Session9
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eBay's iHubCentral user and company store has a very high positive feedback rating, but don't put your trust in that alone. These guys know how to ignore someone when they've done something wrong.
My story below...
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Back in early November, I was stalking around on eBay, looking for a new PC for my brother. Trying desperately to find something cheap, no unneeded accessories with it, a company with good feedback from customers, and fast delivery. As we all do..
With much searching, comparing, help from Tech Kings members (), and a little voice in my ear repeating the same words, "what about that one?" I purchased a PC from the people at the iHub Central store on eBay Australia.
Everything went fine, the delivery was amazingly fast, they communicated well, and after a painful three hours at work I finally raced home to set up my new toy, at least until I had to hand it over to my bro. Oh the excitement!
After checking out all the components with one of those "he's gonna love it" grins on my face, and a "this is so cool" sparkle in my eye, it dawned on me that the motherboard in the PC was different to the one I was expecting... :doh:
According to the website, it was meant to be a Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2P, and the one I had was an MSI...what's goin' on here? The iHubCentral company on eBay was all too happy to reply, and confirmed the board was in fact an MSI K9N6PGM2-V, and assured me that the two boards were "identical", just different manufacturers.
Uh oh...I don't really care if it's meant to be the same, this isn't what I paid for! Discussion soon began on the Tech Kings forum (once again!) about if the MSI board could handle as much RAM as the Gigabyte board could, as this seemed to be the main difference in the two. The answer soon surfaced: No, it can't. The motherboard I received is not the same as the one I was meant to get.
*Sigh!*
And so it began...It has been one month since I purchased the PC, and three weeks of messages on eBay, emails and attempted phone calls (it's always engaged) and nada.
No reply whatsoever from the company about replacing the motherboard. After they were so quick to message me when I queried about the motherboard, it was disappointing that they hadn't even bothered getting back to me.
iHubCentral can be found here on eBay.
They're feedback is very encouraging, around 99.6% positive, see here.
I suppose the lesson here is don't expect even a company with that high a feedback rating to be honourable and honest. And DO NOT BUY FROM THIS COMPANY!
If the slightest thing goes wrong, it seems that they will NOT bother to reply to anything you throw at them. They can't be trusted, and are not good business people.
Take your money to someone with a 100% positive feedback, and who is happy to return/refund.
Don't think that this, or something worse, won't happen to you.
My story below...
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Back in early November, I was stalking around on eBay, looking for a new PC for my brother. Trying desperately to find something cheap, no unneeded accessories with it, a company with good feedback from customers, and fast delivery. As we all do..
With much searching, comparing, help from Tech Kings members (), and a little voice in my ear repeating the same words, "what about that one?" I purchased a PC from the people at the iHub Central store on eBay Australia.
Everything went fine, the delivery was amazingly fast, they communicated well, and after a painful three hours at work I finally raced home to set up my new toy, at least until I had to hand it over to my bro. Oh the excitement!
After checking out all the components with one of those "he's gonna love it" grins on my face, and a "this is so cool" sparkle in my eye, it dawned on me that the motherboard in the PC was different to the one I was expecting... :doh:
According to the website, it was meant to be a Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2P, and the one I had was an MSI...what's goin' on here? The iHubCentral company on eBay was all too happy to reply, and confirmed the board was in fact an MSI K9N6PGM2-V, and assured me that the two boards were "identical", just different manufacturers.
Uh oh...I don't really care if it's meant to be the same, this isn't what I paid for! Discussion soon began on the Tech Kings forum (once again!) about if the MSI board could handle as much RAM as the Gigabyte board could, as this seemed to be the main difference in the two. The answer soon surfaced: No, it can't. The motherboard I received is not the same as the one I was meant to get.
*Sigh!*
And so it began...It has been one month since I purchased the PC, and three weeks of messages on eBay, emails and attempted phone calls (it's always engaged) and nada.
No reply whatsoever from the company about replacing the motherboard. After they were so quick to message me when I queried about the motherboard, it was disappointing that they hadn't even bothered getting back to me.
iHubCentral can be found here on eBay.
They're feedback is very encouraging, around 99.6% positive, see here.
I suppose the lesson here is don't expect even a company with that high a feedback rating to be honourable and honest. And DO NOT BUY FROM THIS COMPANY!
If the slightest thing goes wrong, it seems that they will NOT bother to reply to anything you throw at them. They can't be trusted, and are not good business people.
Take your money to someone with a 100% positive feedback, and who is happy to return/refund.
Don't think that this, or something worse, won't happen to you.