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William Taylor (wwtaylor@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: Anthony D. Tribelli, adt@netcom.com writes:
: >You do realize I'm referring to companies who have stores, warehouses, and
: >business licenses, not just some guy with a handfull of RAM? This swapmeet
: >is a pretty commercial environment. Generally, the people selling this
: >memory are middlemen buying directly from the manufacturer and selling
: >with a minimal markup, unlike HP and Egghead who have a much greater
: >markup and a lot more overhead.

: Ahhh...but HP will at least come out and replace a simm if it goes bad.
: Warranties can be useful...

Sounds more like a service contract, not a warranty. Eight months after a
purchase, I moved some memory from a caching disk controller to main
memory. Problems were detected during diagnostics. At the next swapmeet
(they occurr here every 3 to 5 weeks, I could have driven to the vendor's
store but I was in no hurry) I handed my SIMMs and old receipt to the
vendor and before I said anything the vendor told me that this
manufacturer had problems and he will replace the SIMMs. Swap meet does
not necessarily mean no warranty or service. 

: ... Like I said, although I would personally go out
: and buy RAM at a swapmeet, my employers won't. They want a brand name, a
: support contract, and me to spend my time working rather than going to
: swap meets or installing ram.

Like I said originally, If you are willing to buy and install yourself you 
can spend $500 rather than $1000. I have nothing against paying for 
on-site service, but the original post left me with the impression the 
$1000 was for RAM, not RAM + service contract.

Tony
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Tony Tribelli
adtribelli@acm.org