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From: lauac@ute.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is Hard Drives International for real?
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Date: 27 Jan 89 00:14:36 GMT
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In article <3475@bgsuvax.UUCP> jimison@bgsuvax.UUCP (Bryan Jimison) writes:
>
>Has anyone had any good/bad dealings with Hard Drives International?
>The reason I am asking is that they have an ad in the latest issue 
>of MacWorld for a 60 mb Seagate hard drive for $589.   This seems a
>little too good to be true, so I thought I'd see if anyone has had
>dealings with this company or its products.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Bryan
>
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>Bryan Jimison                   | D:  I speak for me.  Leave BGSU alone!

Against my better judgement, I went and ordered a drive from them
without ever hearing of them before, since I saw their ads in three
magazines (MacWorld, MacUser and BYTE).

They seemed very nice, told me that the drive I was ordering (a 45 Mb
MiniScribe drive, I don't trust Seagate) was backordered for two weeks,
and they can take my order now and send it out when they're ready.
They have a customer service number that you can call to check on the
status of your order, and I paid by credit card so I could stop payment
if they charged me before the drive came.

All in all, they seem legit; I think they did OEM work on IBM-type
SCSI drives to make them with a Mac. Add power supplies, cases, etc.

--- Alex
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