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From: philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Worthless Warranty
Message-ID: <1990Mar21.221055.11745@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 21 Mar 90 22:10:55 GMT
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In article <1990Mar21.172828.20989@phri.nyu.edu>, roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy
Smith) writes:
> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
> > The fact that car buyers don't complain that the car companies are screwing
> > them over as loudly as we do when the computer companies screw us over is
> > not a valid excuse. [...] I am not [...] satisfied when Apple tells me
> > that machines bought 8 days after my machine [...] have a 1-year warranty,
> > and mine doesn't!
> 
> 	Who's being screwed? ...
Well, not me. I bought my Mac on 10 January, and the extra warranty was like
having a nice big check arrive unexpectedly in the mail. Thanks Apple.

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu