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From: eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CEBIT soreheads
Message-ID: <10187@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 28 Mar 88 15:40:31 GMT
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In article <8698@g.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>In article <6494@ames.arpa> mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick) writes:
>[Basically describes the compaint as "whining"]
>
>It's not whining, bub.  I bought my A1000 and less than 4 months later they were
>announcing the A2000.  Well, I would have bought an A2000 if I KNEW ABOUT IT!
>
>So here I am with a computer that has been effectively abandoned hardware-wise
>by it's company less than 4 months after I bought it. That sucks.

Give me a break asshole. You could have taken advantage of the trade in
offer - your 1000 + the $1K would have ended up being around the same
price as a brand new A2000 at the time.

>I will not buy another *Commodore* computer, not because I am mad (and I am),
>but because there's nothing to say that they won't do the same exact thing
>again.

Good. So sell your 1000 and get off the net.

>I will consider other brands of computers, however, especially those that
>demonstrate a willingness to support their customers.

I suppose CATS's and the hardware folks presence on the net and Bix constitute
a definite showing of "no support", eh?

>Sean

Eric

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