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Article #1148Re: Beware of Austin Computers
From: Daniel Grimwood
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 02:16
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In wa.general Puppet Master <alibur@iinet.net.au> wrote: > Have anyone tried Navada or Extreme Evolution ? Yep. Used to go to Extreme Evolution all the time, they are cheap. I put up with the severe shortage of staff and long waits, the people were nice although rushed - they were trying. Then this big guy started working there, tried to explain to me that some no-name brand monitor was identical to a Mitsubishi monitor at the same price and I should take that, I told him I didn't care but I wanted the Mitsubishi, and so he proceded to attempt to humiliate me in front of my friends (they could see it and were pissed off too). Haven't been there since. In my experience, the service has been slowly going downhill since Roderic left. I now get everything from PC's on a budget. Been doing that for about 3 or so years. We ordered about $10K worth of stuff the other day, price was good, he even told us not to get a NIC for the laptop because it had one built in. Not too sure how many retailers would state that sort of thing or keep it to themselves. Nice guy. Haven't had to test warranties yet though. We stopped getting stuff from Zeus when we bought a pre-assembled computer from them. Aargh, my mum could have done a better job of assembling it, at least she wouldn't have put a Zeus sticker between the CPU and heatsink. Daniel.
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From: Daniel Grimwood <reaper@crystal.uwa.edu.au>
Newsgroups: wa.general,iinet.general
Subject: Re: Beware of Austin Computers
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 02:16:06 +0000 (UTC)
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