Will Honea wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

MB> Hmmm... I have not received any "special edition."  I 
MB> wonder if my DevCon subscription got messed up again.

 WH> You must be in a crack in the system, somehow.  I got the
 WH> Special Edition and a letter offering me a 5 for 4 deal if I
 WH> renewed by Mar 8.  Called to renew and they told me I would
 WH> get 6 sets: a second copy of Devcon 9 + the SE disks
 WH> (because the 'system' didn't know how to skip shipping the
 WH> current set on a renewal) then Vols 10 - 14.  If thta's the
 WH> case for enryone, it means that either one waits to renew
 WH> until the next volume after expiration ships or a duplicate
 WH> of the last volume is shipped.  Doesn't make a lot of sense
 WH> to me, but the gal taking the order told me to just give the
 WH> duplicate to someone else.  

To say that my subscription is messed up is an understatement.  I sent them
a log of my telephone conversations, including names, at their request.

I was also told that there had been a months-long delay in shipping DDK 3
because the disk pressing contractor had quality problems.  However, I had
already received DDK 3 on the supposedly bad disk.  When I called to
complain about not getting DevCon 9 Special Edition, they instead sent a
DDK 3 disk.

I am getting really fed up with these DevCon "fulfillment" contractors.

 WH> If you have the problems you had last time your subscription
 WH> ran out, I can send you the SE disks - one is just a copy of
 WH> fixpak 17, the other 2 are replacements for disc 3 & 4.

I appreciate the offer, but I have been promised the disks through channels.
 
-- Mike


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