Re: 17" color monitor repair cost way out of line!!!

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From: Donald Lewine
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 12:53

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In article <1992Aug6.154239.10261@u.washington.edu>  
jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby) writes:
|   We have a NeXT colorstation with the smaller of the two available  
color
|   monitors (17" I believe).  It has started to fail intermittently.  We  
contacted
|   NeXT to ask about repair and were told that their policy was to swap  
the
|   monitor for a, presumably, new one at a cost of $1389!!!!!!  This  
seems a
|   bit out of line for repair.

Makes a good case for a service contract!!!

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