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From: terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Montgomery Grant?
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Date: 19 Oct 90 19:51:55 GMT
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In article <4859@copper.UUCP> motcid!sattlerc@uunet.uu.net writes:
>caldwell_t@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes:
>
>>I am considering buying a harddisk and interface from Montgomery Grant.  
>>Has anyone had any experiance with this firm.   The reason I ask, is that 
>>living in Australia, I have a fair distance problem if something goes 
>>wrong.
>
>As a past customer of Montgomery Grant I will echo the advice which always
>appears on the net when this question is asked.
>
>STAY AWAY FROM MONTGOMERY GRANT


   As a side note to all this Montgomery Grant bashing (they deserve it too),
.Info magazine has been running some full page adds for Montgomery Grant for
the past few issues. I complained to them about accepting advertising from
a company that is so well known as a poor risk for mail ordering. Their
response to me was that they had heard rumors to that effect but had no
documentation of actual cases where people had been having problems with
Montgomery Grant. As soon as they got some complaints from some readers who
had actually dealt with MG & had problems with them the adds would be dropped.
   So all of you who have horror stories to tell about Montgomery Grant should
send them to .Info magazine. If this company cannot advertize in the popular
& respected journals that Amiga users read maybe they will eithor clean up
their act (which I doubt) or just go away. At least it will prevent some other
poor trusting souls from believing that this is a good source of Amiga
peripherals.
   I don't know what other magazines they advertize in. If each of the
magazines starts getting piles of letters from angry readers they will drop
this sleaze bag of a company from their magazines.


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