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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
- Subject: Re: The answers to many Tandy questions.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.222024.19236@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 22:20:24 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Dec18.222024.19236
- References: <10DEC199220082140@zeus.tamu.edu>
- Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
- Lines: 53
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- jma1128@zeus.tamu.edu (Jason) writes:
-
- >I have been watching this newsgroup for about a year now, and I have to admit
- >there are many more questions about the products than I thought there would be.
- >Personally, I work for Radio Shack, and see that there seems to be one thing
- >many people on this newsgroup do not seem to either think about, or even
- >consider. I have seen many requests for system disks, deskmate disks, manuals,
- >etc. The answer to this is very easy. Go to your local Radio Shack - there are
- >6600 nationwide. You can go in and ask about the items that you need and,
- >believe it or not, we can greatly help you - no matter how old the machine.
- >Yes, we can even order items for the TRS-80 Model 1 - and at very affordable
- >prices I might add. If you go in and tell them about your problems (in this
- >example we'll suppose you have no system disk for lets say a 1000 SX) is
- >you tell us your problem, we can order the product for you, and if you even
- >talk to some people, if they have a copy in the store they will copy it for you
- >if you simply buy the disks. There is even a way through America-Online that
- >you can get product updates from Tandy HQ in Ft. Worth.
-
- >I leave now, just reminding all of you that if you have a problem, try the guys
- >at Radio Shack, we can help. That's what has made us the best in America.
-
- Sad to say, the above is *not* true. I gave up trying to get a replacement
- keytop for my Tandy "enhanced keyboard". The salesman kept telling me "they
- are out of stock". They couldn't get a mounting bracket mentioned in my TL/3
- manual. I could go on...
-
- Basicly, since they turned they Computer Centers into "Business Centers"
- it has become virtually *impossible* for a non-business user to get anything
- that isn't a stock item, listed in a catalog. The salesmen are *not*
- interested.
-
- Tandy has *always* had a *bad* rep when it came to support. But I used to
- be able to tell people that you could get good support if you cultivated
- the salemen. Now, that doesn't even work.
-
- Oh yeah, at my last job, one of the folks in purchasing mentioned what
- happened when he decided to try going thru Tandy for something. (There'd
- been a guy from one of the Computer Centers trying to get us to do
- business with them for quite some time.)
-
- He called the guy, couldn't get a hold of him, so he left a message to
- call back about an order. When 2 *days* went by with no callback, he
- ordered from someone else and told his staff to not even bother passing
- calls from the Tandy guy back to him.
-
- I'm sorry, but the majority of Tandy staff remind me of Lily Tomlin's
- old routine: "We don't care, we don't have to. We're the Phone Company."
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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