[plug][OT] Who's a Good Hardware Supplier in Perth?

[Chris Caston]

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 22:06, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Ari Finander wrote:
> 
> > I like:
> > 
> > Trinix
> > PLE
> > Netplus
> 
> PLE are pretty good for components, and the one time I've had to get
> them to exchange parts under warranty I've not had problems.  I'm not
> sure I'd trust 'em to put a machine together though.
> 
> Netplus I've recently had bad experiences with - it took me 45 minutes
> to convince them to replace a hard drive which had bad sectors and
> failed the SMART self-test.  Their excuses began with "there's nothing
> wrong with it", then "we don't normally exchange things for a new part
> after a month" (bah! it had a 5-year warranty from Seagate), then "we
> have some in stock but _can't find it_" !?!? and eventually gave me a
> replacement of a different brand of hard drive.

If you read their terms you will see that they reserve the right to wait
until they their supplier RAs it.

If you bring them a print-out of the seagate utilities findings its
futile for them to argue. Just save it to floppy then sneaker net it to
a working PC with a printer :)


regards,

Chris