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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (33966)	10/29/1997 1:05:00 PM
From: Triluminary	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 58324

Allen, Off thread (ETarde My $0.02 cents) More likely than not the problem lies with the very foundation of how ETarde works and not with the networks. I have never had an account with them and here is why. When ETarde first made its debut I began looking into them as a possible online broker. I began to question them about how their service worked. Did they have a computer matching up the orders or did they just email the online inputs to their brokers who in turn made the orders or was it something else? No one at ETarde could answer my question. It was a very basic question. ETarde could not answer it. So I figured if their reps didn't know how their system worked who did? A few months after that I saw a post on the IOMG thread and decided to give them one more chance. That's when I stumbled across something on one of ETarde's demo pages (it has since been removed) and posted this... techstocks.com I've heard that since then they've made improvements, but I've given them all the chances they will get. E*Tarde will never get my business. Regards, mark_b

To: Cogito who wrote (33966)	10/29/1997 2:01:00 PM
From: Spank	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

*OT Allen, I think what was most upsetting about the ETrade stuff was that they LIED about what the problems were. Tell me, who is responsible for a customer being told that they don't have the proper access and that they should start an account to get such access when the real problem is that the system couldn't handle the load. Oh yeah, and who says that you are the one to say that Francis doesn't know anything about networking? ETrade should own up to having a system that can't handle high loads, warn everyone well ahead of time, and be honest about the problems. To paraphrase: since you don't know the first thing about good customer relations, perhaps you should refrain from flaming Francis. Oh yeah #2, why lie and apologize when you are obviously not sorry? You hit one of my buttons. patpat -Spank