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Re: Consumer Warning RE:MacMall - Please Read!

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From: ken stone
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 00:00
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In article <jlb.1171405779B@interlockp.lubrizol.com>,
jlb@orsale.computers.mac-specific!jlb (jim brownlow) wrote:

> Wow does this sound familiar,
> 
> I'm still going through an awful time with MacMall. I ordered a Power 120
> through MacMall on December 15 - first it took 3 weeks to get to me (they
> promise overnight delivery), then they sent the wrong machine and promised
> to have it picked up the next day (Fed-Ex didn't show up 2 days in a row)
> and now they want me to wait 10 days for them to refund my check.
> 
> I've probably talked to 20 people at MacMall and no one wants to help me.
> They promise to call you back and they never do. They promise to fix your
> order and they never do.
> 
> Why not do what I'm doing - contact the Better Business Bureau and file a
> complaint with the Attorney General of the state of California. After doing
> so, contact MacMall by either e-mail or snail mail and tell them what you've
> done. Also contact the manufacturer of the monitor you bought and tell them
> about your problems with MacMall. Maybe if enough complaints are filed
> someone will do something.

You might also write to both MacUser and MacWorld as they carry adversting
for MacMall.
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From: highres@primenet.com (ken stone)
Subject: Re: Consumer Warning RE:MacMall - Please Read!
Date: 1996/01/07
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