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From: 2hnemarrow@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: AE Rumors
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.141309.29255@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 91 14:13:09 CST
References: <1991Mar23.004352.9545@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <13008@ucrmath.ucr.edu> <1991Mar24.091116.27945@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> <13028@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
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In article <13028@ucrmath.ucr.edu>, rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
> 
> While I must agree that AE actions are reprehensible, I don't feel that
> writing nasty letters is the way to change any opinions at AE.  They are
> in business to make money, not to make people happy.  If you really want to
> change their attitudes, start buying stuff from them.  Get your friends to
> buy stuff from them. Alas, blasting them because they are making a reasonable
....

Is that a typo?  It kind of sounds like the peace-activist's creed of consumer
affairs.  That would've made a good policy for Iraq.  Hey, they invaded Kuwait,
let's give them a lot of money, and get all of our friends to give them lots of
money, and then maybe they'll leave.  (Sorry, the Iraqi invasion was the only
other recent event I've heard called "reprehensible".  The best way to deal
with the problem is to warn anyone who considers buying anything from AE to
avoid that company at all costs, including the people who own Macs and Amigas. 
AE is the only company that I know of, who could take a drive mechanism as
well-made as the Connners, and build a hard drive that's basically a piece of 
junk.  

I was lucky enough to be warned by a SysOp to stay away from it.   
Unfortunately, I was unfortunate as to have bought junk such as ReadyLink
Communications Errware and a TransChoke Accelerator.  Then, I have a friend
who bought an AE RAM Scrambler with something that looks like it may have
originally been intended as a battery, and a DataMaybe modem.  I agree, don't
write AE about their stupid 900 number, write to everyone who thinks they want
to deal with a company like AE in the future.  I for one will have plenty to
write in the next AUG newsletter.