Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!bucsb!bear From: bear@bucsb.UUCP (Blair M. Burtan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Was : Go-Amigo ; Bri-Wal. Now: Mail-Order Houses Message-ID: <3110@bucsb.UUCP> Date: 16 Aug 89 23:51:04 GMT References: <21227@louie.udel.EDU> <16161@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <10609@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <2250@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <306@cs.columbia.edu> Reply-To: bear@bucsb.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Distribution: na Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci. Lines: 36 In article <306@cs.columbia.edu> simon@cs.columbia.edu (Thor Simon) writes: > > 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. -- ------------------------ Signature Version 0.3 ------------------------------ Disclaimer: "He's showing signs of pressure psychosis and he has a nuclear weapon." - The Abyss Blair "Bear" Burtan, Boston University's Resident Amiga Expert which isn't saying much. bear@bucsb.bu.edu bear@bucsf.bu.edu bear@buengf.bu.edu bear@bu-pub.bu.edu enge05c@buacca.bu.edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------------