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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!pacdata!jimh
- From: jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins)
- Subject: Re: Zeos (and others) general flame
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.170904.8342@pacdata.uucp>
- Organization: Pacific Data Products
- References: <1992Aug25.142846.28596@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> <1992Aug26.005517.22694@StarConn.com> <1992Aug26.152513.16618@zeos.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:09:04 GMT
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- Sorry, I've just gotta throw my $0.02 in. I just bought a 50 Mhz 486 OS/2
- machine and feel I'm qualified to comment. I'm lucky enough to live in San
- Diego, turns out I can buy a system locally for much less than the mail
- order price. The prices in all the ads I checked vary wildly, closer
- inspection reveals they all have wildly different configurations. After
- pricing the components of my system everybody was around $3300 +/- $100.
-
- So that leaves us with "what vendor do you go with?" Well, I was down to
- 3. After asking around one had a terrible reputation (they're the biggest
- in town...). On the second one (OEI computers) my sales guy had mondays
- off and his replacement didn't have a copy of my quote. I faxed it to him
- and he said "Oh, thats wrong. Total price is around $3900." Guy made a
- mistake somewhere but I didn't want to wait another day. My company buys
- from the third company and I heard nothing but good things about them,
- they got the business. This is Micro City.
-
- As for slimey ads, most of them are. So are TV commercials. They lie.
- They distort. They mislead. It standard operating procedure. Live with
- it and learn to use your brain to figure out what exactly they're selling
- and what it will cost to get what you want.
-
- Companies I didn't even bother getting quotes from? Those would be the
- ones who advertised 'math processor and 8k cache included!'. I don't stoop
- that low.
-
- jim
-
-
- --
- Lawyers Creed: What's mine is mine, what's yours is negotiable.
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- Jim Harkins [ucsd|uunet]!pacdata!jim
- Pacific Data Products jim@pacdata.com
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