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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cheap diskettes - a bargain?
Message-ID: <6136@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 17 Nov 88 04:13:14 GMT
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in article <10949@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, sage@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (David Martosko '91) says:
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> In article <32406@bbn.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes:
>>I just got a flyer in the mail from MEI/Micro Center of Columbus,
>>Ohio.  They are advertising 3.5" diskettes at $.85 each (in lots of

Good price, but quality seems to be sketchy. One batch of disks will
format fine, the next one will have a half-dozen that won't format,
even. 

>>products?  This price is good till the end of December.

They say "this price is good only till xxx" so that they don't get
into legal hassles in the event someone picks up an old sales flyer.
In actuality, that is their regular price. But if it's past xxx, they
may have raised it (unlikely) or lowered it (more likely).

> they "roll their own."  Years ago when the Apple II was the thing to have,

I suspect they simply buy lots from the lowest bidder.

> You get what you pay for

Amen. If you have need for bulk disks for some reason, perhaps to
archive netnews or some other bulk data you really don't care about
;-), get some. If you have data you care about, get Sonys. 

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