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- Path: sparky!uunet!metter!openage!gryphon
- From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
- Subject: Re: Do they think we're THAT dumb??
- Organization: Open Age, Inc.
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 13:17:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.131748.3717@openage.openage.com>
- References: <93004.44844.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>
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- J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
-
- > I just saw an amusing advertisement for a Bay Area company which claims to
- >supply "free 287/387 co-processors with purchase of a basic system."
-
- > Free? They sell a 486SX/20 motherboard and CPU for $190, and a 386/40 for
- >$170. Note that this doesn't include the 387. When you go to a "basic system"
- >the 387 is included. Interestingly, the "basic system" with a 486SX/20 is
- >$348; for the 386/40, it's $378.
-
- > Why is the 386/40 system $30 more than the 486SX when the MB & CPU is $20
- >*less*? Must be the so-called "free" 387. What a ripoff.
-
- > Anyone who is currently in the market for a new computer should be on the
- >lookout for scams like this.
-
- In general, there is nothing free. everything takes time and or money. Always
- be wary of FREE stuff, and changing prices in stores. I always turn and leave
- when someone says; "If I give you the lowest price on this ???? will you buy it
- tonight?"
-
- Look at what they are really asking, and what kind of promise they get out of
- you.
-
-
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