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Article #881Re: FS: New Hard Drives
From: Daniel J. Stevans
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 00:00
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Adam L (gt7096a@acmey.gatech.edu) wrote: : : Have you called for prices? I called Dirt Cheap Dives for their Fujitsu : : 1 gig hard drive for $199.00 amd the salesman said that the price went up to : : $229.00 because the the price list is generated 4 months in advance. : : A classic case of being misled. The same wemt for Midwest Micro. I got a : : flyer in the mail advertising a Maxtor 1 gig drive for 209.00, I called : : the NEXT DAY and guess what, $229.00. Remember, prices are subject to change : : after they deliberately advertise a lower price. : There are a few companies advertising in Compute Shopper that consistantly : do this. Off the top of my head, I can't remember if Dirt Cheap was one : of them or not... but there are lots of decent companies in there, too. Now this is something that should be mentioned to the Better Business Bureau. Dan
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111dad,a8e5444e11ea2419 X-Google-Attributes: gid111dad,public X-Google-Thread: 113d7c,a8e5444e11ea2419 X-Google-Attributes: gid113d7c,public X-Google-Thread: fb6e9,a8e5444e11ea2419 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb6e9,public X-Google-Thread: 11561b,a8e5444e11ea2419 X-Google-Attributes: gid11561b,public X-Google-Thread: 112862,a8e5444e11ea2419 X-Google-Attributes: gid112862,public From: dstevans@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Daniel J. Stevans) Subject: Re: FS: New Hard Drives Date: 1996/01/27 Message-ID: <4ee46f$bca@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> X-Deja-AN: 136795680 references: <4e8psp$8nf@nntp.atlanta.com> <4ebqt3$21a@brickbat.mindspring.com> <310A186D.47D4@ix.netcom.com> <4edrvh$aar@catapult.gatech.edu> organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.misc,misc.forsale.computers.storage,misc.forsale.computers.other.misc,ga.forsale,ca.forsale