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Re: Wb 2.04 and the crazy prices.

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From: Pumpkin Power
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 02:52
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roddi@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Roddi Walker) writes:
>In short, my impression of PCM is that they are reasonably cheap, but are
>not above cutting corners to improve their margin.  They do seem to honour
>their warranties, though (from personal observation).  Personally, I would
>pay the $20 (or whatever) more for larger purchases (ie. they're OK for
>mice, disks, perhaps even floppy drives) and buy from a reputable dealer

I bought 60 disks from them recently, and have had at least 5-10 go bad on me
inside a month.  I think they're pretty cheap and shitty disks, needless to
say I won't be touching them again!  I was also surprised to find they were
running out of a flat!  Hmm...

Peter Barton : s892031@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

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From: s892031@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Pumpkin Power)
Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga
Subject: Re: Wb 2.04 and the crazy prices.
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Date: 14 Jan 92 02:52:21 GMT
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