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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DAK sets itself up for massive losses
Keywords: Free DAK products with little effort (TANSTAAFL)
Message-ID: <6432@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 30 Nov 89 16:15:15 GMT
References: <10790@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <10790@thorin.cs.unc.edu> leech@degas.cs.unc.edu () writes:
>
>    In the Winter '90 DAK catalog, they offer a 12 MHz 286 system with
>40 MB, VGA, mouse, Wordstar, Quattro, and a few other random programs
>for $1999.  This isn't especially interesting; what's interesting is
>that they then spend a page describing "Beat DAK if you can" -
>offering a free unspecified DAK product of $50, $100, or $150 value
>if you can specify an equivalent system from other sources which comes
>in at <$2999, <$2499, or $<1999 respectively.

Well they could be finicky about the "equivalent system", requiring you
to find the exact same unit.

The bundled in software (which probably costs them next to nothing) has
to be figured into your equivalent system, and you'll have to pay for
it (this is what made the old Osborne and Kaypro computers such a good
deal -- they were like buying the software and getting the computer free).

And even if they did agree that your system was equivalent, you might not
agree that the reward had a value (to you) of $50, $100, or $150 -- don't
forget that "value" is "suggested retail price", which *nobody* pays!

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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