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Date: Sun 01-Nov-1989 02:24:12 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Getting machines out of US In article <230@ncc1701.UUCP> ncc1701!space@nadia.UUCP (Lars Soltau) writes: >I am fully aware of the problems. That's the price you pay for being up to >date. All I ask for is the choice. Getting a Cube with less than perfect >service or not getting one at all. I don't know what the deal is for Germany, but my Japanese sources tell me that NeXT's east Asia distributer Canon will be charging a hefty mark up over the prices offered in the US, particularly if you can buy one at the developer (up to 5 units) or academic price. I don't know if there are separate prices for higher education, and commercial sales there. (Anyone in Japan reading this group care to comment?). In these cases, it might actually cheaper to hop on the plane and come to the US, pick up a unit and return home. That may cost additional $1000 perhaps, but it might pay. If you are THAT anxious to get one, why not do that? Has anyone, living outside of the US, actually done this? I am curious to know if there's any export restrictions to do this as an INDIVIDUAL, casually. Can you just show up at the international terminal and check in NeXT boxes as your luggage to take home? A lot of Apple MacII purchasers do that in Japan (They may not come here solely to buy MacIIs.), because Apple Japan is taking advantages of Japanese distribution system and cranking up prices. A lawsuit was filed recently by an independant importer of Macs suing Apple Japan of applying pressures and preventing them from operating importing businesses. Perhaps, this doesn't happen in Germany.? It's ironic that the US company with unique products to sell to Japan engages in tactics that have made Japanese non-tariff barriers famous. Izumi Ohzawa (izumi@violet.berkeley.edu) >From: ed@uunet!dtgcube (Edward Jung)
Date: Sun 03-Nov-1989 00:04:39 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Getting machines out of US In article <1989Nov1.022412.23316@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes: >I don't know what the deal is for Germany, but my Japanese sources >tell me that NeXT's east Asia distributer Canon will be charging a >hefty mark up over the prices offered in the US, particularly if >you can buy one at the developer (up to 5 units) or academic price. >I don't know if there are separate prices for higher education, and >commercial sales there. (Anyone in Japan reading this group care >to comment?). Yes, but at least there IS a Japanese distributor. >In these cases, it might actually cheaper to hop on the plane >and come to the US, pick up a unit and return home. That may cost >additional $1000 perhaps, but it might pay. If you are THAT anxious >to get one, why not do that? I've thought of that, too. There are two main reasons against it: 1.) How do I get a NeXT at academic prices in the US if I'm only registered at a foreign university? The BusinessLand prices are somewhat beyond my reach. 2.) >Has anyone, living outside of the US, actually done this? >I am curious to know if there's any export restrictions to do this >as an INDIVIDUAL, casually. Can you just show up at the international >terminal and check in NeXT boxes as your luggage to take home? What about the export restrictions. If anyone out there has any experiences with this, you can earn my everlasting gratitude by telling me how you did it. > >Izumi Ohzawa (izumi@violet.berkeley.edu) > Thnx for your interest.
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