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All absolutely valid concerns.

Your order is "weird" because it's a contest award; I tend to give priority to normal orders first, and then I process contest awards in large batches every week or two.

Part of the problem is just limited time right now; my wife has been traveling for her job a bunch again and has been gone the better part of the month, so my time has been stretched *very* thin.

Haha that's actually a very legitimate question

Right now, there is no major reason - which is also why I haven't put as much time in of late. Sounds a bit like a chicken/egg situation, but let me elaborate:

Computer parts is a RAZOR thin margin business. You have to either (a) do MASSIVE volume or (b) exploit a major niche to be successful.

We do (b) sometimes, when the market forces allow. This is typically when new CPU revisions come out and I can use my networks to snag specific revisions / steppings. I've also used it to get inventory on high demand parts when nobody else could, and I did so without gouging our customers. Back when the E8400 / Q9450's launched, I was the *only* reseller in the US who had them, for at least a week and a half, and I sold hundreds at very little markup.

Right now though, since AMD has been virtually a non-factor, Intel hasn't had the incentive to ramp up tech as quick, and what has come out has been awash in supply - leaving us no niche to service.

So for our "normal" sales we are pretty much dormant right now. The site is only really processing OCN orders / contest awards these days, and will until some new thing comes out that we can assist with.

Paid OCN orders are still generally processed pretty quickly, but yes, contest awards lag at times, but are still shipped out faster than they used to be before we moved to this new system; it's just more transparent now so it *looks* slower