Angry Chris T. (owner of Tek Republik) at it again.

6/2/2009 daryl "you're an asshole F" f. says:

LMAO the guy sounds like a self righteous turd anyway.

6/2/2009 Michelle "Two Track Mind" C. says:

As far as I'm concerned, we should lobby to have it kept there.  It tells volumes about what a jerk he is, and is just as likely to turn off potential customers than a negative review, IMO.

6/3/2009 URWhatUEa "i will be eternally hateful" T. says:

and Lord knows, only people who are PAID to review something can be counted on to be objective about the subject.  So much more trustworthy than those regular old non-paid opinions!

It always irks me when Tools reappropriate the word Tool.

6/3/2009 mmm m. says:

nice to see you Ashley... what crap!

6/3/2009 daryl "you're an asshole F" f. says:

lol did you post this on craigs list ashley?
http://austin.craigsli...

6/3/2009 Anna "underseakitty" G. says:

i agree with michelle...when people see that message, it'll cost him business.  leave it for all to see!

6/3/2009 Jessica "bred for its skills in magic" S. says:

Wow! That makes me want to go to Tek republik. What a great business model!

6/3/2009 Jack "Please Check Your Smoke Detectors" N. says:

That guy's lack of business sense is astounding.

6/3/2009 Shanti "grinderhead" D. says:

Amazing.  I think it should stay right where it is.  He posted it, he must mean it.  I find it informative that the business owner acts this way.  Did you see his reply to one of the one star reviews?  Also brilliant.

6/3/2009 Carla "No One's Looking for You" S. says:

Wow, he looks as nuts as he writes.

6/3/2009 Ellen "now, what was I doing again?..." J. says:

He has no idea who he's dealing with. We're kind of a big deal.

6/3/2009 Ellen "now, what was I doing again?..." J. says:

I say we keep posting to this thread so everyone sees it when they log in.

6/3/2009 Christine M. says:

Wow.  I was hoping we'd heard the last from him, but now I'm glad that he popped on to post that bit of brilliance!

6/3/2009 Ashley C. says:

"Wow.  I was hoping we'd heard the last from him, but now I'm glad that he popped on to post that bit of brilliance!"

I had nearly entirely forgotten about his Yelpy outbursts, sadly I cannot forget the POS computer I'm still suffering with, so when I saw Tek had a posting on craigslist as an ad for custom computers, I had to make a response. If my posting has ever saved a single person from throwing away money at them like I did, then I am a super happy camper.

He actually made a response to me on craigslist, making him look more like a full blown crazy:
http://austin.craigsli...

For reference: The computer was finished June 2008, I believe it had been started in March but I am not sure.

A review from 2006 of the motherboard put in it: http://www.techspot.co...
Please note that it doesn't list support for Vista, and that's what they put on my machine.

Here are some pictures I took of the inside of my machine.

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the bent metal where they shoved the power supply into it's place sloppily

http://i41.tinypic.com...
If you can believe it, the wires were actually even worse when I got it. Fan wires were getting scratched up by the heat sink fan the very first day, obviously no effort was made for this machine to last.

http://i39.tinypic.com...
http://i44.tinypic.com...
http://i42.tinypic.com...
Bent heat sink metal, it's been like that since day one.

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Size comparison, the fan they put in the grate on the right (where the new fan is), was identical to the fan pictured on left.

http://i42.tinypic.com...
Nice missing back plate, bro. How do you not notice that?

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missing space from where they took out the USB card.

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just a general back view of the case.

All of the connections were done with grey ribbon, so I replaced those. Also replaced a tiny fan they screwed into the back grate, which was made for a larger fan. Two of the harddrives they put in there (3 in total) were actually just RMA'd replacements. The CD drive they put in initially was instantly replaced by two DVD RW drives I already had, that I had asked be moved to the new machine previously.

So pretty much I paid 1200+ for a 2 year old motherboard, three under 15$ fans, a case that came with a 460W power supply, 4 2GB sticks of RAM, one 300 GB HD, and a pretty good video card. If my math adds up correctly, those items (at time of purchase) didn't even add up to HALF the cost of that. If I paid 600$+ for labour, I want to know where the people who put it together got their degrees.

I was testing a hard drive when I took these so ignore the 1.5 seagate just chillin out there.

6/3/2009 URWhatUEa "i will be eternally hateful" T. says:

You'd think someone who's Paid to Write would have learned to use the line space function.
or
Maybe he put together his own crappy computer and the return key doesn't work?

Dude needs to relax.

6/3/2009 Ashley C. says:

Apparently both hitting enter and putting "br" are way too labour intensive for Chris to do, lets not strain the poor man.

6/3/2009 Carrie "Carrie C." C. says:

Wow.

6/4/2009 Ashley C. says:

You can say that again, Carrie. I actually bumped into another person in his field today and she was absolutely appalled by how Chris had treated her on a business level and said that she had heard all about me from him and that he "bitched a lot" and my review made it all the more obvious to others how much he hates women. I guess the cat's out of the bag!

6/4/2009 Shannon "My issues have issues" O. says:

Goodness... Chris T. sounds like he needs a cookie, nap and diaper change.

6/4/2009 Javier "troll bait" D. says:

I think you guys need to get it over with and make out.

6/4/2009 Ashley C. says:

That's just foul, please don't make me vomit, Javier! D:

6/4/2009 Javier "troll bait" D. says:

...and my work here is done.

6/4/2009 skraggle "cross-dressing rumors unfounded" d. says:

Plus, he can't spell either "Tech" or "Republic" correctly. Additional red flag.

6/4/2009 URWhatUEa "i will be eternally hateful" T. says:

I had suspected maybe he originally thought he could rip you off because you're a young cute girl, and we all know cute girls are always brainless.

6/4/2009 Ardie "Absinthes make the heart grow fonder" S. says:

Proper assembly using wire ties is so overrated, Ashley...