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From: jdm@pnet02.CTS.COM (John Mesiavech)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Time to flame at Aegis....
Message-ID: <764@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 01:30:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 19 01:30:22 1987
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You know, it's not easy to be a person trying to get developers to cme to a
user group meeting.  Calling, calling, and MORE calling, just to get them to
come for some (semi) free publicity on their products.  Now on to the subject
matter of this posting....
 
(FLAME ON)

Aegis Inc. was invited to come to a meeting of a user's group in California
not twenty miles from their center of operations in Santa Monica, on June
11th.  The agreement was done over a month in advance of said meeting, and
Aegis agreed to come and do some demoing.  NOte please, OVER A MONTH BEFORE
THE MEETING WAS TO TAKE PLACE.  SO. Day of meeting came, people from all
around came to the meeting (Celtics game that night notwithstanding 8^>,
(We're talking about 60 people here) anxious to see both Aegis' products and
products from another company.  NEITHER COMPANY SHOWED UP.  Neither left word
with ANYONE that they would NOT put in an appearance, they just plain and
simple defaulted on the agreement.  Now, both companies had confirmed that
they would come (Aegis the week before, the other company 3 days prior to the
meeting).  The other company has since gotten into contact with officials of
the user group, explained what happened, and have since agreed to come to the
club's July meeting.  When Aegis was contacted by the officials of the group,
they were told that an official of Aegis "would return their call".  Nothing
was heard from them for some days.  Nothing STILL has been heard from them.
This type of behavior on the part of Aegis was not very encouraging to the
members of the user's group, nor is it to anyone, since the company didn't
even have the common courtesy to let the group officials know that they would
not come.  It makes one wonder, if Aegis treats user's groups in this manner,
how do they treat their customers?  I know for sure that by doing this thing,
that I personally would not buy from Aegis until they start showing signs of
honoring their commitments to persons, and I know that others in our group
feel the same way.  Please note that this meeting took place a week ago, and
that Aegis has been given plenty of time to resond in some way privately to
the officials of the group.  They have not chosen to do so, which is why this
message is being posted; to show that Aegis cannot always be trusted to honor
their commitments.
 
<FLAME OFF>
 
In addition, it may interest some to know that (at least according to rumor),
Aegis has bought the commercial rights to the public-domain program ROT ( a
3-D image editor/animator), and according to word, will be using this program
as the editor interface to Videoscape 3-D.  As shown by the above message,
whether VideoScape will see the light of day is problematical.
 
John M
 
"Send any flames to me at the following addresses, but be warned, I wear an
asbestos suit!" 


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