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From: easu021@orion.oac.uci.edu (Jason Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dealers
Keywords: Amiga policy - Stinks!!
Message-ID: <3781@orion.cf.uci.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 89 01:27:45 GMT
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Reply-To: easu021@orion.oac.uci.edu (Jason Goldberg)
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I can't confirm or deny your reports about dealers being forced to make
specific orders in order to retain their dealership.  However, I can tell you
that it is not a policy of CBM directly.  If it is true, then it has been
instegated (sp?) by individual District Sales Managers and not by CBM the
company.  I know that the West Coast District Sales office does not have
any type of quota system in effect.  The only thing they have is a minimun
order to start as an Amiga dealer.
 
A new chain of stores has opened on the west coast called ComputerCity
SuperStore.  It is a joint venture of Inacomp and Mitsubishi.  The store
that just opened in Garden Grove is being heavly supported by CBM.  
Currently CBM has two full time people in the store helping it get its
Amiga sales off the ground.  They store has 8 A500, 1 2000HD, 2 2500
on the floor for demos, a $40,000 floor desplay complete with a toy
Amiga slide for the kiddies.  The great part of this idea is that 
ComputerCity carry every Printer/Monitor/ect... available.  Including
a large assortment of MACS, PC's, SUN's, SPARC's, ect... each set up
to demo a specific application ie "DeskTop Presentation".  The store
includes a seminar auditorium complete with two walls of 8 30" monitors
and a projection RGB monitor, all pluged into Amigas!  I may become
a full time employee of ComputerCity based on how impressed I was in
my first visits!

-Jason-