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From: Tom Bird
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 00:00

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Ernest <ernest@noel*sys.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<883874580snz@noel*sys.demon.co.uk>...
> In article <oIBw0AAzoSr0EwVl@mhairi.demon.co.uk>
>            robnews@nospam.demon.co.uk "Rob Alexander" writes:
> 
> > Why do so many people hate Packard-Bell PCs? I've never seem one, but
> > I'm just curious.
> 
> If I recall correctly (and I'm pretty sure about this), a couple of
> years ago a competitor, Compaq I believe, took PB to court for
> advertising/supplying, their pc's as new BUT the pc's often contained
> refurbished parts which had been returned as faulty under warranty.
> PB were forced to change their ways.

Not parts exactly but still working bits out of full returned systems, say
the motherboard was cracked and the customer took another machine away - PB
would reuse the hard drive, memory and so on, IMHO there's nothing wrong
with that but the courts didn't see it that way.

That's how I heard it.

TB

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From: "Tom Bird" <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Great Packard Bell Web Site
Date: 1998/01/04
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