Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!cfctech!teemc!mibte!jbh From: jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mail Order Companies Message-ID: <2898@mibte.UUCP> Date: 11 Nov 89 14:55:43 GMT References: <5924@merlin.usc.edu> <1945@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> Distribution: usa Organization: Michigan Bell Telephone Company Lines: 43 In article <1945@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>, swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan) writes: > In article sk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sun Kun Kim) writes: > :I got my Amiga 2000 from Montgomery Grant.(and I also own a C-64 back > :home) I got my computer about 3 months ago and it came in about 2 > :weeks. Their prices are cheap but I do have some criticisms. First of > > Uh oh.... > > [lots of criticisms of MG cut] > > :P.S. I read somewhere that Amigas are warranted for only 90 days. > :That's strange, because on my Amiga 2000's waraanty card, it said that > :my computer was warranted for ONE YEAR! > > Uh, hope you don't feel too bad, but your computer is actually warranted for > 0 months, 0 days. > > You see, after Mongomery Grant has been doing wrong to C-A, they were > dumped as official dealers and are in big trouble. Any machines sold > by MG will not have their warranties honored. They have been under-cutting > C-A dealers by selling grey market Amigas (bought from failing dealers, etc) > and selling used machines as new. Dealers have been specifically told NOT > to touch any machines bought from MG. C-A will not touch them either. > Of course, MG won't touch them after they're out the door either. > Is your warranty a Canadian warranty? If it is, you probably won't get it > fixed by a US dealer as well. > > The bottom line? STAY AWAY FROM MONTGOMERY GRANT. They are cheating, > thieves that should be run out of business completely. > > Joel MCS in Livonia Mich. is in the same circumstances. -- Jim Harvey | "Ask not for whom the bell Michigan Bell Telephone | tolls and you will only pay 29777 Telegraph | Station-to-Station rates." Southfield, Mich. 48034 | ulysses!gamma!mibte!jbh