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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« on: August 21, 2012, 05:22:34 PM »
There's someone over on the Vintage Computer Forum who ordered an "Amiga Mini" at the start of the month and hasn't heard a thing back yet, even to confirm whether it shipped or not. Then again, it's not like ridiculous delays aren't SOP for them, so who knows whether this is indicative of their finally having taken the money and run.
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2012, 05:35:27 AM »
"Without even offering any excuses," Barry passes the buck like a pro, blaming his customer base for too many orders (right,) the customer in question for totally probably misreporting the number of calls, maybe, the phone system for probably not taking all the calls that may not have been placed, the mail server for not backing itself up of its own accord before they switched to IMAP, a nameless staffer who gave ambiguously incorrect information about something or other (like, presumably, whether or not the customer had actually placed over 100 calls,) and a few more totally unspecified reasons that are probably even better not-excuses, maybe, you don't know that they aren't! And conveniently enough, nowhere in that list is blame assigned to Barry, so he must not be at fault! And also he'd like you to know that this hardly ever happens, except for all the times when it's happened.

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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2012, 12:00:18 AM »
Quote from: persia;711067
Launching a desktop in the tablet age was never a bright idea.  They chose the wrong market.  RIP Commodore USA.
Alternatively, it may just be that going up against every other established computer manufacturer with middling and badly-executed hardware builds, free-as-in-quality-not-as-in-price software, at luxury prices and with crap support is doomed in any circumstance...
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2013, 05:18:48 AM »
Not with a bang but a whimper.
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2014, 06:58:33 PM »
Well, that's a million times more sensible than anything Barry ever said.
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Re: Commodore USA Alive ?
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2014, 02:15:42 AM »
Quote from: Terminills;764714
Never had this issue personally.   I can't say I agreed with what he was doing however I never had any issues with him personally.
He basically called me worthless as a person for not thinking that his direction was a good one. And lest we forget:
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