I've made some new equipment purchases over the last couple of months, and wanted to log some gripes over my dealings with the dopes at PC/MACMALL. For starters, the salesman would offer me discounts to make the sale, but would conveniently forget about them, and so I would get charged full price on the invoice. He would never, ever return my calls, either. In the RAM department, I was sold Viking PC2700, which proved to be inadequate. Since MACMALL would not return my calls, I contacted Viking and was told that they had PC3200 RAM specified for the Apple Dual 1.9GHz PowerMac G5 that I owned. Viking replaced the RAM with the PC3200 set and all appears sound.

PCNation sold me an NEC-Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070 SB with a big smudge in the phosphor, so it had to go back. The refurb arrived without my SpectraView calibrator. They had negleted to tell me to send only the monitor, no cables or accessories, and so I received only a monitor.

Several weeks after my upgrade to the G5, I now appear to have a complete set of tools, even though the SpectraView software is not compatible with OS X Panther...