Any BIO-RAD email, gopher, or WWW address?

[U12201 at uicvm.uic.edu]

In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950718161440.25137E-100000 at verdi>, hroychow at NMSU.EDU (Hiranya Roychowdhury) says:
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>On Tue, 18 Jul 1995, Tracy Aquilla wrote:
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>> I've just had a GREAT time trying to extract info from Bio-Rad's tech.
>> support. |-{ Basically, first you sit on hold for about twenty minutes, then
>> you usually get a tech. rep. with very limited knowledge who often can't or
>> won't help. My attempts to contact their sales rep. have been equally
>> frustrating. This is typical of most big companies. When I complained to the
>> tech. rep. about this today, he replied that I was just lucky I wasn't
>> dealing with Microsoft!! NOT quite the apology I wanted. Although it may not
>> help me much at this point, I was wondering if anyone knows of another way
>> for me to reach the folks at Bio-Rad besides the phone, which clearly isn't
>> working for me. If so, please post here or email directly to me. Thanks.
>> Stay tuned for more on Bio-Rad tech. serv. If I don't get some satisfaction
>> very soon I'll post the details...
>>     tracy
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>I have had very similar experience more than once. I wonder why a company
>of BioRad's repute would man their 'Technical Support' phone lines with
>people that obviously lack the minimum knowledge in the physical sciences.
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