One of my favorite cbit story's is one time they had a promotion where if you bought $150+ worth of stuff, you got a free blue tooth headset. They said in the flyer it was a $60 value. They made a big deal out of it when I asked for it (I bought a motherboard, a new release game a head set, and other stuff) and I wanted my free headset. They didn't have any at the counter and the woman complained and said she didn't want to have to walk into the back room to get more. I told her I didn't care what she wanted to do, and go get it. So I get the advertised headset ($60 value) and it has a $45 price tag on it. And on later inspection deal extreme sold the same ones for 0.50-1.00
The other times I've gone in they were so unhelpful I haven't bought anything On 2013-04-07 12:41 PM, "Colin Stanners" <[email protected]> wrote: > I had heard the same, including fun stories of midnight product moves, but > never seen/heard a specific example. > > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Ace Tunes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have an inside source that told me CBiT commonly brought in fake >> products. And that he had even caught them bringing in Graphics cards that >> were labeled and cased as a high end one but the GPU was terrible. >> On Apr 7, 2013 12:26 PM, "Aemilianus Kehler" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Glad to see cbit bite the dust >>> >>> Cheers!! >>> >>> On Apr 7, 2013, at 12:12 PM, Colin Stanners <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I had a few 'cat5e' runs at AW that were exhibiting strange issues - PoE >>> didn't work well, more at the device power-on where you'd expect a surge of >>> current. Crimps seemed really sensitive. Generally communication over them >>> 'felt' off. I bypassed them and guessed it was wire damage from the >>> construction but as I'm taking them down they seem undamaged. >>> >>> I had heard of CCA 'fake cat5' before, >>> http://www.twistedpair.co/caution-using-cooper-clad-aluminium-cat5-cable/ >>> but never seen any. Scraped some of the wires and to my untrained eye it >>> seems these are CCA. We can keep using them for analog cameras - didn't see >>> any problems there yet - but nothing else. >>> >>> These came from 3 boxes of 'ATcom NWC-215-313' that were bought at CBIT. >>> I'm assuming fake products like this are one of the reasons they're out of >>> business now, but if you have any boxes sitting around you may want to toss >>> them. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >>> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >>> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >>> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >>> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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