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From: sirius@cup.portal.com (Mike Sirius Stilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: No Longer Abel To Order
Message-ID: <12240@cup.portal.com>
Date: 6 Dec 88 22:49:06 GMT
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Lars Soltau writes in response to me:
>In article <11956@cup.portal.com> sirius@cup.portal.com (Mike Sirius Stilson) writes:
>>Abel is a great place to order from.  Their prices are near to unbeatable for
>>me.  Until now, I had never had any problem with them..  But then, I had
>>always ordered items that were in stock.  So I guess the rule for ordering
>>from them is to call and ask if they're in stock first.
>
>I think you're making a mistake there. Abel's policy seems to be selling only
>those items that bring in lotsa cash. If you keep with Abel for mass articles
>and buy everything else from local dealers you are supporting this (IMHO) wrong
>behavior.

This is true.. they don't carry much of anything in the "hard-to-get" area,
or the ones that don't bring them piles of money.
As a side note to this.. My controller arrived today.  Pretty good turnaround
time.  ordered 10/14 arrives 12/6.  The biggest gripe is that, after many many
phone calls, I not once got a "We're sorry it's taking so long".. the most I
got was a "Well, it's still at the distributor, I don't know why it isn't here
yet" (That was the first call around 11/1.)


>You should make up your mind for one dealer and then stick with him for items
>like floppies, printer tapes and so on. How else is he to survive? Support
>dealers with good support, I say.

Well, for floopies, paper, and ribbons I do.. MEI has good prices and I've
never had any problems with one of their disks.  But otherwise, for Amiga
specific products, the nearest dealer is an hour away (with light traffic!)
Doesn't like to special order stuff for us, and the only Amiga (THey also do
C=, Apple, and a little IBM) hardware they have is a couple GenLocks, and some
Machines there just to run demos.  But they ARE good about software (although
I don't think they've gotten in any 1.3 pkgs yet :)

>Lars Soltau	UUCP: ...uunet!unido!sns!space		BIX: -- no bucks --

Mike "Still .signature-less" Stilson

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