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Re: Borland 3.1 C++ Upgrade??

#417
From: Peter Brown
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:42
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In article <4142@wet.UUCP>, sams@wet.UUCP (Samuel Santiago) writes:
|> In article <63481@hydra.gatech.EDU> combee@prism.gatech.EDU (Ben Combee) writes:
|> >In <1992Jul15.170749.3893@njitgw.njit.edu> tdg1465@hertz.njit.edu (tod gordon cccc) writes:
|> >
|> >I don't know if someone has asked this yet, since I haven't kept up with
|> >this conference, but when I got my Borland C++ 3.1+APP upgrade, they only sent
|> >a user's manual with it - what gives? I spent $15 on postage, which is what
|> >I paid when they shipped ALL the manuals for 3.0, but the thing weighs about
|> >15% of what the total package for 3.0 did. Did anyone get an upgrade with all
|> >the manuals? They must have changed something else besides the editor and
|> >Windows support.
|> 
|> I received the same package.  I called and complained to Borland for what
|> I felt is an excessive charge for a package that weighed lessed than 
|> 3 lbs.  The representative gave me the bulls**t line that the $15 is more
|> of a handling charge than a shipping fee.  I suggest everyone who got the
|> upgrade call and then write to Borland to complain.  I did and hope others
|> will too.  Say NO to ripoffs.
|> 

When did you call?  I called last week sometime, basically to complain about
not getting upgraded manuals, and was told that so many people had complained
about the shipping charge that they (Borland) had decided to give a $5 credit
towards shipping on the next thing you bought.  Not as good as a refund, but
better than nothing.  I'm still a bit miffed about not getting the API though,
especially when they include a nice picture of all the manuals showing the 3.1
number on them and a the windows api.


|> -- 
|> __________________________________________________________________________
|> Sam Santiago                       sams@wet.com
|> San Francisco, CA USA              Wetware Diversions Public Access Unix

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