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Fat_McNasty
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Posted: 6/5/2012 5:45:40 PM

THE IMAGE ABOVE IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT
Have any of you done business with them? Good? Bad? Looking for anything ya know.
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Posted: 6/5/2012 5:50:35 PM
I've had friends deal with them in the past. Nothing negative that I've heard. When I used to build PC's for friends and others, I always meant to stop in and look at their prices/parts, but never did.
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Posted: 6/5/2012 5:54:59 PM
The only thing I know about them is that I cannot stand their condescending, absolutely annoying radio ads. That alone will keep me from ever using their company. In the same token I have no need for their services.
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Posted: 6/5/2012 6:00:56 PM
We run in to a lot of their former clients at work. They're former clients for a reason... (on the business / consulting side).

Decent local PC shop though for parts / service.
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Posted: 6/5/2012 6:12:05 PM
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I used to work with INET (before there was an "internet" or Apple iProducts... just a lucky choice of name on his part...) closely, but wayyyy back in the 90's, when they were a re-seller of Cheney System PC's. (Just a LOVELY bunch of people to work for, in of themselves.. )

Jim Libby was a huckster, and schemer of grand proportion. I personally witnessed him get caught stealing Cheney's vinyl label-jewels they put on the beige-box PC's they built, and resold through their little empire of partner stores around Milwaukee, of which iNet was one, so he could put them on even cheaper beige-box PC's out of Chicago. (and also got customers bringing these boxes back to Cheney for warranty support when they got fed up with iNet, only to look inside, and sadly tell them it wasn't a Cheney PC.

Then the Cheney's would be outraged, and cut off iNet as a partner store for a few months. Then I guess they'd all go out drinking or something, or iNet's sales were missed or something, and they were back into the fold... until next time...

However, I can't TOTALLY blame him, because Cheney was notoriously slow on filling orders, because their own cash-flow problems would cause the OEM suppliers to cut them off from time to time, starving the small partnered shops that depended on Cheney for PC's.

Of course, this is pre-internet, back around '91-'93... IIRC, the guy on the noxious radio ads now is Libby's brother.

My personal impression of iNet is that they're "more flash than substance", and get buy on medium/small businesses that are easy to impress. However, it's not so bad that every customer dumps them and they go out of business.

2 stars out of 5/C-grade is my impression of them.
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Posted: 6/5/2012 6:20:57 PM
Well I guess what the say about first impressions is right. I'll post more when I'm home and after talking to my highers up.
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Posted: 6/6/2012 1:27:35 AM
Originally Posted By Flamethrower:
The only thing I know about them is that I cannot stand their condescending, absolutely annoying radio ads. That alone will keep me from ever using their company. In the same token I have no need for their services.


This. I understand that the sign of a good ad is the fact that you'll remember it, but if I never heard another one of their ads it would be too soon. Absolutely intolerable and sophomoric.
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Posted: 6/6/2012 9:31:33 AM
Originally Posted By 91er:
Originally Posted By Flamethrower:
The only thing I know about them is that I cannot stand their condescending, absolutely annoying radio ads. That alone will keep me from ever using their company. In the same token I have no need for their services.


This. I understand that the sign of a good ad is the fact that you'll remember it, but if I never heard another one of their ads it would be too soon. Absolutely intolerable and sophomoric.


+1. Their ads make them sound juvenile and unprofessional.
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Posted: 6/6/2012 9:35:26 AM

Originally Posted By CheeseHeadNinja:
Originally Posted By 91er:
Originally Posted By Flamethrower:
The only thing I know about them is that I cannot stand their condescending, absolutely annoying radio ads. That alone will keep me from ever using their company. In the same token I have no need for their services.


This. I understand that the sign of a good ad is the fact that you'll remember it, but if I never heard another one of their ads it would be too soon. Absolutely intolerable and sophomoric.


+1. Their ads make them sound juvenile and unprofessional.

I finally heard one of their ads yesterday (I don't listen to talk radio much). Now I understand and agree.
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Posted: 6/6/2012 10:04:10 AM
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Posted: 6/27/2012 5:56:20 PM
Our work computers were built by them. They do their best at customer service but could be better in my eyes. All in all, for small companies or a personal computer, they aren't bad.