Re: SMC7004VWBR at Fry's Electronics

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From: Tony Field
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 19:56

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don't buy SMC then!!

Tony
<dold@70.usenet.us.com> wrote in message news:b09h06$md8$6@blue.rahul.net...
> At Fry's Electronics last week, they had two pallets full of SMC7004VWBR,
> wireless routers with four wired ports.  After rebate, $39.95.
>
> Now they are all gone.  They don't even have that model on the shelf in
> small quantity.
>
> If the SMC7004VWBR still suffers WAP droput after inactivity, I suppose
> there will be a couple of hundred upset users soon.  If the firmware fixes
> it, they may be only temporarily angry.
>
> But what if these are bum units, and the idea was to flush them out of
> inventory.  If people sent in the rebates, they can't get a refund.
>
>
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> ---
> Clarence A Dold - dold@email.rahul.net
>                 - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA.


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