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Subject: Re: Bad floppies
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Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 13:20:12 EDT
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In article <843@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (braner) writes:
>given me problems yet.  Moral: DON'T USE BASF 3.5" DSDD DISKETTES!
>
>PS: Just yesterday I called a mail-order place that advertises Sony diskettes
>for a good price.  They told me they were out of Sony, but have BASF.  They
>never mentioned BASF in their ad.  Do you smell something fishy?

"Fishy", as in BAIT and switch?  Yes!  Who are these people?  "out of
Sony", meaning they don't want to send someone back to Tokyo to pick up
more?  They don't have a distributor?  Isn't there a mail order association 
to report this company to?  What a bunch of nonsense!  They don't want to
sell Sony at that price, or want to get rid of the BASF junk!

On the other hand, I'd think that a company that's been in the magnetic
media business as long as BASF would want to rectify any problems with
their product...  There might be some temporary QC problems...



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