[Coco] torn on getting a coco...

[tonym]

Man, what IS you major malfunction?
A few months back you did the SAME THING to Boisy on the DriveWire...

Dude, it's REALLY simple - if you don't like the price MOVE THE F*** ALONG

Get one on eBay, where it'll be russian roulette on if it even works!

I know *I* wouldn't sell my spare 512K CoCo3, with a 15 year-old RAM upgrade for $90,
and Mark's offering you a CoCo3 that his hands have touched, with a freaking NEW simm-based
512K adapter, for $90, and you're complaining?

I seriously doubt that your bickering whining bitching and moaning is going to cast a different light
on Mark.

Quite the contrary - it's painting a picture of *YOU*. We all KNOW Mark, and most of us have KNOWN
him for over a decade, whereas we don't KNOW you.

At THIS point, I wouldn't sell you a dang CLUE if I was Mark...


Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Robinson deemcr at robinson-west.com
Sent 12/14/2008 9:18:22 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] torn on getting a coco...


On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 19:27 -0600, Mark Marlette wrote:
 First off I would like to thank everyone for the kind words of our 
 business. I can only recall one other unhappy customer in over 10 
 years of business.

 Michael,

 I can see from your 360k disk drive comment that you really have NO 
 idea of what some of the others have already commented on, supply and 
 demand. These drives ARE VERY hard to procure. You can still get them 
 for $49-$125 from other sources. I could give you some links so that 
 you could go tell them their pricing is too high as well. I do have 
 DSDD drives but do not sell them bare anymore. You can buy a disk 
 drive system which has the SSDD drive upgraded to DSDD. Save us both 
 some time, these are heavy, shipping would be more than $20 as I had 
 to pay to have the drives shipped in and then made to be function(if 
 needed), so we don't want to repeat this thread again.......

 I could have not included the service fee of $10 or 12 minutes to 
 install and test the 512k. Most customers see the value. I wouldn't 
 expect your time to be free, nor should you.

 I already explained the $20 fee for double shipping. Go see what it 
 costs to have over 1200lbs of CoCo items shipped to a dock via 
 freight lines. Then add the cost of current shipping rates. All items 
 indicated on the web page + S/H. S=Shipping, H=Handling(PayPal fee). 
 Break all of this down in the S/H and it is hardly out of line.

 This would be a good opportunity for you to start your CoCo5 project. 
 Please keep us posted on your progress.

 Regards,

 Mark
 Cloud-9

I am not asking you for a 360k drive Mark. I've already looked 
into it myself and it is nonsense to spend over $200 for a disk 
drive IMO. A 1.44 meg floppy drive on the other hand can probably 
be shipped and sold for around $20. Too bad there's no simple way 
to use a 1.44 meg drive. Worse than the inability to use a 1.44 meg
drive, the media is getting just as hard to come by. That leaves
the SVD disk drive, but it doesn't have 360k of memory so it can't
replace a 360k floppy drive.

I suppose between supply and demand issues and weight, I shouldn't
be surprised that 360k drives cost so much. For $100+, it makes
more sense to upgrade the plans for the semi virtual diskette drive
than anything else. Cloud-9 should recognize the difference between
what people want to pay for a disk drive and what disk drives of this
era cost. It should also be aware of the media shortage issue. With
that in mind, I suggest you find another medium to distribute software
on. It was a mistake to try a drivewire disk, but I didn't know I 
could get a rom pak instead so I didn't ask for one up front. I didn't
know that Cloud-9 carries joysticks either when I made the comment
that it doesn't. Last time I checked the web site, there was no
indication that Cloud-9 carries additional products.

Wanna hurt your business Mark? Keep this up. I may have complained
when I shouldn't have this round and before, but it doesn't have to
go on like this unless you continue to hold a grudge. I will keep
countering you for a while at least because I am sick of your tone.


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