Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!rpi!uupsi!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AmigaVision a $150 (Yech) Summary: serious... but not so serious pricing idea Message-ID: Date: 25 Aug 90 04:54:55 GMT References: <1336@winnie.fit.edu> <20017@well.sf.ca.us> Organization: Drew University/NJIN Lines: 30 (This is supposed to be only 1/2 serious) I think AmigaVision is priced wrong also, but I disagree with the people who have posted so far. People should not complain about $150. It will not "scare people away" from the Amiga because of it's price. Since they are getting it with a system it is free. People that already own Amigas should be able to get it through user groups with some kind of a discount. For example, $50 or $30. (I think C-A is doing something like that). So, how much should the price be? One million dollars. That's right. One million. Nobody would have to pay it, they could get it through user groups for $30-$50. Stores could stock it, and if they sold one copy it would make for one happy commission-based salesfrob. Stores could even discount it. Imagine the advertisement: "AmigaVision! 99% off!" And what about the C-A marketing people? Well, since it's included free with every purchase of an Amiga, they could advertise that buying an Amiga 3000 is an $1,003,900 value... but they're "giving it away" for less than $4,000. Imagine that. Be the first person on the block to own a > $1,000,000 computer. -Tom Giggle giggle meep!