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- From: alansar@ccs.northeastern.edu (Mohammad Al-Ansari)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Avoid ZEOS
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.164140.12247@random.ccs.northeastern.edu>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 16:41:40 GMT
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- In article <Bz69KC.EvC@acsu.buffalo.edu> psbayer@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul S. Bayer) writes:
- >In article <Bz5uBK.My9@unix.amherst.edu> ljnelson@unix.amherst.edu (LAiRD j. NeLSoN) writes:
- >[the story in all its glory has been deleted for purpoese of bandwidth]
- >
- >>Responsibility, apparently, is nowhere to be found; everyone whom my roommate
- >>has contacted has claimed that they are not involved in the process: from sales
- >>to customer service to repair.
- >>
- >>Miserable response and "support" such as this is what gives mail order its
- >>bad name. I have recommended to others on campus who are thinking of buying
- >>computers to avoid ZEOS; I would do the same for *anyone*.
- >>
- >>LAiRD
- >>
- >
- >I too have been given the runaround by ZEOS... They have in many occasions
- >put me on hold for longer than twenty minutes (I am a computer consultant,
- >and I was trying to judge the quality of their service)
-
- Which department was that? Were they costumer service? I have owned a zeos
- system for about 3 years now. I have found their technical support to be
- *very good*. They *always* returned my calles and *always* were able to find
- a solution for my problem or find me the information I was after. I don't
- know if it makes a difference that I *always* (again :) call them after
- midnight. This was as recently as one week ago.
-
- Now Customer Service and Sales depts are a different story. I also was
- thinking of buying a new system from them, but seeing the complaints here
- about terrible delays I am being very catious. I believe that their financial
- situation has caused a lot of problems for the company and they might be
- unable to fulfill orders as fast as they would want to. But that does not
- excuse delibrately giving their users the "runaround" in an effort to try to
- prevent them from cancelling their orders. I placed an order for one of their
- systems (486-DX2/66) 3 weeks ago and was told that it would ship in 1 (one)
- day because these were already built. I kept calling to make sure that it was
- shipped but it was delayed three times at which point I cancelled the order
- immediately. I noticed some chaos in their CS department and I sensed being
- slightly given the "runaround" :). I didn't want to go on with this until I'm
- sure of the company's future. I HOPE that they can get their act together
- before too long. I had a very pleasent experience with my current Zeos system
- and I believe they make darn good computers. I would like to buy my next one
- from them but not if the company has taken this sharp turn. If another
- convincing company comes up with a VESA local bus system that is upgradable to
- P24T I would go with them, unless I get the impressiong that Zeos have
- straightened up their act.
-
-
- >
- >they have given me double-talk, and possibly wrong info....
- >
- >I won't buy from them *nor* will I recommend anyone else does.`
- >
- >
- >
- >
- >- The New Computer Geek at UB - "Just sing with us and you will see
- >v083kgy6@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu - that inner joys are not forbidden
- >psbayer@acsu.buffalo.edu - your inhibitions keep them hidden"
- >AKA Paul Bayer - Johnathan Lindsey Sheehan
-
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