Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!Bob_BobR_Retelle From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Mail Order Problems -- Waiting for my 1040e Message-ID: <36471@cup.portal.com> Date: 2 Dec 90 23:47:27 GMT References: <1990Dec1.035832.24062@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Distribution: na Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 42 Russell Ochocki writes, concerning an STe he ordered in September: >This is starting (as if it isn't already) to turn into an absolutely >ridiculous situation!! Is Atari actually this negligent when it comes to >supplying their dealers with products? Perhaps incompetent would be a better word... >Maybe this explains why sales for 1040e's are so poor -- nobody can >get them from Atari. Yes.. this is one reason... >Or, is there something I don't know about the mail order company (MicroTyme) >that I should know..... No.. they're just another dealer at the mercy of Atari Corp... >Anybody out there having any similar problems with Atari? Yes... my local dealer orders four STs from Atari and receives one... three potential Atari customers go elsewhere and buy IBM clones. >I would appreciate any comments on this. Maybe one of those Atari guys >who read this board could explain their distribution problems. I'd like to hear that too. Atari Corp has a tiny production facility and poor financial resources. They stop producing one product line so they can crank out other products. For example, they don't make computers for the Christmas selling season, they make video games... thus, no computers in the pipeline. Right now, I understand there's an extreme shortage of Mega ST4s.. although, you can now get the monitors to go with the Megas you can't get, which themselves had been in short supply earlier. Remember who you're dealing with. Your computer may show up at MicroTyme tomorrow, or it may be "first quarter 1991".. BobR