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Frankie K.T. Chu (frank@nobbie.air.org) wrote:
: Seeing Everbest's (local authorized ZyXEL distributor) advert for
: their ZyXEL V.34 modem in the Standard/Sing Tao computer paper (a
: local bi-weekly computer-orientated newspaper) mentioning a trade-in
: programme, I rang up to enquire for the details.

: Wasn't particularly hopeful for a good deal as ZyXEL's local
: distributors over the years have always been kind of greedy, I learnt
: that by trading in my ZyXEL U-1496E+, I would get HK$500 (US$64)
: knocked off my purchase of a Elite, which is around HK$5000 (US$640)
: in this part of the world.

: I said thank you and hung up.

Well the poor EverBest want to make profit by following the way TCL did in 
their old days but they forget this is 1995 when modem is no longer being 
regarded as high-tech product and ZyXEL is not cash cow anymore - they 
actually not even as good as old 1496 series from those people in Usenet.

Today we have a lot of quality modem to chose from with lotta more cheaper 
price then why should we buy ZyXEL for extra 1M RAM and that 
oh-so-good-but-ZyXEL-only voice capability?

Rgds
Chan Hong