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From: LadyHawke@cup.portal.com (Classic - Concepts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Constructive Mischief
Message-ID: <24430@cup.portal.com>
Date: 24 Nov 89 03:08:59 GMT
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   Well, I vote 3 thumbs down on the idea of exploiting the Mac try-out
program with no intent to buy and planning to take the machine back.  
People's ethics (or lack thereof) continue to amaze me.
   However, the types of things you suggest (and which I've been doing for
sometime), I don't consider mischief at all--such as filling in the name
of my system (AMIGA) on surveys, questionnaires, reader service inquiries,
registration cards, etc.  I also make a point to ASK for Amiga products
when I visit stores that don't seem to have any.  Either I'm pleasantly
(or unpleasantly) surprised when they get pulled out of a dark corner, or
at least the store KNOWS there are Amiga customers coming in and being
disappointed and going away again without purchasing.
   And better yet, writing to Editors (did you see the line-up in Computer
Graphics World--completely devoted to the Amiga on the editor's page?)
and insisting that they have a responsibility to provide information relating
to your system--especially graphics magazines.  And then make sure the
information is correct (both yours and theirs).  We have a right to accurate
reporting, too.