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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: Gateway vs. Austin questions
- Message-ID: <C0D9DF.9q5@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <1992Dec29.144306.18594@inmet.camb.inmet.com> <1992Dec29.161742.25146@wam.umd.edu> <1993Jan4.191318.8598@gvl.unisys.com>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:46:13 GMT
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- pastor@prc.unisys.com (Jon Pastor) writes:
-
- >I could not find a vendor that offered as much system for the money as
- >Gateway. I wanted to; I had had an annoying experience with their sales staff
- >in the past, and knew that tech support was sluggish. Zeos is a little better
-
- I bought my last Gateway system from them about 1.5 yrs ago and
- I've been talking to them about a new 66V system and have noticed
- something - they will NOT lower their price! The guy I used to deal
- with would cave in with free shipping without me even trying! This
- guy didn't seem to want to move at all. I'm going to try to call my
- old salesman back and see if maybe it was just him, but has anyone
- else noticed that they are more steadfast in their pricing? (I have
- bought about 3 systems from that salesman over the years and always
- got at least $200 off the total delivered price)
-
- One more thing - the lead time on the 66DX2 systems custom
- configured is *3 weeks* !!! Jeez. I was going to order it today
- until I heard that.
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