Steal on hard drives!


Recommended Posts

well i just talked to my dad anyway... hes a lawyer here in MD and he says this isnt a case of bait and switch.. its a unilatteral mistake... bait and switch is when they say they have it at that price but really dont and try to lure u in to buy something else thats more expensive... what they did was unintended and they dont have to honor ur order...

well i just talked to my dad anyway... hes a lawyer here in MD and he says this isnt a case of bait and switch.. its a unilatteral mistake... bait and switch is when they say they have it at that price but really dont and try to lure u in to buy something else thats more expensive... what they did was unintended and they dont have to honor ur order...

since your dad is a lawyer to MD, perhaps he might know about VA laws too...

im hope you all live near the beltway!!

well all i gotta SAY is nice find.. when you found it.. but ****!!! I WANT ONE...

ANYONE HERE WHO GOT A 160 gig for 30 bucks ill pay 50... thats still a deal in my books

so.. msg me if you wanna sell..

OR HOW ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE POST SOME DEALS ON HARDDRIVES!!!!! KEEP THIS POST GOING

... bait and switch is when they say they have it at that price but really dont and try to lure u in to buy something else thats more expensive...

correct me if im wrong, but isn't that what they did? Their website said they had hard drives at that price, but if they dont honor the orders then apparently they didn't have it at that price, so we have to "buy something else thats more expensive" to get what we ordered. If they get off because it was unintended then couldn't any other store bait and switch, and then say it was an accident?

correct me if im wrong, but isn't that what they did? Their website said they had hard drives at that price, but if they dont honor the orders then apparently they didn't have it at that price, so we have to "buy something else thats more expensive" to get what we ordered. If they get off because it was unintended then couldn't any other store bait and switch, and then say it was an accident?

dont shoot the messanger

Everybody check your order page, because I did...and saw this:

160GB Western Digital Caviar WD1600JB Special Edition - Hard drive - 160 GB - standard - 3.5" - ATA-100 - 7200 rpm - 8 MB

Western Digital Caviar WD1600JB Special Edition - hard drive - 160 GB - ATA-100

In Process: 0

Canceled: 2

Shipped: 0

They didn't even e-mail me!

I bought 2 160's for $42 @ 19.99 each

my bank says I have a $42.47 charge pending

now if ubid cancels the order and says they made a mistake there shouldn't be any problem

but I've dealt with ubid before and it wouldn't surprize me if:

1. they first charge my card for the order, and then say they made a mistake, and say they will refund my money

which might take them a couple of months.

I purchaced a stereo reciever from them once that came to me broken. it took more than two months to get my money back for that.

now you are wondering whats the point?

the point is if they charge and cancel the order and keep your money for a month or so they make a lot of money on interest

or

2. they bump up your fee from the $19 to $150 that is now posted

either way ubid is commiting fraud, and this isn't the first time

when they have your money and boat loads of people to give you the run around they sit in the power seat

after being burned by them before I was hopeing to get mine back, but something tells me they just made a sucker out of me twice :(

mine got cancelled too... :(

just the 8MB cache one...

my other 2 are still "in process" what that means is that they are "in process" to be cancelled!! LOL!!

i wouldnt be surprised if they get cancelled at this point.

so far my opinion of ubid is that they bad bad lahrds!!

[edit]

i did make 2 seperate orders... since the first one was for the 8MB cache it was easy to cancel it.

like an hour later after checking my account and depositing a crap load of holiday money, i decieded to

buy 2 of the 2MB cache ones, that one still isnt cancelled.

if they dont cancel it by midnight they have no choice but to ship it!!

also i will be filing a complaint w/ the BBB if the 2nd order isnt shipped!!

im glad i put mine on 2 seperate orders!!

also at this point if you got your order cancelled you should join a real alliance w/ a true purpose!!

Edited by Shifty

b;lah... mine got canceled as well... I'm getting on the phone with them right now... I'm ****ed... they shouldn't be able to just cancel an order without contacting the customer... I have recieved no such email yet.

I will let you guys know what goes down.. I'm going to threaten to post on the BBB site about them and tell people to steer clear of their site.

i would call and threaten to call the BBB and the attorney general.

and also tell them you are a member of a l33t forum w/ 40,000+ members and they will raise a fuss

and tell all their friends not to buy from Ubid!!

i will personally do that if both of my orders get cancelled.

i'll also tell them that i will tell major IT news websites like theregister.co.uk and the inquirer about this

travesty and give Ubid a bad name and reputation. i'll even tell who ever i talk to go get a newspaper

and look for a new job!!

well, honestly, since they issued reciepts... I don't think they can legally cancel an order without contacting the customer. Their phone line is busy, but as soon as I get through, I'm going to advise them that they have ****ed off quite alot of people in just canceling our orders with no word, and that if they do not honor the deal, that I and you guys will all contact the BBB and advise others to steer clear.. surely a site such as neowin would be able to draw business away from them if we all told everyone we know to not buy from ubid.

if anything i have the email addresses of top dogs w/ theregister and inquirer.

if this doesnt get resolved and my orders are totally cancelled, im going to call in too and complain

i work for dishnetwork so i know about customer service and responcibility!!

wait til i tell them im from VA and they pulled a "bait and switch" on me!! its illegal!!

sirEvan,

those werent reciepts... they are confirmation emails, it just means "hey, we got your order and we are processing it"

its like going to the grocery store and having the checkout person scan your items no transactions have occured.

a true reciept in this case would include an itemized bill, total amount, and payment confirmation.

useing neowin as a discussion board is one thing, but I don't think you should mention neowin to them at all

on the reciept there is a link to bizrate plus some links in an earlier post for rateing etailers, and the BBB

if all else fails you can cut the electricity to the town that is hosting the ubid servers

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • Nobody is buying a PS5 only for playing Until Dawn 2. Their loss.
    • If you actually used it instead of responding like a petulant child you might be surprised. I switched from Google some time ago and have been very satisfied.
    • I am one of the first people to use the DXVK technology. In the channel below you can see some videos that I have made using this technology, including Assassin's Creed Odyssey. https://www.youtube.com/@nahum7995/videos Assassin's Creed Odyssey experienced several bugs and technical issues during its first months after release. It launched with its own fair share of funny but frustrating glitches. I ran it on DXVK 9 days after its release and I played it for many hours but didn't see a single significant bug on Linux. Assassin's Creed Odyssey is widely celebrated for pushing the franchise in bold new directions and specifically for nailing several elements better than any other title in the AC series: Player Choice & Branching Narrative, The Mercenary & Cultist System, Mythological Integration, Overpowered Combat Abilities, Open World Exploration But what I'm trying to point out is that this game wasn't quite playable on most windows systems, until a few months after its release when most of the bugs were fixed. However, on Linux it ran completely flawless from day one, although DXVK had seen little development and refinement at the time. What do you think the situation will be in 2026 now that most bugs and glitches of DXVK have been completely eliminated? This is information from Google about these situations that I am quoting. In many cases, using DXVK (a translation layer that converts DirectX 9, 10, or 11 into Vulkan) can result in more stable frame times and higher performance than native Windows rendering. This happens primarily by bypassing driver overhead and multithreading draw calls that were previously restricted to a single CPU core. Older APIs (like DirectX 9 and 11) are largely single-threaded on the CPU side. DXVK translates these calls to Vulkan, which is highly multi-threaded. This reduces CPU-bound stuttering on weaker processors. In certain cases, GPU manufacturers (especially AMD) have significantly better and more modern Vulkan drivers than they do for legacy DirectX. Vulkan gives developers—and in this case, the translation layer—closer control over how resources are held in VRAM. This can prevent micro-stutters and sudden frame drops during chaotic gameplay. Yes, certain games, particularly older DirectX 9 to 11 titles, can run with fewer crashes on DXVK than on native Windows. By intercepting DirectX draw calls and translating them into the modern, highly efficient Vulkan API, DXVK bypasses the limitations and poor driver support that cause instability in aging game engines. PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 can be easily and perfectly emulated on Linux. In fact, modern Linux emulators offer high-performance upscaling, widescreen patches, and automatic controller mapping out of the box.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 PlayStation 1/2/3 games look drastically better on Linux thanks to resolution upscaling. Furthermore, it is also a fact that you cannot play many fun games on Windows either, isn't it? - The Nintendo Switch has an extensive library of exclusive games. - PlayStation has an extensive library of exclusive games - Android has "mobile-exclusive" games, meaning they are exclusive to mobile devices (iOS and Android) and aren't available on PC or consoles. And finally, it is also the case that in the next five years there will be games that millions of people will say you absolutely must play and that they want to play this specific game that released a few days ago. However, the other side of this story is that currently, absolutely no one cares that they cannot play these upcoming games right now.
    • Flameshot 14.0 RC3 by Razvan Serea Flameshot is a free and open-source, cross-platform tool to take screenshots with many built-in features to save you time. Using Flameshot is as simple as launching, dragging the selection box to cover the area you want to capture, making annotations as needed in on-screen and saving the shot to your computer, all with a very simple and straightforward interface. Flameshot allows users to simply upload their screenshots directly to the cloud in order to easily share it with others. You can upload your image directly to Imgur with a single click and share the URL with others. In-app screenshot editing - You can choose to add an arrow mark, highlight text, blur a section (blur or pixelate an area), add a text, draw something, add a rectangular/circular shaped border, add an incrementing counter number, and add a solid color box with Flameshot's built-in editing tools. Command-line interface (CLI) - Flameshot has several commands you can use in the terminal without launching the GUI via a command line interface. The command line interface lets you script Flameshot and use it as the subject of key binds. Flameshot 14.0 RC3 changelog: Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in #4612 Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in #4619 Fix pin position on Windows for scaled screen by @ElTh0r0 in #4614 Cmake Analyzers by @ElTh0r0 in #4613 Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in #4632 fix(macos): prevent config tab content from rendering behind tab bar by @Mitnitsky in #4627 fix(macos): use CGRequestScreenCaptureAccess instead of grabWindow for permission request by @Mitnitsky in #4617 Fix KDE Plasma keyboard shortcut config file by @ElTh0r0 in #4637 fix(macos): fix clipboard copy failing from tray and GUI by @Mitnitsky in #4629 feature(macos): show dock icon when config window is open by @Mitnitsky in #4628 Option to disable tray icon on Windows by @ElTh0r0 in #4634 Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in #4642 fix(macos): make fullscreen capture overlay configurable by @Mitnitsky in #4622 Update GH actions using Node.js 24 by @ElTh0r0 in #4660 fix issue with screen selection in non interactive mode by @borgmanJeremy in #4667 Uniformize both spec files + ninja build openSUSE by @QuentiumYT in #4658 screengrabber: pass non-empty parent_window to xdg-desktop-portal by @artefaktor93 in #4664 Allow multiple flameshot GUI instances (fix for #3177) by @ElTh0r0 in #4680 Unify Linux ARM CI into Linux CI (also drop QEMU) by @theofficialgman in #4702 respect system proxy settings by @borgmanJeremy in #4674 Replace ifdef LINUX with UNIX to include BSD systems by @ElTh0r0 in #4700 Download: Flameshot 14.0 RC3 | 18.1 MB (Open Source) Download: Flameshot Portable | 53.0 MB Links: Flameshot Home Page | Screenshot Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
  • Recent Achievements

    • One Month Later
      nothanks earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • One Month Later
      B2Proxy earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • One Year In
      MadMung0 earned a badge
      One Year In
    • Week One Done
      jefred earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • Apprentice
      JoeyNeo went up a rank
      Apprentice
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      490
    2. 2
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      233
    3. 3
      Skyfrog
      78
    4. 4
      FloatingFatMan
      68
    5. 5
      Michael Scrip
      58
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!