home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com!bjs
- From: bjs@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Barry Sherman)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Need advice : what about Cambridge for e-mail order ?
- Message-ID: <48NH02rJ2cD501@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:16:14 GMT
- References: <MOREAUX.92Nov23143601@litsun22.epfl.ch> <1992Nov23.143918.11712@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com
- Reply-To: bjs@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Barry Sherman)
- Followup-To: rec.photo
- Distribution: rec
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
- Lines: 51
-
- In article <1992Nov23.143918.11712@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> shc1@dasher.cc.bellcore.com (culp,steven) writes:
-
- >
- >let me tell you my experience with Cambridge. Several months ago I ordered
- >several thousand dollars of equipment from them. I was constantly lied to,
- >they told me my equipment was in stock when it wasn't, later they told me it
- >had been shipped when it hadn't (I asked them for the UPS shipper number and
- >their computer suddenly went down; I found their computer went down at the
- >most opportune times for them.)
- >
- >I also called to see if they had a particular lens in stock. Their computer
- >went down. They told me to call back in an hour. An hour and a half later,
- >their computer was still down. They told me to call back first thing in
- >the morning. At 8:30 the next morning, I called back. They told me to
- >call back after 9:00 (their compouter didn't come up until 9:00, supposedly).
- >At 9:15 they told me to call back after 1:00. At 3:00 they told me to call
- >back the next day. Two days later their computer was still down!
- >
- >I eventually did receive everything I ordered, but in my opinion, the amount
- >of money I saved was definately NOT worth the hassle and frustration I had
- >to go through. I cannot, NOT recommend these guys enough.
- >
- >Steve.
-
-
- Has anyone considered printing postings like these off and mailing them
- to Cambridge "Attention: Director Customer Relations"? Seems as if they'd
- sit up and notice if they received a couple of hundred letters containing
- similar testimonials within a couple of days of their having been posted.
- Maybe not the first time but maybe the second time? Third time? ...
-
- Why stop at Cambridge? How 'bout Adorama? B & H? I just posted a
- horror story today ...
-
- Barry
-
- --
-
-
- |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
- | Barry Sherman, Amdahl Corp. | PROGRAM: n. A magic spell cast over a com- |
- | bjs@ruts.ccc.amdahl.com | puter allowing it to turn one's input into |
- | | error messages. tr.v. To engage in a pas- |
- | | time similar to banging one's head against |
- | | a wall, but with fewer opportunities for |
- | | reward. |
- |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
- | Amdahl, being a corporation, is a legal fiction. Therefore it is incapable|
- | of holding, let alone expressing, opinions. Unfortunately, this has been |
- | said of me as well. |
- |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
-