Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Subject: Re: Mail Order Problems -- Waiting for my 1040e
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.000214.2601@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1990Dec1.035832.24062@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <16830007@col.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 90 00:02:14 GMT
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In some article, someone writes
>>
>> I ordered a 1040e from MicroTyme (Kettering, Ohio).
>  [...]
>> According to them, they have been waiting all this time for a shipment of
>> 1040e's from Atari.

I had heard some time back that Atari was trying to discourage mail order shops.
But now I learn that MicroTyme advertises mail order service, and I recently
saw a flier from E.A.Browne Co, advertising STs for sale.

Does this mean that Atari has is a changed its policy?

Or is it still the same, and they are trying to put the mail-order
places out of business, by not shiping to them.  I know what you are
thinking now, "Why posit a theory of conspiracy, when a much simpler
theory, such as incompetence or bad luck, will suffice?"

I dont know.  The devil made me say it.