[Imc-tech] Re: broken MD

[Paul Riismandel]

Well, I'm not sure of tech's ability to handle the cost difference between 
a model with mic input and the one we've got.  If we've got the funds we 
can only authorize at our next meeting next Wed.  In general I don't think 
Tech should be covering equipment replacement -- I'd prefer the funds be 
used for maintenance and fixing things due to wear and tear.

Assuming that a suitable model is available at Best Buy I think it's a fine 
plan for Cope to make the trade, but we'll have to figure out how the 
difference will be made up, still.  The difference will be $25 - $50.  So, 
if it doesn't hurt the chance for a refund/exchange, we might wait until 
both radio news and tech have met.

The other option is to take a refund from Best Buy and the IMC can order 
something on the web where we have more choices available to us-- we might 
be able to find something suitable for $150 or less.

Thanks for working with us, Cope, while we fumble about.

--Paul

At 10:23 AM 4/25/2002 -0500, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
>Hi Cope,
>
>This sounds like a good solution to me.  Until last night I didn't realize
>they made MD recorders without mic inputs.  Since the MD is new, I think
>making the trade and buying what we need makes a lot of sense.  Since we
>don't have a policy in place yet, I really appreciate that you've been
>working with us on this.
>
>I'm not empowered to speak on behalf of tech (being only tagentially
>involved), but this sound like exactly the sort of collaborative solution
>we'd like to implement in the future.  Paul, how do you want to handle
>this?  Should Cope make the trade?  Does tech want to handle covering any
>costs above the trade-in value (perhaps with Radio-news)?  I'd like to get
>a working MD into the IMC as soon as possible since we've been pretty
>tight with one down.
>
>--Sascha
>
>On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Cope Cumpston wrote:
>
> > Hi Paul (I'm copying Sascha since my early correspondence was with him)
> >
> > The MD we offered was one Walter had bought that we realized didn't have
> > features we wanted -- I hadn't used it  so I didn't even know about the 
> line in
> > issue.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure we can return that machine for credit -- it was around 
> $150 --
> > which means that we would then give the IMC something it could use. If 
> you want
> > to buy a new MD we can probably do that in trade at Best Buy, where 
> Walter got
> > the other one --
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Copenhaver Cumpston
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> > University of Illinois Press
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> >
> >