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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!metter!openage!gryphon
- From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
- Subject: Re: NO Product support. BOYCOTT?
- Organization: Open Age, Inc.
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:15:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.181549.22252@openage.openage.com>
- References: <1992Dec14.124541.1@ualr.edu>
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- djlewis@ualr.edu writes:
-
- >I am sure that most everyone that purchases a lot of pc hardware has noticed
- >by now that many product suppliers are NOT printing in any form thier company's
- >home or subsidary addresses or phone numbers.
- > I have seen this on new motherboards and video cards and I/O cards
- >many times.
- > It is my opionion that the supplier should include addresses and
- >phone numbers but I am willing to forgo this at times, depending on the
- >bargain, as I am comfortable.
- > Do you , the people of netland, have any recommendations that could
- >be put into a bill and given to congress? Is this important to you? Should
- >we the people boycott the said products?
- > I feel that any vendor that sells their product without the information
- >(address/phone) included is probably not intending to support the product and
- >may be a "Fly By Night" company just out for the quick cash.
-
- >any comments?
- >Don Lewis
- >djlewis@ualr.edu
- >djlewis@spider.ualr.edu
-
- Product support is not guaranteed by law, and would be expensive to enforce. I
- have also tried to contact manufacturers at phone numbers in their manuals, but
- the phone just kept ringing. Why legislate? Why not do what you feel is
- right, including boycotts, and negative information campaigns backed by actual
- events.
-
-
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