Relationship between Meritline and Supermedia Store??

[dvdtek]

How come everyone is critisizing meritline and supermedia store at the same time? One is talking about the RMA Ritek and the other is about fake media from meritline. Is there any direct relationship among these two companies???? I always buy from meritline, now you guys are freeking me out!!! What should I do????? Can ANYONE help me out here????

[Mr. Orange Pants]

They're talking about them at the same time because they're the two biggest online media sellers plus they both mostly suck in the eyes of the forum peeps. I think merit sucks from personal experience.

[888888]

SupermediaStore actually has a pretty good reputation among forum members, unlike Meritline.

[handyguy]

One time I went to cdrdvdrmedia.com cause it was slightly cheaper than Meritline (free shipping), what do you know? My meritline cookie came up. Those two are the same store.

[lordsmurf]

Most of what you hear is false rumors. RITEK issued a formal press release saying that "rma" stuff was bogus.

Supermediastore is pretty good to work with.

Meritline has always had a problem with slow shipping and selling out-of-stock items (sometimes sending a "replacement" instead here and there). Not often, but happens. May be mistake more than anything. I can't handle the slow shipping they give compared to others. Same for RIMA, too slow for me (1-2 weeks).

Remember, for every 1 bad report, there are surely dozen and dozens of good reports. It's just that happy people don't open their mouth as much as unhappy people.

There are many more media companies online, I talk about some of them on my site.

[SuperMedia]

Hi DVDtek,

SuperMediaStore.com has no relationship with meritline.com. We are two totally different companies. And supermediastore.com is one of Ritek authorized distributors in USA http://www.ritekusa.com/abwheretobuy.asp
We are offering 60 money back gurantee and 180 day exchange gurantee for all our Ritek and Prodisc DVD media.

[djKale]

My very limited experience with Supermedia Store has been excellent. Where else can you spend $63 and get 100 quality DVD-Rs AND 100 double DVD cases???

Great deals at SMS IMHO

Kale

[nufan292]

I too like supermediastore, so far. When I had to do a return on Ritek media, they were very helpful and accommodating. Plus the girl on the phone was a sweetheart .

[kosekjm]

So far, I've bought from Super Media Store on four different occasions. All four times they have been great. The only problem that I have had with them was not receiving an e-mail confirmation with my shipping number. It did take almost 15 minutes on hold to get someone, but as soon as I did, they forwarded the number to me within minutes.

I've only bought from Meritline one time and I was mischarged for an item. Again, a ten minute phone call got that rectified.

From both stores, I have gotten what I ordered and received the items fast. (Last order from SMS was placed on Thursday, and I got the disks on the East coast on Tuesday).

I don't know, maybe I just got lucky. Although I will keep shopping at SMS for my media needs. Of course, I haven't had to try and RMA anything yet, so that may be one thing that customers are having problems with.

kosekjm

[lordsmurf]

Plus the girl on the phone was a sweetheart .

I've spoken to one of these there myself.
She was helpful.

[disturbed1]

Supermediastore used to ship from Meritline's warehouse. They had the same return label on the shipping sticker. Though Meritline and Supermedia have different offices, employees, phone #'s etc....

Supermedia store doesn't use Meritline's warehouse anymore, as far as I know.

Fake media ID from Meritline was from selling Princo's with TDK media IDs, and "OEM MAXELL" media, which was manufactored with fake Maxell media IDs. Ritek also shipped the wrong product to them once before also. Meritline ordered 8x media, shipment was packed and labled as 8x media, but Ritek actually had 4x media inside.

Since you always order from Meritline, and have good experiences, there shouldn't be a reason to change vendors. Unless one offers a product you need at a better price.

Meritline has always had a problem with slow shipping and selling out-of-stock items (sometimes sending a "replacement" instead here and there). Not often, but happens. May be mistake more than anything. I can't handle the slow shipping they give compared to others. Same for RIMA, too slow for me (1-2 weeks).

WOW That's some seriously slow shipping times. Meritline and Rima are both on the west coast, and I live on the east coast. If I order early Monday, I've always recieved my stuff by Wed. Friday if I choose ground shipping. Supermedia takes a day longer with 2nd day air, and ground, Newegg, regaurdless where it ships from, takes 6-8 days everytime.

But I only use East Cost vendors now. Order Monday, pay for ground shipping, and recieve product on Tuesday. Same price, faster delivery, and fewer angry UPS/FedEx people touching my stuff

[overloaded_ide]

I have not bought from either store yet.

I have bought from rima a couple times, it was only 1 day longer for delivery than from newegg, which is almost always 3 days. I am central USA. Sounds like maybe they had a problem with that 2 week order?

[tkamin]

To lordsmurf:

RITEK issued a formal press release saying that "rma" stuff was bogus.

Wow! does that mean that everything said here about Amazon.com selling those RMA was wrong? - can I safely buy their Ritek 50-pack for 35$ and be sure that that it's good quality?

To Supermedia guy:
I've tried oredring once (with an international credit card) to have something shipped within the US but you said you don't accept those cards.
why does a big and respectful retailer like you refuse to accept these cards?

Thanks,
Tzvika

[lordsmurf]

To lordsmurf:

RITEK issued a formal press release saying that "rma" stuff was bogus.

Wow! does that mean that everything said here about Amazon.com selling those RMA was wrong? - can I safely buy their Ritek 50-pack for 35$ and be sure that that it's good quality?

Yes, it means the "RMA" crap was some lies started (at least here) by videohelp.com member "500AX" and spread around like school-ground gossip by others.

http://www.ritekusa.com/abpress_news.asp?news=7

Common sense would have even told most people that an RMA pack would have burned discs in it (not all returns are blank! duh!), so the lie was pretty weak to start with.

As far as "good quality" ... well ... let's just say I quit using them months ago. Your mileage may vary. Some people still use them with great results, some have issues. The inkjets seem to be better than the others.

WOW That's some seriously slow shipping times. Meritline and Rima are both on the west coast, and I live on the east coast.

Tell me about it. Dealing with RIMA and MERITLINE is why I had to go buy quick media from stores so much late last year and early this year. With SUPERMEDIASTORE, I'm getting within a few days. I'll stay with them as long as the service lasts. I know my Meritline orders would not be processed for 3-4 days sometimes, and a few more before the card got charged. RIMA not so bad, but sometimes ... it got bad. My only guess is too much business was hitting them.

RIMA was not like that at first. Meritline ALWAYS slow for me. DVD-RWMEDIA was not too bad. AMERICAL was slow as hell too.

[VinnySem]

Supermediastore used to ship from Meritline's warehouse. They had the same return label on the shipping sticker. Though Meritline and Supermedia have different offices, employees, phone #'s etc....

Supermedia store doesn't use Meritline's warehouse anymore, as far as I know.

Fake media ID from Meritline was from selling Princo's with TDK media IDs, and "OEM MAXELL" media, which was manufactored with fake Maxell media IDs. Ritek also shipped the wrong product to them once before also. Meritline ordered 8x media, shipment was packed and labled as 8x media, but Ritek actually had 4x media inside.

Since you always order from Meritline, and have good experiences, there shouldn't be a reason to change vendors. Unless one offers a product you need at a better price.

Meritline has always had a problem with slow shipping and selling out-of-stock items (sometimes sending a "replacement" instead here and there). Not often, but happens. May be mistake more than anything. I can't handle the slow shipping they give compared to others. Same for RIMA, too slow for me (1-2 weeks).

WOW That's some seriously slow shipping times. Meritline and Rima are both on the west coast, and I live on the east coast. If I order early Monday, I've always recieved my stuff by Wed. Friday if I choose ground shipping. Supermedia takes a day longer with 2nd day air, and ground, Newegg, regaurdless where it ships from, takes 6-8 days everytime.

But I only use East Cost vendors now. Order Monday, pay for ground shipping, and recieve product on Tuesday. Same price, faster delivery, and fewer angry UPS/FedEx people touching my stuff

What East Coast vendor do you use now, disturbed? I am in the Northeast also, my last few purchases I've gotten from Newegg, gotten good deals/fast shipping, but they are kind of limited in their selection.

[Bodyslide]

I have used these to purchase Prodisc from. They are in Duluth Ga. I also am in Ga, so shipping is really quick for me.

http://www.emediadepot.com/

[axolotls]

Supermediastore used to ship from Meritline's warehouse. They had the same return label on the shipping sticker. Though Meritline and Supermedia have different offices, employees, phone #'s etc....

Supermedia store doesn't use Meritline's warehouse anymore, as far as I know.

I remember someone from Meritlne -here- talking about the relationship. Although, I use supermedia quite a lot, SUPERMEDIA should have at least echoed what Disturbed1 posted. When I read that initial statement about no relationship, I was rather put back.

[DVDeeZ]

smurf wrote:

Most of what you hear is false rumors. RITEK issued a formal press release saying that "rma" stuff was bogus.

Still trying to B.S people on here huh smurf? All of what smurf and supermedia wrote were flat out lies. Can't believe your still pulling at straws smurf, especially when you still have no idea what you are talking about. It's not that difficult to figure out either. Instead of having you just repeatedly post NON-factual, more opinionated info. How bout the answers to some basic questions from you or your contact smurf.

1) The original post was written well before anyones negative comments on those cake box crap Riteks, not after. Then all the negative feedback from those who got screwed with those disks was posted. That must just be a real strange coincidence though, right? How could that be?

2) Why didn't supermedia respond to the post? I'll help you on this tough question. They didn't respond, because they couldn't respond. They got their crap handed to them by the pound right in their face. They never would of expected that.

3) Most importantly of all though, why are these disks considerably cheaper in cost then all the other Ritek disks? Oh, and the real question i'm sure some want answered smurf is, why are these disks so damn crappy? How bout "actually" answering the questions with some facts smurf? You can't answer the questions with facts because you have none.

Oh, and as far as "RITEKS PRESS RELEASE" goes, yea, that holds a lot of weight. How many people would of seen that? It wasn't on the national news, and Ritek knows that. But oh, Ritek can't flat out lie like supermediastore can they? No way, that couldn't happen to help save business and cover up their unethical practices.

Bill Clinton also couldn't of had oral sex with Monica Lewinsky. He was the President of the United States and he told the World he didn't have sexual relations with that woman. So of course he's gotta be innocent. It's the facts that counted in that case, and it's the facts that count here.

Too bad the thread got locked, I didn't realize that Joe89 idiot was NakedGeek. It's real, real sad smurf that you'd sell out the forum members on this board pulling supermediastores chain when you or they don't have a leg to stand on. Even more sad is pulling their chain when you haven't posted a single fact at all. Sell the forum members out so you can still get your free media from supermediastore. That's a real shame.

[chas0039]

Here we go again.

[axolotls]

[quote="lordsmurf"]

To lordsmurf:

RITEK issued a formal press release saying that "rma" stuff was bogus.

Tell me about it. Dealing with RIMA and MERITLINE is why I had to go buy quick media from stores so much late last year and early this year. With SUPERMEDIASTORE, I'm getting within a few days. I'll stay with them as long as the service lasts. I know my Meritline orders would not be processed for 3-4 days sometimes, and a few more before the card got charged. RIMA not so bad, but sometimes ... it got bad. My only guess is too much business was hitting them.
.

I love RIMA and SupermediaStore. Although I have to pay state tax on the orders, if I spend time comparing the final price, I can go with either.

Anyways, If I order from either RIMA or SMS on Monday... it's a damn good chance I will get them Wednesday. Meritline is cheaper on ink and some other stuff, but they take a bit longer to ship and I am too impatient for that.

And what's with the political comments?

[disturbed1]

What East Coast vendor do you use now, disturbed? I am in the Northeast also, my last few purchases I've gotten from Newegg, gotten good deals/fast shipping, but they are kind of limited in their selection.

www.mediasupply.com (PA)

www.shopperwiz.com (ships from PA)

www.cddimensions.com (CT)

Though mediasupply is a bit more, they always ship the same day with great packing and only FedEx. Shopperwiz usually process orders the following day, and choosing ground shipping (Federal Express Ground) get's to me in 2 days (I'm ~2 states away). CD Dimensions has a better selection, and if you order early morning, same day shipping.


If I need my DVDs NOW I choose mediasupply, if I can wait a couple of days, it's maxell from Shopper Wiz, which has probably the lowest price on Maxell and Verbatim media.

I was an avid Rima shopper, but had issues with UPS and FedEx handling my boxes. I'm moving (back) to Arizona in around a month, so I'll most likely switch back to Rima once I get things set up again.

[lordsmurf]

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah . ....... Oh, and as far as "RITEKS PRESS RELEASE" goes, yea, that holds a lot of weight. How many people would of seen that?....... blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

A press release simply needs to hit its intended target audience. It does not need to be national news. The audience that prompted this release was exclusively the videohelp.com site and it's members. Why? Because a few clowns decided it was going to spreads libelous rumors (those were NOT opinions or reviews) using this site as it's mouthpiece. That has now been crushed as the crap it was. I'll believe two reputable companies long before I believe two foul-mouthed anonymous posters.

Remember kids:



Beyond this, I have my suspicions that some of the less-respectable companies are behind this. Especially ones that market their own media over Ritek and others. And none of them are new to such unethical practices (being garage businesses at best, not true professional companies).

I have no love for RITEK either, but that's no excuse to pass around outright lies (ie, RITEK uses RMA), when the company states that is not true.

[Myrdhinn]

Lordsmurf, considering he's the same one now extolling the virtues of Matrix media from shop4tech saying it's TY and yet I called TY and they've not heard of or have dealings with Matrix. One does have to wonder if blah blah blah, sorry, DVDeeZ is a shop4tech shill?

[lordsmurf]

Lordsmurf, considering he's the same one now extolling the virtues of Matrix media from shop4tech saying it's TY and yet I called TY and they've not heard of or have dealings with Matrix. One does have to wonder if blah blah blah, sorry, DVDeeZ is a shop4tech shill?

Yes, one must wonder.

Anyway, I just bought more from supermediastore.
Something new I saw after done making the order:
http://shopping.yahoo.com/merchrating/user_rv.html;_ylt=An9LZzhWtra_QkXiBWDUyQ5DmmYB;_...ant_id=1013656
That's not a bad rating, and those are from buyers using the Yahoo system. That's remarkably good. I was surprised. I really hope they can keep up the level of service.

[DVDeeZ]

boy smurf, you keep posting more garbage every time you come along. You're a real sad case. Anyone that reads your shit and has half a brain can figure that out. You come on and now say you'll "believe" this or believe that when you had these so-called contacts. I asked 3 real simple questions, and you still haven't answered a single one of them.

You're a disgrace and my guess is you fool a bunch of people with your 5,000 posts. I guess the newbies see that and figure that what you say must be correct. But I think alot of people who read the Ritek posts now realize you're just a dipshit with opinions and alot of talk about knowing this or knowing that, but really not knowing anything more then anyone else who has used a shitload of media. The nomorecoasters site indicates that with all the innaccurate info. But you can bullshit with the best of em', i'll give you that.

Your post regarding that ATI card and a slow processor really showed that. It was so ridiculous I barely remember it. As far as this Ritek issue goes, my goal was just to make sure supermediastore didn't bullshit any more then they already had. There's a lot more Ritek issues then the one mentioned on this forum, that's another fact, but there's no need to mention that because you'll only be more confused.

myrdhinn, you must be smurf under another nic trying to counter the fact that smurf gets nicely compensated from supermediastore. It's not gonna work.

If you aren't smurf, you don't seem to have a problem reading, so I suggest you read some of my posts. I've purchased from the majority of the online media sites. Recently just purchased prodiscs from Rima where I had an issue and they rectified it. The name of the person who took care of it was "Randy" if I were a shop4tech shill I'd have no need to purchase from Rima or anywhere else. Not to mention I purchase an abundance of media from places like Best Buy, Office Depot, Compusa, Office Max, and many others.

I am loyal to shop4tech because I haven't been screwed by them and on the rare instances I had some type of issue it was handled promptly with very little issue. As far as these 8X Matrix disks go, they are absolutely excellent and you obviously haven't tried them. I've even been much more surprised with nothing but positive results. Once again though you've got someone who spoke to someone and knows someone who said this or said that but no names are given. If my results continue then i'll post it, if they don't, then i'll post that too. If shop4tech ever screwed me or deceived me, i'd go somewhere else, I have plenty of options.

[Myrdhinn]

dvddeez i couildnt care less where/who you buy from. I was just pointing out TY said to me on the phone they don't deal or supply Matrix with anything. Go ahead, phone them, mabye the person I talked to was wrong but I'd not bet on it knowing Japan/China relations. I'll go by what some person I don't know from TY opposed to some user I don't know. If it works fine, but it doesn't look like its official TY media.

[richdvd]

But I think alot of people who read the Ritek posts now realize you're just a dipshit with opinions and alot of talk about knowing this or knowing that, but really not knowing anything more then anyone else who has used a shitload of media. The nomorecoasters site indicates that with all the innaccurate info.

@dvddeez
You really have some nerve.
Alot of people highly value Lord Smurf's opinions and research regarding media/video. All you are doing here is taking shots at him.
He has given myself and others really good advice, so piss off already!

[vitualis]

I think all usefulness has been exhausted in this thread.

I remind the members here that personal attacks are not welcome on this forum and if you keep at it, you will receive either a formal warning or banned.

This thread is locked.

Regards.