Post from Ghouldini on f***wallet :
Hello. I just joined up. Even though I woke up way to late to even order this before the price changed, I have been following this thread over at Anandtech. I can honestly say I have scored me some very good deals because of that place (although I wouldn't be surprised if the same deals were listed here) but am finding it harder to take what has been happening over there the last few months.
I am sick of the slow load times. This all started when they came up with that "pay" for the extra PM space and bandwidth thing. I thought, OK, they got too much traffic, so they will set aside some better bandwidth for the ones who pony up. I mean all them people are taking a lot of space. I didn't expect that they would cut back the current non-paying bandwidth though. OK, so you figure they had to because the current usage was about to crash the site out, but since the price wasn't all that bad for what one got from there, and most are "willing" to help out, I figured by now that the site would have less non-paying members than they did when this started, which might even relieve the newly aquired "slowdown". Instead, I have seen the site get slower and slower, which I believe is a direct attempt to get the users pissed off enough to just say screw it and pay up. And it's not like Anad is poor or something. I saw a show with him on it on the satelite, and he is part of a new magazine out. And with all the banner ads and even ad threads (2 of them).....it's cash cow time.
But the NAZI action that happened there today is going to send them on a downward spiral. Who knows, maybe they end up like NoWonder one day. Quite obvious is a change in the place starting a few months back, but seeling out to an advertiser by yanking the thread is too much. We all know BB was going to not live up to this. But there was always hope. And since that thread had not been proven to be "dead" yet, they never should have deleted it. Lock it maybe because of all the abuse posts, but they locked it because BB doesn't want it going when the cancel emails started coming out. And they don't want further threads when talk of BBB and suits pop up. BB knows that site is heavily viewed. And Anand knows who their master is.
Hopefully this site has as much traffic, as it is the most mentioned alternative to them. I surely will not give them one frigg'n dime. I will still scoot by there, but I will look in here a lot more from now on.
Thanks for the diatribe. I know such a post, even in OT there, would be locked and I would get vacation. I will not do anymore ramblings in here so don't worry.
As for this card, I would have loved to score this. The only way I could afford a card like this is if they screwed up like they did. I really don't think they should be sued over this, but maybe by making it seem like something along that line will happen, maybe they will do something that covers both "mental anguish" compensation to those that scammed eerrrr got in on this deal and also to show you just can't put a price up and change your mind like that. Pricing error or not. B&M's can't get away with it, so why should they. I sure wouldn't want to be the dude that put in the typo.
At least I got that 5.5ns GTS-V for $50 over at Newegg.
Nice site, and good luck to all .
I fell much the sameway, but the thing about anandtech that keeps me hooked is the members in the forums . Seems to me f***wallet dosent have that kind of community right now.