Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!xicom!alex
From: alex@xicom.UUCP (Alex Laney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fat Agnus
Summary: There was a way to upgrade to A2000
Message-ID: <125@xicom.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 89 13:25:35 GMT
References: <17836@louie.udel.EDU> <935@dialog.UUCP> <7154@cbmvax.UUCP> <751@censor.UUCP>
Organization: XICOM Ottawa,Ont. Canada
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In article <751@censor.UUCP>, hugh@censor.UUCP (Hugh D. Gamble) writes:
> In article <685@bnr-fos.UUCP>, protcoop@bnr-public.uucp (Co-op Student) writes:
> ] he was talking about the A1000 -> A2000 upgrade that this 'ghost'
> ] mailing was concerning just that.  So where is (was) my mailing?
> 
> As you guessed, the offer was not available in Canada.  The different
> C= operating companies make a lot of their own decisions & that was
> one of them.

What I did, and I don't know how many Canadians did, was bring the serial
number and receipt to a U.S. dealer (for the A1000), buy the A2000 for
$1000, and buy back the A1000 for $300, then sell the A1000 back in Canada.
In my case, I had the dealer ship me the A2000. I also bought a hard disk
from them to sweeten their end. But I bought my A2090 in Canada. I believe
a lot of phone/mail order houses said they would do the same for me, but I
went with a dealer so that they would check out my system before shipping.
The phone/mail order houses I think didn't care what country you were from.
(But that's only a rumour)

What was nice also was that, at the time, the Canadian dealers were selling
European A2000's and the U.S. dealers weren't.

-- 
Alex Laney, Xicom Technologies Corp., Ottawa, Canada (613) 728-9099
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"You save time, increase the amount of work done and it is easy."