Purchasing IMAC from Gadget Computers Cape Town

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killkom

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Hi All

I am in the market for a IMAC I found someone in in Cape Town that has extremely good prices a little to good to be true

They have a new late 2012 IMAC 27" 3.4 GHZ i7 with 32 Gigs Mem and 3 TB Fusion drive and a 680MX GPU going for R11k

The seller states its covered by apples warrantee and so on

The name of the place is Gadget Computers www.gadgetcmp.com

Has anyone purchased anything from these guys before?

Is there anything I should watch out for here?

Thanks
 
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XBOX ONE for R5K? Seems very sketchy.
 

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A few things to note:

1) Content Fillers on home page - I doubt they've been selling too many Lorem Ipsums nor Editable-Elements, in which case they haven't spent much time on their website or checked it recently if it broke.
2) questionable Capitalization - not a massive one but in a few places the copy is pretty dodge. Some words which should be are capitalized, others not... like western Cape and south Africa.
3) All numbers given on the site are mobile numbers, no landlines.
4) No terms and conditions given on the site - link tells you to request from them... this is far from common practice for an online store.
5) They say they have a 65000 warehouse and retail store in Kenilworth, then the Contact Page lists them at Unit xx, cnr of xx and xx... which after checking on Street View is actually a very well known outlet/factory mall called Access Park. Not sure why they wouldn't state Access Park if they're there.

Having said that, this is judging the company based only on their website, which for all we know could be brand new and still under some sort of construction.

In a nutshell, I wouldn't hand these guys a cent until I have the working, tested product in my hand.
 
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Yeah COD only.

But I would just pay the real money at Digicape and have the peace of mind.
 
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They're selling a canon 5d mk3 bundle kit for R26,000 less than Orms? :eek:

Run run run-away.
 
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I live in CPT and I go to access park almost once per week and have NEVER heard nor seen this place.
 
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Dr Evil said:
I live in CPT and I go to access park almost once per week and have NEVER heard nor seen this place.
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I had a feeling that may be the case, though I could also be wrong about them being in Access Park... Could they be anywhere else on that same intersection in "Unit G5"?

Also maybe Unit G is one of those at-the-back out-of-the-way more warehouse-type units..
 
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Dean said:
I had a feeling that may be the case, though I could also be wrong about them being in Access Park... Could they be anywhere else on that same intersection in "Unit G5"?

Also maybe Unit G is one of those at-the-back out-of-the-way more warehouse-type units..
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If i go that way again this week I'll take a drive through again and check, could just be an over sight in my part, the website says specifically they in access park according to the address though
 
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If you do a search based on this scammer's e-mail address - Renee@gadgetcmp .com - he advertises a lot! Some of his 'addresses' are Jhb, Soweto, Centurion, Capetown & East London - just from the few I looked at. Dodgy!
 
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Yeah I was not getting a good feeling from this so I do not think I am going to go for this. I did contact Renee and he replied quite quick I told him that I will be in Cape Town in late Jan and would like to come see his setup there and look at the imac but he said for first time buyers he only does delivery and does not allow people to come to his place stating that he had been robbed recently

I also asked him where he gets these macs form at such a good price and that I don't want to buy stolen stuff. He says he buys them from ebay and foogle then he resells them I want to ebay and foogle and I could not find any macs of this spec for this price so things are not checking out

The 65000 square meter warehouse seemed a bit excessive thanks for the feedback guys looks like las usual if it's to good to be true it probably is
 
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Why can't we get the cops to do a sting on him.
 
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Hi Guys, I'm the owner of a Company called Gadget Computers in Johannesburg, This company Gadgetcmp has taken it upon themselves to make use on my CK number to trade. We are currently busy with Cipro and the Police will be contacted. Please don't purchase anything from gadgetcmp or deal4u, these are two websites that they are using to sell or/and scam from. please forward any correspondence that you may have with gadgetcmp or deal4u to craig@gadgetit.co.za so we can make our case stronger and get these guys closed down

update on gadgetcmp scam
charges have been laid with the police CIPRO has been contacted and will be taking action
please guys don't purchase anything from these guys
 
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Gadget said:
Hi Guys, I'm the owner of a Company called Gadget Computers in Johannesburg, This company Gadgetcmp has taken it upon themselves to make use on my CK number to trade. We are currently busy with Cipro and the Police will be contacted. Please don't purchase anything from gadgetcmp or deal4u, these are two websites that they are using to sell or/and scam from. please forward any correspondence that you may have with gadgetcmp or deal4u to craig@gadgetit.co.za so we can make our case stronger and get these guys closed down

update on gadgetcmp scam
charges have been laid with the police CIPRO has been contacted and will be taking action
please guys don't purchase anything from these guys
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Good to know. Thanks for the headsup. Good luck.
 
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Gadget said:
Hi Guys, I'm the owner of a Company called Gadget Computers in Johannesburg, This company Gadgetcmp has taken it upon themselves to make use on my CK number to trade. We are currently busy with Cipro and the Police will be contacted. Please don't purchase anything from gadgetcmp or deal4u, these are two websites that they are using to sell or/and scam from. please forward any correspondence that you may have with gadgetcmp or deal4u to craig@gadgetit.co.za so we can make our case stronger and get these guys closed down

update on gadgetcmp scam
charges have been laid with the police CIPRO has been contacted and will be taking action
please guys don't purchase anything from these guys
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Thanks. Appreciate the feedback.
 
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