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From: mccarty@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (James E. McCarty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MEI Floppies
Summary: Variable Quality of MEI/MicroCenter diskettes
Keywords: Mail Order, MEI, MicroCenter, Diskettes
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Date: 15 Feb 90 13:43:50 GMT
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I live in Columbus, Ohio, the home of MEI and MicroCenter and
have purchased many diskettes from them over the years. Several
of us would get together and by 500-1000 at a time.  Most of the
time we had very good experience (less than 1% bad with the
people at the store always ready to make replacements).  However,
last year wee got a bunch of diskettes that were trash.  35-40%
failures.  There were obvious scratches of the surfaces.
We carted most of them back and got a refund on some and replacements
on others.  The next batch was better, but not as good as in the
past.

I refuse to bitch about the experience for several reasons:

 - MicroCenter has always done the "right thing" by either
   replacing the diskettes or refunding my money.

 - By buying at such a cheap price, I feel I also am taking a bit
   of risk for the better price.

 - As competition as driven the price for diskettes down, they have
   become a strictly price commodity.  I am sure MicroCenter focuses
   on price and occasionally will have a bad batch of diskettes.
   They move such a quantity that they can not test every batch.


BTW - MicroCenter (MEI's retail arm) does not sell Atari.  They are
   all IBM and Apple.  While most of the sales people are good;
   they do have a few that go out of their way to bad mouth the
   ST.  (As if we don't do well enough here B^) ).

I am not a MicroCenter employee; just a reasonably pleased customer.

Jim McCarty - OSU            (Insert clever stuff here)