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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Technisoft RAMBoards
Message-ID: <713@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 07:43:57 EST
Article-I.D.: xanth.713
Posted: Wed Mar 18 07:43:57 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Mar-87 03:43:08 EST
References: <4499@jhunix.UUCP> <5720@pur-ee.UUCP> <697@xanth.UUCP> <2810@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
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Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Keywords: crooks

In article <2810@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> spencer@mica.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) writes:
>In article <697@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>>In response to a request for information concerning the RAMBOARD, from
>>Technisoft.
>>I strongly encourage anyone on the net to avoid doing business with
>>Technisoft, Inc., and to recommend the same to their friends.  [...]
>>Caveat emptor.
>
>Well, I see them as more of a bunch of guys who got together and tried to
>make a board for the Amiga that was inexpensive so lots of people would
>be able to get it.

   [Lots of generic stuff about how nice it is to have people build cheap]
   [hardware for all of us.]

>[...] Now if that is how TechniSoft got started I understand why you can never
>get them on the phone, and why they blame things on UPS often (they arn't the
>only ones that do that).  I have found their heart to be in the right place.
>The president of our group ordered the board.
>[...] But when it went bad on our Presidente' in 48 hours, they fixed [...]
>Sure he got the run-around, but not everybody can be 100% together [...]
>Not that I want Perry or Steve to start designing slap-together hacks for
>Amiga Upgrades, but Techni-Soft has its place.  I think that is why Perry
>has been so vocal about C-Ltd., and not said a word about Techni-Soft, at
>least the latter doesn't pretend to be the greatest thing since sliced
>peanuts.
>Randy Spencer ....ucbvax!mica!spencer  spencer@mica.berkeley.edu

Well...I guess I am glad someone has gotten some endurable service from
Technisoft.  For my group, we have been told at least 15 times, always
lies, that our boards had _already_ been mailed, starting back in November.
I simply believe that a company which makes lying to customers a normal
business practice should not be rewarded with more customers.  I cannot
imagine anyone, reviewing the experiences of me and my fellow sufferers, or
of the many similar experiences published on the Compuserve Amigaforum (to
which one of us is a subscriber), who would voluntarily send money to these
people for anything, when there are so many reputable firms making a product
with similar functions, available from which to choose.  I agree that
Technisoft has its place.  If we were willing to undergo the tribulations of
pressing a case with the Postal Inspector, that place would be a nice cozy
cell, exactly what they deserve.  Their behavior is unconscionable, don't ask
me to praise them or accept "they're depraved on account of they're deprived";
these folks are grownups, responsible for their own behavior.
--
Kent Paul Dolan, "The Contradictor", 25 years as a programmer, CS MS Student
at ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, to find out how I was supposed to be doing this
stuff all these years.  3D dynamic motion graphics a specialty.  Work wanted.
Unemployment is soooo nice though...I never have to disclaim anything!

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