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From: kms@ecsvax.UUCP (Ken Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mail Order Amigas
Summary: Assumes there are local dealers
Message-ID: <7464@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 89 03:04:56 GMT
References: <21231@louie.udel.EDU> <1402@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <1402@bnr-fos.UUCP>, protcoop@bnr-public.uucp (Co-op Student) writes:
> 
> Another thing with mail order and local dealers is just this:

The problem with this type of argument is that it assumes that
one has the choice between a local dealer and a mail order
place.  MANY PEOPLE DON'T!  I don't.  Many of my Amiga-owning
friends don't.  We have to rely on mail order places.  THERE IS
NO CHOICE FOR US.

My 1000 died recently.  I had to chose between an IBM-clone, Mac,
or Amiga for replacement.  If I assumed that CBM had a corporate
policy that said "no warranty for machines bought by mail order"
then I couldn't pick an Amiga.

Rather than promote a dichotomy like evil-but-cheap-mail-order
versus good-n-friendly-but-$$$-local, it seems more important
to identify good and bad dealers independent of how they deliver
their goods.

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Ken Steele   Dept. of Psychology    kms@ecsvax.[bitnet || UUCP]
             Mars Hill College      kms@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
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