covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) (02/15/90)
> In article <2013@moscom.UUCP>, tmb@moscom.UUCP (Tom Bellucco) writes... > "Help!! For the past couple years, I've been buying bulk 3.5" DSDD disks from > "MEI/MicroCenter. I've bought THOUSANDS of disks from them, starting when they > "were $1 per disk. Now they are $.45 per disk and they are shit. Out of each > "200 I buy, at least 50-75 of them won't format DS. I figure they are just > "using SS disks (because the SS disks are the same price). Back when the > "disks were from $.70 - $1 each, they were great disks and it was a great deal. > "Now it sucks having to return disks only to get more bad ones. Some of these > "disks have "marks" (look like scratches) across the media that I just wonder > "is doing to my drive. We buy hundreds of the MEI floppies each year to seel at our PHAST Club meetings. We have had very low (less than 1%) failures with these floppies. These floppies are used on all sorts of STs, with all kinds of floppy drives. If you are having that large a failure rate I would suggest that you have your floppy drive checked out. I t may need alignment, or have a bad head, or something. I have never seen scratch marks on our floppies. I just bought 200 for our PHAST club last week and we used about 40 of them for pd disks. They all formatted fine on my STs at home. Good luck!! -- Richard E. Covert, Lead Engineer of Software Tools Group AG Communications Systems, Phoenix AZ (602) - 581-4652 TCP/IP: covertr@gtephx UUCP: {ncar!noao!asuvax | uunet!zardoz!hrc | att}!gtephx!covertr
mccarty@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (James E. McCarty) (02/15/90)
I live in Columbus, Ohio, the home of MEI and MicroCenter and have purchased many diskettes from them over the years. Several of us would get together and by 500-1000 at a time. Most of the time we had very good experience (less than 1% bad with the people at the store always ready to make replacements). However, last year wee got a bunch of diskettes that were trash. 35-40% failures. There were obvious scratches of the surfaces. We carted most of them back and got a refund on some and replacements on others. The next batch was better, but not as good as in the past. I refuse to bitch about the experience for several reasons: - MicroCenter has always done the "right thing" by either replacing the diskettes or refunding my money. - By buying at such a cheap price, I feel I also am taking a bit of risk for the better price. - As competition as driven the price for diskettes down, they have become a strictly price commodity. I am sure MicroCenter focuses on price and occasionally will have a bad batch of diskettes. They move such a quantity that they can not test every batch. BTW - MicroCenter (MEI's retail arm) does not sell Atari. They are all IBM and Apple. While most of the sales people are good; they do have a few that go out of their way to bad mouth the ST. (As if we don't do well enough here B^) ). I am not a MicroCenter employee; just a reasonably pleased customer. Jim McCarty - OSU (Insert clever stuff here)