Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!ralf From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PC BRAND Mail Order experience Keywords: 386SX Message-ID: <8782@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 9 Apr 90 02:33:57 GMT References: <6443@ur-cc.UUCP> <261fa5d8-27a5.10comp.ibmpc-1@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 17 In article <261fa5d8-27a5.10comp.ibmpc-1@ddsw1.MCS.COM> andyross@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Andrew Rossmann) writes: } 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. That was PC Network, and the prices listed were "wholesale" and members paid 8% above that. By the time you added the 8% margin, the price was frequently more than other places were charging. -- {backbone}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf ARPA: RALF@CS.CMU.EDU FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/46 BITnet: RALF%CS.CMU.EDU@CMUCCVMA AT&Tnet: (412)268-3053 (school) FAX: ask DISCLAIMER? | _How_to_Prove_It_ by Dana Angluin 20. by vehement assertion: It What's that?|is useful to have some kind of authority relation to the audience