KELLY@RUTGERS.ARPA (05/23/84)
I would also like to put in a defense of S-100 Corp. (Phoenix Az.). When they were located here in N.J., I had extensive in-person dealings with them, and found them to be honest and prompt for both mail and walk-in orders. They were for a time THE ONLY place to buy at discount locally for amateur computerists, and they did me numerous favors on hard-to-find items. Even during those "monopoly" years (at least for the local walk-in market), I never found them to take a cavalier attitude toward even their smallest customers. They even gave more technical hand-holding than would have seemed to be in their own best interests. They were (and presumably still are) a family business, and tend to get themselves swamped from time to time. They also have to cope with the usual runaround (read lying) from their own suppliers, but they always told me the truth as far as they knew it at the time. I'm sorry you didn't get a certified check back, but from their point of view it was probably a kinder gesture to get you your money a few days early than to wait till one of them got around to a trip down to the bank. In short, I don't think your experience qualifies as a horror story by a long shot. I hope this incident won't sour you on dealing with them again, or discourage other people from doing so. Van Kelly (KELLY@RUTGERS) Department of Computer Science Rutgers University -------