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Intel Update: Conroe!
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Jabbs said:
Nobody forces you to pre-order! So stop your moaning.........
Pre-order is an optional thing and yes we do take payment, quite common knowledge now.
When stock does arrive obviously those with pre-orders are 1st in the queue.
These delays are quite timely... The Apple Worldwide dev conf starts on the 7th Aug. So, my guess is on the 7th of August, Apple will kick off the conference with new products, claims a first to have in *retail availability* on the same day. Then OCUK and it's loyal customers, including my order early this morning will likely see some cpu's coming their way in the following days. This theory = mid August deliveries.
Now, there are many rumors that suggest an Apple product line which may exclude the X6800 and so there's no real harm if Intel launches that cpu to the 'pc community'. However, the rest of the Core Duo 2 family is now paper launched but not available. It's a Apple/Intel partnership love affair thang.
Oh well, yet another dissapointment, OCUK has the cash, but customer left to wait (NOT OCUK's to be fair).
Gibbo, it would be nice if there was a hold on the debit process and only take the money on the day it ships, use our payment info (aka credit cards / debit cards) as security. Just a thought, at least customers may not feel so hard done by.
-casw1000
Now, there are many rumors that suggest an Apple product line which may exclude the X6800 and so there's no real harm if Intel launches that cpu to the 'pc community'. However, the rest of the Core Duo 2 family is now paper launched but not available. It's a Apple/Intel partnership love affair thang.
Oh well, yet another dissapointment, OCUK has the cash, but customer left to wait (NOT OCUK's to be fair).
Gibbo, it would be nice if there was a hold on the debit process and only take the money on the day it ships, use our payment info (aka credit cards / debit cards) as security. Just a thought, at least customers may not feel so hard done by.
-casw1000
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Guessing there's going to be some pretty unhappy chappies around here.
Paper launches eh!
Paper launches eh!
ozzy said:
Nope because if we put them on pre-order and retails do happen to turn up sooner than everybody would be changing their orders back.
If I do 110% source more OEM then it will go on the site but not until I know 110% !!
casw1000 said:
That would cause a lot of problems.
As when you/customer place order you have funds available if we were to wait and charge the card you may not have funds and hence take you overdrawn or decline payment.
Or you may completely forget you've placed a backorder and when a month later a large SUM of money dissapears from your account could get scary.
Then there is the fact you may pay on a card that expires shortly afterwards.
Not taking payment when order is placed is just opening the door to a whole host of problems.
Imagine how annoyed you would be if you were 1st in the queue and stock came in but you never got yours because when attempting to charge the card there was issues and as such you missed out.
This is why payment is taken immediately as then you the customer gets no surprises and you get your product at the earliest possible time.
Gibbo - Please update the C2D page to advise potential buyers that the leadtime will be longer than planned. This may help prevent any missunderstandings with potentially new OCUK customers who may not visit these forums and not be aware of the paper launch.
This way, your more likely to earn respect from first time buyers for your 'upfront' approach. (IMHO)
I know someone else mentioned this, so I am just bumping that comment.
Thx,
-casw1000
This way, your more likely to earn respect from first time buyers for your 'upfront' approach. (IMHO)
I know someone else mentioned this, so I am just bumping that comment.
Thx,
-casw1000
Gibbo said:
I have to say I am a bit annoyed as I am sure many others are to hear this. If you can make X6800's you can make 6600's and every domination in between so to claim there is no stock is not accurate.
Would it be more accurate to say that you (OCUK) cannot source stock before the 1st week of August? Regardless of whether you will be first in the UK or not.
Once again the marketing lies shine through. Though you have to ask yourself why you waited until the day they were due to arrive with yourselves to ask the question. Are they going to arrive. You can't tell me no one knew. Distributors must have known when they were getting stock. Intel certainly know when they have shipped stuff from their distribution points. So if you were dealing directly with Intel. Are your contacts so bad they aren't even being honest with you now?
I am not saying OCUK is to blame because you probably got your information from Intel UK or a distributor. Now regardless of which, do you really want to continue to deal with the individuals within either company that fed you such drasticly inaccurate information? The information which is sullying OCUK's reputation and destroying customer trust.
Do you honestly expect your customers to trust the next date you issue?
That's not to say we don't appreciate your efforts, because we do but you have let us down. You know you have. Take it on the chin and make it right. Impress us with your resourcefulness. We challenge you!
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