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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Steve.Withers
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Supra from Computabilty
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:45:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.204538.17578@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1992Dec15.085942.19497@apricot.co.uk>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
- Lines: 41
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- In article <1992Dec15.085942.19497@apricot.co.uk> marcusj@apricot.co.uk (Marcus Jenkins) writes:
- > I rang Computabilty last night with a view to buying a Supra FM V.32 bis.
- > I was just getting my credit card out to pay the terrific price of $279
- > plus ~$42 shipping to the UK and the salesman said "Sorry I can't ship
- > that to the UK". "Huuuh?", I said (knowing that I can buy the same
- > modem at the ridiculous pound-for-dollar rate here (plus ten pounds!)
- > from Blue Mountain Imports). "OK", I said, "can I buy *any* V.32bis
- > modem from you and have you ship it to the UK?". "You can have the
- > Zoom FM V.32bis for $259", the salesman replied. "Can I ask *why* you
- > won't ship me the Supra?" "Supra told us not to export." "Sheesh".
- > Click.
- >
- > What's going on?!?
- >
- > BTW - I really want to know whether it's worth holding out for a Supra
- > vs. the Zoom, anyway.
- >
- > Marcus.
-
- SUPRA banned US companies from exporting it's modems because they were
- supplying them to overseas buyers with inadequate power supplies.....then
- Supra was left to pick up the warranty costs of all those failed/burned out
- modems.......
-
- Computability supplied me with my modem just before the ban. I threw the power
- supply they gave in the waste bin.....it would have worked....for a while. I
- got a decent power supply made locally for NZ$29.
-
- We now have local suppliers who are selling at reasonalbe prices...though it
- may be cheaper to get your SUPRA from SUPRA directly. They will sell you one.
-
- I paid the equivalent of 230 pounds for mine - including 30 ponds shipping
- costs.
-
- Steve
-
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