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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: more gateway stories
- Message-ID: <By37z8.Eu1@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 22:33:07 GMT
- References: <Uf2z3Ti00UhBA403k9@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- Seth Adam Eliot <se08+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >Call Tech service...wait ~ 30 min
- >wait=15 min
- >wait = 10 min
- >wait =10min
- >wait = 20 min
- >recording: you have reachine gateway technical service, please hold....
- >Me: hang up
-
- >the moral of the story:
- >WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T BUY A GATEWAY!!!!!!!!
- *----
- Not that this is an excuse for poor support, but isn't this why
- the local computer stores are screaming? If you buy mail order,
- then you probably will NOT find special expertise for things that
- are not typical CONSUMER products (like networking cards, video
- digitizers, etc.). I recommend mail order products (and Gateway
- isn't at the top of my list) only to people who are technically
- knowledgable, or have a technically qualified support person available.
- To me, it looks like you've just discovered the actual cost of
- buying by mail - you get the merchandise that was promised
- (hopefully) and little else.
-
- Token ring boards, ESPECIALLY IBM products, are difficult enough
- to support even when you use them every day! IBM is less than
- helpful about the technical details of the products they sell, and
- their guarantees usually extend only to the use of those products
- in actual IBM computers.
- --
- Mike Berger
- Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
-