About Protechstore:
From some reseller reviews at
ProtechStore - protechstore.com - Reviews, Ratings and Prices at ResellerRatings it seems some customers have received goods from protechstore, and there are a couple of positive reviews, although this was quite some time ago.
One of the reviewers at that link suggests protechstore had listed a lot of items on eBay. That fits with the kind of profile I was forming of protechstore, a (very) small company occasionally able to source end-of-line stuff and/or office closure items, maybe with a lock-up somewhere and with a head office of the proprietor's home residence.
However, I note there have been no reviews left for protechstore anywhere for some time. We are all capable of drawing our own inference from that.
Sometimes a reseller will obtain a quote for a bulk order and then offer the item at the promised price plus markup - in fact Scan.co.uk have recently revealed this practice with an erroneous super-cheap webcam deal which they subsequently retracted. (Their supplier had quoted the wrong price and then failed to honour it, so scan cancelled all the orders even after taking payment and didn't order with the supplier.)
In these cases the reseller is advertising something they don't yet hold in stock. If there are insufficient orders then the supplier's order never happens and the T's and C's caveat this by refuting the offer and acceptance aspects of contract law by stating the contract only exists upon despatch of the item. (In fact Scan's T's and C's aren't that smart but that is another story...)
About this forum:
I really do appreciate the subject-related comments on this forum for all the various threads and really believe in the power of this forum and this thread in particular as a means of consumers naming and shaming dubious suppliers. We consumers need this.
Previously I tried to move the debate on, to gather any recent first-hand experience with protechstore and to my astonishment the next reply was a personal attack. Free speech and all, but I am really struggling to understand how my comments could have been offensive.
I'd like to remain focussed on the topic and not get personal. Am I in the wrong place?