Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Mac vendors (was: M68851 SCAM ???) Message-ID: <1990Dec14.235558.12776@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 14 Dec 90 23:55:58 GMT References: <1149@duteca.UUCP> <34594@netnews.upenn.edu> <14829@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 27 darweesh@zephyrus.crd.ge.com (Michael Darweesh) writes: > I've had some VERY bad experiences with [MacProducts USA] Personally, I've never found any reason to deal with anybody other than MacConnection (assuming they carry the item I need). Not only do they consistantly have the lowest (or very nearly so) prices, but they provide great service, ship everything overnight for $3, unconditionally guarantee everthing they sell (as in, "I bought this program, but after playing with it for 2 weeks, I've decided It's not really what I need", "no problem, just send it back and we'll refund your full purchase price") and are just plain a class operation. They even a;peal to my environmental streak by not using styrofoam packing material, and not printing their catalog on glossy paper. The only thing they consistantly get undersold on is memory; I think their catalog lists about $60/meg when the MacWeek price du jour is down around $40. On the other hand, memory prices are so volitile, you can't really expect a volume-printed catalog to be competitive with MacWeek ads. Given MacConnection's generally class act, however, I wouldn't be surprised if when you called them to order it, their prices were actually lower than what's in the catalog. I know that the last time I ordered Sony HD floppies, they told me they were having a special and I got them for considerably less than the catalog price. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"