avoid doing business with dell

[rone]

A friend had his credit card number stolen after a site he used was cracked. His bank rep told him that two of the charges had gone through because, even though they'd received "Confiscate card: stolen" notifications, they nonetheless ran the charges through. One of them was dell.com. The rep went on to say that Dell is the king of credit card fraud — they do no address checking or any sort of verification. He also said that nearly every card he dealt with in November had Dell charges.

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[vspope.livejournal.com]

Yup, mine is also a 1300 T-Bird, same timeframe. 256MB RAM, a 32MB GeForce 2 GTS, with two CDRWs (can't get more than 24x out of the newer one, so my UDMA settings may still be hosed) and an overworked HD.

That one I'm not throwing out by any means, as it's still quite useful. I'm not a big-time 3D gamer (meaning that I don't buy a new $400 video card each month to get that critical extra 1.4 frames-per-second in Quake III), so what I have is sufficient. I can rip movies to VCDs, I can play Visual Pinball, it's good.