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From: watters@penguin.cis.ohio-state.edu (david r watters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Stability of Commodore/Amiga
Summary: Dealer incompatence
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Date: 26 Feb 90 06:30:45 GMT
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Let's talk a bit about dealers shall we.  Most of the Amiga Dealers are old
CBM 64 dealers, not a good way to start off.  My local dealer, which is the
only around, sells Epsons and Panasonic clones.  When ever he has a big 
customer comein, like a big college, he personally shows them around the 
store. While I worked there for 4 monts,  I heard him say all to often...
"Over here on this side of the store, are my IBM compatibles, my trucks...
these are my work computers.  Oh, that over there is the Amiga... it's my
sports car, it is a fun computer for playing games and making home videos...
these clones are what you want to do all your work on."
He actualy says this about once a week.  Then, he has the nerve to charge
$60 dollars to even look at a 500 in service, let alone fix it.
I had a 2000 that had a power supply go bad, and the new power supply was
going to cost me $200.  When I got the bill it was over $300!!!!!
I had to pay $90 in labor charges, 9 hours@$10/hr. plus a $50 "look at it" fee,
that has since increased to over $60. And I was an employee
 
I may be wrong, but this seems a bit pricy to me.  I could have put the damn
power supply in myself, I have taken it out/put it in maybe 5 times installing
different drives into the bay, and the newAgnus.  Nothing makes me want to bail
out more than a 90 day warrenty and a dealer that is always looking to 
corn-hole you up the whazooo!