CBassett
GBGood price - Bad products I had bought a Socket 462 motherboard from them (About a year ago) and was sent a bad board (board wouldn't work right when installing winXP). Anyways, they sent me another board, this one sort of worked, except for that capacitors were on the verge of blowing/leaking when I got it (they were bulging), so I asked for them to test it, they said nothing was wrong with it and returned it to me). The board also had other issues, and frankly it's like 3BTech either didn't test the board, or didn't test it throughly enough, so it's now a wasted $25 investment (a small amount, but still angers me). Most of their stuff is used, even if it is advertised as NEW. I'd be concerned with that alone (false advertising).
kad7777
GBLiars !!! Bought a 200 gig Samsung internal hard drive. While I had the internet page in front of me as I was ordering, I asked the salesman 5 TIMES: "THIS IS A "NEW" HARD DRIVE, CORRECT?", "NOT REFURBISHED?". He assured me it was "brand new". Got the drive and it was refurbished. Written in big bold letters right on the drive. I called to complain, and of course they had nothing to do with the mishap. It was all my fault. I could have sent the drive back, but as most of you know, when you need a hard drive, you NEED a hard drive. So I installed it. It is now the first of July, 2009, and the drive just shit the bed. Of course, I was offered no replacement because it was "REFURBISHED", which is what I tried to avoid in the first place! Liars and cheats at 3B-Tech. I'll never buy from again, and would recommend everyone to STAY AWAY. If there's a God, they'll lose their shirts and go out of business. I now have to go through another saga of recovering all my lost data and reinstalling everything. Shame on you 3B-Tech!!!
Tom
GBWill not answer request for RMA, sends broken stuff, avoid at all costs! ORDER #3btech-696904 I had an experience of the worst kind with 3b tech. I ordered a motherboard (refurbished) at a great price. It got here in fairly good time, but that is when the trouble started. Motherboard does not work. Tried everything, and no dice. Here is where 3btech totally failed me. I wrote 3 times to 3b tech to obtain an RMA number, and guess how many times they responded. ZERO. These jerks just totally ignored all the RMA requests which come from the RMA form on their website. I'd stick with newegg or a company that actually takes care of you if there is a problem. 3btech sucks and will not do that. Now I'm out the cost of the motherboard, and have an expensive paper weight!
ITConsultant
GBBad Products - Terrible Business Policy Wish I have seen these reviews and other site reviews before ordering. Hope all buyers factor these reviews seriously. Very poor business practice. Products sold are mostly used or in-house refurbished. If you unfortunately received a defective item, you will be liable for return shipping cost. Slow in response as well. Not worth on a few bucks of savings. Cost me headache and project delay. First time ordering and it's also my last. Highly recommend newegg.com or tigerdirect.com for both best price and 5 star services.
Jan
GBVery good communication and customer service Ordered 320 GB Seagate hard drive. Shipping and delivery was quick. Drive was noisy and not working properly. Seagate diagnostic tools confirmed that drive is faulty. Emailed 3bTech on Saturday. Received response early in the morning on Monday that they will re-ship another, tested, drive. They didn't even want broken drive back to save me on shipping costs. Received replacement drive next Saturday. Drive works very well. I'm impressed with their response time and customer service. I've purchased couple of hard drives from them in the past year or so and never had problem with them. Thank you Jan