Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!mailrus!cornell!rochester!udel!mmdf From: whitcomb%unicorn.berkeley.edu@UDEL.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Is Abel able? Message-ID: <4463@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 88 23:00:27 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 56 Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer X2.00) with BSMTP id 5544; Sun, 02 Oct 88 01:06:55 EDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with TCP; Sun, 02 Oct 88 01:06:51 EDT Received: by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa02186; 1 Oct 88 13:27 EDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa01830; 1 Oct 88 13:00 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa01683; 1 Oct 88 12:48 EDT From: Gregg Whitcomb Subject: Re: Is Abel able? Message-ID: <6083@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 1 Oct 88 15:52:40 GMT To: amiga-relay@UDEL.EDU Sender: amiga-relay-request@UDEL.EDU In article <9578@cup.portal.com>, Doug_B_Erdely@cup.portal.com writes: > > I have dealt with Abel so many times I can't remember, I have only had 1 proble > m with all the order I have placed. They accidently shipped Telewars instead of > Telegames. I called and told them what happend, they shipped the correct title > out right away without waiting for the title I had... they told me to send it > in when I got a chance!!! That is the only problem that I have ever had! > And NOBODY beats (let alone matches) their prices. > > - Doug - > > Doug_B_Erdely@Portal.Cup.Com I had just the opposite experience. I've dealt with them once (and it will probably be the last time). I ordered about 5 items simultaneously (digiview, stand, camera, etc). They didn't have any of the items in stock at the time, and thus the 2-day UPS was almost worthless. Not only that, as soon as a product arrives at their site, they send it off. This of course means that I paid 2-3 times the shipping costs because my 5 item order arrived in 4 packages. Of course, getting a camera by itself is worthless. Not only that, their product list shows an item labelled "ABCD Parallel data switch" which I interpretted to mean "compatible with the Amiga parellel DB25 port"... it wasn't. It was instead, a switchbox for Centronics cables---AACK! I sent it back immediately (about 1 1/2 MONTHS ago) and have not received the correct item yet (on backorder, of course). If you still think that the slightly better prices they offer are worth the risk, I suggest that you confirm that the products are in stock before ordering and double check that what they have in mind are what you want... of course, the ordering people won't know a DB25 connector from a Centronics so good luck. -Gregg Whitcomb BTW, I warned them when I returned the data switch that I'd be sending this message out... it didn't seem to help me get the replacement any faster.