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From: jallen@netxcom.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Prentice-Hall's Return Policy
Message-ID: <279@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Jan-87 17:13:19 EST
Article-I.D.: netxcom.279
Posted: Fri Jan 23 17:13:19 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Jan-87 06:46:15 EST
References: <1646@ihlpl.UUCP> <7318@elsie.UUCP> <30@umich.UUCP>
Reply-To: jallen@netxcom.UUCP (John Allen)
Organization: NetExpress Communications Inc. Vienna, Va.
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In article <30@umich.UUCP> jtr485@umich.UUCP (Johnathan Tainter) writes:
>In article <7318@elsie.UUCP>, ado@elsie.UUCP writes:
>> > Let's say I purchase MINIX, only to find that my IBM/AT-clone falls
>> > in the 20% that Andy said MINIX would not run on.  Will Prentice-Hall
>> > graciously accept the return of the software?
>> > Ira Dworkin
>> Let's say I purchase UNIX, only to find that my IBM/AT-clone falls
>> in the percentage of machines that UNIX would not run on.  Will AT&T
>> graciously accept the return of the software?
>If AT&T were marketing UNIX for 100 bucks a pop you bet your balls they would.
>Good and cheap p.r. is hard to come by.
>At the higher pricing scheme, it is expected more caution will be taken,
>and total sales will be smaller thus the frequency of this occurence will go
>down.  That makes a refunding policy cost prohibitive.
>--j.a.tainter

Couldn't the opposite argument be made?  I'd be mightily displeased if
I couldn't return a multi-hundred dollar product that wouldn't perform
on my machine.

John Allen
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