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- From: bcockburn@acorn.co.uk (Bruce Cockburn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn pushes out small dealers
- Message-ID: <17981@acorn.co.uk>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 13:19:46 GMT
- References: <DBH.92Aug21155806@wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Sender: daemon@acorn.co.uk
- Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England
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- People,
-
- Let me preface these remarks by saying that I work on the *technical* side
- of Acorn and have nothing to do with dealer policy.
-
- However I do remember some time ago there was a load of traffic on this
- group about a dealer who went to the wall with somebody's money (having
- failed to deliver the goods) and there have been several threads about how
- poor some dealers are in terms of *technical* support. Surely it is exactly
- these problems that Acorn is trying to prevent?
-
- Who would be happy with a dealer who didn't have a good range of third
- party stuff? Who would be happy if, when they rang up for technical suport,
- they were told "we have to get back to you on that" or "sorry our technical
- person is off on two weeks holiday, my advice is don't switch the computer
- on again 'till they get back"? Is it acceptable for an 'Acorn Dealer' to
- not have all current kit on the shelf? (How would you feel if you went to
- McDs and asked for a cheese-burger and they said "sorry we only stock the
- Big-Mac, but we could get one in specially for you, come back in a week"?)
-
- What I think is happening is that Acorn is trying to protect it's
- customers, and itself as well.
-
- Bruce.
-
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