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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Floppies
Message-ID: <740@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 14:35:35 GMT
References: <3922@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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In article <166@teak.athertn.Atherton.COM> ericb@Atherton.COM (Eric Black) writes:
>[...]	"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
>	from us, we want you to return it to us for an exchange of the
>	product or your money back." [...]

In my experience, you WILL have the need to exercise the money back
guarantee. Several months back I ordered 50 disks from MEI, since then
about 20 of them have failed. The failure mode was very strange on some
of them too. Some simply failed to format, but others formatted fine.
However disks written in one drive would show as DFn:BAD in another
drive. This sent me on a wild goose-chase trying to figure out what was
wrong with my hardware. It turned out that the hardware was fine (brand
name Sony, Fuji, and 3M disks had no problem). My best guess is that the
media on the MEI disks (they were BASF by the look of them) was
marginal, and couldn't handle small variations between drives like they
should have.

I don't know how well they support their guarantee since I haven't taken
the time to ship them back.
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