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From: cdouty@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Christopher Douty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT price on campus
Message-ID: <3379@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 2 Dec 89 22:29:58 GMT
References: <1989Nov29.230650.3206@eng.umd.edu>
Reply-To: cdouty@jarthur.UUCP (Christopher Douty)
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Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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In article <1989Nov29.230650.3206@eng.umd.edu> cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) writes:
>The Price of the NeXT cube with basic configuration of:

>	Total Price$ = $6982

>Is this my misunderstanding, or the shop is charging some *extra* for 
>themselves?

>Chun
>cyliao@wam.umd.edu

	Yes, the college store is charging some *extra* for themselves.  The
contract NeXT has with all the colleges it deals with allows them to charge
extra fees to cover internal cost and whatever else they want.  Where do you
think the shop staff's salaries come from.  I'm sure that similar provisions
exist in the contracts other computer manufacturers have with colleges but
we don't know at what price those companies are selling to the schools.
Don't complain too much, some places (like Stanford) have _really_ high
markups. #8^)

				Christopher Douty       
			 cdouty@jarthur.claremont.edu

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