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Re: FRYs/Best Data TNT2 Secrets Revealed!

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From: Aaron 'dremu' Shephard
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 00:00
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In ba.market.computers mjfitzgerald@ucdavis.edu wrote:
: If Icould make a suggestion here. Mark should let the management at
: Fry's ( I think most of the sales staff at Frys are unknowledgable,
: and some are just idiots) know what happened.  It is possible that
: there was a problem at the manufacturer, and some products were
: incorrectly packaged.   Stores will often "make the situaion right"-
: possibly exchanging your card or the one you expected to purchase at
: no additional expense in order to maintain customer satisfaction

Uhh, "Fry's" and "customer satisfaction" are mutually exclusive. Ain't gonna 
happen.

-- A

: Mike
: On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 00:42:00 GMT, mleung@ucdavis.edu (Mark) wrote:

:>On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:37:29 GMT, Kevin Behn <kmbehn@2xtreme.net>
:>wrote the following that was on his/her mind at the time:
:>>I'm just curious, does the box say 64 bit anywhere on it.  If it does, then
:>>they are telling you that it's an M64.  If it says 128 bit, then they are false
:>>advertising.  Please check out the box for me and tell me, honestly, if it says
:>>64 bit anywhere.  Even if it doesn't, I still say that you should have known,
:>>but if it does, then they told you out right, but like I said before you were
:>>just to ignorent of the subject to know.
:>
:>Let's put this to an end. Like I said before, there is nothing on the
:>box that would indicate that it is a M64 card. Under both 3D and 2D
:>features, it list it as being a 128bit architecture/acceleration.
:>
:>-"Even if it doesn't, I still say that you should have known"
:>What I don't understand is why you think I should have known it was a
:>M64 card if there was no reference to it. It even claimed to be a real
:>TNT2 card thru its specs on the box. Price does not ALWAYS indicate
:>what is inside a box.
:>
:>-"but like I said before you were just to ignorent of the subject to
:>know."
:>I can't seem to win with your single track mind. Say what you will.
:>But you don't know wtf you are talking about. Good day.


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From: Aaron 'dremu' Shephard <dremu@shell8.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: FRYs/Best Data TNT2 Secrets Revealed!
Date: 1999/09/13
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