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- From: rash@access.digex.com (Wayne Rash)
- Subject: Re: Is Gateway a publicly held company? I think I'll short some stock...
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- References: <TIM.92Nov9180806@coors.boxhill.com> <1992Nov10.054810.28004@tc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 02:24:31 GMT
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- chow@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christopher Chow) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- >--
- >Christopher Chow
- >--------------------------- Phone: 518-426-0687
- >1 Notre Dame Drive - Rm 317 Internet: chow@theory.tc.cornell.edu
- >Albany, NY 12208-3413 America Online: Chris Chow
-
- Well, I have to admit that I rarely have UPS to blame for loose video
- cards. Normally they do a more thorough job than that. Normally they
- crush to computer to less than half its normal height in at least one
- dimension. Then they leave it in the rain, soak it with solvent, or
- something similar. Today I received a former SCSI card in the mail via
- UPS. It's now a strange collection of little skinny pieces of foil and
- fiberglass shards.
-
- Good ol' UPS. they never saw a computer they couldn't flatten.
-
-