Quote - While that might seem like a lot of work, try buying all those items online separately, and then spending two days trying to figure out why it won't boot up. Then spend a week waiting for a replacement on one part, find out it's not what the issue was, and then wait another week for the replacement for the proper defective part.

Then try to wrangle all the rebates you are supposed to get, and follow up on them for 5 months before you get them all sorted!

Believe me, after that hell, a few hours on the phone with a rep is pure heaven.

Yes -- and that's the issue about spending more money to buy......dare I say it?.......retail at a local store vs. online from a company 10 states away from yours.  When you buy from a local store, there's generally no waiting to exchange a defective unit for a new one.  You take the broken one back to the store & they hand you a new one to take its place -- no muss, no fuss (usually).

Buy something online; save $$$$$; take delivery of the unit; find out that something is wrong with it; break it back down; pack it back up; ship it back out; and then wait 2 months+ to get it back again.

Frankly, that extra $200 to buy the same thing at local retail outlet can have its upside.

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