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Island Tech - Nice Scam

Posted by: Samiuela LV Taufa on May 25, 2007 12:31:32 PM

There's a new company in town (or at least I hadn't really noticed them until they started putting out this advertising about some real cheap pricing.)

A friend of mine, mostly living in New Zealand, asked me about this company a couple of weeks ago and I said I thought they were running some sort of scam. And here's why.

Note that their advertising is really unbeatable pricing, how many places can you go to get a NEW Computer for $989.00 ? Even DELL and WalMart can't beat what these guys are saying their going to provide with their new PC (let's just say for example that the TOP$989.00 is going to be something like USD$500.00)

A few things that they don't mention or clarify in this scam advertising.

* new PCs on the right column, doesn't really apply to the advertised PC on the left column. This deal isn't for a new PC, it's for a REFURBISHED PC.

* Pentium III - 800Mhz, 256MB Ram, 10GB HDD, CD-ROM is what you're going to get at this great price. This may have been a premium machine 7 or 8 years ago (circa 1999/2000) but it is not available brand-new anywhere in the world today.

* Preloaded Software: Win XP SP2, Office 2003 is probably illegally installed pirated software. This means that you will be like most everyone else in town, but it shouldn't really be a feature if it's illegal?.

* The above preloaded software is probably going to run like a dogggg. Last time I had a Pentium III 800Mhz, I was using better specs with 512MB Ram, 20GB HDD and I thought the performance on that machine was horrible using XP.

* FREE 512MB Flash Drive value TOP$100. I don't know where they're buying their flash drives, because the 2GB I'm using (i.e. 4 times the capacity they're promoting) only cost me AUD$69.00 12 months ago.

Just another reminder that (a) we need some consumer protection in Tonga, and (b) let the buyer beware.

A few other items that the buyer may not be aware of, that may just hit them once they take the machines home.

* Wear and tear on computers are worse in Tonga than the air-conditioned environments that refurbished equipment usually comes from. The 3 month warranty you get on a New PC is quite different from the 3 month warranty you get on a refurbished 7 year old PC. The new PC warranty is there to make sure things are fully functioning with you after you've taken it home, but generally most people can expect brand-new components to last a while. No-one really expects 7 year old PCs to last that much longer, although we all hope?

* At the Pentium III era, the 15" screen was the most popular screen of the time, although 17" flat-screens are more popular today (even in Tonga) and a few people are even getting 17" flat LCD screens.

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