Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!udel!mmdf From: tsarna@pooh (Tyler Sarna) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Mont Grant prices < Ed. Discount Message-ID: <47219@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 11 Mar 91 17:49:42 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 62 In article <15564@chaph.usc.edu> of comp.sys.amiga.misc, "Alex C. Liu" writes: > In article <46741@nigel.ee.udel.edu> tsarna@pooh (Tyler Sarna) writes: > >In article of > >comp.sys.amiga.misc, Rich Andrews writes: > >> Montgomery Grant [...] Anyone have > >> experiences with them that they could briefly mention to me? > >NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER > >Do business with Montgomery Grant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEVER! > But why? Because they are only out to rip you off. When I was looking to buy a 2000 I called around a bit. I talked to MG first, since they advertised the lowest prices. I called them up and asked a few questions. At one point the guy mentioned that it "also includes the mouse and keyboard". When I said "of course it does!", the guy responded "Oh...". I also asked if it included the 1.3 ROM (1.3 had come out a few months before) and he said "I don't know, let me look..." After about 5 minutes he came back and said "No, it doesn't. That would be $125 extra" So I called another place. When I asked if the 1.3 ROM was included, the guy said "sure it is, who was trying to sell you one without? They [C=] have been shipping them with 1.3 ROMS for over a month now!" When I mentioned MG he responded "It figures", and gave me the whole run-down on them. If I had bought from MG, by the time I bought a 1.3 ROM and fatter Agnus from them, the aditional several hunderd dollars added on their advertised price would have actually made it cost more than an equivalent machine from any of the reputable mail-order firms. That's assuming the machine from MG actually worked and was in good condition. Since then I have met several people who haven't been as lucky. Several have received dented/scratched/non-functional equipment with various items (mouse/keyboard/disks/manuals/origional boxes) not included. Two actually lost money because they had orders in when MG went bankrupt one of its many times. > Sure prices look way too good to be true, That's because they are. > but if they are that bad, > how come they keep advertising in "reputable" magazines Because AmigaWhirled and co. don't really want to turn down those nice, expensiv,e two-page, 3-color ads. > and havent been sued yet? Who's to say they haven't been sued? ------///------------------------------------------------------------ /// Tyler "Ty" Sarna E-Mail: tsarna@polar.bowdoin.edu \\\/// "Welcome to the Late Show/Starring Null and Void" - Men@Work --\XX/---------------------------------------------------------------