kevin@arnor.UUCP (Kevin Goroway) (06/20/89)
I spend a whole year at school getting my blank 3 1/2 disks from MEI. These disks were used on Macs, Pc's, and the Amiga. 5 orders totaled approx. 750 3 1/2's (and 200 5 1/2's) to this date, not one has failed. Originally we paid 89, then it went down to 79, and then from there... the 69 cent price was publicized. MEI was nice enough to refund the difference when they delivered a batch with a catalogue enclosed that had a cheaper price, even though we had ordered them before the new edition was printed. A good company over-all, IMHO, and a lot can be learned from them... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - Worcester Polytechnic Institute| IBM has nothing to do with what I say. - = Worcester, MA | All thoughts expressed herein are mine. = -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
kevin@arnor.UUCP (Kevin Goroway) (06/23/89)
The new catalog came yesterday. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - Worcester Polytechnic Institute|"It happens sometimes, people just explode, - = Worcester, MA | natural causes." -Repo Man = -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) (06/28/89)
In article <174@arnor.UUCP> kevin@arnor.UUCP (Kevin Goroway) writes: | I spend a whole year at school getting my blank 3 1/2 disks from MEI. | These disks were used on Macs, Pc's, and the Amiga. | 5 orders totaled approx. 750 3 1/2's (and 200 5 1/2's) | to this date, not one has failed. | Originally we paid 89, then it went down to 79, and then from there... | the 69 cent price was publicized. I had a different experience... out of 25 disks, 5 were bad. The quality was awful --- the disks were almost as flexible as 5 1/4" disks! I decided the risk wasn't worth it. (But I still get 5 1/4" disks from them.) One thing that is a bit annoying is that they have different catalogs, depending on how "good" of a customer they think you are. (Which is why they ask for the number off the catalog when you phone in.) I'm sure of this, since our user's group gets two different catalogs with different prices. I have no problem with volume-pricing, but hey guys, be up front about it. None of this sneaking around behind people's backs. -- Jim Wright jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu