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Re: Beware: CompUSA Hard Drive theft! Don't buy there!

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From: Andrew Rossmann
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 00:00
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Dan Aloni wrote:

> Hello everyone.
>
> 2 month ago, the CompUSA store at Broadway NYC, stole $407 from me.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.

  Odds are, somebody bought the new drive, put an old drive in the box,
and then returned it. Whoever checks returns probably didn't double-check
the drive properly. With fraud so commonplace, it's a good idea to really
check the box closely for broken or unoriginal seals. If you are
suspicious, see if they will let you open it up with an employee watching.
You may have to actually pay for it first, but if something is wrong, it
can be corrected immediately, and with no suspicion on you.

  I once bought the original Diamond Voodoo card from Best Buy. Inside was
some I/O card. I had a hell of a time convincing them to let me exchange
it. That box was simply shrink wrapped. A 'good' box was shrink wrapped
with Diamonds logo on the shrinkwrap.

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From: Andrew Rossmann <andyross@no_junk.ntsource.com>
Subject: Re: Beware: CompUSA Hard Drive theft! Don't buy there!
Date: 1999/06/03
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