Originally posted by: kalster
can anyone confirm if the stores in the bay area still have these in stock, also is a 430W PSU enough to drive this?
Originally posted by: miguel421
each store should have gotten thier drop ship of 200 more as of monday. madison heights has 218 in stock as of tonight.
also have 2 e8400's hehehe, customers returned saying they were defective, sent to intel and verified good, tested in the shop at the store for 24 hour burn in tests as perfect too. $150! wait, now there's only one... don't know how that happened.
/ really don't know the motive behind what the sales associate told me, all I know is it really turned me off to that store and instead of them making good on their promo (even if it was at a loss) they lost a customer.
Originally posted by: miguel421
sadly that has happened. thankfully the management team at madison heights doesn't put up ith games being played by commissioned employees. either do it right or your gone. pride in customer service is what has actually pushed that store to it's 3rd "store of the year" title in a row. and if a customer catches a type of that nature, they're the first ones to take care of the customer and charge the difference back to the home office due to a misprint (even though mighigan law doesn't require them to).
as far as the e8400's coming back... pulled the CSR notes today. one dingbat tried an e8400 with an ECS 945 motherboard (no kidding no 1333mhz fsb and no 45nm support), the other swapped it out for a qx9650. and I FINALLY got my e8400 running today. had to clear the cmos AFTER a bios flash on the 680i lt to make it work now the gemini II goes on and the fun begins.
btw do people actually BUY anything at the rockville store? I see shrink numbers that are just horrific there. a "bad" store is at .4% shrink. that store is at almost 3%
Originally posted by: OfficeLinebacker
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The sales rep has to walk you up to the register if you're buying a CPU, have done that walk a few times.
From my limited observations, I get a strong impression that the supervisors are assholes. That factor alone can really drive shrink rates.