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From: hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Software / Games ; Retail
Message-ID: <3642.25ffd78a@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 90 21:57:29 GMT
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In article <2442@rodan.acs.syr.edu>, amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes:
>  I am taking sort of a little informational survey:
> I buy very few games for use with my IBM pc... computers.  However,
> the users I support buy some.  Over the last month or 2, I have had
> a great influx of reported (& documented by me...) problems reading
> original disks from unopened software boxes, coming from several
> different local software vendors.
> 1. Has everyone/anyone else seen this annoying trend ?

I've experienced this problem myself with certain Sierra games (that doesn't
mean other companies don't have this problem also).  The stores are usually
good about taking the program back and giving you a new one.  Fortunately for
me, I haven't had to do that since such games usually have duplicate files on
multiple disks and one of them probably won't have an error.

-Sanjay Aiyagari (HD7X@vax5.cit.cornell.edu)