So Calyco, myself, and a few of the guys here at Graceland U are doing this computer case mod class for a few weeks for college credit. We ordered some stuff from a few different online vendors, and here's my vendor report.

Most of the vendors I am content with, as well as the guys taking this course. However, one vendor in particular really screwed us over, be it with their product or with their service.

We got a guy doing a water cooled system, and he ordered some UV cathodes from elwirecheap.com. Everything showed up and he was pretty stoked about it all. He plugged in his cathodes - one bulb was half the brightness of the other. What a joke!

Calyco and I ordered some cathodes from this same company. We got our stuff today and we're pretty excited about it all. I didn't get an inverter from these guys because I'm trying to get some sound activation going on in this beast, so I just wanted the bulbs. Well, the bulbs don't come with the lines on them for identifying. Annoying, but easily remediable. Well, these bulbs are dimmer than Cal's old monitor (and for everyone out there, that is EXTREMELY dim). Cal ordered a 4" cathode. They sent the inverter (it's pretty nice, actually - in a metal box and everything) but they forgot the power connector, the switch, pretty much everything to use the crap thing. It's a good thing that the guy that got the UVs had all the power stuff so we could test.

Needless to say, we aren't too happy. The guy with the UVs called elwirecheap.com and bitched and they said that they would replace them. Cal and I are going to give them a call and let you know what the story is on all this.

I guess saving some cash isn't always the best idea.

What a load...

Update!

Calyco just called up elwirecheap.com and they are the crap. Period. Maybe not THAT great, but pretty nice.

As far as my cathodes go, he said to keep them and he's going to send two more. We'll see how the brightness goes. Maybe I'll just buy 2 dual inverters and have twice the lights. Ought to solve my problem.

Calyco's situation is this. He bitched to the guy about not sending his power switch and stated that he thinks he should've gotten a dual inverter. So, elwirecheap is going to send him a dual inverter and all the power cabling.

So, I guess on the second run around, this vendor is not quite so terrible. Maybe you should give them a try. If they screw you over, just call em up and ###### at them!

Mod on.

sweet

seems like abad way to do buisness, they sell somthing, then it doesnt work so they send out more equipment then the person even bought

better get stuff from that site while you can!

now that Ive visited the site, I would like to add that I would never buy from a vendor with that ugly of a site.

Wasn't the best site I've ever seen, but the images were clean, and the gallery got my attention for 5.5 seconds. Since thier fixing your order I think I would givem a Chance.