The Vendors We Hate

Vendors and City Governments We Have Opinions On

VENDORS

NECX - This vendor accepts orders online, claiming to have over a hundred units in stock, and then neglects to inform you for over a month that they ran out of stock before filling your order. By the time they respond to your e-mails, the product you wanted to buy is all gone. Their response: "Bummer." DON'T EVER ORDER FROM NECX! On the plus side, they never charged my credit card, either.
ComputAbility - This vendor takes orders online, claiming to have units in stock, and never tells you that your order was actually backordered and they won't be able to get any more of them. While they have wasted your time for a week with their lies and blatant fraud, every other online vendor runs out of the product. You are left with nothing, in shame and disgrace. DON'T EVER ORDER FROM COMPUTABILITY! On the plus side, they never charged my credit card either.
BuyComp - This vendor is the all-time evil vendor. If life were Star Wars, BuyComp would be the Emperor. Or maybe not. They're so incompetent, they'd probably be a bumbling storm trooper. They take orders for products, claiming to have them in stock, AND CHARGE YOUR CREDIT CARD RIGHT THEN, and never deliver the product, even if you order it with second-day shipping. They respond to customer service requests quickly, but their response to questions is: "That product is backordered. It'll be in in 6-8 weeks, maybe. Why are you so upset? It's not like we charged your credit card or anything. Oh, wait, we did. Ha ha ha!" Bottom line: if you ever order from BuyComp, your life will turn into a Dilbert cartoon. And I'll laugh.

As you can tell, the common thread linking the above vendors is that they are all owned and staffed by idiots. ... no, wait, that wasn't it, although it's true anyway. The real problem is that they lie. Their web sites say they have items in stock when in fact they don't. Here's a tip, people: if you have five items in stock, don't let your web site take orders from five hundred people. And if you do, make sure the last four hundred and ninety-five know that they won't be getting it right away. Maybe when people ask for rush shipping, you should tell them "Sure, we can rush the shipping, when the item comes in, six or eight weeks from now." Sooner or later you're going to leave a lot of people in the lurch when the boss wants to know where the product is, and they say "I ordered it overnight three days ago." In conclusion, if you ever want to buy online, don't use the above vendors. If you own stock in any of them, sell it. If you work there, torture yourself with hot coals RIGHT NOW, and then quit. Punch out your boss on the way out. Essentially, it would not bother Palmtop Information Central one little bit if the above vendors were wiped out by meteorite impacts.

CITIES

Henderson, Nevada - This city government sends this message: "We don't care about truth or justice. All we want is your money, to support our massive government bloat." We hope the city government of Henderson gets roasted by a deliciously selective repeat of the Pepcon blast.

General Policy

Unless otherwise stated, Palmtop Information Central loves vendors and all other people. If you don't find a vendor or a city government on this page, you can safely assume that we love it. We embrace it tenderly. Some vendors in particular we love, such as PC Connection and TechStore. Give these companies your business.