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From: North_TJ@cc.curtin.edu.au (Tim North)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 and poor quality control.
Message-ID: <3032.26b82e31@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Date: 2 Aug 90 05:44:16 GMT
References: <9008011500.AA25318@jade.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Lines: 39

In article <9008011500.AA25318@jade.berkeley.edu>, S36666WB@ETSUACAD.BITNET (Brian Wright) writes:
> Hello friends,
> 
>         I am not very happy at all.  Let me explain.  I *had* an Amiga 3000
> briefly.  I bought the 3000 and 6 days later it went to the shop.  It's been
> there since.  It's still there.  There are *NO* parts available for it, so
> I was told.  So they ordered a motherboard which is *NOW* on backorder.  Who
> knows how long that will take.  I am very much upset by this situation.  I'll

[sad story deleted]

> What'd you do only make a small run?  I mean.  This is sad.  I was also told
> that it might be up to a month before there ARE more 3000s.  A MONTH?  I had
> machine for SIX days and now I have to wait upto a month for it to be fixed.
> I should have just waited to purchase it.  Maybe I shouldn't have purchased 

And the moral of this story boys and girls is that C= is playing the age old
game of beta-testing their hardware by releasing a small amount of stock into
the market place and then waiting to see what breaks.

Nice for them - cheap R&D. I mean why test the thing when they know that there's
a whole mass of people who can be used as guinea pigs. :-( 

Tim North

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