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- From: dcole@ua.d.umn.edu (david cole)
- Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
- Subject: Re: Insight/HDI complaints
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 20:52:36 -0600
- Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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- According to the Insight salesperson I spoke to a couple weeks ago, the
- manufacturer promised to ship 380msec seek time cdrom drives but instead kept
- shipping the higher seek time drives. He said they were keeping a waiting
- list for the 380msec drives and could not promise a ship date.
- He claimed not to know the name of the supplier when I asked, but a
- reasonable hypothesis is Mitsumi.
- Manufacturer's delays and failures to deliver what is promised are hardly
- rare. But it seems that Insight mishandled this one; they certainly should
- have notified customers of the problem instead of shipping drives that did
- not meet advertised spec. Insight should be made aware that this is a
- general feeling (I said so when I called). A letter to the editor of PC mag
- would be more effective than to their troubleshooter (I was gratified to see
- a letter published about a sneaky thing Gateway 2000 did that I objected to
- (refusing to meet the price they told PC Mag was the system price in a
- published review of systems in 1990). Gateway's President responded in
- print, effectively changing policy. This needs to be done as publicly as
- possible. A letter to PC Sources "Ombudsman" department is also in order:
- this is a public complaint department about mail order vendors that publish
- in their magazine. The reason that it is important that it be public, and
- not behind the scenes, is so that the problem is fixed for ALL customers, and
- not just the one who complained, and so the company feels the sting for
- misdeeds in the form of bad publicity, not just a few complaining customers.
- Bad publicity costs big.
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- Cheers,
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- Dave
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