ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (12/03/90)
A couple of days ago I posted a positive message about supporting
your local dealer and how, basically, you'll be better off than mail
order.
I guess I have it lucky though. An STer I know sent me mail
describing some of his unfortunate interactions with his local
dealer. I know that there are a lot of bad apples in the bunch.
Part of this stems from the fact that if you have one Atari dealer in
a town (or MS-DOS or Mac for that matter), he can pretty much do and
charge whatever he wants. I suppose the only thing you can do is tell
the dealer this and tell him that you're going to do your business
elsewhere. If you and others go to other dealers, soon the dealer
will be out of business and it will be his problem that he charged so
much. It's a tricky situation, like chicken and the egg I guess. Oh
well, such is life.
Happy computing. :^Z
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