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- From: moore@iastate.edu (Brian J Moore)
- Subject: Re: Is Gateway a publicly held company? I think I'll short some stock...
- Message-ID: <moore.721368119@pv34c1.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <TIM.92Nov9180806@coors.boxhill.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:01:59 GMT
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- In <TIM.92Nov9180806@coors.boxhill.com> tim@boxhill.com (Timothy Jones) writes:
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- >I'm totally fed up. I'm a little new to the PC market (I work mostly with
- [...]
- >I did quite a bit of market research before deciding to go with Gateway, and
- >never heard complaints like mine. Did I just stumble onto incredibly bad
- >luck, or is Gateway usually like this? What about other vendors? My company
-
- Nope, I think Gateway is having problems meeting demand and not being
- very honest with their customers about it.
-
- I ordered a memory board and the told me one week. Every week anfter
- that for over a month they told me one week every time I called. I
- wouldn't have minded waiting a month if they would have told me up
- front, it will be a month. I didn't care for the dishonesty. I will
- shop around more before I use Gateway again, even though I had been
- pretty satisfied with them up until now...
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