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Re: Future Shop got me too.

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From: Kash
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <476voi$4el@atlas.uniserve.com>, rsoujah@uniserve.com says...
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>I have had my share of BS from Future shop as well. I bought a brand new 
>DELL computer, 486/33 from Toronto. 1 month (that's one month) later, the 
>stupid thing was obsolete! I find out AFTER that the CPU is welded onto 
>the mother board and the only way to upgrade it is either to get a new 
>motherboard or to get an overdrive chip. The salesman that sold it to me 
>said "no problem, dude, you just get a chip and plug it in and you're 
>set. Not that easy. Went back to Future shop after two months and the 
>salesman says "oh, well you see, we don't carry that model anymore, it's 
>obsolete" I asked him when did it become obsolete? he said " last month 
>we stopped selling it" When I told him I wished someone had told me that 
>they were going to stop selling them he said " sorry" yeah right, as if 
>that is going to fix it!!
>
>Moral of the story: "Don't listen to the B.S. that the salesmen tell you, 
>chances are, you'll get a better deal if you look hard enough! 
>


my advice is you need to research the product you want to buy on your own
you CAN NOT believe anything a future shop sales scum tells you. Also,
i think it's a good idea to buy ONLY brand name products from them since
you'll have pretty good idea about the quality.


Kash.
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Subject: Re: Future Shop got me too.
Date: 1995/11/01
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