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Robyn,
Compare the costs:
Telescan gives all that your gettting plus unlimited stocks, futures,
mutual funds, options, and anything else you can imagine for $29/mo. Add
that all up with Dial Data and you come to close if not over $100/mo. To
me, this slightly more expensive. And if I'm remebering correctly with Dial
Data (prior 1997) there's hidden costs.
All data except EOD futures and options has had acceptable quality from
Telescan including indicators and mutual funds. For anything but options
and futures it's a good deal. It would be an even better deal if they
increased the quality (even slightly) of their futures data.
Good Customer Serivce means not being put on hold for 30 minutes and then
being disconnected which routinely happened to me with Dial Data. It's
good to see they are making inroads.
Brian.
-----Original Message-----
From: greene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [SMTP:greene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 4:36 PM
To: bmassey@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: 'dcarder'; andrew@xxxxxxxxx; Omega List; RealTraders Discussion Group;
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Subject: Re: End of Day Data Vendors
> Dial Data is way more expensive (when last I looked which was a year or
so
> ago.) and customer service is nonexistent!
I disagree. I get all mutual funds and indicators/indices for $20/month.
Not
bad (for my needs).
As for service - I haven't needed it often - but when I did - it was good
(I
was setting up symbols for downloading with my ancient DOS Downloader - and
the
service rep spent time with his supervisor - who was the only person there
who
remembered the DOS Downloader <g> - to help me set things up properly).
FWIW - I had used DialData before - in 1994-95 - to help a friend beta test
a
program he wrote. And it was horrible then. I noticed a big change
between
1994-95 and late 1997. Robyn
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