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I would like to tell you a story, there was once a man who wanted to build a computer for the first time. He had spent two weeks doing his price research and was blown away by the prices that places like ncix.com and newegg.ca were giving. To him, this sounded perfect, he was saving much needed money! Soon after his order was placed, the excitement of the whole experience was still fresh in his mind. He couldn't stop browsing the online stores! But there lay the downfall of his good spirits. He was slowly finding that some of his parts were outdated, for example; his cpu was a quad core. This man was unaware that the socket 1156's were coming out in a week. They came out and the price dropped dramatically. To his dismay, he also realized that DDR3 RAM prices were on the verge of being near level to those of DDR2, yet he had gone with the latter. Worst of all, his motherboard supported just about no expandability. The Gigabyte EP45-UD3R. For only $15 more he could have bought the EP45 UD3P, which was more feature packed, and supported DDRR3, something the UD3R did not. Seeing as though any sort of major update would be a total revamp of his whole computer, the price would be way to high to ever do any major update. He broke down in frustration.
After much more forum searching, he came to accept the fact that it is better to rejoice about what you do have, and leave what you don't behind. His parts arrived and with a new mindset, he set to work. He had all of the internal components installed, but he was not getting any signal on his monitor. He tried every single trick in the book, and then some but the problem would not go away, so in defeat he RMA'd the mobo. Getting it back, he made sure he had an expert friend's help for the install. People, would you like to know the outcome? It worked! Sounds great right? No; it turns out he had forgotten to plug in his 8-pin power connector. There was no need to wait that week and a half plus the $40 for shipping, he had everything he needed! As frustrating as it was, well sh*t happens, and he could now get his computer to work!
Once more in high spirits, everything was going great. Computer up and running and one thing left. The sound system. He had found an amazing price on sale to get the Logitech X-540's for $80! The young man could not have been more exited to put it together. Could it just have worked, for once! N.O. All of this waiting, and hard work and what happens? He gets to the end of the journey only to have to deal with some speakers that came broken. He had consulted with experts and the verdict was true, he had to RMA, again. Throughout this process, he had also discovered that in his small town there was a memory express. A place in which you can get just about any computer part you want, for the same or cheaper price that that from an online site. If only he had known about this!
I am going to switch up the story a bit now. That man, in case you haven't already guessed, is me. I am now faced with the decision of whether I want to RMA my sound system, or try for a refund, pay the 15% restocking fee + shipping, and buy it through memory express for quite a bit more, if NCIX even accepts my refund plea. What a nightmare.
Now I have learned, never buy from an online site! If it seems to good to be true, it probably is!! There are always hidden setbacks that are invisible to the inexperienced, concealed by the glamor of an online computer store!
After much more forum searching, he came to accept the fact that it is better to rejoice about what you do have, and leave what you don't behind. His parts arrived and with a new mindset, he set to work. He had all of the internal components installed, but he was not getting any signal on his monitor. He tried every single trick in the book, and then some but the problem would not go away, so in defeat he RMA'd the mobo. Getting it back, he made sure he had an expert friend's help for the install. People, would you like to know the outcome? It worked! Sounds great right? No; it turns out he had forgotten to plug in his 8-pin power connector. There was no need to wait that week and a half plus the $40 for shipping, he had everything he needed! As frustrating as it was, well sh*t happens, and he could now get his computer to work!
Once more in high spirits, everything was going great. Computer up and running and one thing left. The sound system. He had found an amazing price on sale to get the Logitech X-540's for $80! The young man could not have been more exited to put it together. Could it just have worked, for once! N.O. All of this waiting, and hard work and what happens? He gets to the end of the journey only to have to deal with some speakers that came broken. He had consulted with experts and the verdict was true, he had to RMA, again. Throughout this process, he had also discovered that in his small town there was a memory express. A place in which you can get just about any computer part you want, for the same or cheaper price that that from an online site. If only he had known about this!
I am going to switch up the story a bit now. That man, in case you haven't already guessed, is me. I am now faced with the decision of whether I want to RMA my sound system, or try for a refund, pay the 15% restocking fee + shipping, and buy it through memory express for quite a bit more, if NCIX even accepts my refund plea. What a nightmare.
Now I have learned, never buy from an online site! If it seems to good to be true, it probably is!! There are always hidden setbacks that are invisible to the inexperienced, concealed by the glamor of an online computer store!
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