Have you ever refused to do business with a company because of bad customer service even if they had a slightly better price?

Reason I am posting.

I work on PCs and because of the price of parts in the last 3 years it is no longer cost efficient for me to build my own PCs. I now buy them from the market place and and just charge a setup fee. Less money for me but most of my money today is generated by virus and spyware removal and recovering lost data.

For the most part I usually dealt with Dell where I would order the PCs and have them with in 7 to 10 days. The only sticking point I had was having to deal with people I could not understand and more than they could understand me. (Language barrier).

This time I ordered 4 PCs from HP. A sale totaling over ,000. 14 days later I still did not have the PCs nor did I get any confirmation (e-mail) as to the progress of the sale or when they were or are being shipped except the date I was given when I ordered them.

I called HP, gave them the order number and asked where they were as they are already 3 days behind the promised delivery date. She said let me put you on hold for a few minutes. 6 minutes later, I was pick up by FedEx Ground and they asked my for the waybill number. I was never given one by HP.

However the woman at FedEx Ground went above good service and search by address and found they were in transit for delivery the next day.

I called HP back and got another person and told them the story. She said did you find them? I said yes with no help from HP. She said so you have no problem and hung up. An these were Americans at HP.

I view this as a management problem. I am going back to Dell.

Any in put or horror stories on your side?

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Dear Friends,

Please pass this information on to your friends, we the American people need to be more involved in getting congress to pass a comprehensive energy legislation plan now. If we leave it up to our elected officials, we may never see our country free of our dependence on oil or the middle east. I blame myself, along with the American people for taking our economic and energy situation we now face in the United States for granted. I hope it’s not to late, our country is facing one of the most important issues in our nations history. Let all Americans sound off with one voice, "That We Want Take It Any More!" we want American Energy Independence Legislation Now!
American Energy Independence Day 2008 – America Get Involved!

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Respectfully Yours,
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The United States spends more money protecting Middle East oil and fighting terrorism than it would cost to develop new energy technology that would obsolete oil as a source of energy. The connection between terrorism and Middle East oil wealth can no longer be ignored.
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Nuclear energy can produce the hydrogen and provide the intense heat needed to make synthetic oil from coal.
Nuclear power is a proven emission-free energy source that can replace gas and coal fired base-load electric power generation plants, and enable the USA to develop a replacement for our oil based transportation fuel. The replacement of coal power plants with nuclear power plants would reduce America’s atmospheric CO2 emissions by 30%.
The USA does not need to wait for a hydrogen economy; nuclear power can begin to give America energy independence now, by providing the process heat and hydrogen needed for the manufacture of synthetic oil from coal. If nuclear heat and nuclear hydrogen are used in the manufacture of synthetic oil from coal, then the yield of oil from coal would be much higher than if coal was used to provide the needed hydrogen and process heat.
Using synthetic gasoline and diesel made from coal, to provide transportation fuel, would not reduce CO2 produced by cars and trucks on the nation’s highways, nor would it increase atmospheric CO2 because it would merely replace existing consumption of gasoline and diesel. However, it is possible to have zero emission gasoline/diesel cars and trucks. If technology is used to remove the CO2 tailpipe emissions directly from the atmosphere after the CO2 is released from the tailpipe. In other words, allow cars and trucks to release CO2 and then clean the atmosphere using technology designed to remove CO2 from the air. The collected CO2 can either be recycled or sequestered.
If coal power plants were replaced by nuclear power plants, for base-load electricity, and coal is used to make synthetic gasoline and diesel, then Americans who are dependent on the coal mining industry for their incomes would support nuclear energy.
Modern Coal-to-oil technology can free America from dependence on Middle East oil. One billion tons of coal per year, at 3 barrels of oil per ton, would replace 65% of USA imported oil, and provide jobs for people who depend on the coal industry. At 12 million imported barrels per day, 65% is 7,800,000 barrels per day. Just over 20% of oil imported into the USA today comes from Persian Gulf Nations, which are also members of OPEC. Less than 45% of oil imported into the USA today comes from OPEC.
Drilling for new petroleum might help in the short term, but in the long term natural petroleum is not sustainable — we cannot depend upon crude oil for our energy future. However, the development of technology for the production of synthetic petroleum will create a sustainable energy future. Synthetic hydrocarbon fuels such as synthetic diesel and synthetic gasoline can be made from many different sources of raw material, including renewable biomass. America has an abundance of natural raw materials that can be used to make synthetic petroleum.
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I received an email on my space that was very awkward. It said to tell this certain person hi. (that person is my wife lets call her L) for our protection. He remembers her from the bar with her cousin which they got kicked out of. Well first of my wife drinks very little and the only night she ever went out was with my sister. At first he wanted to know if L was my sister and to tell her he wanted to go out with her. I dont even look at my space my wife does. She seen it and told me about it and wrote him back and told him that it was my wife and do not know who you are. About 2 weeks later I received an e-mail to my personel account which only family and friends have. It was very personal and this person knew that I had moved, my work schedule and even the names of my dogs. How can I find out who this is? I have the email address. I have tried all the free online reverse email searches that I could find. It tells me no such address. What do I do?
Tumbleweed
Thank u 4 ur concern I know my wife very well. As I said she is the one that originally told me about this. I have a suspition about 2 diff. people it may be. It might be either my ex or hers just playing a prank. But I am not certain of this. But I will find out one way or the other.
Humble,
Thank u I will try that
Humble
I tried the arinswhois and it told me the ip address came from CA. On his my space there is no pic. but it gives his age and says he lives in the same town as I do. Can he some how be routing it to look like that or what. I mean he knew my dogs names. My wife is pretty fritened right now we have 4 kids. I need to know were and who this guy is.

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I am trying to find someone who lives in Beverly, MA. I have the person’s name (might be the nickname, not sure), last name and date of birth. I do have the person’s e-mail and phone number but this person is not replying. Worried something might have happened or its just ignoring me.
Is there anyway online, to find that person (phone number is NOT listed).
I know that the person is engineer and had/has a construction company.

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Heres my sad story. I got this computer for free. All I know about it is it has Windows ME. Alot of the Launch videos won’t play, I do get E-mail, Answers. I don’t really know of any fun sites [no porn] and I don’t want to have to pay anything. There is a computer/X BOX game my little brother turned me on to called "Fable" , but I guess my computer wont take it. Get my dilemma? Any ideas?

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I was trying to find an old friend’s e-mail by using her name and I was directed to a people search for a cost. I would just like to e-mail her not go thru all that search data. I understand privacy & security but I have no intentions nor do I want to know background & all the things attached. I just want to talk thru e-mails.

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