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From: cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Carl J.M. Alexander)
Subject: Re: Advice wanted: mail-order Mac hardware
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In article <1991Jun20.140901.17924@progress.com> erf@progress.COM 
(Eric Feigenson) writes:
>....
>I'm looking for advice on "good" versus "bad" mail-order houses for
>Mac hardware.  I'll leave the specific of what sort of hardware open.
>I'd just like to hear horror or happiness stories that you might have
>had when trying to order hardware mail-order, and any specific
>recommendations you might have for or against a particular merchant.

In a recent thread here (Mail-order hero/horror stories, or something
like that) quickly turned into a well-deserved lovefest for MacConnection.
Alliance Peripherals gets similar praise from customers in the storage
market (hard disks and tape drives).  I don't know of any hardware 
vendors that offer a broad range of products with reputations of this
magnitude.
 
--Carl Alexander                  |           BCS*Mac 
News Editor, The Active Window    |  The Boston Computer Society 
cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu          |     Macintosh Users Group