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From: v104nmym@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Sherman T Chan)
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Subject: Re: A500 HD
Summary: HD Speeds  Mail Order Question
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Date: 29 Apr 91 18:34:45 GMT
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In article <1991Apr28.201142.26545@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, gjackson@hpuxa.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ginger M. Jackson) writes...
> 
>	Hi.  I am looking for some info on the access speeds of both the GVP
>and Supra hard drives.  Any help would be appreciated.  Also, has anyone out
>there had and good or bad experiences with the mail order company Mongomery
>Grants out of NY.  Thanks in advance.
> 
>Ginger.
I don'tknow how their mail  order dealis, but for a long time this place was known
as anotorious  bait and switch operation that resold defective returns
to try to get people to  buy their  service contracts.
I got  my C64 there years ago, and they tried all kinds of  bullshit to
get me to buy a third partydrive  instead of a 1541, like making up crap
like how CBM wasmaking defective drives that would damage the C64 and
how they  were going to returnhtheir stock.
I toldhim  he wasfull of it, and if hedidn't sellme what I wanted, I
was leaving.  Then he comes  back with this box with  an ovbviously  used
C64 in  it, and I told himtake that crap back and give me a new one
and   he  says some craplike  it is new, theyjust opened this
one  to "check" out what CBM was sending him.
Again,I told him  he  was fullof crap,and if I didn't get a  good one
I wasleaving.  I  was expecting to get thrown out of the store, but
he came back with  what I  wanted and I bought it.  Noproblems
since then,andm,y brother  is still using  the  64 today
(This was backin  84).   My mother said all this crapwould
never  had happenedif I went with my father (I was only 13,at
the time), that they  pulled it because I was a little  kid,
but I figure any place that pulls crap like that  on anyone
isn'tworth shopping at unless you  really  can'tafford to
paymore (which I couldn't at the  time).
I'msurprised  these guys didn't get shut down along  with
Camera World (another sleazy  NYC electronics place) when  the
NYC authorities cracked down and made an exam,ple of that place.
ButI guess after over 20  yearsexperien ce, they really  learned
how  to beat the system.

-Sherm