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Date: Sun 03-Dec-1989 22:20:10 From: Unknown Subject: Re: NeXT pricing <1989Dec1.232137.11584@ddsw1.MCS.COM> In article <1989Dec1.232137.11584@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) says: > >One of the things that REALLY pisses off a dealer is when the local college >sells 3,000 machines BELOW THE DEALER'S COST to students -- and the dealer >gets stuck supporting those units. Some of those, inevitably, find their >way into the grey market and outside of the university. > My guess is that NeXT sells the machine for about $6500. If the schools want to resell them for around $7000, while BLand wants $10,500, that's BLand's problem. Also, in this case, BusinessLand *appoached* NeXT and more or less insisted that they be allowed to sell machines, so they are hardly in a position to complain about deals with University dealers that were in already in place. Thirdly, this is a case where dealers should not fight over a bigger piece of the pie. Instead, they should support policies that make the pie bigger. >From: izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
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