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A further update to the 3770k drop ship order via Tiger Direct...


Apparently, no one, not one single person at Tiger Direct even bothered to check inventory @ Intel before placing the special order in the first place. 3 additional customer service reps, and a supervisor I've spoken to twice @ TD also failed in their guarantees that they would follow up with Intel, & let me know of the status by the following day.

After being on hold via phone for an additional 2 1/2 hours over the past 2 days, I finally got a genuine human on the phone. To which they finally admitted that Intel had no stock (& obviously won't have again, since the 3770k is EOL), for which they have kept me hanging for 3 1/2 weeks with my funds in pre-authorization limbo, for no apparent reason.


The burning question in my mind is; why in the ever living F*** didn't any of these people do their job to begin with?!? With that firmly in mind, you can bet that it will be a frosty day in the lowest depths of hell before they get any further business from me, or recommendations that anyone else do business with them.


Well, that's the breaking point for this saga. I won't patronize anything Fleabay or Paypal, due to their ripping off of sellers a few years ago (the rate hike on seller fees, and charging that same percentage on the shipping charges as well). Between that, and the only people in the U.S. having a 3570k or 3770k currently, are all on Amazon, 3rd party sellers with prices well above MSRP. Or used at just below MSRP. There wasn't any other viable choice left, so I dropped the money on a cheap used dual core just so I can get back into my personal accounts. Probably going to part the damned thing out as soon as I do too.


If anyone needs a fresh from RMA replacement Asrock z77e-itx motherboard for their home theater pc, let me know...

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