Yeah knew the brother of the owner of the place (Note: The guy's name is not Rangi nor will it ever likely be). They have some really quite obscure items which is really cool (e.g. fanless motherboards). They're a small outfit which isn't such a bad thing. Christchurch Polytechnic went with a small I.T. company when once again re-doing their infrastructure because for this company it was either make or break. (As an indication of how bad it was they had dubbed their main server "Kenny" because when it all went to custard they could say "Oh no, they killed Kenny.") They ran a 24 hour network and had no outages except for the planned outages (which if you could avoid being on the network in the middle of the night you were sweet) when I was there (all of 8 months or so). Incidently the same applies for restaurants. Go for the quietest ones because they're the ones that are going to make sure you're okay and everything's to your standards. Of course, if there's a perfectly good explanation for them being quiet, I.e. having a health rating of C+ or under, it's probably best to still avoid these places. If price is all you're after though, go for the most popular, busy (insert a comma here if that's what you've been taught. From my understanding a comma here is in debate but here's what the oxford dictionary has to say on the subject: "The comma works as a separator. Its main role is to indicate the structure of sentences and to make their meaning clear by showing which words belsong together and which do not. "Don't even ask about a semi colon. Not only does it not belong here, but the purpose of which seems to conflict with a comma. Sorry for wasting your bandwidth :p) and most likely to brush you aside like yesterdays newspaper (recyclable but essentially useless if all you were looking for was today's news. Quick comment on the tense. I'm right in using were and was together so there. Allthough I'm talking about a past tense here, it does not imply that these issues are not still relevant. :p), then go for price alone. Disclaimer: I am drunk so this posting might not make sense. On 12/29/06, Justin Cook <justin at skull.co.nz> wrote: > I've had several bad experiences with supercheappc. Their website even > says (or used to say) that they can't guarantee a response to emails and > are unlikely to answer phone calls. Add this to the fact that they list > items that they can't even get (and at ridiculously low prices) and you > have probably one of the most dishonest retailers I've ever encountered. > > www.pctronix.co.nz however are the diametric opposite. PCtronix won't > sell crap so they're not the cheapest, but they take very, very good > care of their customers. Spent 12 hours in store with them a few weeks > ago trying to make a new video card work. 12 freakin hours of two staff > members' time. That's epic customer service right there. > > *Justin Cook* > Developer > http://www.skull.co.nz/
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