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From: protcoop@bnr-public.uucp (Co-op Student)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga marketing
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Date: 24 Jul 89 12:04:58 GMT
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Just to get my 2 cents worth in about Commodore marketing.  I have owned
an Amiga almost since the beginning, and I love the machine.
Unfortunately I do not think that Commodore marketing does it justice.
To date, in the 4 long years that the Amiga has been out, I have only
seen ONE ad promoting the Amiga, and this was an ad in a U.S. newspaper
that a friend of mine brought back from the states (I am in Canada).
Here in Ottawa, there is a dealer who broadcasts his own commercials
about the Amiga, but I do not count those since they are not paid for
by Commodore.  Base on my personal experience, I don't see how anybody
can claim that Commodore is doing anywhere near a respectible job of
marketing the Amiga.  One measly newspaper ad in FOUR YEARS!?!  If the
average person saw the same, then I am very suprized that we have 
reached the 1 million machines that Commodore claims they have sold.
You know, sometimes I wish I had an Amiga Lorraine rather than a 
Commodore Amiga.
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