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From: andyross@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Andrew Rossmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC BRAND Mail Order experience
Keywords: 386SX
Message-ID: <261fa5d8-27a5.10comp.ibmpc-1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 8 Apr 90 21:00:07 GMT
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>Item: 10149 by fish at gemed.com (9 responses)
>Author: [Mark Fisher]
>  Subj: PC BRAND Mail Order experience
>I ordered a 386 20 Mhz 4meg with a 120 mb RLL drive from PC BRAND in
>Chicago IL on thursday March 15. ....
>.....
>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.
>// Mark M. Fisher 
>// fish@gemed.ge.com
>// {uunet!crdgw1|sun!sunbrew}!gemed!fish

  Was it PC BRAND (or was it under a different name) that went through
Chapter 11 a year or 2 ago because of problems like everyone has been
telling? I also though they had problems with billing before shipping, and
other nasty things like that.
  If not, I believe it was some Chicago company that used a sort of 'club'
type system, where they prices listed were for cash if your were a 'club'
member, otherwise you typically had to pay 8% or more extra.

  Andrew Rossmann
  andyross@ddsw1.MCS.COM