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From: #FJMORA@WMMVS.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Computer Mail Order, Inc. looooong shipping delay
Message-ID: <8803022013.AA23316@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 2 Mar 88 19:10:16 GMT
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It seems that it is quite hard to buy a 1040 ST today.
I ordered an Atari 1040 plus some peripherals (modem, printer...)
from Computer Mail Order. It was Jan. 21, 1988. I paid with a cashier's
check to avoid the usual 4-week (!) check clearance delay.
Since they got my check, they keep promising to send it to me
"in a couple of weeks" with some "in 10 days" variations. Note that they
admitted my complaints on their 800 lines (a good point).

One week ago they promised to send it to me "next week, for sure". OK, I'm
waiting. I will tell you if they actually do it.
But can anyone tell me if CMO is normally so slow to ship you what
you paid for? To begin with, has any STist ever gotten anything from them ?

And some retailers complain that since Atari purchased Federated, they
dump all the STs they make into the Federated warehouse, and that
independant retailers just can't have STs. Is that true?

I feel that there are enough experienced ST material buyers on this
net to provide some useful purchase guidelines. Please give me your
opinion directly, or post it, and I will compile some retailer
statistics from this advice.

Frederic Mora
#FJMORA@wmmvs

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(But in this case I call it overkill.)