BEWARE. If you want to be treated like total garbage, become an altestore customer!
I placed an order for a GS8048A with alte on Saturday at 9 AM. I had no idea that it was part of some "sale", "clearance", or "closeout", because on the website it just looked like any other item for sale. (Same on the invoice. No mention that it was a sale or clearance item) On Tuesday morning they called me, and told me it was a "Fraud Prevention" call and asked me to identify what I was buying. I did so, and they told me it would ship direct from the factory and the call ended. But two hours later they called me back and said it was a clearance item, they would not honor the price, and also that they would not (or could not?) cancel the charges on my card! I would have to call my credit card company and contest the charges. Needless to say, I was quite upset, and they immediately hung up on me.
I immediately filed a complaint with the BBB. In their response, altestore claimed that they immediately told me it was a clearance item, which is a lie, since the first conversation I had with them was a confirmation that my order would ship. They also claimed that it was a clearance item, which was also a lie, because they when I filed my complain they still had the GS8048A listed for sale on their website (except now the price was double.) Since I have filed my complaint with the BBB they have delisted the Outback Radian GS8048A, so who knows what's going on, but this stinks.
After the fact I discovered that they sent on an email at 2:00 AM on Saturday that had a google docs spreadsheet with "deals". Well I guess those deals were extremely short lived since they would not honor my order that was placed on Saturday at 9 AM, a mere 7 hours later!
P.S. The person I spoke to on the phone also admitted that they will not honor warranties on kilovault batteries that are sold during this sale.