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From: macduff@cbnewse.ATT.COM (Roger R. Espinosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWharehouse
Summary: Well...
Message-ID: <1868@cbnewse.ATT.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 89 11:43:38 GMT
References: <26933.2542AACD@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <120795@felix.UUCP>
Organization: The Rabbit Corps
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In article <120795@felix.UUCP>, kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:
>   
> What I did notice in the most recent ads is an emphasis on hardware and
> accessories in MacWarehouse without any of the emerging software listed.
> MacConnection, however, had Adobe Type Manager prominently displayed and
> After Dark (screen saver) in their ad. They got my first order yesterday.
> However, they couldn't provide ATM today and asked if it would be OK to
> wait another day and send both at the same time. 
> 
> I said OK, because it is more efficient, but in similar circumstances,
> MacWarehouse never asked. They just sent things out as they had them, at
> their expense.
> 
> Shirley Kehr


Actually, I've normally bought from MacConnection, even though I've
always like the MacWarehouse catalogs better (more informative, less
"hype", e.g. the MacConnection 30/60 MPG catalog).  I've always seen
the pictures as Shirley sees them - they're just letting you see *who*
you're calling.

If you want sexism in computer ads, there used to be an ad in Byte
where they had this naked woman whose (ahem) parts were blocked by
a PC (MS-DOS. Trash for a trashy ad :-), and this was supposed to signify
that prices were THAT MINIMAL, or something like that.

MacConnection, BTW, usually has shipped things separately for me,
as in the latest case when I bought ATM and SmalltalkV/Mac, and they
shipped Smalltalk a week before ATM.  I think in your case it was because
there would only be a day difference.  And yes, they shipped my 
packages at their expense.  The first time I ever called MacWarehouse
(to buy a Grapper Mac, ugh) they didn't have it, so I switched to 
MacConnection, and stayed there ever since. 

Roger Espinosa
rre@ihlpn.ATT.COM