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Re: List of poor educational dealers

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From: Daniel K Hartman
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 23:00
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I'm afraid I have to disagree about MIT being a god educational dealer.
They do seem to promote the NeXT line, altough not anymore that anyother line,
though this is questionable.

My main problem is that they seem very disorganied.

Ex1: A friend who ordered a NeXT Station was supposed to be told when
it was going to come in (they would call), checked one day (after a couple
weeks of waiting), the salespeople said they were not in stock. I called
the next day to see if they had any (to double check), and THEY DID.
However, the person was never notified.  It is possible that they came in
that day, and that the person was just not notified yet, but.....

Ex2: I ordered the CD-Rom bundle at least 3 or 4 weeks ago. Never have
been called to tell me it came in, went in two weeks ago, they said they
didn't know when it would be in and that I should wait.  Waited 1 week,
checked again, the person who handles all NeXT sales was not in.  Checked
today, again, the person was not in.  Now, I would think that more than
one person could handle NeXT sales, that you don't need a infinite IQ to
do it, but who knows 8-).  I finally tried emailing them today, currently
waiting for a response (sigh)

also, many people I have talked seem to have bad impressions of the MIT
Microcomputer center at worst, and neutral at best. No one I know has
actively praised them, but then again, maybe I just don't get out enough.
8-) 8-)

Of course, this may just be all a fluke, how about any other MIT students'
experiences?

omv@athena.mit.edu
Daniel K. Hartman
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