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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C= screws customers again! - (was Re: I need info on M G please.)
Message-ID: <2733@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 90 12:44:39 GMT
References: <3986@crash.cts.com|
Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY
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seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes:
| 
|I work at the only Amiga dealership south of San Antonio (Computer-Ease), and
|we have been hit heavy by mailorder houses such as Montgomery Grant.  You're
|not seeing the whole picture, and while I sympathize with you for not having a
|local dealer, alot of the mailorder houses are not on the up and up.
| 
|There has been serial number shaving, European machines being imported and
|converted for use in the US, and other stuff...And don't think this is just
|Commodore.  How many authorized Apple Mac or IBM mailorder houses are there?
| 
|Some of the problem is with buyers as well...we've had several locals purchase
|Amigas mailorder, and then come crying to us when something goes wrong with
|it...and they bought mailorder for one thing, to save a few bucks.  Look what
|it gets them...
| 

I think a good solution would be as someone else has suggested (sorry I forgot
who), that CBM allow mailorder, but the mailorder house has to be a legitimate
dealer with a real local retail outlet, like your dealership. This would be
good for everone.

1> The dealers would be able to sell a larger volume, which
means more bucks for them, and 

2> they would be able to lower their prices 
accordingly, good for local customers. 

3> People without local dealers could mail order from you and that would be 
good for them (and the local dealer). 

{an aside comment to the person who said that mail order 'looks' bad, and
you would never find a major company like Apple or IBM selling mail order:
I just saw an ad in computer shopper selling Sun workstations, does that mean
that Sun is not a major company?}


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