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From: nclee@sbcs.UUCP (Nai Chi Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 47th ST. Mail Order
Message-ID: <407@sbcs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 11:02:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: sbcs.407
Posted: Wed Apr 22 11:02:39 1987
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Organization: Computer Science Dept, SUNY@Stony Brook
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>     Here is what I have heard about 47th St. Photo.  I have heard that, if
>you send back something that is defective, they tend to put the defective item
>back on the shelf and hope that the next person that gets it does not have a
>problem.

I can tell you from experience that this is true.  My uncle once bought
a Compaq portable from them.  He received it from their warehouse in a sealed
box, but the machine was DOA and it was clearly a returned unit as some
packaging material were missing.

Personally, I dislike their salesmen's attitude (but then, those people in
Computerland are no better).  I can usually get better prices/service from
those small PC-clone shops in NYC and Queens.

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