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Article #795Re: Beware: CompUSA Hard Drive theft! Don't buy there!
From: Rob
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:00
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20miles isnt very far away definitly worth a trip for an x24 -Ed- <not@home.now> wrote in message news:3765193f.351202182@24.128.188.255... > Perhaps some day there will be. But for now its a 20 mile trip and I > "just had to have an x-24 right away or I would have died." :?) > Actually, it was during my vacation and I just wanted to buy a big > bucks item. > > -Ed- > > > On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 01:03:26 +0800, "Rob" <nolde@wantree.com.au> > wrote: > > // why dont you take it to a local comp usa outlet. or isnt there one near you? > // > // > // -Ed- <not@home.now> wrote in message > // news:37622971.93204931@24.128.188.255... > // > Same thing happened to me at CompUSA. I bought an Obsidian x-24 last > // > summer, drove 20+ miles home, opened the shrink wrapped box and inside > // > was an old Diamond VooDoo1 board. I was fit to be tied. My blood > // > pressure was so high that the person at the exchange counter never > // > even dared to try to make me feel like I might have been the theif. > // > > // > -Ed- >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f70d1,51aab829ca848b2d X-Google-Attributes: gidf70d1,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,51aab829ca848b2d X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public X-Google-Thread: 1002bf,51aab829ca848b2d X-Google-Attributes: gid1002bf,public X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,51aab829ca848b2d X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public X-Google-Thread: 113d7c,51aab829ca848b2d X-Google-Attributes: gid113d7c,public From: "Rob" <nolde@wantree.com.au> Subject: Re: Beware: CompUSA Hard Drive theft! Don't buy there! Date: 1999/06/15 Message-ID: <7k39ce$eir$1@centipede.wantree.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 489484419 References: <37569810.7A767D11@inter.net.il> <375798af.4709303@news.erols.com> <3756b7e4.13405616@news> <375faf0c.761685@news.alink.net> <37622971.93204931@24.128.188.255> <7ju3t3$5aj$1@centipede.wantree.com.au> <3765193f.351202182@24.128.188.255> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Organization: Wantree Development X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Reply-To: "Rob" <nolde@wantree.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,ba.market.computers,misc.forsale.computers.storage