Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!xanth!mcnc!ecsvax!kms 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 Lines: 30 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. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Alan W. McKay | My opinions are mine, yours are yours. | Eat Food | > NEPEAN, Ont. | I in no way pretend to represent the | and | > 613-763-8980 | the options of my employer. So there. | LIVE !! | -- Ken Steele Dept. of Psychology kms@ecsvax.[bitnet || UUCP] Mars Hill College kms@ecsvax.uncecs.edu Mars Hill, NC 28754