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In article <NEWTNews.828517386.4086.dpruitt@Pigs_IN_Space.galstar.com>,
Dave Pruitt <dpruitt@galstar.com> wrote:

  :Please be aware, and read my post in comp.laptops.  Gateway is not
  :a good company to deal with.  THey do not support OR sell to 
  :seconds owners.  They wouldn't sell me a spare battery because I was
  :not the original owner, and I wasn't a customer.  I found it very difficult
  :to be a customer if they refused to sell to me.  I have never had
  :these problems in the past.  Gateway is just not a good company to deal 
  :with.  Please think twice.

Do I have this straight? They're a mail-order company with no local
resellers, and they won't sell anything except to the original owner?

Is it just me, or is this a moronic way to do business? I, for one, would
not buy a machine with no resale potential. With a new generation of
machines every year, ensuring a poor resale value for your machine would
make your machines much less attractive right off the bat, at least for
non-corporate customers who only have 1 or 2 machines.

Am I missing something?

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