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- From: dvd@airmail.net (Wingman)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR Sportster 33.6
- Date: 4 Mar 1996 14:25:35 GMT
- Organization: customer of Internet America
- Message-ID: <4heugv$84m@news-f.iadfw.net>
- References: <313180E8.7883@sfu.ca> <4h4mjn$iud@uuneo.neosoft.com> <4hbduo$1iu@barad-dur.nas.com>
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- In article <4hbduo$1iu@barad-dur.nas.com>, alf@nas.com says...
- >
- >dsterner@neosoft.com (Don Sterner) wrote:
- >
- >>In article <313180E8.7883@sfu.ca>, chenl@sfu.ca says...
- >>>
- >>>I have a 28.8 currently
- >>>
- >>>How, how much, and where can I get the chip?
- >>>Does it work
- >>>
- >>>any background would be helpful
- >>>
- >
- >>USR will be happy to sell you a new Sportster V34+ ROM for $24.95 plus $5.00
- >>shipping and handling. Of course, they don't commit that they'll actually
- ship
- >>the thing to you any time in the next few years. You can jump on the waiting
- >>list by calling the Tech Support number listed in your modem documentation.
- Be
- >>prepared to listen to USR advertisements for 20-30 minutes (it's a
- >>long-distance call) while you're on hold.
- >
- >>My order was entered last November. I'm still waiting. The Press Announcement
- >>stated that the chips would ship in mid-December.
- >
- >I have been waiting over a month. Why does USR fuck with its customers
- >like this??
- >
- >
- You've been waiting over a month? I've been waiting since November 11 !
- That's almost FIVE months.
-
- Why does USR fuck with their customers? Because they CAN and we put up with
- it.
-
-