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From: simon@cs.columbia.edu (Thor Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Was : Go-Amigo ; Bri-Wal. Now: Mail-Order Houses
Summary: Mt'gmry Grant, similar outfits
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Date: 15 Aug 89 20:16:47 GMT
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  Some people seemed not to like BriWal because of its moderately high prices,
which leaves me with another interesting problem.  What about these places with
ridiculously LOW prices, like Montgomery Grant?  I -=*>believe<*=- that at 
least some of these are not Gray-Market, M-G being an example because of this
(disclaimer?) in their recent Amiga World advertisement to the effect of:
"We sell all new factory-fresh merchandise with a valid C-A USA warranty..." 
you get the point.  Which leaves me with: Has anybody had horrendous problems
with these ultralow price outfits?  Living in New York I can really just walk
into many such stores, usually assuring decent service, but being about to go
away to school in CT for 4 years, I wonder if their mail-order is OK or not?
And am I wrong?  Are Montgomery Grant and other such stores really selling
refurbished or "second-dealer" no-warranty merchandise?  Will other dealers
fix stuff bought at these low, low,low price places?

Thanx

Thor      \
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