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- From: crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones)
- Subject: Re: Watford Electronics
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.182742.12857@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:27:42 GMT
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- In article <C1K9qK.6sH@brunel.ac.uk> cs92dty@brunel.ac.uk (Danny T Yates) writes:
- >Has anybody else had a similar problem with Watford?
-
- YES. They're the biggest load of crooks in the Acorn world, in my
- opinion. I have personally never had the displeasure to try and buy
- anything from them, but I do know how much hassle they have caused to
- several people. Try asking about their PC card - ho ho. Go through one
- of their adverts with a Berol Highlighter and mark all the false
- statements. Admire their clear indication that the prices are
- excluding VAT.
-
- Even better, look at their advertising in PC magazines - if anything,
- it's even worse.
-
- One also hears that they and 4th Dimension are the two big offenders
- in the advertising blackmail game. i.e. a magazine puts out a review
- of one of their products that they don't like, and the company
- threatens to stop placing their regular <n>-page mega-advert. Acorn
- User now resorts to guarded statements like "although the Watford
- Electronics ARM3 upgrade is cheaper, most people with experience of
- buying from the two companies will automatically prefer one or the
- other" (from memory, so not quite right) when comparing Aleph-1 and
- Watford ARM3 upgrades.
-
- Oh, it was also a Watford Electronics salesman, working freelance, who
- screwed me out of my royalties on the music for a certain video game.
- I eventually figured that it was easier to earn the money again than
- to recover it in the small claims court, but I do sometimes regret not
- getting the <expletive-deleted>. The guy was working as my agent - I
- was younger then. I-8
-
- Gosh, I seem to be a little peeved,
-
- --Clive.
-