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From: blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Full Impact 2.0 Availability, or lack thereof
Keywords: spreadsheet applications
Message-ID: <445@6sceng.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 90 05:50:39 GMT
References: <484@mstr.hgc.edu>
Organization: Six Sigma CASE, Inc.
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In article <484@mstr.hgc.edu> rhb@mstr.hgc.edu (Roger H. Brown) writes:
|I just read a two page article in an Ashton-Tate newsletter entitled
				      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|"New! - Full Impact 2.0, Unprecedented Power for Full Impact 1.1 and
|Excel Users."   Many impressive enhancements were described and the
|last paragraph said
|	"Full Impact 2.0 is available for a suggested retail price
			 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
|	 of $295 through the Ashton-Tate authorized reseller network.
|	  ....
|	 Upgrades from previous versions of Full Impact are available
							^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|	 for $50 by calling A-T Customer Service at 800-227-4866."
|
|so, I called the Customer Service number to order my upgrade from 1.1
|to 2.0 but alas Full Impact 2.0 isn't available yet.

Does this sound like blatant false advertising to anybody else?  In
their own newsletter, Ashton-Tate advertises Full Impact 2.0 as
"is available" (not "will be available") and that upgrades "are available",
when in fact neither is true.

Someone convince me this isn't really slimy.
-- 
Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP