[SlashRaid]

Some of you may have caught this last week, but I ran across it again while clearing out some bookmarks.

Gary Wilke of Wisconsin was charged with disorderly conduct after he beat his Gateway PC to bits with a sledgehammer. Apparently he bought the machine in January for his daughter for Ū,600.00. Since then he has had nothing but problems, and had to take it to his local Gateway Country Store 5 times, the fifth be the last. On his final trip he took the machine in to the store and proceded to beat the living crap out of it , to the shock of the store employees, with a hammer. He was fed up with poor support and lack luster service. I say score one for the little guy. :smile:

Full read:

• Man takes sledgehammer to faulty PC The Register

[skrilla monkey]

omg lol. its like something you see in comics...except for real :o

[The Neoracle]

I would have done that to my G4 when I couldnt' get it to work in OS X cept that I had to use it. hahah, But I feel that guy, it only took  me about 25 hours on the phone and 2 visits to replace parts for mine to finally get fixed.

[MarkoDaGeek]

man if i were a gateway staff member , and i saw a guy come in with one of our machines and a hammer and start beating the shit out of it , i wouldnt be staying there long

[The Neoracle]

You wouldn't dive in front of the hamer and save the computer?

[megamu]

I was extremely close to doing that about a year ago when i got my fuxx0red gateway for 񙇈+ I couldnt get the gateway store to help me fix it, and they wouldnt take it back, since i had spent over 30 days on the phone w/ the fuckin tech support trying to get the thing to run.

So i packed it ALL in ONE box (no styrofoam, i threw that away earlier, unknowing that i was going to be returning it)

Cut in line at the gateway store, dropped it on the counter and said, "FIX IT"

They just handed me a check for 񙎼 some bucks instead, after some 2-3 hours of me and my dad standing in the front of the line, not letting people thru. They wanted us outta there.

So i bought a dell, better quality, 躔 cheaper, and has never crashed ONCE.

[megamu]

I also went around to ALL of the display computers at the sto and set all the desktop images to say: "Gateway has the worst customer service ever!" And a short version of my story. I say at least 5 people go up to try a computer, stop, stare, frown, and walk out of the store :biggrin:

[skrilla monkey]

lol. u crack me up d00d. i cant believe with your brand-new system you're going to be getting a new one (or modding it). jebus. if i could just get SOMETHING for my computer here...im runnin a 233 96MB RAM (not SD or RD, mind you) w/first-gen AGI 3D graphics. ouch. majorly. PLUS, its a Compaq. Another never-ever-get PC. EVER! ive had more troubles with this POS than any other computer. i can barely run winamp and AIM, let alone those two and any others. :( o well. im hopin to get a new one soon :biggrin:

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-pete

[megamu]

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Quote: from skrilla monkey on 5:07 pm on April 9, 2002
lol. u crack me up d00d. i cant believe with your brand-new system you're going to be getting a new one (or modding it). jebus. if i could just get SOMETHING for my computer here...im runnin a 233 96MB RAM (not SD or RD, mind you) w/first-gen AGI 3D graphics. ouch. majorly. PLUS, its a Compaq. Another never-ever-get PC. EVER! ive had more troubles with this POS than any other computer. i can barely run winamp and AIM, let alone those two and any others. :( o well. im hopin to get a new one soon :biggrin:

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-pete

If you want I'll help you design a system 100x better than that thats not too pricy. (and we can build a titeass case fo it)

But are you too afraid to take $ from your car savings for a comp? (if you have a monitor already the comp itself will cost <轜, possibly lower.)

IM me bout it. I love buildin computers.

[SlashRaid]

Pretty much... This guy has made statement, loud and clear that many, many people wish they could make.

[MarkoDaGeek]

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Quote: from The Neoracle on 12:16 pm on April 9, 2002
You wouldn't dive in front of the hamer and save the computer?

Heh , no cuse i dont like gateway all that much , now if it was a Dell or ALIENWARE , then maybe ...

[The Neoracle]

If it was an apple, I'd grab the hammer and let the guy have it right back.

[megamu]

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Quote: from The Neoracle on 12:12 pm on April 10, 2002
If it was an apple, I'd grab the hammer and let the guy have it right back.

ROFL! That's what I would do too! And grab the apple and run.

[skrilla monkey]

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Quote: from Ekostudios on 8:12 pm on April 9, 2002

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Quote: from skrilla monkey on 5:07 pm on April 9, 2002
lol. u crack me up d00d. i cant believe with your brand-new system you're going to be getting a new one (or modding it). jebus. if i could just get SOMETHING for my computer here...im runnin a 233 96MB RAM (not SD or RD, mind you) w/first-gen AGI 3D graphics. ouch. majorly. PLUS, its a Compaq. Another never-ever-get PC. EVER! ive had more troubles with this POS than any other computer. i can barely run winamp and AIM, let alone those two and any others. :( o well. im hopin to get a new one soon :biggrin:

</whining>

-pete

If you want I'll help you design a system 100x better than that thats not too pricy. (and we can build a titeass case fo it)

But are you too afraid to take $ from your car savings for a comp? (if you have a monitor already the comp itself will cost <轜, possibly lower.)

IM me bout it. I love buildin computers.

lets go for it d00d. i have about 躔 in the bank, ill have to check with parents, tho. ill be comin into some cash this summer, and plus, i cant buy my own car, so its aight ;). yeah i got a monitor. not the best, but it worx. (monitor is the least of my concerns...)

-pete