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From: t-stephp@microsoft.UUCP (Stephen Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What to do with bad disks?
Message-ID: <1080@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 16:10:27 GMT
References: <15569@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <64827@felix.UUCP>
Reply-To: t-stephp@microsoft.UUCP (Stephen Poole)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <64827@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:
>Is this what I can look forward to if I buy generic diskettes?  I recently
>received a brochure from MEI/Micro Center (Columbus Ohio) from whom I bought
>KAO diskettes at about $1.14 per. This new ad is for (unspecified brand name)
>DS/DD or SS/DD 3.5" diskettes at 85 cents per (in lots of 25).  I've had no
>problems with the KAO diskettes (formatted and used about 50 of them) but
>I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who purchased MEI/Micro Center's generic
>brand.

I have made a single diskette purchase from MEI and was quite dissatisfied
with the results.  Out of the 50 I bought, perhaps 5 did not format and since
that time I have had another 5 become corrupted.  Since I started using
Maxells I haven't had a problem.  Of course, one pays for them in blood!

>The ad says "lifetime warranty."  What does that mean? 

Probably that if I were willing to send my bad disks back they would give
me new ones.  Personally, I've never known ANYONE who bothered to cash in
on "lifetime warranty" disks going bad.  Since the retailers obviously know
this, why shouldn't they advertise with a lifetime warranty?

>Shirley Kehr



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