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Pondering?
Wondering how we get our prices? All our cost numbers come from www.Pricewatch.com. Pricewatch has gives a good estimate of what the going rate of parts should be. Aside from using Pricewatch, we also have some rules we follow when we pick who gets to have the lowest price.
The First Rule about…
We choose the companies we list carefully, and hopefully our methods have some reason to them. If you go the Mecca that is www.resellerratings.com, you'll see that they list a score for almost every company that sells computer parts on the web. Our goal is to only use companies that have a rating of 5.6 or higher, keep in mind that their scale is out of 7(who knows why?). If you divide 5.6 by 7, you'll see that we were shooting for a "B", or eighty percent. We feel that should keep us sufficiently safe from companies that happen to have one-room operations with their phones off the hook.
Rule Number II
It is not enough to lay down this rating scheme. Anyone could write one glowing review of a company, and bam! They have a perfect rating, and you still have no clue how this company functions when stuff goes wrong. We decided that fifty or so reviews would be enough to weed out numerous companies, thereby making sure that at least a few those reviews consist of people that are impossible to please. Sure this makes it hard for good small guys to get their foot in the door, but word of mouth is viral with a community as small as this. Heck, look at Plycon, they've done mighty well considering their size.
Disclaimer Number III
We're sure somebody is going to start some conspiracy theory about FiringSquad being in cahoots with some company or another. Let's just get that out of the way, there is no such thing; if there was, I'd want my piece of the pie. The companies picked here are based solely on price and a decent Resellerrating (which is largely determined by people like you). And another thing, if some price looks to good to be true, don't go blabbing to the companies and raise hell about getting your flagship processor for $2.00, chances are we were probably snorting up while trying to type. Errors happen, we'll try our best to minimize them.
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