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Article #814Re: Beware: CompUSA Hard Drive theft! Don't buy there!
From: Lowell Denning
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0091_01BEAEB2.CF131AA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable First, you mention nothing about using the telephone to talk to CompUsa. = Call them and try to work something out. One good thing about Maxtor hard drives is that when you open a new = sealed box, it tears right across the middle of the box ruining it from = being used for any resold product. Dan Aloni <danaloni@inter.net.il> wrote in message = news:37569810.7A767D11@inter.net.il... Hello everyone.=20 2 month ago, the CompUSA store at Broadway NYC, stole $407 from me.=20 In April 2nd, while I was touring New York City, I entered the store = and bought a brand new Westren Digital 20.4GB hard drive, at the second = floor.=20 When I came back to my home country, I found out that the hard drive = in the box, was an old 270MB Quantum!!! My face turned red when I = realized what has been done to me.=20 Well, it, of course ruined my lovely 3 weeks vacation.I can do nothing = about it. I am here, and the store is on the other side of the world. = The only thing I can do, is to warn you not to buy there anything. = Please don't repeat the same mistake I did.=20 Dan Aloni, danaloni@inter.net.il=20 ------=_NextPart_000_0091_01BEAEB2.CF131AA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2614.3401" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#d8d0c8> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>First, you mention nothing about using the telephone = to talk=20 to CompUsa. Call them and try to work something out.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>One good thing about Maxtor hard drives is that when = you open=20 a new sealed box, it tears right across the middle of the box ruining it = from=20 being used for any resold product.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE=20 style=3D"BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV>Dan Aloni <<A=20 href=3D"mailto:danaloni@inter.net.il">danaloni@inter.net.il</A>> = wrote in=20 message <A=20 = href=3D"news:37569810.7A767D11@inter.net.il">news:37569810.7A767D11@inter= .net.il</A>...</DIV>Hello=20 everyone.=20 <P>2 month ago, the CompUSA store at Broadway NYC, stole $407 from me. = <P>In April 2nd, while I was touring New York City, I entered the = store and=20 bought a brand new <B>Westren Digital 20.4GB</B> hard drive, at the = second=20 floor.=20 <P>When I came back to my home country, I found out that the hard = drive in the=20 box, was an old <B>270MB Quantum</B>!!! My face turned red when I = realized=20 what has been done to me.=20 <P>Well, it, of course ruined my lovely 3 weeks vacation.I can do = nothing=20 about it. I am here, and the store is on the other side of the world. = The only=20 thing I can do, is to warn you <B>not to buy there anything</B>. = Please don't=20 repeat the same mistake I did.=20 <P>Dan Aloni, danaloni@inter.net.il = </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0091_01BEAEB2.CF131AA0--
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