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From: rob@uokmax.UUCP (Robert K Shull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: 10 mths since memory ordered from Apple. Grrrrrrr!
Message-ID: <1711@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 88 19:27:53 GMT
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Reply-To: rob@uokmax.UUCP (Robert K Shull)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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In article <5264@zodiac.UUCP> pkahn@ads.com (Phil Kahn) writes:
>I, along with three other people, bought MacIIs from Apple in November
>as Apple Developers.  We got our 1MB machines, drives, monitors, etc,
>but we are STILL waiting for our 4MB SIMM upgrades.  What makes this
>so infuriating is that Apple is shipping these SIMMS (sold to others
>at higher prices)!  Talk about sleazy business practices.  

Not really sleazy, just sane. When you buy as a developer (or as a
university employee in my case) you get "second class" service in
exchange for a price break. It states plainly in the information sheet
for university purchases that there are NO guarantees of delivery date.

It is stated that shipments under this program are lower priority.
Usually it doesn't matter, there isn't much difference. In this case, there
was. If you'd bought your Mac at a store, and others were getting their
memory before you, then you might have a complaint. 

If you can't wait, I think National Semiconductor as SIMMs for overnight
delivery at about $500 a meg. You should be able to cancel your Apple
order and get those instead.

By the way, we've been waiting here since March, so you're not alone.

>phil...

Robert
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Robert K. Shull
University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network
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