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- From: Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Gavin Flower)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn pushes out small dealers
- Message-ID: <BtGqH4.KIL@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
- Date: 24 Aug 92 00:53:28 GMT
- References: <1992Aug22235410patrick@sideways.welly.gen.nz>
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- In article <1992Aug22235410patrick@sideways.welly.gen.nz> Pat Cain <patrick@sideways.welly.gen.nz> writes:
- >bcockburn@acorn.co.uk (Bruce Cockburn) in <17981@acorn.co.uk> writes:
- >>
- >> 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"?
- >
- >But usually it's the bigger department stores who are the ones who DON'T
- >have the technical staff. Whitcoulls in NZ is a good example of that
- >these days. The small places are usually run by people who are selling
- >the machines because they know and like them.
- [...]
-
- The best Acorn dealer I had dealings with in the past 10 years,
- Dr. David Fung, has closed his retail outlet, but is still in
- business.
-
- I have had several instances of excellent Service from him over that
- time.
-
- I strongly suspect that he would never have met these standards put
- out by Acorn, for dealers.
-
- However there was/is (?) a "supposed" dealer of Acorn gear in the
- Greater Wellington area, that Acorn could well do without. This
- "person" is much better at talking about providing service, than
- actually honouring legitimate requests for it.
-
- I think Acorn does need some criteria, but capital alone, is not the
- answer. Quality of actual service delivered, rather than potential
- service required, would be a better criteria.
-
- Acorn itself, should improve its service both to customers and
- dealers. Having said that, Acorn's reputation has gone up over the
- last few years, in this country.
-
-
- Gavin
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