Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!milton!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!starsoft!david From: david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Montgomery Grant? Message-ID: Date: 23 Oct 90 12:41:44 GMT References: <1990Oct18.064518.464@darwin.ntu.edu.au> <4859@copper.UUCP> <8004@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Lines: 42 >In article <8004@darkstar.ucsc.edu> terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts) writes: >In article <4859@copper.UUCP> motcid!sattlerc@uunet.uu.net writes: >>caldwell_t@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes: >> > 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. > AmigaWorld has their ads. I called them once, and they said the same thing. If they got 1st hand complaints (not rumors), they would "take action" (whatever that means). > >| Terry Ricketts | Internet: terry@helios.ucsc.edu >| Senior Electronics Engineer | loel@helios.ucsc.edu >| Lick Observatory Electronics Lab | Phone: 408-459-2110 >| University of Calif, Santa Cruz | -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- These words be mine. The company doesn't care, because I am the company! :-) Dave Lowrey | david@starsoft or {uhnix1,moray}!starsoft!david Starbound Software Group | Houston, TX | "Dare to be stupid!" -- Weird Al Yankovic