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- From: bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey CDP)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Stac Software Customer Service (comments welcome)
- Message-ID: <1270@consult.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 23:04:13 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.015609.29593@sarah.albany.edu>
- Reply-To: bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey CDP )
- Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Organization: CCS Enterprises, Inc. - Easton, MD
- Lines: 55
-
- In article <1992Dec23.015609.29593@sarah.albany.edu> lh7873@albnyvms.bitnet writes:
- >I would like to take this time to invite all that have
- >had experience with Stac software please post their
- >opinions --> _Good or Bad._
- >Maybe someone over there (Carlsbad CA) will see this and
- >maybe install some toll free 800 lines...
-
- With the prices at their current point and Microsoft announcing that
- they may include it in their next MS-DOS, and DR-DOS coming with compression
- built in, I doubt there is much money to be made to pay for the 800# costs.
-
- >With all the competition in compression, they might take
- >note of us, thier customers!
- >
- > My Colleage and I had a problem installing Stacker 2.0.
- >It stopped mid-installation. When I called them in CA, I was
- >put on hold for twenty minutes. If you are familiar with this
- >company you will know that when you call them you pay for the
- >call. They don't have any 800 lines. After talking for ten
- >minutes I was told to go out and buy a disk utilities program
- >to check my hard drive. A thirty minute call and no answers. I
- >hung up frustrated, looked into a utility program, didn't buy one,
- >came home and
- >formated my drive, reinstalled Stacker 2.0, installed all my applications,
- >and all my 'backed up' files (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BEFORE INSTALLING
- >STACKER), and lived happily ever after. No problems with my HD,
- >Probably could have avoided hours of reinstalling all apps, with
- >some help on the phone.
- >
- >There see, it's not too hard. Please post any interaction good,
- >or bad, with Stac Software.
-
- Well, let's talk about what you have said. The person on the phone
- gave you some good advice and you decided that you knew more than he
- did, so you went and did what you wanted to anyway. You could have
- saved the cost of a call to them, and us the frustration of having
- to listen to you.
-
- 2nd: You reformatted the hard drive, which would have re-checked for
- bad or marginal sectors and flagged them, WHICH is exactly what the
- STAC technican was telling you about with any of the utility programs
- like Norton, PC-Tools or Vmarkbad. So it WAS NOT hard, you just didn't
- want to listen. Your response really irked me because we deal with this
- type of response all the time, and people do not even realize that they
- really do not know all the answers, and then don't want to listen to
- anyone who is taking their time to help and assist the.
- BTW: You could have saved yourself a lot of time and frustration by
- buying the utility program, mapping out the bad sector and continuing
- forward, BUT, you know better....
-
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