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From: cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Carl J.M. Alexander)
Subject: Re: Wholesale 54 Quantum 105s
Message-ID: <1991Jul1.032328.27988@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 91 03:23:28 GMT
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In article <6744@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu 
(Doug Siebert) writes:
>....
>I'm finally going to get around to buying a hard drive for my Mac Plus and
>since my cash is limited right now, I was figuring on going with the best "bang
>for the buck" alternative, which seems to be the Wholesale 54 Quantum Pro 105s,
>which can be had for $389 in external configuration.  
 
I haven't done business with them, but I've heard the screams....
 
Seriously, when their ads first appeared about six months ago, I checked
around and was given to understand that they're a dba for Hard Drives
International, a company which has developed an odious reputation in 
the Mac market.  Now this company that appeared out of the blue six
months ago--and initially couldn't decide whether it's name was 
"Wholesale 54" or "Warehouse 54"--is advertising itself as "One of the
oldest names in the storage business!"
 
APS charges more because they're conservative--they aren't courting 
bankruptcy by engaging in cutthroat pricing--and because they use 
some of that money to hire competent staff, and enough of them.  That's
how they developed their reputation for consistently coming through
for their customers.
 
Disclaimer:  My only relationship with APS is that I'm a *very* 
satisfied customer.
 
--Carl Alexander                  |           BCS*Mac 
News Editor, The Active Window    |  The Boston Computer Society 
cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu          |     Macintosh Users Group