Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!bingvaxu!sunybcs!jmpiazza From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph M. Piazza) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Go-Amigo Message-ID: <8917@cs.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 31 Jul 89 22:45:50 GMT References: <3581@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <2844@mibte.UUCP> Sender: nobody@cs.Buffalo.EDU Reply-To: jmpiazza@sunybcs.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza) Distribution: usa Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 42 In article <2844@mibte.UUCP> jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) writes: > ... >Slipped Disk, a local Amiga dealer here in the Detroit area has >put up an interesting offer. They will meet or beat any mail >order price for an Amiga that still has the factory warrenty. >The catch is, I hear, that Commodore will NOT honor the warrenty >for any machine purchased through the mail, ergo Slipped Disk has >a perfectly safe advertising gimmick here. A local shop here hung a flyer saying that they do not have to honor the warranty on machines not purchased from an Authorized Amiga Dealer -- a postion which Commodore supports. It sounds like Slipped Disk is saying they will meet the price of any authorized Amiga dealer. There are authorized Amiga dealers (or so they say) that place ads in Amiga mags selling Amigas by mail order. >Rumor has they are turning any company that is reported to them on >the offer into CBM for suitable punishment. Which is ...? >SO..... If you are buying a mail order Amiga, be prepared to >ship the unit back to the same dealer if it breaks while under >warrenty as Commodore won't touch it. Wise. Or make sure you order it from an authorized Dealer. But then again, 90 days goes by pretty fast. (Maybe we should count that time in clock cycles? :-) Flip side, joe piazza --- In capitalism, man exploits man. In communism, it's the other way around. CS Dept. SUNY at Buffalo 14260 UUCP: ..!{ames,boulder,decvax,rutgers}!sunybcs!jmpiazza GEnie:jmpiazza BITNET: jmpiazza@sunybcs.BITNET Internet: jmpiazza@cs.Buffalo.edu >Jim Harvey ulysses!gamma!mibte!jbh