Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!yale!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!microsoft!gregj From: gregj@microsoft.UUCP (Greg JONES) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PC BRAND Mail Order experience Summary: PC BRAND Message-ID: <53994@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 7 Apr 90 00:42:09 GMT References: <2417@mrsvr.UUCP> Distribution: usa Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 25 In article , fish@gemed.com (Mark Fisher) writes: > > If anybody out there has had a positive experience with these guys, > please post it. It might help restore my faith in them. PC BRAND > advertises heavliy in BYTE and PC Magazine. I have not heard any > thing about these guys on the net. > About six weeks ago I ordered a 386/33 from them. It took about 4 weeks to arrive instead of the 2 they said, but they claim that's because the hard drive was backordered (supposedly Miniscribe went bankrupt, so they switched from a 110MB Miniscribe to a 200MB Conner drive). Curiously enough, the Conner drive was actually cheaper. They did charge my credit card twice, which spawned a threatening letter from the bank before they managed to cancel the duplicate. I've had no problems with the system -- everything arrived together, all the components I ordered, etc. Extra hardware (mouse, Video 7 V-RAM VGA) were preinstalled and worked fine. OS/2 1.2 and HPFS haul ass. The manuals are in somewhat broken English, obviously translated, but readable. I suppose we need to wait for a few more people to respond before we know whether you were unlucky or I was lucky. uunet!microsoft!gregj