[News] Amiga Inc auction items | ANN.lu |
Posted on 04-Jun-2003 08:47 GMT by Ben | 70 comments View flat View list |
As reported at amiga.org:
http://www.murphyauctions.net/amiga.html
Seems to be a list of useful but dated PCs, printers and furniture with a few PDAs thrown in.
I guess they will be most upset by the loss of the foosball table.
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Amiga Inc auction items : Comment 64 of 70 | ANN.lu |
Posted by samface on 06-Jun-2003 07:12 GMT | In reply to Comment 62 (gz): 1. They never gave you any promises. They told us timeframes for when they expected these products to be completed. The difference is significant and of outmost importance. It's not like they don't want to sell you products, you know.
2. As a commercial business they simply cannot just put up a simple PayPal button on their site, they had to find a different solution for those who wanted to donate for their cause. Yes, this was requested and it's not a surprise that 1,000 Amiga users didn't hesitate to send them the money. It was made perfectly clear that these users were NOT going to get their money back but instead they would be made members of their fan club. The coupons was just a time-limited offer at the launch of this club and the only valid reason for ever getting a refund is if you for some reason don't want to be a part of this club. Those who signed up for the club during this specific period of time will be recieving their rebate at the purchase of an AmigaOne with AmigaOS4 or just AmigaOS4 for CyberstormPPC equipped Amigas. The reason for why current AmigaOne owners hasn't recieved any rebates is because these products is a prerelease on behalf of Eyetech, the final version which will be bundled with AmigaOS4 hasn't been released yet.
3. How do you know that they did know that the product wasn't going to be released? You know, since they have never said that they were going to do it "in house", all they ever told you is information they have been provided with from third parties. There has been quite a few problems with this as Hyperion is (AFAIK) the third company that they've turned to and the only ones that seems to actually deliver what they promise. Both bPlan and H&P was involved in the negotiations about delivering the official next generation AmigaOS and I find it to be quite a plausible scenario that Amiga Inc. simply got a bit too excited over this and told us what these guys promised prematurely. I'm not claiming that this is the facts, just another perspective on things prooving that their is nothing certain about anything.
4. I really don't know about that NDA issue, ever tried contacting them about it? I seriously don't share your impression of them not beeing supportive towards their customers. But I guess that is my subjective point of view. |
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