Internet purchasing 101:
-Google search the site.
-Check credentials.
-Check around to see if others have purchased.
I don't think it is necessary to list scam sites as they are usually easy to spot. If you don't know the business or never heard of them, do a little homework first.
i agree,
although it would be nice to know of such sites, it could make techpowerup liable, i'e someone here catches an employee on a bad day, then starts bad mouthing said company making things up that aren't true then lawyers get involved, W1zz gets taken to court shuts down techpowerup
take me for an instance, now i ordered some pc parts (spur of the moment kind of thing) then changed my mind (the order was placed at the begining of the year making it hard to contact them),
so i phone up said company and say i'm canceling the order, thinking that was the end of it, only to find a text next day on my mobile phone saying my order had been dispatched and would arrive at my house within 2 days so i'm like
so i ring again only for the guy to say sorry but the order had already been dispatched before i'd rang at 7 am, and when it arrived at the doorstep to refuse to sign for it, and to tell the delivery driver to return it back to xxxx
so a few phone calls later to a hot sounding girl i find the parts had been returned and that i would soon have a full refund
so i wait and wait and keep checking my bank account and 13 days later it still wasn't in
so i phoned again and spoke to another girl who said it could take upto 14 days for the money to transfer back into my account , and yes net day i did get a full refund
so who do i blame ? well myself ofcause,
my advice don't rush into buying things you don't really need
and like erocker said always check out their credentials
don't go for something just because it's super cheap that's always a give away
and don't do what my uncle did, and give out your card details over the phone, if you need to phone the company up for a one to one, as one place started charging things to his card