The sportster modem V.90 upgrade requires windoze AND apparently a credit card. Here I plan to post a detailed list of vendors with whom my colleagues and I have had the pleasure and misfortune to deal. The page is posted in the hope that it will be useful, in response to the severe problems that are faced by those of us who must use mail order to purchase computer parts or systems. Many of us use email and the internet to search for best prices or availability of specific parts. Poorly designed web page order forms are a particular harrassment.
Many web pages appear to use canned form design packages, or are hastily put together.
We cannot deal with these companies, obviously, even if we pay by money order or check. An especially irritating problem is ordering forms on web pages that exclusively allow payment by credit card. This shows poor design, and cuts off the company from those of us who wish to pay by Postal Money Order. It is not exaggeration that at least on of the following has happened in almost every case of searching a companies web pages. The worst gremlin is the company that accepts our order, be it credit card or money order, and does not ship for months.