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New MessageI work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) tekknique
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I work at CC, and all our Iopeners are out of program and we are selling them open box....in fact i only paid 15 dollars for mine...however our corporate offices without any reason, has now hiked up the price of the iopener to $9999.99. Therefor making it impossible for a manager to give a discounted price of that for openbox. Unless of course your willing to pay 9grand for it! I work at a store on the eastern side of the country, i do not know if all stores are doing it yet.
02-03-2001 08:57:25

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) GWIZAH
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wait 1k? For an at most $500 266Mhz PC? Thats complete bull####!
02-03-2001 09:38:33

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) justme
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Well, CC can charge what they want, but 10K is a bit steep. I saw 5 on display (4 boxed and sealed one open) at a CompUSA in West Nyack (New York) for $199 a piece (no discounts). Though by now anyone who really wants to hack one has it (or 3 or 4).
02-03-2001 11:13:01

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) parasyght
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hello,
i work at cc in long beach, ca and i thought i was getting a good deal when my manager droped an opend box to $70 when they were going for $99, but you got yours for $15. How did you do that. Do you guys often get that good of a mark down? And to think i thought i got a good deal.

our store also has the io listed as $9999
how is your department doing, computers has become slow for us, little money to be made. 99% of all the customers are ignorant fools that call the tower "the brain" and barly speak english. Ive got all the customers racial specs down. White people will act interested and lie saying theyll come back tomarrow to pick it up. Black people are loud and cheap, and mexicans bring there whole family to by one because there neighbor has one. Its true.
please dont be insutled by these specs, they are just observations made by me, and if you are even on this web site reading on how to hack the io, you are far from ignorant, and should come into circuit city to talk to us in the computer dept because we deprived of intulectual challenges due to the working environment. later.


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02-03-2001 19:00:42

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) tinkerer
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I always bought from CC online and provoked a bare minimum of human contact. Now I know why.
02-03-2001 19:39:57

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) info
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parasyght,
Your observations should of been kept to yourself...not posted here.
02-03-2001 20:57:06

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) Spike
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Oh, and you might want to invest in a dictionary before you criticize others' mastery of English.
02-03-2001 21:55:38

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) parasyght
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note:Not about the iopener/ ignore

sorry your right, i should have not posted my personal observations, and my spelling is not the best. I also hate sales people, and i hate people that need a sales person to make a choice. I think people should do some research and find out what it is they really need, and not ask some idiot like me that knows very little about personal communication to help them. Infact i bring my iopener to work, and spend a lot of time moding it there instead of wasting my time with people whom want a free printer cable. I may be genralizing, but why do people do that? Think about it. I wonder what the creator of this thread has to say? No matter, at least something new has come of this bulletin board.

I also shop online to avoid sales people, infact everyone i work with has little or no knowledge about computers. So if you dont like what i have to say maybe you like to talk to the sales people mr.tinker. I like to consider myself an observant person in most cases. Infact i share these views. A black gentalmen, whom is my friend and fellow employee, avoids black people for the very reason i mentioned. I am white, and have experienced happy faced lies all the time. If only people where more honest and respectfull, and that is what im doing, respecting the truth. sorry about all this, it all gets to you after a while, ill pust a disclaimer at the top. lol i think i just want to work in the computer lab.
masery of Elgnsh, fok chow mo fokr, i hate english class. flame on.
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02-04-2001 02:41:11

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) 02U2
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Needs to be Intellectually challenged he says,

Thats why the store UPGRADE AND REPAIR CENTER (TECHS?) throws away a perfectly fine NEW 4x4x32 CDR/CDRW Drive, It was too challenging to get a replacement IDE ribbon cable that was defective (Connector separated from cable),,,It even had a sticker pasted on the outside of the box "cable broken"....

An HP Pavillon Computer that the tech? could not figure out to download the correct/updated SIS motherboard drivers...Naw stick it to the customer ""It has a fried motherboard the tech says"
Didn't even bother to pull that nice hard drive or CPU....

Removes and replaces and then throws away notebook and desktop Hard drives that about 90 times out of a 100 just need to download a LLF or zerofill utility from the manufactures web site and use it. Then restore the OS. Naw they had to stick the customer with a NEW drive...

Download the correct Driver for a multidisc CD-ROM Drive/Changer after upgrading the OS so the changer part works in Windows...Naw stick it to the customer...

Clean the contacts on that 128MB stick of ram with clean wipes and denatured alcohol to solve that memory error problem (TIP, unlike metals corrode at connections over time and even more when finger/skin oils are present) ...Naw stick it to the customer...Sell him/her a new stick.

Destroy a beautiful 1 year old i-mac that could of been repaired and donated then written off....(I'm not an i-mac fan but this machine was Kool lookin')

The Comp-USA techs SMASH everything to destroy evidence of there ineptness

Dude... I recover Thousands of dollars worth of the above hardware and more due to either lack of proper training, lazyness, STUPIDITY, or greed...STICK IT TO THE CUSTOMER(or in some cases the product protection plan provider)...

Needs to be Intellectually challenged he says....

02-04-2001 05:38:59

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) parasyght
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sorry dude, but montgomery wards runs our service departmenet, not even part of cc. No cc on the face of the planet has a repair shop built in. It all gets sent out. In fact my managers i are kind enough to look the other way and let me do customer repairs in house upon which i get to pocket the money. My rate is based on the local shops, i charge excactly $10 cheaper on anything. How do you get the stuff that techs say is broken, i want some. And a big Ha Ha to you for buying a HP from CC. Thats what you get for being stupid.
02-04-2001 10:08:53

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) ckbone
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These are new times, dudes. I don't fix computers for a living, I fix Nissans. But the same things apply.......Our labor rate is $100 an hour. How much time do you want me to spend trying to fix a $35 part? What if I did my best to fix it, but was unsuccessful.....who pays for the time? What kind of warrenty can I give on a repair of an old, worn part? The factory warrenty I have to deal with, frowns on repairs. They would rather I replace the part....usually refuse to pay for repairs...only replacement. The normal customer, like parasyght says, is a moron when it comes to repair procedures. They do not understand how things, particularly intermittent problems, are dealt with. If a fix of mine is unsuccessful, I usually have to eat the second repair. This is why I have to replace parts, when I know if it was mine, I would fix it.

As far as policically correct speech is concerned, I hate it. I have to deal with it where I work, but nowhere else. If everyone kept his thoughts/ideas to himself, we would have no I-Opener forum here. Too bad parasyght sees things differently from other people....at least he has the guts to be honest. I'll always call a spade, a spade. You dont like it? So sue me......

02-04-2001 13:49:48

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) Ragnar
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Well said, chbone. PC ( political correctness) flies in the face of our first amendment. I know what you have to put up with because I work at a university. I will be glad to see the day when we can say what we like and only end up in a fist fight and not a lawsuit or fired.
02-04-2001 13:59:41

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) 02U2
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The HP was in the dumpster silly, Got it for free not counting my time or gas. I got it up and running on my own. Really not that bad of a computer. I'll resell it and make a good profit.

For one that needs to be intellectually challenged, you can start your challenge with a dictionary to master YOUR english language spelling skills plus go back and finish high school. Proper communication skills is important for serious intellects. For now you are a wannabe. Can't even fake it good.
Going back to school and then some college maybe then you can improve and it will help you on your job skills, particularly people skills and your self esteem...

BTW there are no Montgomery wards here...There are service centers though

Last reply, Remember...your RACIST comments sparked this whole thing. Some serious reflection upon your RACIST thinking about your fellow MAN is in order. Remember we all share this planet and it is getting smaller everyday.

To everyone else, my apologies for dwelling on this thread, I won't feed it anymore...

02-04-2001 14:11:13

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) parasyght
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note:Not about the iopener/ ignore

but its such a fun thread, dont give in now. Im not sure how learing to memorize the correct spelling of words is intulectully challenging, ill just have take your word for it. my nose is not pointed skyward, and i dont consider myself part of a group of "serious intellects," i do however consider myself part of a group of very interested individuals. Interested in how things work, and how to make them work better, almost a kind of designer/hack/modder if you will. So please step down off your high horse, drop your nose to eye level and say "hi,how is your iopener comming along." If this is too hard, then maybe it is you whom should look into improving your communication and self esteem. Just a a thought, my keyboard is good for writting those down, if you dont like it, fok chow mo fokr. I offer a simple invitation into my place of work to talk about the things we have done with our iopeners and you tell me i need to buy a dictionary, well thank you. fok oph

As for being racist, how does simple classification based on ones ethnicity count as such a discrace. I belive that the colleges use it to determine whom gets the most funds, employers for employment, and everyone else to determine what nieghborhood they live in. They may be soft facts, but thats known as statistics, heard of it?

I graduated in the bottom of my class in highschool, barely passed english, unfortunatly i had other interests that seemed to get i the way.

You forgot the discalimer at the top of your post o2poo2, please be considerate of those whom dont wish to read this nonsense.
"sparked" it did, what fun!!
one more time, yo ne tu fok oph, and im not going to correct any spelling errors, ha, peace out

02-04-2001 18:55:37

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) GWIZAH
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parasyght,
I belive your nickname reflects your new position on this BBS, you are no longer a lurker. Please, we can all understand each other a little better if we refrain from using commentary that degrades or generalizes one anothers race. I think if you were truly as skilled and intelligent as you say you are, you would make your comment without resorting to this sort of behavior. Also, I think you are mistaken saying "how does simple classification based on ones ethnicity count as such a discrace...". I belive this "simple" classification can be explained by remembering your history. For example, in 1943 Yellow stars of david were placed on people of a certain "ethnicity" living in germany by the Nazi party.

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02-04-2001 19:29:50

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) ckbone
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Poor parasyght.....First he's a racist, now he's a Nazi. This is funny.....I always thought computer-literate people could defend whatever beliefs they had in a rational way...mostly because of a higher IQ than normal. Wrong.....Playing the race card or in this latest case, the NAZI card, is always done by people who have nothing else to say. Can you defend yourself against such a charge? Probably not..... Mostly because there's no clear-cut definition of either. Say I hate green people because one killed my wife....Am I a racist? To a green person, probably. Does it mean anything...no. Parasyght, don't let people of limited talents, bother you with their childish name-calling....don't let it keep you from seeing and telling things as they are. Beneath your unpolished grammar and spelling, I see promise.....work at it.
02-04-2001 20:05:51

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) Warp7
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parasyght,
Mind if I ask how old are you? Just curious.
02-04-2001 21:06:48

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) parasyght
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Sorry to inform you i currently have no such plans to use my personal, although shared ,statistical information to achieve world domiation by eliminating the computer illiterate from our society. Although it coulndt hurt. My small operation of neonazis run from the CirCit HQ is extremely underfunded for this type of undertaking and would require all iopener hacking Nazi to unite. Hail GWIZAH!!

(c: attrib +H Http://www.Linux-hacker.net/parasyght.exe)= Back to lurking.

i suppose youll want to take my guns away after this.

02-04-2001 21:41:41

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) parasyght
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no you cant ask mr.warp, but you can speculate with the given information that ive provided about my self, in this thread, and report back with and educated guess by posting in this thread. Upon your receiveing your answer and a breif explantion describing how your arived at your conclusion, will i reveal my age, only if have put in the proper amount of effort.
Good luck Mr.warp, and may the door not hit you in the back of the head on the way out.
02-04-2001 21:47:08

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02-05-2001 00:15:31

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02-05-2001 00:17:17

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) wordsmith
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Well this Thread went right into the dumper. Speaking of dumper, O2U2, I too recoever many-a-items out of the trash at C-USA. Just the other week I got a almost new 15 inch sony flat pannel screen just because the power connection on the screen was broke. TOOK ME $18 AT THE LOCAL RAT SHACK TO FIX!!! Must have been the 'Gold plan' those bastards sell. I know, I worked there for 5 mths then was forced to quit because I WOULD NOT SELL THE PLANS TO PEOPLE. I flet they were not needed. Well maby on the scanners/printers.
Lets make a list of what I have found at my local C-USA trash can.

1. Hard drives
2. Entire computers
3. Software
4. Flat pannel
5. Lots of kybds/mice
6. BOOKS, With just the covers missing!!
7. countless other little things..

When I worked there I watched 10 Monorails(remember those? Search it up) get smashed under the evils of hammers, cinder blocks, and sledge hammers!! I felt so bad!!

Go, look, now! I garentee you will find something, after all once its in the trash is Public Property.

* WordsmitH

02-06-2001 00:32:18

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) parasyght
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AHH! MEAT GOOD!

Dei fuhrer well be pleased parasyght, okay, okay...i did go a little overboard with the whole "nazi card" thing. i'll admit that. Im happy that this thread has just rambled on and on that's all. Lets let Bygons be bygons and drop it okay? Good. Now we can be friends! seriously though folks, Lets get back to the i-opener and stop pretending thas board is a perfect world...


BB reconstruction complements of the "wannabe...intellect." parasyght +H

02-06-2001 01:26:02

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) GWIZAH
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LOL! haha, Thanks parasyght, youre not such a bad guy after all...
and You showed me how good you are at word construction,

BTW, that was "ACH MEIN GOTT!" heheh!

02-06-2001 07:51:58

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) ingenite
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*throws the 'lock' to codeman*
02-06-2001 08:13:56

New MessageRE:I work at CC, and no more selling IO's to the public (more) (modified 0 times) 02U2
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Wordsmith,
Thanks for the info,
I've tried the C-USA's here in but they SMASH EVERYTHING into little pieces with hammers and SEEM to spend a lot of time doing it and get great delite in doing so. Some stores even lock the dumpsters daily after hours.
I just wonder after inhaling all that phosphorous dust floating around after smashing monitor picture tubes will do to those who are doing the smashing, What will there lungs be like years from now? Hope there is a good medical plan...
02-06-2001 16:59:06

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