Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!CFAAMP.BITNET!PEPRBV From: PEPRBV@CFAAMP.BITNET (Bob Babcock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Beware of Micro 1 Vendor Message-ID: Date: 13 May 89 20:36:29 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 23 X-Unparsable-Date: Sun, 1989 May 7 19:00:53 EDT Warning, if you value your time and money, avoid any dealings with Micro 1 (557 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA). In mid December, 1988, they took my prepaid order for a '386 system, sent no written acknowledgement (but after repeated inquiries did finally fax an invoice 2 months later), and continually promised to ship "next week" until late April. At that time, faced with complaints from my lawyer, and no doubt from other customers, the owner, Rick McCabe, sold the company. The new owner immediately filed for bankruptcy. Micro 1 continues to claim that they will eventually make full refunds, but everything else they have told me was lies, so I have no reason to believe this is true. These people made a mockery of the FTC rules which are supposed to protect mail order customers. Most likely these people will change their business name and resume operations. If I hear of their new name, I will update this message accordingly. My $7K is gone, but perhaps I can save someone else from the same fate. Robert W. Babcock WSS Division of DDC 4 Reeves Road Bedford, MA 01730 617-275-1183 or 9104 EMail to peprbv@cfaamp.bitnet or babcock@cfa