People's Experiences with Fast Track?

[PotDucky]

Hello I'm new just ordered a Vortex II, (Full spec at bottom)

I was just wondering what people's experiences are with Fast Track? I ordered Fri 26th morning time. It's already been built so it seems that's fast but I've heard people being stuck at this stage for a while. (I know it's a weekend so I'm not expecting progress now )

Only reason I chose fast track is because I wanted it here by my birthday 9/9 (Even though I'm paying -_- )

Also opinions on the my spec would be nice. I'm not used to Laptop Components but looked up all the benchmarks I could:


Chassis & Display
Vortex II: 17.3" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-2820QM (2.30GHz) 8MB Cache
Memory (RAM)
16GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (4 x 4GB)
Graphics Card
2GB AMD® Radeon® HD 6990M - DirectX® 11 (17.3" Vortex II)
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD5000BPKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
2nd Hard Disk
500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD5000BPKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
SONY BD-5730S 6x BLURAY WRITER & CYBERLINK SOFTWARE (£89)
Network Facilities
GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ 1102 WIRELESS 802.11N - IDEAL FOR ONLINE GAMING
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

Note that I didn't order an SSD because I can pick one up cheaper at a later date. The large amount of ram is pretty much pointless .

Hi :tooth:

 

[liamnic2]

Many things can occur during the building stage. Some parts can go out of stock unexpected. PCS will email you if they dont have a part you require but they do their best to make sure your PC is built within the time you payed for. If there is a delay with your fast track order then PCS will refund your fast track payment. Which is alot better than other PC retailers.

Nice laptop.And have a nice birthday.

 

[PotDucky]

The laptop has apparently already been built so that a good sign. And thank you for both remarks

 

[stegor]

The system shouldn't let you fast track if anything is out of stock so if you've successfully ordered then you should be OK. Mine came a day early I think, so fast track definitely works.

 

[.Akronym]

Fast track is great.

I ordered on Monday night with a 3 day fast track, it was built and tested Tuesday -> Thursday and delivered to me on Friday.

Can't complain with that service!

 

[mike-s]

Rang up on day 4 (including holiday) , Upgraded laptop to 5 day Fast track - shipped the same day!

Great service!

 

[PotDucky]

Yeah just an update on this, It's dispatched on the 4th working day (Ordered 3 Day Dispatch). However there was an issue where the order was cancelled (Neither my nor PCS' fault) However I wasn't even informed so the issue could have been fixed quicker if I had been by PCS