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From: ajauch@ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SimCity RipOff
Message-ID: <257C3BE7.29987@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 89 22:06:31 GMT
References: <111900101@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <111900102@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: Alexander Edwin Jauch <ajauch@ics.uci.edu>
Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS
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In article <111900102@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> sapg0386@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Judging by the mail I recieved, bad disks are a big problem.
>Almost all my mail says to just take the disk back
>and don't gripe.  Many people were outraged and insulting.
>This defensiveness makes me think that it really will take
>legislation to solve the problem.
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Ladies and gentlemen, if you are of gentle disposition please push the n key.

For the rest of you and particularly you Steve, I have had just about enough!
Why don't you quit your whining and leave the rest of us alone!
Legislation!  For God's sake why?  Don't you think the federal government
has more important things to deal with than your little disk problem?
Disks go bad.  If the manufacturer gives you a bad disk he should replace it.


>
>How unfortunate.  
>
>That is just the kind of attitude that is
>eroding public enthusiasm for home computers.  If that disk had
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>
>I took it back and got a disk that worked.  I can only say that
                                    ^^^^^^
>the sometimes so-called simulation and sometimes so-called game
>is as disappointing as the so-called warranty.  A bug surfaced
>

So called warranty?  You got a new disk free didn't you?  That's what
I call a great warranty.  As for taking back a product you don't like,
try that with a new car and watch the salesman laugh you out the door.

>Well, I got a disk that worked, but I should have got my money back.
>
>
>- steve 

I think you were treated very fairly by the dealer and have very little
room to complain.

Alex Jauch
ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu

Disclaimer: The University thinks I'm *working*!