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From: bear@bucsb.UUCP (Blair M. Burtan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Was : Go-Amigo ; Bri-Wal. Now: Mail-Order Houses
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Date: 16 Aug 89 23:51:04 GMT
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In article <306@cs.columbia.edu> simon@cs.columbia.edu (Thor Simon) writes:
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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.

I've dealt with Comp-U-Save and with Dr. Oxide personally.  They're
pretty good about their prices.  Especially if you catch them at
a computer flea market.  Their latest catalog offers a SCSI
harddrive for $120 as a do-it-yourself kit.  I'm not sure of
the size, but at that price I may just want to hang one on my existing
drive.





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