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Re: Don't buy from Comp America

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From: Dan Fraser
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 00:00
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Surely there is a discount computer store or even a Wal-Mart within an
hour's drive for almost everyone in Canada and the USA that people have
to buy a computer through the mail.

A PC is such a tech thing, that as a person who runs a department
maintaining 10,000 computers for a school district, I can't believe that
a person would buy a high tech item like a PC, with dozens of things
that can go wrong without having spoken to a person face to face about
it and actually seen what they are getting before they buy it.

With the mail order companies getting 20% of the systems they sell back
in most cases, I would think most people are better off to pay a little
more and buy local instead of trying to save every last dime and taking
such a big chance on trouble.

Just my opinion, but I buy 500 to 1000 computers every year.

-- 
Dan Fraser
From Beautiful British Columbia in western Canada
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From: Dan Fraser <dmfraser@rogers.wave.ca>
Subject: Re: Don't buy from Comp America
Date: 1997/09/21
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