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Never Shop At OWC/MacSales.com!!! Here is the review I just left on BizRate for OWC. Read how they totally ripped of off. $80 that I'll probably never get back, and all I have to show for it is a broken PCI card. Oy So on April 2nd I ordered a 4 port PCI SATA card. After a few days of messing with it, it became clear that the card was no good. My computer wouldn't boot reliably with the card installed. So I tried contacting OWC, first by email. I got several half-sentence reply emails, filled with unhelpful suggestions that didn't make sense. Then I switched to live chat, where the person I talked to told me he would email me an RMA "in a few minutes". Two days later I went back on to live chat and asked where my RMA was. Again I had to wait and finally got my RMA. I choose the "advanced cross-ship" option so they were supposed to send out the replacement card immediately. So I got tracking on the card i sent to them. After about 5 days it arrived. A few days later I started sending emails to OWC. For about 3 or 4 days I emailed them every day, and never got any response. At this point, I was so fed up, i contacted Paypal (yes I was foolish enough to pay with paypal instead of a credit card, dumb mistake) and tried to get my money back through them. They of course told me to take a hike. Finally, back on the live chat, I was told that the paypal 'dispute' caused a hold up and my replacement part hadn't been shipped. Of when you look at the timeline, I hadn't opened the dispute until over a week after they were supposed to ship me the replacement part, AND the dispute had already been closed for a day or two when they were telling me this. So there was no reason for them to not have shipped me my part. They also told me they had in fact sent me some emails, but I checked and even checked my junk mail folders, they didn't send me anything. So finally they send out my replacement card. 5 days later it arrives and it's exactly the same as the original. My computer won't boot with it installed. No drivers or software are supposed to be needed. So I go back on to the live chat, tell them I got my replacement card after more than a month, and it doesn't work either. And here's the kicker: They told me they can't give me a refund because it's been more than a month since I placed my order!!!!!!!!! So I'm out $80 with absolutely no recourse except a negative bizrate review. Lesson learned: avoid OWC like the plague! So I thought of a really funny way to get my payback. I don't know if I'm actually going to go through with it or not. Open up the static bag, and poo in it. Yes I said poo in it. Then tape it up. Put it in the box. Tape up the box, put it in a generic brown box for shipping. And smile. I might be out my $80 but goddamn I'll get the last laugh for sure. I probably won't do it, but if I do I'll certainly post about it here. Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 10:31 PM ♦ 1 Comment ♦ Add A Comment

This is What 2110 CDs Look Like This is what 2110 CDs look like, in 14 boxes. Of course I zoomed in a little which kind of flattened the perspective blah blah blah there's more boxes than it looks like. That's a lot of CDs. And I get paid $1 per CD, which is nice. That many CDs is about 33,600 songs. 83 days of continuous music. That's a lot of music. And I didn't see one CD that I wanted to take a copy of. Not that I would have ;-) Monday, April 28th, 2008 4:08 AM ♦ 0 Comments ♦ Add A Comment

I Got Pulled-Over Today Not by the cops. By an older couple, who pulled me over at a stop sign to ask me if I had a card. I was like "huh?" Then the guy goes "You fix Macs right?" I laughed and gave them a card, then drove off. This is the first time I've ever been stopped over my license plate. Friday, April 25th, 2008 4:18 PM ♦ 0 Comments ♦ Add A Comment

Argh! Monday, April 14th, 2008 5:17 AM ♦ 0 Comments ♦ Add A Comment

☮ Craigslist++ I have so much stuff listed on Craigslist right now, I figured I'd share it with the world. Most of it is left over bike stuff from all my recent upgrades. My Orange Hardtail Kona Roast Frame with Custom Gyro: $225 boston.craigslist.org/nos/bik/634039123.html My Silver Maverick ML7 Frame with BB, headset, some other stuff: $1300 boston.craigslist.org/nos/bik/633534054.html New set of Hayes HFX 9 Carbon Brakes: $250 boston.craigslist.org/nos/bik/635444823.html New Maverick DUC32 Fork and WTB/Mavic Wheelset: $1200 boston.craigslist.org/nos/bik/641148726.html New SRAM X-9 Trigger Shifters: $80 boston.craigslist.org/nos/bik/641048076.html New Hutchinson Barracuda 2.3 Tires: $75 boston.craigslist.org/nos/bik/641039115.html And some non-bike stuff too! Wood Coffee Table/Cabinet: $25 boston.craigslist.org/nos/fur/635435761.html Some Old Lego 9V Train Tracks: $13 boston.craigslist.org/nos/tag/641203741.html Sunday, April 13th, 2008 8:00 PM ♦ 0 Comments ♦ Add A Comment

I Switched To RCN Also, we finally switched to RCN and cancelled Comcast. For a few dollars less per month, we get: 10 MBit Internet (vs 5 MBit on Comcast) Digital Cable with ~100 extra channels (vs just basic cable with Comcast) Tons of Free HD Channels (Including NESN!!!!) (vs just broadcast channels like Comcast) A static IP with NO port blocks (vs a dynamic IP and call after call from Comcast Customer Intimidation [security assurance] department) Yes including NESN. If your HD TV has a built in HD tuner (QAM tuner), you can get Red Sox games in HD, for FREE. You don't need a box from RCN, they don't encrypt any of the basic cable HD channels. Now we are getting "DigitalVision" which I assume is digital cable. So you might not get NESN HD if you just get super basic regular cable. But if you get regular digital from RCN, YOU CAN GET NESN HD. I don't understand why they hide the fact that you can get all these HD channels for free. Especially NESN HD. RCN could really steal a lot of customers from Comcast in Red Sox Nation if they advertised this bonus! Don't forget to join this Facebook group if you hate comcast: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15135185550 Hehehehe Sunday, April 13th, 2008 3:42 AM ♦ 0 Comments ♦ Add A Comment

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