Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!alias!kpicott%alias
From: kpicott%alias@csri.utoronto.ca (Socrates)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Commercials
Message-ID: <582@alias.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 89 13:48:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: alias.582
References: <4770@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <70.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Reply-To: kpicott%alias@csri.utoronto.ca (Socrates)
Organization: Alias Research Inc.
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In article <70.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin) writes:
>In article <4770@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Donald R Lloyd writes:
>>      Speaking of Computerland:  If seven percent of the computerland stores
>> carry a product line, the entire chain HAS to pick up that line.  Right now,
>> Ami is in about five percent of the CLand stores.   Everybody go home and call
>> your local ComputerLand(s); "Do you carry the Amiga?  No? Why not?"
>> We only need another 2% to get into the entire %100!!
>Yes, but do we want it?  I bought my Amiga from a local ComputerLand.  They
>were the most apathetic dealership I've ever seen.  I'm GLAD they aren't an
>Amiga dealership any more, even though it means that there are only two
>dealers within 20 miles, neither of them great.
>
Not to mention the fact that Computerland is staffed mainly by sales
creatures.  Commodore would do well to *not* be carried by them.  I was out
helping my Uncle select a computer last month (couldn't sell him on the Ami -
no dealers in his area), and we happened into the local Computerland in
Detroit.  The sales (ahem) man that served us seemed to think that IBM was
the leader in technology and that the AppleIIgs was the ultimate computer
for graphics (even though he had no color monitors!).  When I asked him
about the Amiga he referred me to Toys-R-Us (no kidding), which is about the
time I beat a hasty retreat.

Personally I would never buy, or recommend to buy a computer from a person
who was not technically knowledgable.  The place I go to won't even hesitate
to recommend other stores who have better quality/less expensive equipment.
That's the attitude of someone who wants to help you in the long run instead
of forcing the quick sale.