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In article <1992Jan7.233402.20303@foetus.syd.sgi.oz.au> peterk@foetus.syd.sgi.oz.au (Peter Kerney) writes:
>OK, I know that 2.04 is in Melbourne (from previous postings)
>so I rang up Computer Spot (a likely choice).
>
>The gentleman on the end of the phone said :-
>
>	'It is not in Australia yet, and I wish people
>	 would stop asking me'
>	
>So, does anyone know where you can get it in Sydney ???
>

Pardon my French, but the guys at Scum Spot (Computer Spot) are
a bunch of dick heads. (Don't tell me anything about bad lingo,
they deserve worse names than that.) About a month ago I called
them if they have the new ECS Denise. First of all some immature
toss told me that that game has been withdrawn from market due
to copyright problems. I told him that it was a chip that goes
inside the Amiga and asked him if I could talk to someone who
knows something about it. After a while he put me onto someone
who sounded like a manager. Cool, I thought. So I asked him if
they had the Super Denise in stock and how much would they
charge for one of them. This character told me that the new
chipset hasn't been released yet. I told him that a friend of
mine bought a Super Denise about 3 months ago and it was happy
in his machine, so it MUST have been released. He tried to cover
up his obvious ignorance by saying that it was only released
overseas, but not here in Australia. I told him that I appreciate
his help, but Commodore would perhaps be the best place to find
out from. He insisted that I would get the same story from them.
I hang up on him.

Ten minutes later Gary Mason at CBM, Sydney told me that they
have been available for months, he also told me where to get
one from. So I went out and spent $40 on a new Denise. On the
way back from the place where I bought my chip I stoped at
Scum Spot and told the manager there (the one that I talked to
before) that the chip has been released for the last couple of
months. I also told him where it was available from. His
response was: "I wish people wouldn't tell me these things."

I was severely pissed off by that stage and told him that if
he doesn't find out by himself people will have to tell him.
And if he doesn't want to know this kind of information he
can't expect to run a business with a decent reputation. Then
I told him that maybe they should advise their prospective
customers that they only carry games instead of bluntly lying
to them about things they do not know. Then I walked out.

So that is my story of Scum Spot. My advice is, avoid these
guys if you can. If you can't - tough luck - you will regret
it.

			Peter.

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	|   Peter Urbanec    s1013734@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au   |
	|                      peteru@hydra.maths.unsw.oz.au   |
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	|   University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia   |
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        |         The only sin is stupidity                    |
	|                                   - Unknown.         |
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	|   Peter Urbanec    s1013734@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au   |
	|                      peteru@hydra.maths.unsw.oz.au   |
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