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From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mail Order Companies
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Date: 4 Nov 89 20:27:23 GMT
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sjm@sun.acs.udel.edu (Steve Morris) writes:
>         So in other words: forget mail order. Most if not all magazine
> adds should no longer be indicating Commodore hardware for sale. If they
> are, there is a near 100% chance that the goods are Gray market. And you
> are not going to find anyone who will do warranty repairs on that
> machine.

Well, now, they've just fucked over everyone living in the boondocks.  Here
in Pittsburgh, which is by some standards a large city, every "amiga dealer"
I've seen will carry a 500 and that's about it.  Dealing with a good mail
order outfit is FAR more pleasant than dealing with these "dealers."

-Miles