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- From: psrk_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Peter Sierk)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: More MicroLab bashing
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.213344.6404@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:33:44 GMT
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- Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
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- With all of this bashing of MicroLab going on, I just thought
- I would take the time to relate my story.
- About 3 months ago, I ordered a lot of equipment from
- MicroLab since I was building a system around a motherboard I
- already had. Well, I was told that everything was in stock, and
- would be shipped out the following day.
- After about 2 weeks without receiving anything or hearing
- anything from them, I called back. Evidentally, they did not have
- the Seagate 130 Meg drive I ordered, and so they hadn't shipped
- anything. They told me that they did have a 130 Meg Maxtor drive
- in stock, so they could send that with the rest of the equipment.
- I agreed to that, so they said they would ship it out the next day.
- By this time, it was getting close to time for classes to start, so
- I asked them to ship it to my college address. That was supposed
- to be okay, but I got a call the next day that they could not ship
- it there since the address was different from the credit card I was
- ordering with.
- I then decided to have it shipped to my regular address. I
- called the next day to see if things had been shipped. By this time,
- the guy who I originally ordered from had quit, so I got a different
- employee every time. This time when I called I got someone who told
- me that no, things were still on backorder. I told him that things
- were supposed to have been shipped that day. Then he said that, oops
- he made a mistake, and things really were shipped. The next day I
- called again and got someone else who told me everything was shipped.
- By this point I had received my some equipment, and I noticed that
- my IDE controller was not listed on the packing order. I asked this
- person about this, and was told that the controller would be shipped
- with the hard drive.
- After a couple of days I got ahold of the only person who was
- actually helpful in the matter, and learned some interesting things.
- One, employees work on commission from sales, and since the person I
- ordered from had quit, no one else wanted to waste time with a
- customer who was not earning them any money, so they would just lie
- to me to get me to hang up. Second, that IDE controller was never
- ordered, even though I did specifically order it when I called them
- the first time. Third, the hard drive still wasn't shipped anyway.
- I went through an annoying process of getting them to send the
- remaining equipment to my college address (they were now willing to
- do this since most of the equipment had already been sent to my
- home address). This was done while I was rather vehemently expressing
- my disgust to both this employee and the manager. A few days later
- my parents received the drive and controller at my home.
- Now I feel much better after getting that off my chest. At
- least everything they shipped me seems to work (though the motherboard
- I built it around is screwy). Sigh.
-
- Peter Sierk
- (Boy it feels good bashing them.)
-