🚀 go-pugleaf

montyb@alpha.aosg.gsf.dec.com (Monty C. Brandenberg) writes:
> wherndon@smiley.mitre.org (William Herndon) writes:
> |> 
> |>     Well I just got the word from my local NeXT resellor:  The NS3.0/
> |>     CD-ROM bundle that I ordered in early July will not ship until mid-
> |>     December.  I only have on thing to say about this:
> |> 
> |> 	Aaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!
> 
> I suspect that the problem lies with your reseller and not with NeXT.
> I ordered the 3.0/CD-ROM bundle hours before the end of the special
> $695 offer and I installed it yesterday (and it arrived days before
> that).  Looks like some other entity dropped the ball....

The special 3.0-bundle offer ended today, Sept 30th.  How did you order  
something today and install it yesterday (and have it delivered even  
earlier)?

More seriously, it's not fair to just assume that "your reseller" is the  
problem.  I know we (the micro store here at RPI) have not received all the  
3.0/CD-ROM bundle offers that we have ordered.  A reseller can not give you  
something that they have not received.

I suspect that many owners waited until Release 3.0 was shipping before they  
ordered the CD-ROM bundle, and as a result NeXT received a lot of orders  
this month.  I can believe they might be behind due to that, though I'm not  
very happy about the delay.  I stand to *lose* the CD-ROM drive I already  
have (to one of our customers) if the backlog of orders isn't caught up with  
in the next 2 weeks.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA