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- From: chow@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christopher Chow)
- Subject: Re: Is Gateway a publicly held company? I think I'll short some stock...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.054810.28004@tc.cornell.edu>
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- References: <TIM.92Nov9180806@coors.boxhill.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:48:10 GMT
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- In article <TIM.92Nov9180806@coors.boxhill.com> tim@boxhill.com (Timothy Jones) writes:
- >I'm totally fed up. I'm a little new to the PC market (I work mostly with
- >Suns and other UNIX workstations) and am *appalled* by the customer service I
- >have received from Gateway. I wonder if all the PC mail order houses treat
- >their customers this poorly... I guess a Sun salesperson who sells machines
- >costing $20K a piece cares a little more about the individual customer.
- >
-
- [Yet another Gateway horror story deleted]
-
- Amazing that people on the net still order from Gateway. This summer,
- there were a whole slew of articles regarding problems with Gateway. True,
- they were written up as having the best reliability, etc, by PC Magazine
- this summer, but I had thought the general net.consensus reached mid-summer
- was that Gateway was growing too fast for their management ability, and that
- published article, being at least a couple of months old at the time
- of publication, was already inaccurate.
-
- I'd figure that after the fiascos with the floating point math and telepath
- modems, as well as signs of inability to deal with growth (late machine
- deliveries, apparently some machines not burnt-in shipping to customers,
- absurdly long wait times on support) that demand would slacken off.
- BTW, people recently speculated that some Gateways delivered with video
- cards not fully inserted were perhaps due to UPS mishandling. How likely
- is this? I've mailed a number of systems through UPS, and have never
- had such a problem. Seems to me that this may be more indicative of an
- overburdened assembly line combined with a lack of burn in rather than
- UPS mishandling.
-
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