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RE: [TCLUG:1585] STATE FAIR SUPER COMPUTER SALE



  The whole fair thing is a rip-off, unless your going for something very
unique and or old you will find very few deals.  I prefer going to a couple
small computer shops around the area, if you work with them enough they
will reward you by giving you deals. (And I am not talking about Computer
Rennisance, sheesh don't get me started).  Anyways the last thing I bought
at the fair was a video card that sometimes doesn't want to work and even
Win95 had problems with it.


Jon Kotek



At 01:06 AM 10/5/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>
>> Be aware, at last year's computer fair, a friend of mine bought a new
>> PII-350 system with a 14GB hard drive.  When he got home, it
>> turned out
>> the wrong hard drive was in the package and he had to pay $6 again to
>> get into the fair and return the unit.
>
>I've gone through this myself. If you bitch at the door, they will let you
>in as long as it is just to return/exchange the item. You also have to
>research what you're planning on buying. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! My friend
>bought a video card that was labeled "Matrox Millenium II, 8Mb," because I
>had told him it was a good card. When I saw it, it just didn't look quite
>right, and $89 was just too good of a price at the time, so I got on the
>Web. It turned out that it was the new Productiva G100. We went back to the
>show to return it. The salesman was all set to argue until I whipped out
>print-outs of the Matrox Web site of both the MII and the Productiva,
>showing him the difference. He gave my friend his money back. Interestingly
>enough, in the time before we returned, the guy had marked the same label up
>to the proper price for the MII...and the Productiva was still attached to
>it. <shiver> There's some poor suckers out there somewhere...
>
>>
>> If you do buy,  stick with vendors you've heard of or are in business
>> around the metro here or something, otherwise you never know
>> what you'll
>> get.
>>
>
>I'm with you there. I try to trust my instincts about this stuff. You can
>sorta tell who is legit and who is questionable. Ask lots of questions about
>what their policy is about tech-support and returns/exchanges. Also, with
>the way the computer industry is going, I've often found that BestBuy and
>CompUSA often aren't all that much more expensive, especially when it comes
>to video cards, sound cards, and hard drives. The technical ability of these
>places may or may not be great, and you might not get that "personal touch"
>but at least you can always return something. If I can come within $20 or so
>of the show's price at BestBuy or CompUSA, I'll usually go there instead.
>
>Neal
>
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