I found a place that has G1 in stock

I just check out a local computer store in Houston, Directron.com

http://directron.com/asusg1.html


Price list $1789.

I live in HOuston and stop by this place a couple of times, they're good sellers. I also work there for summer job. I didn't know how can they got these instock but they did.

C'mon people, if you haven't place ur order yet, here is the chance.

PS: If you live in Houston or Texas, tax will be charged. Which will be 150$ more, so it's not a good deal anymore. Tax raises the laptop to 1940$ .

 

Eh, sketchy. Or maybe not.

I'd still rather order from one of the resellers that posts regularly here.
Peace of mind I guess.

 

Same. Trust is a big issue online. However, I would like to thank you for that info, I am sure many people are dying to get it before Xmas.

 

I forget the kids name who started Directron, but he got bought out for a lot of money a couple years back. I'm not sure about them now, but I had talked to them before they were bought out and they were on the up and up. However, since, they've gotten into drop shipping Asus notebooks. As far as I'm aware, they don't stock them, at least they don't stock them in a warehouse for what they're selling online.

Right now, there have only been two dozen G1's to come to North America and I know all four of us that got any of them.... and they were all gone before they got delivered... trust me on that one. The second shipment doesn't even hit port until tomorrow I don't think... We may have some by this time next week if they get through customs tomorrow, but as far as anyone having this instant to ship today or tomororrow... I don't think that is humanly possible, especially when their specicalty is anything but Asus' notebooks. They're time to ship might be a week or something, and at that point they might be in... I've found that "in stock" labels mean nothing to customers because most companies use it to attract buyers - and then they leagally have a week or more to physically ship to you....

On the subject, our "in stock" labels are only for what we physically have here at our PA location and even while our next shipment is in transit from Asus, we'll list a "backorder" with an ETA (if Asus hasn't recieved it yet) or a guarenteed stock date (based on tracking information we got from Asus showing out shipment is on it's way to us). I know that isn't "normal" for this day and age, but since people ask us every day "is this really in stock" when we show exact stock numbers... it means people really take notice with little actual hope...

*EDIT*
Let me note one thing, as of 5pm EST today, Asus is still unwilling to confirm the ETA of the next shipment of G1's - or the first shipment of G1's or V1's..... That means they haven't even gotten word that these models are on the ship that would be coming to port today or tomorrow.... Meaning, they may not have even left Taiwan yet (we're hoping they did and they may have), but Taiwan wouldn't give them a guarantee that they have yet..... Should tell you a lot.

 

The moral of the story is nothing or everything. What in between is just hope...so hopefulllyyy, it will come soon.

 

I was told by one guy there last weekend, both G1 and G2 on the way to NA, just none of them knows the qty, let's pray.

 

Yeah, between us, we know more than we're supposed to talk about..... but due to parts shortages on almost everything right now, we'll get one ETA from one person about physical shipments from Taiwan.... then another from someone else in the US office about their receiving of that shipment..... and we both know it's an average of 10-14 days from when the ship leaves Taiwan until it gets to port in the US.... so, if the two ETA's are spaced more than two weeks apart, or the US says "we have nothing concrete", it means that they're worried about possible hold ups in customs (common this time of year), and Taiwan may not have given them an exact quantity that was shipped... so it could be 20, it could be 200... very good reasons to keep it on the DL until they arrive and get sorted.

 

WEll just some information for you guys. It's kinda hard to believe Directron get hold of those note books. Probably they can get1 or 2 ... May be i'll stop by the store this weekend to see if they have it or not. The computer system in the store keeps the stock update better than the online one.

Proportable, directron's owner is a chinese guy (micheal). They have some people look up google and link the G1 website to Notebookforums too.

WEll i'd buy the G1 from either milestone or proportable cause i'm free of tax.

 

Who was the owner? I would remember the guys name if I heard it... Whoever it was, when they were bought out the guy I remember left (I think he was going to start college at the time.... I seem to remember he started Directron in high school and sold out to pay for college or something like that).

I know a lot of people who come on this forum who will say they have something in stock... and they may..... but they may have the same 1 piece for weeks on end too but no one buys them. It's one way to maintain stock and *look* better than other places, but when we're talking about something that came in so small of a shipment to begin with, anyone who would have even gotten one, and has no reputation to speak of, would have sold it. But since I know everyone that got those that came in, that wasn't the case... so Directron wouldn't have even gotten one..... and they wouldn't even have one for their display at their store...

With that though.. there's nothing wrong with them listing something like this as in stock.... Anyone who deals with companies that sell 1,000's of products should expect much less of them when it comes to first hand knowledge about the products or their stock...... That's typically why places like that sell cheaper.... they never handle the product, they known nothing more than what's on their whitepapers, and they don't accept returns... it's all about volume and certainly nothing about quality or service. The only thing I've never grasped as an individual was how a company could put their reputation on claiming when they could ship something, when it's a distributor of theirs that then orders and ships the product.... It's one thing to trust the employees you pay and train... it's another to trust someone who only cares if you give them an order and have not a single care in the world about your end user.... So, an order might take longer to process.... the company may not have any in stock, but they say they do. Right now, we have probably 90% of Asus' dealers who have either never seen an Asus laptop, or haven't actually sold one (have websites, but no one buys from them). These people, take your order, place an order with a distribution house, the disty then orders from Asus and Asus drop ships them to the customer..... That's a long time to guarentee. It's one that we haven't been a part. When your word is everything, if it's 12pm and we can say we can get something out by time FedEx comes at 12:30, you better be able to put up. When our guys pull the last of some model off the shelf to guarentee someone it can be theirs, they do it so they don't need to call that person back and apoligize that someone else was able to grab it first.... That's not a conversation anyone here has ever, or would ever like to make.

 

FYI directron drop ships from distribution direct to customer as far as i heard.

 

Eddie, it's ok.. but how is that an FYI, when I already said that in the last post about an hour before you? Like I said, it's ok.. but just makes me think you don't actually read my posts

 

I read your post but you were making an edumacated guess. I actually know who they dropship with.

 

... edumacated guess? Ok, that's too off to be a typo... so perhaps I just don't know what that is?

So do I Ed, but do I want to be the one to let the cat out of the bag? Two ways you can tell someone drop ships their products...... 1 - ZERO return policy on them; 2 - When they claim "warehouses" in different states... We've never tried to seem bigger than we were, nor have we had too... but I've seen the "massive reseller list" and people wanting others to know about all the warehouses they have.... they'd a clear indication they don't a single notebook they can touch because they don't stock them.

Think I nailed that right on the head Ed?

 

You beat the candy out of the pinata...Nothing new though. Obviously if asus has no g1's. distis have none, 99% of resellers have one. What is the chance that a random reseller has one?

 

Asus have confirmed the uptake on this machine has caught them on the hop - the UK has seen it's allocation half since shipping, however they are expecting build/shipping of these over the Christmas period so we should all see them in proper quantities via the channels early Jan