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From: edwardm@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Edward McClanahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next rumours from MacWeek
Message-ID: <680033@hpcuhc.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Jul 90 00:35:36 GMT
References: <1990Jun28.184153.27766@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Max Tardiveau writes:

> Speaking of rumors and of slow sales, I heard the following :
> Apparently, sales of NeXT are not going well for Businessland, and
> they are lowering their price. A friend of mine contacted
> Businessland recently, and they were ready to give him a special price
> because they were trying to fulfill their quota of *15 machines* for
> the quarter. That's regioanl sales, I assume for the Upper Midwest.

A recent poster reported an announcement by Businessland of a lowering
of their price on "the basic cube" from $10K to $8K.  I would advise your
friend to not let the salesperson pressure him/her into a purchase to
"fill the salesperson's quota"...  I wouldn't expect this new price to
ever go higher.  The drop in price was in direct response to very
competitive price/performance announcements in the workstation AND
pc markets (most notably the SparcStation SLC and the latest high performance
386/486 PCs w/ Windows 3.0 etc...).