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From: amhartma@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andy Hartman - AmigaMan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore gets serious?  You judge.
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Date: 31 Aug 90 21:59:30 GMT
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In article <15881@thorin.cs.unc.edu> oliver@vangogh.cs.unc.edu (Bill Oliver) writes:
>
>That really sucks.  My closest Amiga dealer (DIGITZ, in Raleigh, NC) not
>only has an extremely bad attitude towards its customers -- one of the
>managers made agressive, sexist remarks towards my wife in the store's
>parking lot -- but charges  ** $45.00 ** minimum just to open a box, and
>then charges an exorbitant fee to actually do something.

Well, if your machine is under warranty, you shouldn't have to pay anything...

>If they apply this policy to my machine, I'm throwing the thing
>out the window and buying a Mac.  If I want to add a memory board 
>to my Amiga, I have to drive an hour to Raleigh to pay outrageous 
>prices to people who treat me and my family like shit or else void 
>my warranty?  

If the warranty has expired on your machine, you can do anything you want to it
and those little stickers won't mean a hill of beans.  The stickers only apply
while the machine is under warranty.  (If I understood the article correctly.)

>Owning this machine doesn't seem to be worth the hassle, sometimes.

Whatever...

>Bill Oliver

AMH

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