Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ccicpg!cci632!ritcv!jdc3538
From: jdc3538@ritcv.UUCP (Jim Cronin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Watch out for Computer Discount
Message-ID: <378@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 00:37:52 GMT
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Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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Have any of you had any kind of experience with an outfit called
"Computer Discount" in Denver, Colorado?  I ordered a Supra hard disk
interface in early March.  I was told that they had one in stock and 
would send it out tomorrow.  They billed my Visa account the next day.
Three weeks elapse.  Nothing.  Call 'em up.  "Why Mr. Cronin, it just
so happens we sent it out this very day."  What a coincidence!  Another
week goes by.  Nothing.  Another call.  "UPS must have lost it.  Give me
your number and we'll get back to you RSN."

So what's the deal with places like this?  Do they lie about what they
have in stock, or is it a simple cashflow thing, increasing "float" by
billing early and shipping late? (or never?)