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My buddy took his machine into a nice local shop that promptly charged him three times the internet price of components to get a motherboard and new video card installed witha fresh windows install. Three trips later and the computer still doesnt run right. He has to run the pc with the cover off and a fan blowing on it to keep it from overheating (he already has what should be adequate cooling). The 'friendly' local dealer basically told him too bad. And that isnt even my horror story with local dealers.

Internet dealers are local somewhere and I will damned if I will pay someone 50% more just because they are local. If you want to pay the premium just to have someone to go cuss out if you have problems, more power to you. I sure do hope the phone call you got was worth the extra hundred or so dollars you spent. If you use good dealers online or local you should be fine.