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From: ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MEI/Micro Center floppy disks
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Date: 1 Nov 90 15:23:05 GMT
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>     I would send your disks back and ask for a refund or a 
>replacement shipment.  You will find their customer service people to 
>be very understanding.
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I just got off the phone to MEI (800 number). I had purchased 50 5.25 HD
disks and 15 of them (30%) were not good. 4 wouldn't even format at all;
the rest had bad sectors. I just told them the problem and them said they
would send out 15 more and that I didn't need to send back the bad ones.
(It is my fervant hope that people don't start lying about bad disks to
get more free ones ... that could kill the Golden Goose)
	I still would like to know what the odds are that "marginal" disks
might "go bad" at a later date.
			-ted-

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