From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 02:43:45 EDT
I placed an order for 9 A20p today.. 2629-6SU & 6TU..
with my corporate vendor, whose prices, while not all that great, at least were
not as high as my distrobutor, Ingram Micro, who wanted $5k for these new
machines..
my corporate vendor said 15-may (or thereabouts) they would get 30 A20p machines
in.. (20 w98, 10 w2k)..
i sure hope they arrive.. :-)
and when they do, i'll let you guys know..
BUT..
in the past, the new hot machine would ship a few dozen units to various
vendors, then the supply would dry up for weeks, while the corporate buyers got
their fill..
ALSO,
in the past, the first batch usually was from japan, rather than mexico..
Greg Langham wrote:
> Just as I suspected yesterday when I noted that they were all "in-stock". If
> you notice, the dock isn't even listed (unless I'm simply missing it.)
>
> I'll probably wait until CDW or PC Connection have them before attempting an
> order!
>
> Greg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David W. Taylor [mailto:davidt_at_detayls.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 12:45 PM
> To: ThinkPad List
> Subject: Just tried to order an a20p from ShopIBM...
>
> Last night I went to the ShopIBM web site and placed an order for a ThinkPad
> a20P - 26296TU and the site happily took my order for the computer, some
> memory and the fancy new camera.
>
> On the face of it this is a fabulous upgrade from my ThinkPad 600 PII/233
> that I have loved for the past two years. Huge screen, 3 times bigger
> drive, more memory, DVD, Win2k and so on. My technolust is in full
> flood!!!!
>
> This morning I got a call from a human asking why my order was blank.
>
> Bottom line, the orders are not making it from the web site and when you ask
> the human to help, they act really confused and don't even know what an A
> series ThinkPad is. They have no "codes" for them and they cannot place
> orders for you. Great assurances about staying on top of it are being made
> but I am fairly skeptical at this point.
>
> The ShopIBM site now shows "CALL" instead of "In Stock" for the 26296TU.
>
> If you think you have placed an order, you may be sadly mistaken.
> --
> David Taylor
> <davidt_at_tavolo.com>
-- Happy trails...** Bill Morrow ** :-) WEB page http://thinkpads.com e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_gate.net
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