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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

This issue was resolved by Micro Center finally, a little while back. Someone on their Facebook page took notice of the issue and took ownership of it personally. I won't reveal their name here unless they want me to, out of respect for their privacy. Micro Center took the motherboard back...
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- Post #134
- Mar 7, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

I paid $160 for them.
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- Post #124
- Jan 28, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

I e-mailed corporate (custrel@microcenter.com) on January 13th. I have not heard back from them, and provided them 2 e-mail addresses, and my mobile phone #. They're a black hole.
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- Post #108
- Jan 27, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

The sticker on my box was covering the flap, pretty evenly spaced 50/50. I can take a picture later, if you'd like.
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- Post #101
- Jan 21, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

Your initial description is how the straps around the board I got from Fry's were. The box was slightly disfigured from the pressure that the straps put on it. Additionally, there is a return sticker that no one is going to be able to remove without a hell of a lot of work. My point is...
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- Post #99
- Jan 20, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

I think it was someone, or several people, working on the inside of the store. I got there not more than 3 minutes after the store opened, and that was the first day that they sold any Sandy Bridge hardware, to my knowledge. I don't see how any other person, besides an employee, could have...
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- Post #98
- Jan 20, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

Paid* Who's wailing on who, now?
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- Post #97
- Jan 20, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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Msi or Asus for P67

Go with Asus. As drives expand beyond 2TB, you'll wish you had. The UEFI firmware and GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk layout are what you'll need to get around this limitation of legacy BIOS and the MBR disk layout.
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- Post #42
- Jan 16, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

I e-mailed them, and no one has contacted me. I filed the RMA request before that guy posted, and I saw it. Don't jump to conclusions without all the facts.
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- Post #83
- Jan 16, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

I got an e-mail about the RMA. Here's part of what it says: ------------------- Physical damage is not covered under your ASUS manufacturer’s warranty and automatically VOIDS your warranty. ASUS reserves the right to reject any product received with physical damage. - Damage can include...
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- Post #80
- Jan 15, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

I paid mostly cash for this transaction, though I plan on charging back the ~$60 on my card. I heard the POST service is free, and I didn't even know they had it. My friend mentioned it to me later on, after I told him about the issues. He said it's $10 BTW. I think the bigger problem here...
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- Post #78
- Jan 14, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

I think he's probably the person behind @MicroCenter on Twitter. I linked to this forum post on Twitter.
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- Post #69
- Jan 13, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

Thank you -- I've sent you guys an e-mail so we can get this sorted out.
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- Post #68
- Jan 13, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

Honestly, I'd be happy to help you out with it for free. I would not recommend purchasing ANYTHING from Micro Center, given the lack of product security that they have. As you may have seen in another one of my posts, the motherboard I bought from Fry's the same evening had the following: * A...
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- Post #65
- Jan 13, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

Yeah, on the HardOCP forums, a bunch of people were complaining about me going back home to get my wallet. I'm still not clear how that turns the argument against me? I left my products at the store so I could get my wallet to come back and pay for the upgraded replacement product? How is that...
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- Post #60
- Jan 12, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

Yeah, I would normally talk to them to figure out what's going on, but at this point I think the best thing to do is continue going down the route of pursuing the complaint with the BBB. The managers were set in stone with their decision not to replace the board because of supposed abuse, but...
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- Post #34
- Jan 11, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

The board was sold to me as new. I looked in the box before I purchased it for any obvious signs, but didn't see anything major. I probably should have noticed that the CPU cover was missing, but I guess I don't do enough builds to know if those are necessarily included 100% of the time. I only...
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- Post #25
- Jan 10, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1036685520 http://twitpic.com/3oy3f1 Just picked up an Asus P8P67-PRO from Fry's. http://twitter.com/pcgeek86/status/24629545617330176 http://twitter.com/pcgeek86/status/24629227030585344 http://twitter.com/pcgeek86/status/24628860591022081...
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- Post #23
- Jan 10, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

I'm sure that you and others have had good experiences at MC, but this could happen to anyone. I've never had such serious problems like this with any store before. I shop at Fry's occasionally and have purchased several high-ticket items from them, including a 256GB SSD. They've never been a...
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- Post #15
- Jan 10, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

WTF? I shouldn't have even NEEDED my wallet (except my drivers license in case I got pulled over). I had the items and my receipt in-hand, and in order to do a direct exchange, that's all I should need! Shame on me for what, now?
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- Post #14
- Jan 10, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

Yes, that was another enormous mistake on my part. But either way, all things point back to the store. Besides, the bent pin was probably bent already, hence the problem that I had in the FIRST place! What did I say about the cops? I said I wanted a police report, and I got it. See above.
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- Post #11
- Jan 10, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

I suspect (note: I have no supporting evidence other than the swap itself) that a MicroCenter employee swapped the board and stole the good, working board for himself. FYI: The Asus manual explicitly states that they do not accept RMAs with the missing socket cover. I don't have any plastic...
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- Post #10
- Jan 10, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

I just wanted to obtain a police report so that I had official documentation of the incident. Yes, it was me that called the cops, but not until I had the ultimatum from the managers at the store. Regarding the open-boxedness .... there was no sticker that said open box. Of course I would...
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- Post #7
- Jan 10, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

Do you have any contact information for them? I don't see a consumer affairs phone number or e-mail address. Only tech support info and related. http://www.microcenter.com/customer_support/index.html I was under the impression that at the very least, the motherboard static bag should have been...
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- Post #3
- Jan 10, 2011
- Forum: Motherboards
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WARNING: Micro Center Motherboard Scam

Hello, Micro Center has scammed me for an Asus motherboard, the P8P67-PRO. I went to Micro Center to purchase a new Intel Sandy Bridge CPU that was just released on 1/9/11, and a new motherboard to go with it. On recommendation from a friend of mine, I went to Micro Center because they had a...
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- Thread
- Jan 10, 2011
- Replies: 167
- Forum: Motherboards
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Best method to do bulk update (.NET)

This sounds like a job for Windows PowerShell. Look at the Import-CSV cmdlet, and there are plenty of code samples out there for talking to SQL Server. Cheers, Trevor Sullivan http://trevorsullivan.net
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- Post #7
- Sep 9, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Which PowerShell editor do you use?

Yeah, the script signing is a big problem. I believe that costly editors such as PowerShell Plus or PrimalScript address this, but I'm not going to spend several hundred dollars out of pocket for such trivial features. There are plenty of methods for working around this; I have some ideas...
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- Post #5
- Aug 27, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Which PowerShell editor do you use?

I generally use Quest PowerGUI (http://powergui.org) because of its "Intellisense" features, similar to that of Visual Studio, and its variable browser. Of course, because PowerShell is not a strongly-typed language, the Intellisense is much weaker than Visual Studio with C#. PowerShell ISE...
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- Post #3
- Aug 27, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Intel won't touch Vista - Too broken To Deploy.

I don't think I could get any sort of information about Intel & Apple, but most likely about the truth about their Vista usage internally.
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- Post #34
- Jun 29, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Opera 9.5

I kept getting this password prompt for my Gmail account, over and over and over again. I've been putting up with it for too long. So, Opera didn't work out for me either. It has a whole bunch of quirks to itself, so now I'm using Windows Mail, which seems to be just fine. <3 Microsoft
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- Post #11
- Jun 29, 2008
- Forum: Windows
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any suggestions for a good mass email program?

How about a simple Powershell or VBscript?
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- Post #3
- Jun 29, 2008
- Forum: Windows
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How can I run Windows mobile apps. on Windows Vista Ultimate?

Visual Studio 2008 includes all the necessary tools to run a Windows Mobile emulator.
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- Post #2
- Jun 29, 2008
- Forum: Windows
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intranet instant messenger

Check out Openfire: http://www.igniterealtime.org/...cts/openfire/index.jsp We use Office Communicator 2005 and will be upgrading to Live Communications Server 2007 next year I think.
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- Post #6
- Jun 29, 2008
- Forum: Windows
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Need a program to save online flash video

Check out this link: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4...be-videos-off-the-net/ Hope this helps!
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- Post #2
- Jun 29, 2008
- Forum: Windows
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file copy program

Robocopy FTW
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- Post #11
- Jun 29, 2008
- Forum: Windows
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Opera 9.5

I just started using Opera Mail as a replacement for Thunderbird, because Thunderbird really sucks. After a few years of using it, I'm done. Opera Mail seems pretty slick. It detected all my old mailing list e-mails automatically, it automatically enters the right port numbers for Gmail when you...
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- Post #6
- Jun 29, 2008
- Forum: Windows
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Intel won't touch Vista - Too broken To Deploy.

I'm a systems engineer, and I've been in regular contact with some people from Intel recently. Since this topic came up, I'll see what I can find out about their plans to use Vista within their organization. The scope of our recent discussions has been more geared towards their call centers...
- pcgeek101
- Post #32
- Jun 29, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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All you PC Gaming Pessimists can go sh0ve it.

oh man....ouch...ouch. That is so perfectly stated. I could not have done better myself. Thank you
- pcgeek101
- Post #40
- Jun 30, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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New System Question

Hello all, I am in need of some asisstance. I just bought a new Athlon 64 but went budget with the case. I have a 20-pin PSU that came with the case and the motherboard (ECS KN1 Extreme) has a 24-pin jack on it. My main question is, does the A64 (Venice) require a 24-pin power supply? Also, I...
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- Thread
- Jun 29, 2005
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Computer Building

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