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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: DEC Support?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.121523.8216@brt.deakin.edu.au>
- From: dougcc@brt.deakin.edu.au (Douglas Miller)
- Date: 19 Nov 92 12:15:22 EST
- References: <DGRAY.92Nov16133448@menudo.uh.edu> <1992Nov16.235148.9336@eco.twg.com> <1992Nov18.054500.2450@csrd.uiuc.edu>
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- >From: dgray@menudo.uh.edu (Dennis Gray Jr.)
- >Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- >Subject: DEC Support?
- >Date: 16 Nov 1992 19:34:48 GMT
-
- >I always thought that Digital "I wanna be IBM in the 90s" Equipment
- >Corp always justified their outrageously high prices with their
- >support.
-
- So, DEC have not merely high prices , but "outrageously high" prices. This
- is demonstrably not true, as DEC's sales volume remains healthy.
-
- > However, it seems that DEC isn't the slightest bit
- >interested in their customers. I sight several things:
- ^^^^^
- cite?
-
- >First, the technical sales line (800-DIGITAL) sometimes cannot even
- >tell me what parts I can use with my machine.
-
- If DEC have trouble giving you information "sometimes" it doesn't follow
- that they aren't "the slightest bit interested in their customers".
-
- You are undermining your own credibility with hyperbole.
-
- >DEC "support" will not even talk to you unless you have one of their
- >outrageously priced service contracts.
-
- More "outrageous prices" --- care to justify these assertions?
-
- And, why do you apparently expect DEC to provide you with service for
- nothing? They are a business, not a charity.
-
- > Besides, I thought the high
- >equipment prices went to pay for support...
-
- If you think any vendor nowadays has any margin left on hardware sales that
- they can use to subsidise other parts of their business, then you have been
- asleep for the last five years.
-
-