Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpcvca!charles From: charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mail Order Amigas Message-ID: <5660051@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> Date: 11 Aug 89 22:20:10 GMT References: <21231@louie.udel.EDU> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon Lines: 30 >> Another thing with mail order and local dealers is just this: >> Alan W. McKay | My opinions are mine, yours are yours. | Eat Food | > 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. > Ken Steele Dept. of Psychology kms@ecsvax.[bitnet || UUCP] 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. If I had known Commodore would not back up their warrantee for mail order buyers, I would not have bought one. Five of my friends have bought Amigas. I think my recommendation influenced them. (I know that two of them were so influenced.) I will no longer be recommending Amiga. I like the system. But how can I recommend it when the company does not back its own warrantee? -- Charles Brown charles@cv.hp.com or charles%hpcvca@hplabs.hp.com or hplabs!hpcvca!charles or "Hey you!" Not representing my employer.