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From: ayr@spica.hut.fi (Ari Yrj|l{)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore gets serious?  You judge.
Message-ID: <1990Sep2.164631.21071@santra.uucp>
Date: 2 Sep 90 16:46:31 GMT
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In article <4126@alliant.Alliant.COM> collins@alliant.Alliant.COM (Phil Collins) writes:
>           The warranty seal is also used to protect Commodre and retail outlets. On many occasions certain people will buy a new A-500 or C-64,128 an remove the mother board and seap it out for an old one and many times with no chips installed.I know of 
>several store that have been really ripped off.

When Big Agnus were new and it was installed first to new A500s and A2000s
and there were shortage of it as a spare part (and also older amiga
owners wanted it) it was opposite situation here in Finland. I heard
rumours from various persons that PCI-Data (which imports Amiga here)
took off Big Agnuses from new A500s which they were repairing under 
warranty and put old Fat Agnuses inside instead. Those youngsters
playing games wouldn't notice nothing... nowadays their price for
Big Agnus is about $400 BTW.

Nice, isn't it? (And don't ask me why we're all pissed off with PCI-Data
and it's outrigeous prices...)




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