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From: admiral%m-5@Sun.COM (Michael Limprecht SUN Microsystems Mt. View Ca.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Go-Amigo
Summary: CBM no mail-order warranty??
Message-ID: <118765@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 89 01:09:13 GMT
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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

What's this?? CBM will not honor there own warranty on there own
machine because it was bought mail-order??? What gives here?
What  difference does it make how the machine was bought? If CBM
builds a bad machine they should deal with it.
> 
> 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.
> 
>      
Never fails to amaze me how a company like CBM stays in business.
Mick