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From: rond@pro-grouch.cts.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple II Dealers
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Date: 21 Jul 90 03:53:41 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from herwin@pro-novapple.cts.com

> Unless FC Business Systems still handles the Apple II, it appears the 
> Washington DC area just lost its last dealer now that Computerland has 
> gone "Mac-only."  Is the situation similar in other major metropolitan 
 
Your Apple dealer was Computerland?  God, how horrible.  I have yet to run
into one computerland anywhere in the U.S.A. where the people had a clue about
_any_ computer, including the IBM, much less the Apple II.  
 
And they always have such "creative" repair solutions.  They wanted to charge
me labor to replace the video ROMS on my Apple IIgs (a free upgrade).  I
brought in a //e with a IIgs motherboard (the upgrade) and spent half an hour
convinving the idiots that it was _not_ a //e but a IIgs in a //e case.  Even
the little IIgs plate they give you for the case didn't convince them.  I
finally hooked it up to a monitor and drive and showed them.  _Then_ they
demanded that I tell them what I did.  They thought I stole a IIgs motherboard
and put it in my //e case!  F***ing morons.

The didn't happen to me personally, but I had a friend go in whose lithium
battery was kaput.  Computerland, instead of clipping the battery and
installing a new one, wanted to swap his motherboard and charge him for a new
one!  What a racket...

And they're not much better with the Mac and IBM, either, as I have been
forced in some cases to deal with them about those.  I've seen Computerlands
in Seattle, New York, Terre Haute, Indianapolis, and Denver.  If there's one
here in San Diego, I'm not even going in...

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