examples given:
dealextreme?
tiger direct?

Any online stores you shop or have shopped ONCE, but in general feel like you need a shower afterwards or just feel like you're rolling the dice on product and support, but do it for the CHEAP PRICEs?

dealextreme tops my list.

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BEFORE sleeping with them.

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where's the fun in THAT?

eCost. They don't hold copies of your receipts in your account after you order. You have to print your copy when ordering. Ok, but most companies keep your receipts.
How about another post on the BEST online stores!

Zappos?

We have had fraud charges on our CC about 3 times...and those charges almost always include Zappos.

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Angie's list.

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vistaprint, by far.

(disclaimer: i had a client that insisted.)

buy.com

Not the worst, but not the best:
Frys.com
Overstock.com
egoodz.com

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I second buy.com

MegaMacs. They done me wrong once, and a call to them got me a slimy stonewall.

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3rd Buy.com

I had a good experience with Buy.com last week. Well, I guess you could say the outcome was OK. I ordered a bunch of junk that included 2 $10 mice. They charged for 2 but I received one. I emailed their customer service and they emailed back to ask if the box looked like it had been open and was it big enough for the 2 mice. I told them, not opened and too small for 2 mice. (they were shipped separately from the rest of my order)

They sent me another and I got it in 3 days.

Not really bad service, of course they could have sent me the 2 mice to start with and we both could have avoided the hassle.


Fred Also

meritline.com

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I have to admit, I've got a couple of things from Buy.com that were faulty, one was a few dollar solar yard marker that worked literally for <30 seconds. And reading online, it turned out that a number of buyers had the same experience. (Their RMA return process seemed efficient enough, except I had already pitched the packaging, and altered the item, so no return for ME.)

So I get the impression they're not exactly vetting the merchandise very hard.

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Let's SHARE. Chat it up black.

ValueAmerica was great.

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ValueAmerica was great.

Oh, the salad days before the bubble burst!

I miss outpost.com's free overnight shipping. On everything!

Buy.com? I order from them a lot and have never had any kind of problem. What issues have you had?

MacMall. Ugh! What a bunch of retards.

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ValueAmerica was great.

I knew this would come up. I loved ValueAmerica ....it was WalMart pricing online before WalMart was WalMart.

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I don't even recall value america

If we're digging into the past, how about CyberRebate.com

[news.cnet.com]

eBay.

I've ordered major appliances from Buy.com without any problems.

batteries.com (allowed my credit card # to be stolen)

bhphoto.com (charging credit card for items not in stock)

Webvan hasn't been returning my calls.

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B&H Photo.

They double shipped part of an order to us (a school).
We returned the double-shipped merchandise, and they insisted that we pay for the "other half" of the double-shipment.... the items that were never recieved.

After 18 months of our business manager hanging up on them, I think they finally took the hint that we weren't paying for their trained monkeys in the shipping department to pocket the stuff they said they "double shipped" and didn't.

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I do not hear much bad news about B and H. Interesting.

There was the time there was a price mistake on a nice monitor, and buy.com went ahead and charged everybody's credit cards, and took about six weeks to refund the charges. So long, in fact, that I had to pay the bill to the credit card company while waiting to see if mine would actually ship.

I didn't want to dispute the charge because they still weren't saying whether they'd honor the price. Some people lucky enough to have a soapbox -- like a well-known website, or a published magazine column -- got their monitors, even though they'd clearly ordered after most of us unlucky shlubs. Meanwhile, buy.com claimed they were out of stock, but if you wanted to pay the regular price, they had plenty in the warehouse. Go figure.

They had no price mistake disclaimer, by the way. None at all. Then they went and retroactively amended their disclaimer to include price mistakes, and tried to claim that it had been there all along. However, many people (myself included) had screen caps of all the fine print.

I forget the details, but it was something like a $500 monitor for $200. A great deal, but not like 90% off. At the time, they were famous for these crazy, loss leader deals, and so it was certainly plausible. They were encouraging the frenzies.

When all the dust settled, they started a new marketing feature: Price Mistake of the Day. Charming, eh?

I won't ever buy anything from them. I write polite letters to sites like dealmac and consumerist, asking them to reconsider listing buy.com "deals."

In a pleasant twist, I was working at a high school when this all happened. A couple months later, I heard about an approved purchase order for something like $75,000 from buy.com. I got it canceled.