Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mail Order Companies Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 89 09:25:51 GMT References: <5924@merlin.usc.edu> <254FB70A.DF8@drivax.UUCP> <35442@beta.lanl.gov> <3182@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, <5036@sun.acs.udel.edu> <0ZIoMf600Uka41XbpN@andrew.cmu.edu> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Distribution: usa Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 27 In-reply-to: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 4 Nov 89 20:27:23 GMT >>>>> On 4 Nov 89 20:27:23 GMT, bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) said: miles> 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. miles> Well, now, they've just fucked over everyone living in the boondocks. Here miles> in Pittsburgh, which is by some standards a large city, every "amiga dealer" miles> I've seen will carry a 500 and that's about it. Dealing with a good mail miles> order outfit is FAR more pleasant than dealing with these "dealers." This wouldn't be so much of a problem if Commodore had real dealers in these areas, much as Apple and IBM do. Commodore can't do away with mail order dealers unless they at least have plans to put a real dealer network in its place. --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM