Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!larry!lagarde From: lagarde@sol.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Jean Lagarde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: New lower-priced NeXTcube Message-ID: Date: 10 Oct 90 16:45:22 GMT References: <8903@helios.TAMU.EDU> <8847@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Usenet File Owner) Organization: McGill Research Center for Intelligent Machines Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: cyliao@hardy.u.washington.edu's message of 9 Oct 90 16:18:01 GMT In article 8130 cyliao@hardy.u.washington.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) writes: > All I can say is that I think I am going to **CRY** :-( I paid $7200+ > for a BASIC 030 cube just 2 months ago... and $1100 for 320 mb drive > few weeks ago... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Now I have less than $200 to go throu the entire semester... some > how I feel I've been mugged. For all you other folks in the same situation, you'll be laughing when you hear mine: I ORDERED my NeXT from McGill University's computer store in July. I learned they had received it the week before the big announcement. Now get this: I haven't bought this computer yet, but because NeXT does not want to credit McGill with the difference, I will have to pay the original price anyway. My feeling is that NeXT shows a very bad will over this issue (or maybe McGill is not trying hard enough to convince NeXT?). I was prepared to pay the original price in the first place, but I also feel I am being mugged, considering that I do not have any other choice than to buy from McGill. -- ---------- Jean Lagarde lagarde@moe.mcrcim.mcgill.edu