jantypas@hope.UUCP (John Antypas) (02/09/88)
Would anyone know anything about the company below?
Hi Tech Asset Recoveries
9036 Owens Mouth
Kenoga Park, CA 91304
(818) 998-7444
As stated by rcw@qetzal.UUCP, they are selling 40M AT drives for $135
and 20M units for $75. These are reconditioned drives. Has anyone ever
bought anything like this. Let me hear your views on this. Has anyone
ever dealt with this company?
John Antypas -- Soft21 --21st Century Software:
UUCP: {garp, killer, pyramid, reed, sdcsvax!ucrmath}!soft21!jantypas
ARPA: jantypas%soft21.UUCP@{eddie.MIT.EDU, rutgers.EDU, sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU}root@qetzal.UUCP (Admin) (02/12/88)
In article <111@ucrmath.UUCP>, jantypas@hope.UUCP (John Antypas) writes:
++ Would anyone know anything about the company below?
++
++ Hi Tech Asset Recoveries
++ 9036 Owensmouth
++ Canoga Park, CA 91304
++ (818) 998-7444
++
++ As stated by rcw@qetzal.UUCP, they are selling 40M AT drives for $135
++ and 20M units for $75. These are reconditioned drives. Has anyone ever
++ bought anything like this. Let me hear your views on this. Has anyone
++ ever dealt with this company?
Yes - and apparently you don't really want to do it. We've purchased
three drives, none of which worked. They were repaired for a reasonable
price (and additional $95), so I don't feel screwed, but it's less of
a deal than it appears.
Robert Whitedbraun@cadev4.intel.com (Doug Braun ~) (02/18/88)
In article <1240@qetzal.UUCP> root@qetzal.UUCP (Admin) writes: >Yes - and apparently you don't really want to do it. We've purchased >three drives, none of which worked. They were repaired for a reasonable >price (and additional $95), so I don't feel screwed, but it's less of >a deal than it appears. Here's how I got some really cheap drives: On a whim, I called a local place that repairs drives. It turned out that they have a whole room of broken drives that they don't feel like fixing (or are totally junked). I bought from them 3 Disctron full height 20 meg drives for $10 each. I picked ones that spun and didn't make funny noises out of a box full of them. One evening later, after swapping boards and replacing a transistor with a broken lead, I had two working ones, for a total investment of $30.25. P.S.: These are fairly cheap, slow drives. Has anyone heard any horror stories about them? I never heard of the brand. Since the place charged a minimum of $99 for service, these drives were considered not worth repairing, no matter how trivial the problem. Doug Braun Intel Corp CAD 408 496-5939 / decwrl \ | hplabs | -| oliveb |- !intelca!mipos3!cadev4!dbraun | amd | \ qantel /
larry@sgistl.SGI.COM (Larry Autry) (02/23/88)
In article <1240@qetzal.UUCP>, root@qetzal.UUCP (Admin) writes: -> In article <111@ucrmath.UUCP>, jantypas@hope.UUCP (John Antypas) writes: -> > Would anyone know anything about the company below? -> > -> > Hi Tech Asset Recoveries -> > 9036 Owensmouth -> > Canoga Park, CA 91304 -> > (818) 998-7444 -> > -> > As stated by rcw@qetzal.UUCP, they are selling 40M AT drives for $135 -> > and 20M units for $75. These are reconditioned drives. Has anyone ever -> > bought anything like this. Let me hear your views on this. Has anyone -> > ever dealt with this company? -> -> Yes - and apparently you don't really want to do it. We've purchased -> three drives, none of which worked. They were repaired for a reasonable -> price (and additional $95), so I don't feel screwed, but it's less of -> a deal than it appears. -> -> Robert White I figure that you picked up a nice rebuilt 40M drive for about $220 not including shipping, etc. It's not hard to find a disk repair shop that Will repair a drive for a fair fixed price. I had a hunch that when I saw the phrase 'as is' that the drive(s) would probably arrive 'doa'. Still a good gamble. And you get a short warrant fromn the repair shop to boot. Not a bad deal when all is summed up. -- Larry Autry larry@sgistl.sgi.com or {ucbvax,sun,ames,pryamid,decwrl}!sgi!sgistl!larry