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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!mcg
- From: mcg@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn pushes out small dealers
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.154930.10301@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 15:49:30 +1200
- References: <DBH.92Aug21155806@wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk> <17981@acorn.co.uk>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <17981@acorn.co.uk>, bcockburn@acorn.co.uk (Bruce Cockburn) writes:
- > 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?
- >
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- Moral: Deal Direct through the Manufacturers (Acorn) if there's no
- reputable local dealer.... it can (sometimes) be a heap cheaper, and more
- convenient.
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