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From: craig@unicus.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Liars
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Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 15:48:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  4 15:48:47 1987
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Reply-To: craig@unicus.UUCP (Craig D. Hubley)
Organization: Unicus Software Inc., Toronto, Ont.
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> Incidentally, I was in a Federated here in Houston today.  They have a big
> new Atari display, and the salesman confidently informed me that the Amiga
> 2000 had been discontinued.  He was quite certain.  Now that I've set him
> straight I wonder if he'll stop telling people that...or not.

All Atari salesmen are liars.  It's in the job description.
NOT ONCE have I heard facts from them about anything.  This new business
about the Mac isn't lies, but its very misleading, and means nothing.
Comparing absurd things like screen size - phffft.

(from Michael Warren, about Atari's coin-op division)
> hard facts on that.  I know the other is true - I tried to get a job
> there last year but was deemed overqualified :-(

Probably because you had an education.

This is NOT an attempt to start another flame war.  If I wanted that,
I'd have cross-posted and put on me asbestos suit.  It's just that I've
heard this shit about Atari and their professional liars far too many times.

I honestly believe that Commodore should start gathering stories about this
and launch a lawsuit.  A big one, preferably for the retail price of every
Atari ST ever sold.  Against Federated, Atari, the salesmen themselves.
Its so widespread as to be almost a genuine conspiracy.
It could be construed as slander, false advertising (or counter-advertising)
or whatever an imaginative lawyer can dream up.

All you need is a jury where everybody had been lied to
by a salesman at least once in their lives. Don't laugh.
Much dumber stuff has got through.  And it might stop this business
of lying to novice users about their wonderful new computers,
which every major computer company has been guilty of.
(including Commodore, when Tramiel was president - remember C64 CP/M?)

The next time I talk to an Atari salesman, I think I'll be wired for sound.

	Craig Hubley, Unicus Corporation, Toronto, Ont.
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