[BBLISA] used Sun buyers?

[Patrick Paul]

Carl Alexander wrote:
>>ELI is still in business? Last I looked they were shut down. Or maybe
>>that's just the storefront operation?
> 
> 
> Sometime in the late 1990s ELI went from begnignly ignoring
> walk-in customers on the used equipment side of the store to
> being actively unpleasant to what they clearly thought of as
> those scuzzy nerds distracting them from their high volume
> corporate sales.  

Isn't that spelled 'SCSI nerds'?

(I'd have thought they'd realize those
> corporate sales are coming from people who were walk-ins five or
> ten years earlier, but I guess not.  I heard several stories from
> undergraduates who had gone there to see the legendary nirvana of
> computer junk and left, never to return, feeling they'd been
> treated with active hostility.)  Closing the storefront operation
> was an obvious natural progression from this.
> 
> I stopped doing business with them for two or three years, then
> decided to give them another try a couple of years ago when I
> needed a third quote on some Cisco gear.  They turned out to be
> the low bidder, so I bought the gear from them --- and then spent
> several weeks going back and forth with them before I finally got
> actually _working_ equipment. I haven't done any business with
> them since.
> 
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