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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Had problems getting USR support?
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 01:03:54 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4dethq$lbq@usenety1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <DL1G5A.EvG@lazrus.cca.rockwell.com> <30f5e2de.8655369@news.insync.net>
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- Originator: davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com
-
- In article <30f5e2de.8655369@news.insync.net>,
- Bill Garfield <bubba@insync.net> wrote:
-
- | Courier buyers also paid twice as much for their modem. While that's
- | no excuse for difficulty in receiving product support, it does serve to
- | underscore what folks have been telling us for years... you get what you
- | pay for.
-
- Really? Then all the people who wait for weeks to get a response
- from USR support must have gotten their modems very cheaply, because
- the support is pretty grim.
-
- | Ford Motor Company is the parent organization behind both the Ford
- | Festiva and the Lincoln Town Car, yet there is a WIDE disparity between
- | performance and support of these two models. You get what you pay for.
-
- Having owned some cheap Fords and a few 4WDs which were a dinner for
- two under $30k, I can tell you that if I got USR style on the
- cheapies I would not have bought the goodies. Ford typically fixes
- any car in a day, with a few exceptions. If I got a response from
- USR in a week I would probably lose bladder control!
-
- My Ford five year waranty means that they will fix it for five
- years, not that I will wait five years for them to fix it.
- --
- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- I will support laws and technology which limit what you are allowed
- to hear, if you will oppose laws and technology limiting what I am
- allowed to say.
-