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From: parke@star.enet.dec.com (Bill Parke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway2000 - opinions ?
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Date: 24 Jul 90 14:05:40 GMT
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Reply-To: parke@star.enet.dec.com (Bill Parke)
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|> I was interested, I sent them another fax asking for quotes on the
|> Gateway was one of the companies that I sent the fax to, as they
|> On another note, I was also surprised to find that one of the
|> companies that responded did not except Visa/MC!  I'm at a loss to
|> explain how they stay in business!
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    Probably by changing 5-8% less than they would need to because of
what a business muse pay VISA/MC/AMEX for the "honor"/convenience
of accepting plastic.

Bill Parke 			parke%star.enet.dec@decwrl.dec.com
VMS Development			decwrl!star.enet.dec.com!parke
Digital Equipment Corp		parke@star.enet.dec.com
110 Spit Brook Road ZK01-1/F22, Nashua NH 03063

The views expressed are my own.