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| Posted on 04-Jun-2003 08:47 GMT by Ben | 70 comments
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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 65 of 70 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by gz on 06-Jun-2003 12:09 GMT | In reply to Comment 64 (samface):
>>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.
What's wrong with paypal if you wan't support? At least then your'e being honest asking for money, instead of selling you a membership, shirt and rebate, but only delivering a membership in a club of invisibility. Heck what is this club membership anyway!? Where are the special offers and inside information you were supposed to gain from the membership? It seems to me that the membership you paid for is just a buzzword from AI and occasional email advertisements of their !?products!?.
Anyway I was mainly referring to the partypack coupon hassle which cost me 100$ and the only thing I have received to this day is a partypack voucher, which im pretty sure isn't even rebatable as it seems the whole industry has forgotten all about the partypack's and are focusing on the latest coupon hassle.
Surprisingly even all info on the partypack along with the details of the deal have disappeared from the site of AI, like it never had happened. All other exec updates and info are there except for the partypack. Coinsidence? Maybe but not plausable when everything else is in place.
>>How do you know that they did know that the product wasn't going to be released?
It's pretty hard not to know when you're the one developing the product.
>>You know, since they have never said that they were going to do it "in house"
WRONG! os4 WAS at that time an in house development which is also confirmed by mcewen in his exec update.
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"It is an Amiga Inc. port of the OS. You may infer nothing else from this."
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After when os4 failed to materialize as the rumors claimed would happen, did AI announce that they would outsource the project to Hyperion. Untill to that day it had only been publically said that H&P and Hyperion were to create content to os4, NOT the os itself as that project was AI's beef.
>>I really don't know about that NDA issue, ever tried contacting them about it?
Many times but never received a reply.
>>I seriously don't share your impression of them not beeing supportive towards their customers.
Maybe that's coz you've asked them all the "right" questions like "Is there any other way which I can support your company? I've already bought 100 coupons."
Try asking them questions like "Is the partypack still valid and how is the rebate on that arranged with 3rd party resellers?" or "Can I get my money back for the voucher because I'm fed up with it for not being able to use it?" or "Where are the promised t-shirts, when can I expect to have them, what are the resons for this delay?" "Are you working from a garage or is the offices auction just evil rumor spread by MOS fanatics?" |
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