In my experience computer trends is not a place I would do business with. I
keep as far away as possible.
Also in my experience customers don't always know who or what has had access
to their machines. Sounds like a couple of buttons were pushed in this
story. <shrug>
Cheers!
Dick
On 2/7/07, Dave Hall <dave-slg@dnh.sk.ca> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:42:55AM -0600, VON wrote:
> >
> > > me well enough to take my word. Many others on this list, however,
> _have_
> > > known me for many years and, I hope, believe I am a trustworthy person
> that is
> > > telling the truth.
> >
> > Now that's something I can definitely agree with.
>
> Ditto.
>
> The stories from ComputerTrends seem to be pretty inconsistent. Perhaps
> it
> was not a trend (unintentional pun) but an isolated case of an
> unscrupulous
> employee who only worked there for a short time years ago that perhaps the
> current manager/staff didn't know?
>
> The story sounds a lot like some of the all too common horror stories from
> the days when Techtronics was in business. It also sounds a lot like
> stories of unscrupulous auto mechanics on TV shows like W5.
>
> I'm not trying to defend the vendor, they should have checks and balances
> to
> prevent this sort of thing from leaving the shop. I don't doubt that
> local
> vendors trying to make money on volume have poor QA on systems. QA on
> custom
> systems is a PITA and white-box vendors are generally not big enough or
> smart
> enough to do effective QA. That's why corporate customers are fans of
> standard systems from tier-1 vendors.
>
> --
>
> Dave
>
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