home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: ppp-47.ts-1.nyc.idt.net!user
- From: efrain@soho.ios.com (Efrain Gonzalez)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Misleading full page ads in Amazing Amiga
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 08:02:46 GMT
- Organization: Internet Online Services
- Message-ID: <efrain-0304960309050001@ppp-47.ts-1.nyc.idt.net>
- References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960402211632.22824A-100000@holmes.umd.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-47.ts-1.nyc.idt.net
-
- In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.960402211632.22824A-100000@holmes.umd.edu>, d
- zander <dzander@umd5.umd.edu> wrote:
-
- > "It's finally here!" it proclaims.
- > The full page ads for an application under the brandname LinkIt! carried
- > by Amazing Amiga in their last few issues promises all types of file transfer
- > in Serial and Parallel between an Amiga and PC that also will "Perform file
- > conversion as you transfer!" and it further states that it "Includes 6 foot
- > parallel cable.".
- > Too good to be true?
- > Well I bought one direct from it's originators:"LEGENDARY design
- TECHNOLOGIES"
- > for US $ 59.95 back at the beginning of March.
- > What I got in the mail from them was what they call a "Special Version" that
- > cannot connect to Parallel ports and with their "FREE" Serial cable was only
- > able to slowly transfer some small files from the Amiga to the PC but not
- > from the PC to the Amiga.
- > On their Registration Card they ask you to: "Send in this card to receive
- > your FREE PARALLEL CABLE" and then in small print "When available".
- > My e-mail inquiries were answered by a Syd Bolton who said they will mail
- > me their latest software update which he said will "solve some" of my
- > "problems".
- > Ten days later I have not received anything.
- > And I discovered that "file conversion as you transfer" really only means
- > three or four very basic formats that don't even include GIF's or JPEG's.
- >
- > I am only posting this in order to warn other potential buyers and to
- > express my concern about the kind of advertisers the last U.S. based
- > Amiga publication attracts.
- > ANY ADVICE??
- > Still hoping for a better Amiga future, dzander
-
-
- What has been your experience w/ other Amiga product venders in Amazing?
- Do you think we should stay away fom them? I have not bought an Amiga
- product in a long time, but I am thinking of getting the revision 8a
- mother board for A500 shown in the March Issue by Paxtron.
- --
-
-
- -Efrain Gonzalez
-
-
-