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From: waldref@videovax.tv.tek.com (Greg Waldref)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway2000 - opinions ?
Message-ID: <5930@videovax.tv.tek.com>
Date: 25 Jul 90 23:09:06 GMT
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Reply-To: waldref@videovax.tv.tek.com (Greg Waldref)
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In article <13800@shlump.nac.dec.com> parke@star.enet.dec.com (Bill Parke) writes:
>
>|> 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
>

I guess not everyone knows, so I'll explain:

If you buy something mail order and pay cash/COD/check usually the
company will wait for the check to clear BEFORE the send anything. 
Now, what if they send you junk, or the wrong stuff, or NOTHING, or
...(fill in your own rip off)...????  What would you do?  Maybe write
a nice post card and ask if they would be so kind as to send you
some (you'd probably ask for all of it) of your money back?  Maybe
you could sue?  If it's out of state - good luck!  If it's in state
have fun with the courts!

If any thing goes wrong and you've used plastic, all you need to do
is to send back the junk (save the shipping dox & use return
receipt) and tell your card company, and bingo you never get
charged.  Note: sometimes you may get nailed for shipping.


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Greg Waldref   Tektronix, Inc.  P.O. Box 500  MS 58-639  Beaverton, OR  97077
waldref@videovax.tv.tek.com
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