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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: CDVT and CD-I
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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1991 14:56:22 GMT

In article <7006@mcrware.UUCP> leeg@mcrware.UUCP (Lee Glenn) writes:
>
>Well, gee, I guess I'll stick my neck out and say that when you buy from
>Panasonic, you'll get EVERYTHING that you paid for at the time of purchase.
>And, if for some reason something was left out of the box, I don't think
>that you'll have to wait 11 months for it.
>
	The point of my asking "What service does Panasonic" give
you was that someone was predicting CDTV's doom based upon all
these Japanese companies with their great service and then there
is Commodore. My point was, simply, that they don't provide ANY
service. If something is missing you'll have to deal with the
place you bought it from, and as we all know dealers come in
varying qualities.

>My problem in getting AmigaVision is not an isolated case.  There are
>people who STILL haven't gotten it.  It really made me sick to go to my
>favorite Amiga store and see it sitting on the shelves, but Commodore
>kept insisting that I'll have it in 'two weeks'.  I could have bought
>the damn thing with the money I spent in phone calls, faxes, etc.
>
	First off, you now get AmigaVision BUNDLED with your
Amiga. You no longer have to wait for Commodore to ship it to
you. That idea was probably a mistake on their part. It obviously
didn't work right. But it sounds like you got screwed worse than
most.


>Did you buy a CDTV unit?  Did you get everything you were supposed to get?
>
	Considering that Commodore is currently shipping on the
order of 800K-900K Amigas every year, not to mention C=64s and PC
clones, I would somehow doubt that Commodore regularly leaves
things out.
	And no, I didn't buy CDTV.
	-- Ethan

"...Know-Nothing-Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog, an animal so stupid that it
had been sacked from one of Will's own commercials for being incapable
of knowing which dog food it was supposed to prefer, despite the fact
that the meat in all the other bowls had engine oil poured all over it."