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From: bryan@tahoe.unr.edu (Bryan Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Advice wanted on buying 386SX
Message-ID: <4936@tahoe.unr.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 90 19:15:36 GMT
References: <BCHEN.90Nov14215304@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Reply-To: bryan@tahoe.unr.edu (Bryan Wolf)
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Organization: Chaos Inc.
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In article <BCHEN.90Nov14215304@wpi.WPI.EDU> bchen@wpi.WPI.EDU (Bi Chen) writes:
)Dear network news readers:
)
)The following are some points which I want to get advice on:
)
)5. How could one safeguard to insure the computor he buy is from a
)morel and responsible vender who will tell truth on the phone and
)stand behind the computor he sales? Is there any public or private
)service where one can check the reputation of venders?
)
)6. What is general caution one should take if he has to go to a
)mail-order vender? If problems do happened, for example if one pay the
)computor but does not receive it or if one returns the computor but
)does not receive refunds, whom should one go for asking help?

Anytime you consider buying from a mail-order company, you should call
the Better Business Bureau.  Ask about this company, if they've had any
complaints, how long they've been in business, if they'e ever been charged
with mail fraud, etc.  You can save yourself some serious heartache this
way.  I've heard some horror stories about people that bought from Chapter
11 companies.

Bryan
-- 
     Sadly, most computer users eventually become   / bryan@tahoe.unr.edu
     computer sellers to support their habits.    /   Bryan Wolf.   whee.