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From: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: HARD DRIVES INTERNATIONAL BEWARE !!!!
Summary: don't tempt people...
Message-ID: <1990Oct06.010808.29733@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 6 Oct 90 01:08:08 GMT
References: <5778@holston.UUCP>
Reply-To: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn)
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL
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In article <5778@holston.UUCP> barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk) writes:
>
>Well here's the story:
>
>On September 14 I ordered an Adeptec 1542B and a Micropolis
>160MB hd from HDI...
>Fine, I said. So having delt with them before and
>having no problems, I marched down to my friendly bank and
>wired the money...
>Well it's October 1st and I still have NO drive. HDI has
>my money and I feel like a sucker. Numerous calls to Joe
>are resulting in the same answer. "It should be shipping 
>today"

COD and bank cards are wonderful inventions, and I've always
agreed to pay the bank card "surcharges":  a few percent is
a bargain for the ability to enlist the bank in retrieving
your $$$ when a vendor won't make good on his commitment.
I've had the experience very rarely: only once in years
of mail-ordering.  I think that a couple of refunds for faulty
boards etc. came faster, however, because I'd paid with plastic.
In this way plastic is much than COD.

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