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Re: Gateway 2000 Computers

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From: TalonCLaw
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 00:00
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Buy a Dell.  It was a much happier experience for me.

Benton Jackson wrote in message <01bcde17$f43a3240$49b684d0@pelican>...
>Mistakes are always made, we are all human. Also, despite all of the
>burn-in, there is always infant mortality. Of course, you seem to
>have gotten more than your share here. Thats probably just bad luck.
>Be thankful that Gateway is bending over backwards trying to help.
>I have seen mailorder firms that flatly deny there is a problem,
>and would not have shipped a machine to you until they had the
>original in their hands. You would still be waiting for step 2.
>
>theodore paul jr branham <bra...@cis.ohio-state.edu> wrote in article
><34478F...@cis.ohio-state.edu>...
>> hmmm,
>> I just recently bought a 266 with the AGP and everything. Here's the
>> problems I've had so far (In less than a month)
>>
>> 1. Sent wrong computer
>> 2. Sent Replacement, UPS wanted to get back old computer and another COD
>> 3. Correct PC had a bad video card according to tech rep
>> 4. Sent replacement videio card, wrong one
>> 5. Sent correct one, still didn't work, said, oh maybe those beeps mean
>> bad motherboard
>> 6. Sent another Computer it worked so far
>> 7. Modem failed
>> 8. upon searching for problem of modem, found had bad partition
>> 9. Had to format drive and reinstall all software and take modem from
>> computer with bad motherboard (they have not picked it up yet) and put
>> it into new one.
>> 10. Customer Service sent wrong return labels, (expected me to pay
>> shipping for their mistake)
>> 11. Uh, not sure yet taking it one week at a time.
>>
>> So in my humble opinion: DON'T BUY GATEWAY,
>> oh yeah, you have to set up driver for soundcard to work in DOS
>> yourself. They never do that for some reason.
>>
>> Paul
>>
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From: "TalonCLaw" <nos...@nospam.net>
Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 Computers
Date: 1997/10/21
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