"Great merchant"

Great merchant - highly recommended

"Serious company, would recommend"

Prices are competitive and real time inventory on the website is a plus.
The execution of my order was straight forward and the parcel & equipment both arrived in good state.

"so far..."

So, for the past couple of day's I have been looking for a low profile GPU that will fit into my old desktop that I am using for college. I don't need some fancy dancy 3080 RTX crazy GPU. so when I have set in stone that I am going to buy the 1050 TI because it has a low profile option. I found one on shopBLT.com for 160$, which is very good since they are selling on ebay for upwards of 500$ as I am typing this.



with this being said, I have talked to some people at shopBLT.com but could not find the answer, as following.... "will this take months to arrive" the customer service was alright. But not the best. i am starting to worry, this is because I do not have 500$ for a GPU. And I kind of need one since I kind of need one since video editing is going to be my major.



I so far my experience is going well, and I am sorry since this is not really a review as much as this as this is question. But I see alot of bad reviews saying that shopBLT.com is a bad website and that the GPU'S are taking forever to ship. I don't know if it is because they are trying to buy the super cool GTX 3080 when they do not have them in stock yet or if they are buying some cheap GPU'S that are in stock but are just taking for ever to ship.




No matter what I hope I can give this website a good review, as my friend said that it is better then newwegg in some scenarios. I would really like to give this website a really good review but the question would this answer would decide if this website is good or not, just in my opinion.





so far I do recommend, and think that you should think about purchasing something from this website!

"Store experience was/is great"

Store experience was/is great! I have a free queue to wait in and will be updated when they're close to getting me the product! I'm not in dire need but it's something I want. I'm grateful they offer what they do and can see I'm not alone. This is a legit store that tells you up front they don't have everything and will tell you when they have what you want. I appreciate this kind of site because if they wanted they could price gouge but appears they are not that kind of company. Will look at this place before ever ordering from other places.

"Mixed feelings about my ordering experience. Several orders placed, starting last year. So far ZERO items shipped. See review for details..."

It's too bad, as I have read elsewhere that they have a good reputation. Because of what I had read, I have ordered several different items from them, from graphics cards to desktop CPUs. I haven't made any huge orders. Just one of each item (minus the 3400G, which I ordered two of).

One of the items I ordered had very few orders placed on it. I considered myself lucky, as I had got my order in very close to when the product was listed. Sadly, the manufacturer's estimated ship date was delayed. I was informed in an email. Then it happened again.

And again.
And again.
AND AGAIN.

You get the idea. Here we are, approaching EIGHT MONTHS of waiting. Every single item I have ordered from them, starting last year, has been perpetually delayed. It is hard to believe that "manufacturers" are giving them these fake estimates that keep changing, month after month. If that's the case, why would ShopBLT even provide any kind of estimate at all?

Take the 3400G for example - I was able to order one off Newegg long since I placed the preorder from ShopBLT. There's a microcenter about two hours from me with a stack of them in stock. These restock frequently nowadays, and you can finally order one without scalper markups.

But ShopBLT? NOPE. "Estimated" ship date is pushed back again and again.

REVIEW UPDATE:

They have shipped 0% of what I have ordered from them. 100% of my orders with ShopBLT have been either canceled, or endlessly delayed. Perhaps other products ship in a timely manner, but I think that they should change the term "Pre-order" to "wish list" or "queue". Otherwise, you are preordering items that have NO ACCURATE ESTIMATE on when they will ship. You will wait for months, often while other retailers re-stock and sell out of those same items you "preordered". This is very frustrating, and this is my biggest frustration with ShopBLT. My recommendation is that they eliminate the "preorder" button, as a preorder still implies that you are ordering something that will be released or restocked SOON. Wait times on current hot products still appear indefinite, and often they are simply getting cancelled. Even EVGA, who goes down their list meticulously and sends an individualized buy link to each person on the list, in order, calls their system a "queue". The button says "auto-notify", not preorder, and this is a more accurate term. The word preorder still carries a strong implication that you'll get a product, and the ETA implies an estimated time. BLT's store even goes so far as to show how many are ordered and how many are incoming. Normally, I would shower them with high praise for such transparency, but how can you have an actual number of "incoming" at all for a product that gets cancelled entirely? ShopBLT needs to be more up-front about this. Yes, they have the disclaimers that the ETAs are not from ShopBLT, but the manufacturers, but these numbers are turning out to be ENTIRELY FALLS, and BLT should warn customers of this alarming trend and practice. It would greatly reduce the feelings of frustration or disappointment, or at least make it easier to direct such sentiment towards the manufacturers/distributors rather than toward ShopBLT.

If they actually ship SOMETHING that I've ordered over the last several months, I'll be happy to update my review. Until then, buyer beware.

Full disclosure: I have been in direct contact with ShopBLT, and due to our correspondence, I have updated my review wording, and also changed the rating from 1 star to 3 stars. That level of communication alone is impressive, and I am VERY grateful they reached out. I want to give them 5 stars, and there are two ways they can earn those two stars back from me:

1. They could be TRANSPARENT on these high demand items. Don't call it a "preorder" anymore. If you insist on calling it a preorder, be totally transparent on high demand items that there is a very high likelihood that your order will be cancelled or indefinitely delayed regardless of the "ordered", "incoming", and "ETA" reports on ShopBLT's website.

or

2. They could actually ship me something that I have preordered.

Either way will earn them back two stars. ShopBLT has been in the business for a long time, and I appreciate them reaching out to me personally to try to resolve my frustration with this situation. They are also frustrated with this situation, and their willingness to communicate speaks volumes about their company and their care of their customers.

"Four months short of a year… and waiting…"

I ordered a GPU about 5 months ago. They claimed that they had GPUs that were being shipped to them shipped to them. I understand how backorder works. I have ordered car parts that were pending production and shipped internationally, I received those within 4 months. “I get an email every week saying they have not forgot about my order…" It’s exhausting getting the same email every week with a projected date getting pushed further and further back. I just received this today

“ We have been informed that the ordered product has an updated estimated time of arrival (ETA) into our warehouse of 08/09/21. We sincerely appreciate your patience and will be shipping your order as soon as is possible.”

I understand there was a pandemic and that Texas had the big freeze. I’m just irritated they claimed they had GPUs in route (they will state in it differently but regardless of the terminology it’s the same thing). I can honestly say I’ve never experienced this before… It’s extremely irritating, mostly the emails reminding me that it will ship one day. Hahaha.

"Been waiting 5 months for a CPU"

I placed an order for a 5950x AMD CPU on November 17th, 2020. When making this order, ShopBLT made it clear that that the item was not in stock, but is on order into our warehouses. They also let me know that the ETA for the item to arrive from the factory was 11/27/2020, and that that was not an ETA that was set in stone but could change depending on what information they received from the manufacturers. I thought, okay, I know that this is essentially a good estimate for when they would receive the CPU (and I would receive it about ~1 week after they got it). I would've been very happy with receiving the CPU before the end of the year, especially considering the current circumstances.

And then the delays started coming in. First, pushing it back a week at a time, and later by entire months. I've received 17 emails in a row saying that there was a delay in receiving the item from manufacturers and pushing back the date.

This is not the way a business is supposed to operate. I know that the company will respond to this post saying something along the lines of "You knew what you were getting into! We told you that the dates were not set in stone! And anyways, its the manufacturers fault for ringing us around on the orders!". These are all pretty much just excuses. Yes, you said that dates were not set in stone, but there was no indication I would be waiting almost half a year. Yes, these are unusual times, but you can compensate for that in the orders you take in in the first place. If you don't think you'll get it for at least 3 months, then let me know that so I can decide whether or not I want to stay in the queue. Yes, you didn't charge me, but you set up an expectation (18 times in a row) and continually failed to meet it.


I don't know if Bottom Line Telecommunications is deceptive, but I do know that they have not acted responsibly in their taking of my order. I'm not going to continue to wait on them, and you shouldn't place an order with them.

"Queue > random drops"

I, like many others, am in the market for a GPU and I can't believe how many people are getting upset over a FREE queue. In a world where amazon, best buy, and the other big companies have truly awful systems that seem to cater towards bots and scalpers, BLT's queue at least gives some transparency and the promise of an eventual GPU for those willing to show a bit of patience. Granted, it might be A LOT of patience, but that's the current market right now. I honestly don't see a downside as it is free to wait and free to cancel if I find a GPU in the meantime.

Bummed out that BLT's review score has gone down to four stars, but hopefully with some more rational reviewers such as myself, we can get it back up to five.

"I thought people liked Queues?"

If you have a decent card and are not in a hurry to upgrade then you should use this site.

If you need a card this week then you're going to have to go on ebay and pay a scalper 2x-3x MSRP.

Or camp outside a Microcenter overnight to MAYBE get a card if you're lucky. That's the state of buying a card right now.

People do get cards from this site eventually. I'm not one of them yet but I have found reviews on Reddit of people getting cards after having waited a very long time. That is unobjectively better than never getting a card like you would from Best Buy or Amazon or Walmart or name any other retailer.

I'll probably update this review to 5 stars when my order arrives.

"A true customer here"

A true customer here. I like shopblt, at least it gives me hope to get my card. But after waiting for a few months and nothing shipped to me, and seeing so many new 5 star reviews, I feel like something is wrong. To new customers: order products from shopblt if you are willing to wait for a few month without knowing if you can get your cards. Good thing about shopblt is they don’t charge you before shipment,I wish they charged me something for deposit or whatever, at least it shows they want to ship something to you.
—from a sad customer

First update on 05/13/2021:

David from Shopblt reached out to me and explained a few things that can help other customers like me to clear confusions.
1. "No customer is ever allowed to jump the line." I was under an impression that some one left 5 stars review saying they got their GPUs faster than me even tho I placed my order earlier, and I left the initial review with 1 star. It was emotional and not fair, if you asked me right now. I'm updating the review score to a neutral 3 stars now.
2. All reviews are from true customer, and your order information will be verified.

That is what I'm gonna do:
1. I will give another update based on my genuine experience after my order shipped or at least complete one business cycle, and hope that will help other customers who also have waited in lines.
2. Folks, at least we know shopblt cares about customer and respect the order in line. For now, let's just wait.

Peace and Love!