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- From: lynn@acsu.buffalo.edu (Alexander W. Lynn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,misc.forsale.computers.mac,misc.forsale.computers,comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Bad Experience with MacCenter
- Summary: Hardware order cancelled and refund never was shipped.
- Keywords: MacCenter, NEC, 3fGX, mail order
- Message-ID: <BzA05u.3tL@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 01:01:05 GMT
- References: <gf=2Oje00WB7QK0Jg0@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Dec14.235046.13216@uvm.edu>
- Sender: Alexander W. Lynn
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- Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo
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- This is along the lines of a warning, but I'm not going to tell you to avoid this place
- just to give you information.
-
- History:
- On October 9, 1992 I ordered a Quadra 700 from CDG systems in Florida, a Maxtor 120MB
- hard drive from APS and a NEC 3fGX monitor from MacCenter.
- By monday of the following week all the items except the monitor had arrived. I called
- MacCenter and was told that the monitor was on backorder and would be to me by Wednesday
- of the followign week. Well Wednesday came and no monitor. On Monday I called back
- to be told that they now did not know when the monitor would come in. I had then cancel
- my order and issue me a refund. I was told that it would be processed that week and
- would be mailed right out.
-
- To make a long story short it is now December and I still haven't received my refund.
- I have talked to everyone in the customer serveice department and they have all
- tols me "OH I see what happened. We'll mail the check this weekend." I have even
- talked with the finance department and the president of the company. Still no luck
-
- I have written MacUser and told them of the situation and asked that they stop running
- MacCenters ad's until this matter is cleared up. I have also filed mail fraud charges
- with the US postal service over the matter.
-
- I caution anyone who is considering ordering from this company to get any delivery dates
- confimed in writing BEFORE you order anything and keep track of who you talk to and what
- they say.
-
- I would like to ask people to boycott this company until they clean up thier act. I will
- gladly write back when the matter is cleared up.
-
- Thank you all for you time in reading this letter.
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