Would you be willing to post the message you received from FG? If your description of the response were typical I would stay away too. But my experience has been otherwise. If they were out-of-line they should know about it and take corrective action. They perform a useful service, and good customer relations helps them perform that service.
-Denis On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Pete Lancashire <[email protected]> wrote: > So I emailed FG, a few days later received a reply that basically said > "you have to be kidding, why the heck should we waste our time, btw we > have this store that has great stuff it in with prices higher than > Ebay even with shipping. > > Oh .. I was in the 'hood so I dropped in, let's see a as-is Mac cube > thing, said AS-IS $25, a crappy Dell desktop, the ones the sell on CL > for $10 or Goodwill (with their > $750K CEO) for $20-30, price $100 > with 1GB memory. How about a USB (not C) cable for $5. PC keyboard > with a missing key for $5. 17" LCD for $80, same model as the one I > got at Goodwill for $20. Old DC-600 tape cartridges marked down to $18 > from $25, AS-IS no return. > > Sure glad I didn't go out of my way. > > > > On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Pete Lancashire <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I am no longer looking for any, when the contract was completed the > > customer purchased the system from me, I currently do not have a > > requirement. > > > > In retrospect I'm glad FG declined, I was willing at the time to > > offer up to $100 per drive, but acquired some for $5 each plus a 50 > > miles round trip. > > > > -pete > > > > On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Jim Karlock <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I got several hits when I entered 8" floppy on ebay. > >> > >> Thanks > >> JK > >> > >> > >> At 05:04 PM 1/8/2017, you wrote: > >>>Sadly I've given up on FG. I was looking for a couple 8" DS floppy > >>>drives, had a request to see if I could recover some CAD data. Someone > >>>said the same thing so I called FG. Confirmed they still had them but > >>>they would not sell them to me, had to be scrapped, gave some super > >>>lame excuses. > >>> > >>>-pete > >>> > >>>On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Chuck Hast <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > Dropped two machines with that sort of board in them off at Free > Geek a bit > >>> > over a week ago. > >>> > > >>> > On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Pete Lancashire < > [email protected]> > >>> > wrote: > >>> > > >>> >> Anyone have an old PC K7 or newer that has at least 2 EISA slots > that > >>> >> they no longer want ? > >>> >> > >>> >> -pete > >>> >> _______________________________________________ > >>> >> PLUG mailing list > >>> >> [email protected] > >>> >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > >>> >> > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > -- > >>> > > >>> > Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- > >>> > Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. > >>> > The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. > >>> > _______________________________________________ > >>> > PLUG mailing list > >>> > [email protected] > >>> > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>PLUG mailing list > >>>[email protected] > >>>http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PLUG mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
