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Date: Sun 31-Oct-1989 18:37:23 From: Unknown Subject: Next "Higher Education" prices Next lists the higher education price to be $6500 for the basic configuration system. Have any of you actually purchased your machine at that price? I would be very interested to kow *where*. We can get it at the very "special" price of $7350 at the university computer store which leads me to conclude that the computer store is topping it off with a 10% additional charge, not including sales tax 5%. This is surprising since Next also gives the list price (10k) and that IS exactly what you would pay if you go to Businessland (why isn't Businessland adding a 10-15% surchage too?). So it looks to me like the student price is 15% less than the regular price, not 30%. Hardly a big saving! >From: kus3@tank.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto)
Date: Sun 01-Nov-1989 05:22:41 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Next "Higher Education" prices >From article <15526@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, by jnicolas@Athena.MIT.EDU (Julien J Nicolas): >Next lists the higher education price to be $6500 for the basic >configuration system. Have any of you actually purchased your machine at >that price? I would be very interested to kow *where*. We can get it at >the very "special" price of $7350 at the university computer store which >leads me to conclude that the computer store is topping it off with a >10% additional charge, not including sales tax 5%. This is surprising >since Next also gives the list price (10k) and that IS exactly what you >would pay if you go to Businessland (why isn't Businessland adding a >10-15% surchage too?). So it looks to me like the student price is 15% >less than the regular price, not 30%. Hardly a big saving! Well, I think most campus stores sell machines at 10-15% over cost to cover the cost of operating other areas of computing on campus instead of begging the adminstrators for more money for running so deep in the red. Call it the creative finacing of university computing. Bob >From: massimo@jungfrau.UUCP (Massimo Arnoldi)
Date: Sun 01-Nov-1989 18:19:03 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Next "Higher Education" prices I have long contended that NeXT blundered in announcing prices. The referenced posting shows some effects of that blunder: jnicolas@Athena.MIT.EDU (Julien J Nicolas) writes... >Next lists the higher education price to be $6500 for the basic >configuration system. Have any of you actually purchased your machine at >that price? I would be very interested to kow *where*. We can get it at >the very "special" price of $7350 at the university computer store which >leads me to conclude that the computer store is topping it off with a >10% additional charge, not including sales tax 5%. For some reason NeXT chose to announce the price at which it was selling to universities (the "wholesale" price). It *is* fair for a university to add a markup although the amount might be disputed. But by announcing the price as they did, NeXT created an expectation that the end-user could purchase at that price. Not good. > This is surprising >since Next also gives the list price (10k) and that IS exactly what you >would pay if you go to Businessland (why isn't Businessland adding a >10-15% surchage too?). Because 10k$ *is* the list price and they already gotten their markup (and it's probably not just 10-15%). Notice that NeXT didn't announce the price at which they were selling to Businessland. > So it looks to me like the student price is 15% >less than the regular price, not 30%. Hardly a big saving! Your posting was unclear about whether $7,350 includes sales tax. Looks like it does but I'll make the weaker (for me) assumption that it does not. Then, ignoring the state sales tax that you would also pay if purchased from Businessland, the student price at your school appears to be 26.5% less than list price instead of 35%. That's a saving of $2,650 and seems pretty big to me. Not as big as $3,500 of course. Dennis Nichols 608-262-1936 Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Academic Computing Center nichols@macc.wisc.edu 1210 West Dayton Street Madison, Wisconsin 53706 nichols@wiscmacc.bitnet >From: jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille)
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