From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Wed May 26 1999 - 14:56:21 EDT
as an aside..
i one got a new 770X (when they were VERY RARE) delivered by fedex..
it had been raining very heavily..
the outer box was soaked through, the inner box was not..
i could have returned it, but..
my customer is still happily using that machine and why beat up fedex over a
wet box..
haveing said that, this is where some of the great bargains come from.. a
damaged box and a perfect machine inside..
richard wrote:
> I recently bought a 570 from pczone. The return address on the box was
> pczone c/o airborne express warehouse (or something like that). I had the
> feeling airborne is maintaining a huge warehouse somewhere in the midwest
> and that vendors electronically transmit the buyer's name and address,
> which is printed on a packing slip and mailing label and sent off, never
> touched by the vendor's hands.
>
> BTW, the box came damaged. Pczones immediately shipped a replacement unit
> (without charge) and paid return shipping on the old unit. I don't think
> anyone (at least not online vendors) lets you return thinkpads other than
> shipping damage or maybe DOA. For the most part, service consists of "call
> IBM". The info we get from Bill Morrow vastly exceeds the level of service
> or info from any computer vendor I've encountered.
>
> It amuses me that onsale.com claims to be selling at IBM's wholesale price,
> and that a number of vendors undercut its prices, sometimes by a lot.
> Either the vendors are making money on advertising or they are running at
> losses while trying to increase revenue so they can do an IPO (if that's
> still possible).
>
> At 01:07 PM 5/26/99 -0400, Bill Morrow wrote:
> >There are several things to say here:
> >1. Almost EVERYONE sells from the SAME warehouse.. there are a few, like
> >Ingram, Marisel, Tek Data, et al.,
> >2. SOME online el-cheapo vendors add "fees" that drive the price up..
> >3. others make their $$ by having traffic on their web sites and selling
> >advertising.. i.e. they sell ads, not hardware..
> >4. SOME will tell you they have the hardware, but in reality, they don't..
> >there is such a thing as "phantom stock"..
-- Live Long and Prosper, Happy trails...** Bill Morrow ** :-) Compuserve Thinkpad(c) Forum Sysop WEB page http://thinkpads.com Thinkpad User Community: http://thinkpads.com/enter.html e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_icanect.net 770Z-8AU, 760ED, 760CD, (5)701C, 560E, 755CE, 750C et al...
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