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Gateway, Inc. is a computer hardware company established in 1985 on a farm in Iowa as Gateway 2000. Nowadays the company is headquartered in Irvine, California. Gateway produces, develops, supports and markets a number of desktops, notebooks, servers, computer accessories. The company became well-known after it started selling its computers directly to their customers in amazing cow-spotted boxes. Company’s revenue is $ 3,980 billion. Gateway lost its profitability and customers after the dot-com bust. The company withdrew from the markets abroad and closed most of the retail stores. But it continued to have major losses and in 2007 Korean company Acer, Inc. acquired Gateway. Please try to contact Gateway Customer Service directly prior to posting any complaints on this site.

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Anonymous
Gateway - Fraud promise by mos utility pvt ltd

The company promises an online business protocal b2b and b2c and after taking the payment is never able to provide the solution always giving an excuse that the gateway is down or ...

#287330
Jan 08, 2012
63

Anonymous
We bought a Gateway 12-710 and it has been back 2 times and not working yet

WE TOOK OUR GATEWAY COMPUTER BACK TO BEST BUY IN YUMA AZ. THEY HAD IT FOR 2 WEEKS IN THERE SHOP BEFORE THEY SENT OUT FOR REPAIR. IT WAS SENT TO CAL. FOR REPAR, IT CAME BACK A WEEK ...

#282361
Dec 18, 2011
126

Amr41159
Gateway Computer Failed!!!!!

After only 15 months of use my Gateway NV53 laptop's motherboard failed. Went to geek squad who confirmed it was the motherboard and they told me to contact Gateway. Obviou...

#279425
Dec 05, 2011
89

Anonymous
Gateway's lack of responsibility

My father bought me a Gateway desktop for college so I would have a reliable computer for school and it had a one year warranty on it. About 4 days before the warranty went up, I ...

#267387
Oct 11, 2011
89

Carpo719
Gateway sucks. really. do not buy one unless you want a brick.

Nothing can be said about Gateway that has not already been said. I had so many problems, it isn't funny at all... The details are really irrelevant. Various error ...

#247891
Jul 09, 2011
261

Dimashq
Gateway Laptop Has the WORSE LCD DISPLAY

I Bought a Gateway laptop just today,it was my 1st gateway ever, its model NV55c, i got it to replace my $375 4 years old toshiba laptop.The gateway is intel i5 processor.The momen...

#234757
Apr 28, 2011
296

64jodi
Gateway computer warranty sucks

I purchased my Gateway,within a year the hard drive crashed local repair shop said it had a faulty hard drive i called gateway it had some warranty left sent it off to be repaired ...

#232481
Apr 15, 2011
619

Bigunwil...
Gateway labtops

I bought a Gateway Laptop from Best Buy back in November 2009. I had no trouble and I had taken excellent care of the laptop. 28 days after the warranty was over on...

#219665
Feb 03, 2011
259

Anonymous
Gateway computers garbage!!! Keeps shutting Down! No warranty!

We bought a gateway computer from staples in Sherwood Park , Alberta Canada last November (2009). We started having problems with it within three months. Or course , we cannot retu...

#208818
Nov 26, 2010
822

Paulk
Gateway computers

I purchased a gateway laptop from bestbuy 14 months ago. The computer kept shutting off. When i contacted Gateway the first thing they told me is that it was out of warranty, even ...

#205513
Nov 03, 2010
181

Anonymous
Gateway not honoring warrenties

Gateway was bought by acer and when i call to speak with someone about warrenty, you only get an automated system. After choosing warrenty issues, i put in my gateway serial number...

#203005
Oct 17, 2010
278

Elias
Gateway does not exist but it still selling

I brought gateway computer, which broke out in less than a year. When I tried to claim the one year warranty, Wal-Mart, where the computer was sold to me, and I were unable to con...

#201520
Oct 06, 2010
863

TRK1946
Gateway - They wont update there drivers they want u to buy a new one

I will never buy another gateway. they do not update the drivers if it is over 5 years old. I have a MP8708 gateway lap top and I tried installed windows 7 and gateway does not ha...

#200661
Sep 30, 2010
346

Anonymous
WARNING, DO NOT BUY FROM Gateway!!!!!!!!

I purchased a gateway computer on 4/19/2010. Just recently the hard drive went down and would not boot. I took it back to best buy to see what they could do. They sent it off to...

#196814
Sep 02, 2010
244

Anonymous
Gateway - GATWAY COMPUTER

Never buy a gateway computer; I bought one last year, and is been in best buy on and off to be fixed and I only used off line only that's the sad part I tried to get a new one at ...

#190601
Jul 21, 2010
394

Drydensm...
Gateway - No Support For loyal Customers

My mother purchased a Gateway computer three years ago from Best Buys - The computer needed to be re-formatted, unfortuntly my mother missplaced the disk that came with the compute...

#188239
Jul 03, 2010
383

TTALBERS
Verizon / Gateway Netbook is not a wise choice

I bought a Netbook computer from Verizon Wireless in Dec of 2009. After loading my documents and software, I started encountering errors in the hardware and screen freezes. I calle...

#182130
May 15, 2010
909

Denmex
Gateway Notebook-Gateway won't honor warranty

My father-in-law purchased for me a Gateway Notebook from Big Lots on July 27th, 2009 in Dallas, Texas. On the 3rd of January, 2010, the computer monitor went white while I was wor...

#167677
Jan 13, 2010
466

Fishmox
Gateway sold me a lemon product

I bought this Gateway M-50 or 150 (M series) early 2007 or thereabouts. A month later we reinstalled the OS, a coupla months later they had to send me a new hard drive, then a yea...

#163121
Nov 30, 2009
301

Anonymous
Gateway sold bad laptop and wont fix it

My daughter bought a gateway m2404 computer from HSN it wont work with a printer. it is gateways responsibility to honor the warrenty. my daughter has spent a month jumping through...

#157287
Sep 16, 2009
823

BLITZEN
Gateway Support Sucks!

My daughter got a desktop pc and it's been nothing but problems. Their support people refused to send us the recovery disks and it turned out to be a failed oem hd; and now sh...

#156248
Aug 31, 2009
425

Calvin138
Gateway lap top mail in rebate

Well after 5 letters and no reply i guess i just got riped off $150.00. i feel as if office depot should also take ownership because they sold it to me but they could care less. i ...

#149087
May 21, 2009
329

Soundconst
Gateway does not stand behind warranty

The company I work for purchased a Gateway TFT LCD Monitor that flips to a vertical position. It stopped working about four months after it was purchased and the owners called in t...

#148128
Apr 27, 2009
394

7debra
Gateway business Laptop Ripoff

I purchased a GateWay in March 2007 along with an ON SITE 3 year warranty for a whopping additional $350. But I had previously purchased Gateway and found their ON SITE warranty q...

#147815
Apr 20, 2009
505

Hillro52
Gateway sells ghastly inferior products

February 2006, I bought a gateway notebook for my daughter to take to college in August. By May of 2006, one of the keys had popped off, sent the computer in to the manufacturer to...

#135028
Sep 11, 2008
460

Suzannb
Gateway is Awful

I only have access to dial up internet and during my telephone conversations with gateway, I was told that there were not problems with this computer and dial up . After numerous ...

#130469
Aug 06, 2008
471

Dpelfrey3
Gateway - worst ever. I mean ever.

I bought one desktop a couple of years ago. It of course stopped working. I sent it in along with the included software. They returned the computer, without the software and not fi...

#120589
May 12, 2008
512

Odie
Gateway tech help stold my money

I needed help with my computer the modem was bad i was told by one of your tech that he could find out what was wonge with it for $59.99 for 30. min. i gave him my computer sn.# an...

#119111
Apr 27, 2008
268

Anonymous
Before you purchase a Gateway desktop PC you should read this.

Dear Potential Gateway Computer Users,Before you purchase a Gateway desktop PC you should read this.I purchased a GTE5238E serial # CLG6B11006815 in Decembe...

#119044
Apr 26, 2008
689

Anonymous
Gateway made a getover on cosumers

I bought an e machine computer from the store ihad it abought 4 mo. it completely broke down.i call emachine for repairs after tec support for a whole month they finally decide for...

#117508
Apr 08, 2008
532
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