Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!uflorida!novavax!suther From: suther@novavax.UUCP (Scot M. Sutherland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mail Order Amigas Message-ID: <1433@novavax.UUCP> Date: 13 Aug 89 00:21:40 GMT References: <21231@louie.udel.EDU> <5660051@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> Reply-To: suther@novavax.UUCP (Scot M. Sutherland) Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Lines: 41 In article <5660051@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes: > >Ken is right, but he never got around to saying why. > >I cannot go to the local Amiga dealer because THERE IS NO local dealer >in Corvallis Oregon. The nearest dealer is 50 miles from here in >Eugene. I visited there several times. After a few bad experiences I >decided I didn't want to deal with them. The next nearest dealer is >about 90 miles away in Portland. Due to road conditions, it takes me >about 2 hours to get there. That's one way. I simply cannot afford >throwing away 4 hours of my day to visit the Amiga distributor. I live in Lancaster, CA in LA County. I must order my Amiga equipment from KJ computers, 40+ miles away, Ventura, 65 miles away or some other place even farther away. I have bought my machines and the schools machines by dealing with the dealers and having them ship it. It doesn't come out on paper as mail order that way. Fortunately, KJ, Creative, and Century. It is a mystery to me why Commodore wants to trust the customer's shipping habits more than UPS. I have asked CBM Western about getting us a dealer in the Antelope Valley. There is a fairly large Amiga community up here. Our school district is considering Commodore machines as a possible alternative to Apple. It would really be nice to have a dealer up here. I know several of the folks in the CBM Western division office and they, like everyone else at CBM are simply swamped. They have sent the packettes to the shops that I have suggested to them. In one case the shop owner does really good business in Amiga software sales and would really like to represent Commodore. But as yet no one from Commodore has come to the Antelope Valley to do the leg work. We do have an outfit designated as the official Commodore service center, but they sell Atari, Cordata and IBM clones. Can someone from CBM update me on the status of a dealer for the Antelope Valley? Scot--