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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Re: Zeos (and others) general flame
- Message-ID: <BtKCLH.4JH@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:43:59 GMT
- References: <GERRY.92Aug24171444@onion.cmu.edu>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- In article <GERRY.92Aug24171444@onion.cmu.edu> gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
- >Basically, Zeos is over priced, has slimey ads and I will never buy
- >from them.
-
- Slimey ads? I suppose you also get excited about car dealers, who run
- ads for cars with a cheap stereo, no a/c, no power windows, no power
- door locks, etc., and then hype the low, low price?
-
- This is marketing. If Zeos can pull you in with a low headline price,
- they at least get a chance to sell you the system you wanted. When I
- purchase a computer, I always create a specific configuration and then
- ask the vendors for price quotes on that configuration. I don't go by
- what they print in their ads, since you will sometimes get a better
- deal when you're actually talking to a salesdroid. And any vendor
- that won't create a custom configuration for me (within reason) is not
- a vendor I want to deal with -- I'm the one paying them the money, and
- they're the one who's supposed to go out of their way to make the
- sale.
-
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- Marc Unangst | Real men don't make backups. Real men never
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | accidentally delete files that they're going
- | to need later.
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