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- From: usdpd@emory.edu (BIMCORE User)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: DALLAS FAX, DONT BUY!!!
- Message-ID: <1785@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 21:19:23 GMT
- Organization: Emory University
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- Greetings-
- Forgive me of some of y'all have posted similar articals
- about Dallas FAX, but I don't read this group regularly and need
- vent!
-
- My story:
- Back in July of '92, I saw an add for a VoiceMail-9600-
- FAXBoard modem for $300 from a company called Dallas FAX, and
- thought it was too good to be true. As it turns out (6 mo. later)
- it was.
- When I ordered the modem they told me it was vapor hardware,
- but would be available within ONE MONTH. This began a series of
- phone calls and letters in which Dallas FAX kept postponing the
- shipment of this modem. Finally about 3 mo. ago one of their sales
- people called me up and told me he would send me the 2400 bps version
- for $200, and allow me to upgrade in DECEMBER for the diffence of
- $100.
- Well today (the 4th of Jan.) I finally called and spoke with
- a very unsympathetic gentleman by the name of Tom Right. He had the
- audacity to cut short some of my complaints with:
-
- "Read the fine print" (refering to the "prices subject to change"
- at the bottom of all their adds)
- and dismissed my upgrade promise by saying:
- "A verbal agreement is not worth anything."
-
- Tom Right went on to that he would "as a gesture of good will"
- upgrade me to the new 9600-v32bis version for $189, and it SHOULD be
- available in MARCH!
-
- I IMPLORE ANY OF YOU THAT DO NOT WISH TO REWARD THIS KIND OF
- CUSTOMER SERVICE NOT TO DEAL WITH THIS COMPANY.
- -Dave
-
- w: 404/727-2191
-