Re: Ascend MAX4048 and MAX4060, What do they cost? (fwd)
Jeffrey J. Mountin (sysop@mixcom.com)
Thu, 24 Apr 1997 23:06:05 -0500
At 07:41 AM 4/23/97 -0700, Joe Sasek wrote:
>At 06:50 AM 4/23/97 -0700, MegaZone wrote:
>>Once upon a time David Davies shaped the electrons to say...
>>>He MZ do you guys call the members of the Ascend list ?
>
>The internet is wonderful from this perspective! All we have to do is put
>out the facts and the truth ultimately gets out! We knew the MaxUP was a
>"scam" and in fact asked many ISP's "why" they would go for it? We also
>made the "true digital" modem argument to no avail relative the the DM12's
>being RAM or ROM based and were actually accused of "negative marketing" by
>some so we shut up. Ascend has now alienated thier customer base with this
>56K "upgrade" plan which costs more for someone to upgrade a unit purchased
>before Nov.1 1996 than it costs for a brand new PM3! Anyone who bought
>since Nov 1. gets the priveledge of paying another $12K on top of what they
>already paid. As I say all of the time, our customers are smart enough to
>not be burned! Rule #1 at Livingston is" "existing customers come before
>new customers"!
<sniff> Bait?
OTOH, ROTFLMFHO!!!!
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Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator
jeff@mixcom.net
MIX Communications
Serving the Internet since 1990