Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!bsu-cs!mithomas
From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Everex WARNING.
Message-ID: <8422@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 89 19:34:44 GMT
References: <11305@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <1570008@hp-ptp.HP.COM>
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, IN, USA
Lines: 27

> I, for one, will NEVER buy anything from EverEx, based on this posting, and
> will petition my collegues and fellow Mac users to Boycott this company.
...
> I stand by my decision to boycott this company, as do my fellow Mac
> user friends (and I might add, unanimously).

Everex has also lost Ball State's business.  Last year, Ball State made
a large purchase of hard drives from Everex.  Within six months, over 60%
of them had failed, crashed, or otherwise caused problems.  The people at
Ball State spent hours on the phone complaining to Everex.

Everex finally did give in and send boxes of power supplies (since that
seemed to be the one part causing the most trouble), but by that time it
was too late.

I must say that I can't complain:  Most of these people have decided that
they are better off sticking with Apple.  In the past 4 years, only one
Apple hard drive has had a problem here.  And by my count, we have several
hundred of them.  (And besides, the Apple drives are coordinated with the
Mac's case...  If you want to see peripherals, make them match the machine.)

-Michael

-- 
Michael Niehaus        UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas
Apple Student Rep      ARPA:  mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
Ball State University  AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)