Avoid the thousand pirate etailers.

[cloasters]

While it isn't perfect, checking an etailer's reputation at www.resellerratings.com before buying anything from them is a must. Pricewatch first, www.resellerratings.com second. I've had no problems with retailers that rate 6.0 or above!

[nullCRC]

Bump.

Agreed. Resellerratings is an excellent resource. It helped me explain to a friend when he had problems with BZBoyz.com why he did.

My favorite though, is when someone says (and I quote a friend of mine saying this); "I've never had any problems buying from Pricewatch."


I just looked at him silently.

[Daniel ~]

In my book, anything else is just a roll of the dice, sooner or later your going to crap out!

[nullCRC]

You wrote a book?

[Daniel ~]

No but I'm listed in a few under "statemeants of the obviouse" ":O}

[Pinky]

Originally posted by Daniel ~
No but I'm listed in a few under "statemeants of the obviouse" ":O}

I thank ghod for resellerratings, it has actually stopped me from buying something, once from BZboy, who have a gluttony of horror stories

I will utter the words "I have never had a problem buying from Pricewatch vendors" for several reasons....

1 -- I usually just buy from Newegg once I see them listed for the item

2 -- I now check reseller ratings and don't buy from low scoring vendors (my base requirement is 5.5 depending on comments left).

I usually suppliment the above statement with explanation.

[nullCRC]

No, this guy thought he was buying stuff from Pricewatch themselves.

[Pinky]

Originally posted by nullCRC
No, this guy thought he was buying stuff from Pricewatch themselves.

Oh... then my reaction would be closer to ...

*SMACK*

[mrpcman]

Originally posted by nullCRC
Bump.

Agreed. Resellerratings is an excellent resource. It helped me explain to a friend when he had problems with BZBoyz.com why he did.

My favorite though, is when someone says (and I quote a friend of mine saying this); "I've never had any problems buying from Pricewatch."


I just looked at him silently.

bzboyz suck. I had some bad issues with them.

[cloasters]

At least somewhat apropos to this thread: One of my favorite beefs with Anandtech is their "recommendations" of hardware etailers via their "weekly" price guides. Uhh... such recommendations I can live without. Oh well, I'll avoid my tirade about the site. Pithy, yes pithy it is.

[cloasters]

With heaviest of hearts, it's my sad duty to post that ResellerRatings is no more. Woe unto us.

Pinky has posted a link that will get you to copies of RR's pages that are still mirrored on Google. They aren't functional, but remain most informative. Personally, I suggest getting over there now--before Google realises they are mirroring a dead site.

Please go to the: For What It's Worth Topic Heading, then "Still can view Resellerratings.com"