Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!netcom!ergo From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: DAK CDROM offer: advice and query Message-ID: <17810@netcom.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 90 01:28:38 GMT References: Organization: UESPA Lines: 26 In lodzins@pilot.njin.net (Dean Lodzinski) writes: [on DAK computer/software bundle] >. Give it a shot, you have 30 days to return it if you are not >COMPLETELY satisfied. I too have thought about the CD ROM. The >software alone is worth the $699. Not even close. I can't consider Wordstar Expert Pro Auteur (or whatever the current version is called) to be worth anything like its $600 list price. Aside from it's notorious shortcomings, DAK sell it separately, with a couple other programs thrown in, for $50. The remaining programs *might* be worth $700 -- if you actually need them! Something you can't use is no bargain, whatever the price. Aside from the obvious costs, consider the value of the time and effort you spend making sure the computer actually works (and every vendor ships a dud occasionally) and that it meets your needs, all with the help of a sales person not much more ept than you. DAK should stick to what it knows how to do: selling remaindered adult toys. -- ergo@netcom.uucp Isaac Rabinovitch netcom!ergo@apple.com Silicon Valley, CA {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo THIS STATEMENT IS VERIFIABLY, IRREFUTABLY TRUE!