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- From: cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok)
- Subject: Re: Is Gateway a publicly held company? I think I'll short some stock...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.222653.9046@athena.mit.edu>
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- References: <TIM.92Nov9180806@coors.boxhill.com> <1992Nov10.054810.28004@tc.cornell.edu> <rash.721707871@access.digex.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:26:53 GMT
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- In article <rash.721707871@access.digex.com> rash@access.digex.com (Wayne Rash) writes:
- >chow@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christopher Chow) writes:
- >
- >>In article <TIM.92Nov9180806@coors.boxhill.com> tim@boxhill.com (Timothy Jones) writes:
- >>>I'm totally fed up. I'm a little new to the PC market (I work mostly with
- >>>Suns and other UNIX workstations) and am *appalled* by the customer service I
- >>>have received from Gateway. I wonder if all the PC mail order houses treat
- >>>their customers this poorly... I guess a Sun salesperson who sells machines
- >>>costing $20K a piece cares a little more about the individual customer.
- >>>
- >
- >>[Yet another Gateway horror story deleted]
- >
- >>Amazing that people on the net still order from Gateway. This summer,
- >>there were a whole slew of articles regarding problems with Gateway. True,
- >>they were written up as having the best reliability, etc, by PC Magazine
- >>this summer, but I had thought the general net.consensus reached mid-summer
- >>was that Gateway was growing too fast for their management ability, and that
- >>published article, being at least a couple of months old at the time
- >>of publication, was already inaccurate.
- >
- >>I'd figure that after the fiascos with the floating point math and telepath
- >>modems, as well as signs of inability to deal with growth (late machine
- >>deliveries, apparently some machines not burnt-in shipping to customers,
- >>absurdly long wait times on support) that demand would slacken off.
- >>BTW, people recently speculated that some Gateways delivered with video
- >>cards not fully inserted were perhaps due to UPS mishandling. How likely
- >>is this? I've mailed a number of systems through UPS, and have never
- >>had such a problem. Seems to me that this may be more indicative of an
- >>overburdened assembly line combined with a lack of burn in rather than
- >>UPS mishandling.
- >
- >>--
- >>Christopher Chow
- >>--------------------------- Phone: 518-426-0687
- >>1 Notre Dame Drive - Rm 317 Internet: chow@theory.tc.cornell.edu
- >>Albany, NY 12208-3413 America Online: Chris Chow
- >
- >Well, I have to admit that I rarely have UPS to blame for loose video
- >cards. Normally they do a more thorough job than that. Normally they
- >crush to computer to less than half its normal height in at least one
- >dimension. Then they leave it in the rain, soak it with solvent, or
- >something similar. Today I received a former SCSI card in the mail via
- >UPS. It's now a strange collection of little skinny pieces of foil and
- >fiberglass shards.
- >
- >Good ol' UPS. they never saw a computer they couldn't flatten.
-
- i recently purchased a new system from gateway. they actually shipped
- it 10 days early! it is fine so far, and it came ok.
-
- just thought i should share a bit of the other side.
-
- --
- charles
-