVE THEM AN EXACT PART NUMBER, THEY STILL SEND YOU THE WRONG ITEM THEN CHARGE YOU A 20% RESTOCKING FEE!!!

Order from LARGE reputable business like CDW, not from these companies that appear to run out of the basement of someone's row home in East Baltimore."

"This is the 2nd CPU that I have purchased from StallionTek & the order was placed online. The 1st order was a phone in. In both cases shipping was quite prompt with delivery times of 1 or 2 days.

In the 1st order I also ordered 4 sticks of 1 GB DDR2 RAM. 1 stick was bad, was given an RMA without hassle, returned it ... and a replacement was received about 10 days later. This spanned 2 weekends; so I sent it back on a Friday & received it on a Monday. Apparently they felt the need to test the memory stick before replacing it."

"I found this seller on pricewatch and bought here becuase of their low prices. I was a little leery because of the other reviews here, but my experience was great. The hard drive I got was perfect (although if it was used I'll never know) and Fedex got it here a day early. They don't have a big selection, but if they DO have what you want it's at a pretty low price."

"This online store is way too far to be a honest and customer oriented business people. they dont concern about the quality and service.
we had ati 9800 pro that defective and without any email respond or money refund and they play ping pong on the phone after we request replacement or refund. they keep the product we return keep our money....well it's a bad deal ... please be careful to order with this merchant.."

"Fast shipping, however the RAM I orderered was incompatible with my machine. I admit it was my fault, I mistakenly ordered ECC SDRAM instead of standard SDRAM, but I think they could've made it clearer on their site that this RAM was not compatible in most machines. Lesson learned, but be wary when ordering from this company, as I've seen from previous reviews here, that they don't have the customer's best interest in mind. Update... I sent the RAM back and a credit was posted on my cc account about 7 days later. "

"This store has an amazing price and great initial shipping, however, they will admit no wrong. I was advised to purchase a certain piece of RAM from one of their associates. When I received said RAM, it was incompatible. They refused to waive the restocking fee eventhough the purchase was on their recommendation. THIS IS BAD BUSINESS. Furthermore, the General Manager that I spoke with was rude and refused to accept that his company had made a mistake. Additionally, he claimed that the only way that I would get a full refund was if I had a tape recording of my initial conversation. This is unacceptable. Finally, to get me off the line, he offered 1/2 of the restocking fee, to which I reluctantly took. Although I am writing this review to warn people of this devious company (or at least this GM). Perhaps, others can learn from my apprehension. I am planning on writing the higher ups at this company to tell them how dissatisfied I am with their customer service.
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"Ordered 1 stick of RAM, but was sent 2 and charged for the 2nd one later. 3 emails sent with no response to any. Finally called long distance and I was blamed at every corner and given a run-around and said it was my fault and placed 2 orders, even though I only received one order confirmation. The person later said that I was charged for the 2nd stick when I sent an email to confirm the shipping address was correct because they had it mixed up with my billing address. But that was my fault too according to him, but I know for a fact that my bank would not authorize the charge if the billing address was not correct. Even so, if the first charge went through, why did they wait 3 days to charge for the 2nd stick? The person was rude and unhelpful and said to email if I wanted a refund and to return the RAM. But that's when I was told I had to pay for shipping (USPS mail would be refused) and a 20% restock fee. "

"Used to be AC MIcro - check the site. Bought a DOA hard drive from them and their return policy would not allow me to return it. I left a bad review on pricewatch and the offered to replace the drive if I removed the negative feedback. These guys are crooks don't buy from them"

"I bought a Pentium 4 650 processor from these guys, found through Pricewatch. It was exactly as described, they sent e-mails notifying me what status my order was, when it shipped, and promptly gave me a tracking number. I got it the next day!!!! I live in NJ.

Great prices, great new webiste, and great service. I'm buying again."