Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!warpdrive!stewartw
From: stewartw@warpdrive.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga marketing
Message-ID: <6672@warpdrive.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 89 21:07:23 GMT
References: <8907220439.AA05485@jade.berkeley.edu> <783@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <783@bnr-fos.UUCP> protcoop@bnr-public.UUCP (Co-op Student) writes:
>Just to get my 2 cents worth in about Commodore marketing.  I have owned
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     Sometimes you get what you pay for!

>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.  

    Your previous postings all came from Acadia University which is
in the town of Wolfville, Nova Scotia.  I really doubt that Wolfville
could be considered a prime marketing target for them.  You now live
in Ottawa.  I have seen several ads by Commodore in the Ottawa Citizen
(the largest circulated daily in Ottawa) including a full page one at
the end of a section IN COLOUR.  The ad boasted about using Amigas for
desktop video ... very professional.

>Base on my personal experience, I don't see how anybody

    Perhaps your base for personal experiences isn't in line with
Commodores marketing plans.  I'm not trying to flame you, or the
maritimes, but publishing facts which simply aren't true doesn't do
anyone any good.

  Stewart
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