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From: ggibeau@ucqais.uc.edu (George Gibeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Floppies
Message-ID: <1384@ucqais.uc.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 88 23:55:27 GMT
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Organization: Univ of Cincinnati, College of Business Admin.
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Summary: Micro-Center and Guarantee

> >[...]	"MEI/Micro Center's UNCONDITIONAL GUARANTEE: Your satisfaction
> >	is unconditionally guaranteed or your money back.  If for any
> >	reason you are not completely satisfied with any product purchased
> 
> Never trust these "guarantees".  Back in the old days when I had a C-64,
> I had a Memorex 5.25" floppy go bad on me.  Memorex was heavily advertising
> their guaranteed money back lifetime guarantee should the disk fail.  So,
> saying "what the heck" I called up their number and complained.  The
> scoop was that they would happily send me a new disk provided:
> So the total cost to replace a worthless $1.00 floppy was going to
> be $3.70, plus it would take 6-8 weeks to get to me!
 -- Dan Green

We buy disks from Micro-Center all the time for our club.  Since
they are but a short (2 hour) drive from Cincinnati, it is no problem
to take any disks that have gone bad back to them.  They have been
very good in replacing them, we walk in hand them whatever we have
and get new ones in return.  It is also nice to be known by the
salespeople.  Last week they received a shipment of 10,000 DS/DD
3-1/2" disks in and were sold out by the next day.  Luckily, the
guy we deal with knew we were looking for some so he called me and
set aside 1000 of them for us.  Went up 2 days later and you should
have seen the looks on peoples faces that were coming in to buy disks,
only to find out they were out, when we walked out with 2 rather large
boxes clearly marked.  :-)

George Gibeau


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