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Article #51Re: Consumer Warning RE:MacMall - Please Read!
From: Dewayne Basnett
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 00:00
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P Eric Menchen wrote: > > amo2@cec.wustl.edu (Alex Ogilvie) wrote: > >Greetings, I'll make this as short as possible. > > > >Both my parents and I own Macintoshes. We have, in the past, ordered > >several items, both hardware and software, from Creative Computers' > >MacMall catalog. During the course of our business relationship, they > >have committed the following errors: > >... <errors deleted> > > I have similarly had bad luck with MacMall. > > I ordered an Apple 1710AV display. After much delay caused by > Apple, it arrived damaged. I returned it to them. About ten > days later I asked them where my new monitor was. They hadn't > shipped it yet, but would do so. A week or so later, I called > again. I'll spare many of the details, but sumarize by letting > you know I spoke to them on at least ten occasions, was cut off > a few times, and told numerous times my replacement monitor would > be shipped the next day or next Monday or whatever. I finally > got it around 6 weeks after I should have. > > I will not order from them again. I've been pretty happy with > MacWarehouse and MacZone. I am affiliated with none of these > companies. > > /------------------------------------------------ > / /| /| Paul Eric Menchen > /---- / | / | emenchen@fwb.gulf.net > / / |/ | My other .sig won a Pulitzer Prize! > /---------------------------------------------------- For what it is worth... I ordered ZIP drive on a Monday, paid via check and received the unit the following Monday. Maybe I was just lucky....
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c648,f5f1a5d2c9e579bf X-Google-Attributes: gid10c648,public X-Google-Thread: fb802,f5f1a5d2c9e579bf X-Google-Attributes: gidfb802,public X-Google-Thread: fb1cd,f5f1a5d2c9e579bf X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1cd,public X-Google-Thread: 1081ce,f5f1a5d2c9e579bf X-Google-Attributes: gid1081ce,public X-Google-Thread: 10db40,f5f1a5d2c9e579bf X-Google-Attributes: gid10db40,public X-Google-Thread: 10e148,f5f1a5d2c9e579bf X-Google-Attributes: gid10e148,public X-Google-Thread: 10eae6,f5f1a5d2c9e579bf X-Google-Attributes: gid10eae6,public X-Google-Thread: fe4f2,f5f1a5d2c9e579bf X-Google-Attributes: gidfe4f2,public From: Dewayne Basnett <dbasnett@havoc.isihq.com> Subject: Re: Consumer Warning RE:MacMall - Please Read! Date: 1996/01/13 Message-ID: <30F81B27.7FA9@havoc.isihq.com> X-Deja-AN: 135456645 references: <4c0667$275@oldfart.ecl.wustl.edu> <4c7gb5$ac0@cobia.gulf.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Integration Specialists, Inc. mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.sys.mac,biz.marketplace.computers.mac,biz.marketplace.computers.discussion,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.games.misc,comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,misc.forsale.computers.mac-specific x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (Macintosh; I; 68K)