Prentice

Purchased ECS mobo + E2200 combo that I requested to cancel 13hrs later.

Prentice was the Seller on January 25, 2008 HardForum

My worse experience in any FS/FT forum ever. Please advise to stay away from this seller. I should have known to deal with this guy when he already have poor previous heat.

He agreed to pickup a combo at Fry\'s for me during one of the deals. He set up a FS/FT thread at [H] later that day, selling the combos he bought. He planned to profit from selling them. Quote:: \"Yea I was trying to make money. The boards are all over the FS area.\" So after he realized he couldn\'t profit, he decided to screw me over.

The series of events occurred as follows:

-He asks $100 for the combo
-I send him $100 for the combo
-I request to cancel the combo
-He claims he would have to drive all the way back to Fry\'s to return it and offers to refund $77 only.
-I exclaim at the loss of money and say no -- I\'d give him an extra $9 to send it to me instead (for his trouble)
-He agrees to send it to me, but never does
-Out of the blue, he sends me back $67.XX, but said he can\'t pay the rest with some excuse and wants to send me a Money Order
-I don\'t want to chance my money on a MO because he is already acting shady and there\'s a chance it might get lost.
-I ask him if he has a friend that can send me the rest of the money, he says yes.
-Hours later, he ends up paying me $22.50 the rest of the money (somehow?)
-Then I find out the rest of the money never comes through and he had removed the payment in Paypal
-I ask what the situation is, and he says again he\'ll send me a Money Order
-It sounded shady even moreso, so I ask him to do delivery confirmation w/ the MO.
-He contemplates and ends up not refunding me at all and calling me a bad person.
-I file paypal dispute.
-He goes around [H] FS/T to post his sob story and to discredit me with lies.

Please avoid this trader.

bought a retail box e2180 more or less

Prentice was the Seller on January 10, 2008 HardForum

Agreed to buy a used full retail package cpu on 11/29. Trader only had 2 heat but they were both positive. Knowing how hard it sometimes is for new traders I gave Prentice the benefit of doubt and sent a money order via priority mail. About a week later I received the CPU via first class mail instead of priority as advertised in the thread. Also, I only received the cpu not the full retail package that was agreed to. Tied for the worst packing job I ever had the displeasure of receiving. The cpu was wrapped in a small piece of bubble wrap and put into a piece of a bubble wrap envelope and taped shut. There was flimsy plastic \"cup-like\" piece that the cpu was supposedly put in but since Prentice didn\'t bother to secure the cpu into it, it became a non-entity. I asked about the fan and was told it would ship the next day. Since then I have asked several times but still have not received the box and heatsink that is owed to me. I eventually had to buy an aftermarket heatsink so I could test the motherboard I bought. That defeated the whole purpose of buying a retail package. If I wanted an OEM chip I could have bought one new for less. At this point I have doubts that Prentice will complete the deal as agreed to. Even so I could never rate this as a positive experience. The reason it\'s not a negative is because the chip works despite the crappy packing. I also have to accept part of the blame for placing too much trust in an unestablished trader.

Sold 7600gt (eVGA)

Prentice was the Buyer on January 22, 2008 AnandTech

Great communication and a pleasure to deal with - went the extra effort in the transaction. Would love to deal with again.

sold him a Q6600

Prentice was the Buyer on November 10, 2007 HardForum

great guy good communication
fast payment

will do business with again :)

EVGA 7900GT Graphic Card

Prentice was the Buyer on January 24, 2008 HardForum

Paid Promptly good communication Smooth transaction i would do business with him again!

Mobo/CPU/Video Card

Prentice was the Seller on January 21, 2008 HardForum

Thanks! Got the items fast, in great condition. Great seller!

The deal was my 20GB IDE Seagate Hard drive, and 1GB of samsung DDR2 memory for his Audigy SE sound card.

Cross-traded on November 25, 2007 HardForum

The deal went smoothly, we both shipped out at the same time. Good communication. Good shipping time. Thanks :)

Sold an ATI X1900XTX 512 PCI-E

Prentice was the Buyer on January 22, 2008 AnandTech

sent the item first so he could test it, money order arrived promptly!
I usually dont ship first but he had good communications and everything turned out good!