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From: phil@mips.COM (Phil Arellano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: new wordstar 5.5 $125 or offer
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Date: 9 Jul 90 21:59:40 GMT
References: <30096@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
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In article <30096@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v118hj3d@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>brand spanking new wordstar 5.5 with all the standard goodies it comes with...
>
>haven't sent the registration in yet... opened the box, but everything's here,
>manuals, ten 3.5" disks...
>
>sticking my finger in random pages in computer shopper i see prices ranging
>from $160 to $230.  i'll take $125, u pay ship.  or, if yer too cheap, make
>me an offer.
>
>remember, BRAND NEW.  OPENED, UNUSED.  no rapists please.

Access Computer Technologies in Santa Clara, CA has been advertising
Wordstar 6.0 for $99.  I went to check it out and discovered that the 3.5"
distribution was marked $69.  At the counter the sales guy said "Oh, that's
the wrong price.  It's $50 now!"  They had several more boxes on the shelf.

	phil


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