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From: black@rpi.edu (Jerry Glomph Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mail Orders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <1989Nov11.135137.26513@rpi.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 89 13:51:37 GMT
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Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In <7010@hubcap.clemson.edu> rchampe@hubcap.UUCP (Richard Champeaux) writes:
>In article <936700002@cdp> mhershede@cdp.UUCP writes:
>>
>>I got a Plug 'n' Print for my Okimate 20 from the Software Shop and had a 
>>lot of trouble doing it. It took 5-6 weeks witrh a credit card
>>............
>
>This wouldn't happen to be the Software Shop in Worcester, MA, would it?  When
>I'm not at school, I live in Massachusetts, about 40 minutes from Worcester.
>I called the Software shop early this summer looking for a HardFrame 2000.  
>This is the conversation I had:
>ME:   Hi, do have a HardFrame 2000 in stock?
>THEM: Yes we do.
>ME:   Great.  How late is your show room open?
>THEM: Uhm..  Let me make sure we have one. ...... I'm sorry, we don't have a
>      HardFrame 2000 in stock right now.
>ME:   Thankyou.  Goodbye.
>I had been to this store before.  For all that they boast, it's a hole in the
>wall in the basement of a run down mall in the middle of a run down section
>of Worcester.  The guy I talked to is the manager/owner (at least he has a
>little office).  His voice is easy to recognize, since its gruff and
>he has a NewYork/Italian accent.  This guy was obviously ready to take my
>mail order after lying to me that it was in stock.  My guess is that
>"Yes, we do have that in stock" is their standard reply.  I had called 
>quite a few other dealers at that time, none of whom had it in stock, and
>they all said that Microbotics was slow shipping HardFrames and they didn't
>expect any for 2 weeks.
>
>This was enough to discourage me from dealing with them again.
>
Yes, a similar thing happened to me.  I tracked down where 22 Front St in
Worcester was, and entered the basement of a mostly-vacant mini-mall in fairly
decrepit downtown Worcester.  Looks like a 1-man operation--- saw the same
'gruff' character... What they had 'in stock' was a bunch of
3-year-old games and Lattice C (about 3 versions older than current.) I
recommend Lightspeed Dist. if you go for mail order!  They usually *do* have it
in stock.