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- From: pwm5k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Patrick William Mackin)
- Subject: Re: Anyone done business with Copperhead Technologies?
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- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 23:48:19 GMT
-
- My dealing with Copperhead went OK and I got a good deal, but I
- have heard about items arriving DOA many a time in this
- newsgroup.
-
- There are 2 things that concern me about Copperhead Tech.
-
- #1 They do not have any catalog or listing of their products.
- Anytime I want something from them I must make a long distance
- telephone call just to see if they carry it, and if so, how
- much it costs. Many times, I will just buy something because
- it is a good deal and I could use it, but I don't really need
- it. Ex. An audio digitizer or something.. I really wish they
- had a list of inventory and at least *rough* prices for items.
-
- #2 They claim to have an appearance on the net. They had some
- account at AOL, and I wrote to it many times, but never
- received a reply. They posted here from it a couple of times
- with messages like
- COPPPERHEAD TECHNOLOGIES IS THE NUMBER ONE AMIGA RESELLER!!!!!
- CALL US
- FOR ALL YOUR AMIGA NEEDS..!
-
- I think a mail order business needs either a presence on the
- net or a catalog, but preferably both. However, if they give
- out an e-mail address they should at least respond to it.
-
-
- Finally, I have a question for the Amiga community in general.
- I run a small used Amiga sales company, and we're now getting
- the new AT units, and I would like to expand our business
- through the net. I would like to know the opinion of Amiga
- buyers on what they would like to see from an Amiga dealer.
-
- Do you want customer phone support for installing items?
- Just low prices period? (kinda like Copperhead)
- Would you like to see an Internet home page? If so, with what
- information on it?
- Do you require credit card acceptance?
- What type products are you interested in (the latest greatest,
- gfx cards, 060 accelerators, video equipment, or smaller things) ?
- Would you/did you support companies that advertised in Amiga
- World or other mags? Are there any mags you read that you
- would buy products from their advertisers?
- Finally, what Amiga model do you own?
-
- Thank you, and remember,
- ONLY AMIGA MAKES IT POSSIBLE
-
- Amiga -- Back for the Future
-
- Patrick Mackin
- President, Imagine Computers
- Charlottesville, VA, USA
-