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- From: richardm@runx.oz.au (Richard Murnane)
- Subject: Can YOU Access Microsoft Access?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.050213.6148@runx.oz.au>
- Organization: RUNX Un*x Timeshare. Sydney, Australia.
- Distribution: aus
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 05:02:13 GMT
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-
- Hi all,
- SOMETHING funny is going on here. You might have seen the ads for
- Microsoft Access (their new Windows database product), which is on
- "special offer" at $149 (the ads say that the price is only while
- stocks last, or end of February, after which the price goes up to
- the "RRP" of $1095). Ok, that ad sounds a bit flakey, but I bought
- it, and I think it's well worth the $149.
-
- The funny thing is this: I go into my local dealer (a fairly reputable
- place in the Sydney CBD near where I work....)
-
- "Hi, do you have Microsoft Access yet?"
-
- "It's on back order, but I do have a couple of copies somebody ordered
- but didn't pick up. Can you pay cash?"
-
- "Oh, I'll wait until you get more copies in" I go to another dealer
- who say they haven't received ANY copies yet. Later I read a review
- which gives the product a good report, so rather than having to pay
- $1K later, I get the cash and go back to the first dealer.
-
- He asks me to come into the back room (won't bring it out on the shop
- floor...), takes my cash, and says he'll send the invoice to me in
- the mail.
-
- Bit odd, isn't it? As I said, I'm quite happy with the product, as much
- as I've used it in the last week, but I think it's strange that
- I couldn't buy it direct from Microsoft, and that all this back-room
- dealing (literally!) is going on. If I wer buying drugs from this dealer,
- I don't think he could have been more secretive.
-
- (The other thing was that three work colleagues had also ordered Access
- from these guys, and they were still waiting for theirs...)
-
- Anyone have similar experiences with accessing Access?
-
- Cheers,
- Richard
-
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