[NTLUG:Discuss] NIC Woes, resolved. And question.

[MadHat]

Bug Hunter wrote:
> 
>  That does not always help.  Fry's goes out and buys a warehouse of stuff
> at rock bottom prices, then marks them 10 to 20% below normal prices.  You
> are the quality control inspector.
> 
>  If you live more than 10 minutes away from a Fry's, then you can't save
> any money unless your time and your gasoline are free, in my opinion.  I
> have had to take back over 50% of what I have purchased there.

I live in arlington and would rather drive to Microcenter in north east
dallas than go to fry's...  I have had problems with 90% of everything I
have bought at Fry's...  Not that MicroCenter is great, but they do have
a decent selection of Linux CDs (commercial like RedHat, SuSE, and non
commercial like 4 distros for $20 type CDs), games (the commercial ones
like Quake, Civ, etc...), books and such (had to add Linux in there to
get us back on track %^)


> 
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Rusty Haddock wrote:
> 
> > WILLIAM PEARSON wrote:
> >     >Greetings,
> >     >...
> >     >Just goes to show, be weary of hardware bought at Fry's.
> >
> > I haven't had any problems yet *BUT* when you purchase something at Fry's
> > be wary of re-shrink-wrapped boxes that have an extra 1.5"x2.5" white
> > sticker that basically says the unit had been returned.  Many times you
> > may have to dig through the stack of boxes of a particular item to find
> > one that hasn't been returned.  At least that's what I do... then again,
> > I prefer virgin merchandize.

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