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From: urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CBM EDUCATIONAL DISCOUNT FRIEND OR FOE?
Keywords: educational,cbm,amiga,discount
Message-ID: <1990Mar27.030125.26077@uncecs.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 90 03:01:25 GMT
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To add fuel to this particular fire.
Suppose that I buy a modest system e.g. A2000HD on the educational
discount plan, and then two/three months later want to expand when
I have again scraped together some money.
WHOOPS  the component discount period is no more
I either go mail order (if such is still possible for C= products)
or I go third party, or I defer expansion till the next big step
OR I completely defer buying into the A2000HD for now and/or perhaps
wind up buying something else in six months.
  
So I really fail to see C=s reasoning behind cutting off the component
discounts to students/faculty/staff. That is I can not see how this
plan works to maximize C= profits, or build user loyalty.
  
[Ps the situation I described above does not actually apply to me
and should have been written in the third person hypothetical
(a student)... ]