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From: BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fred Fish on CDROM....now being advertised
Message-ID: <12695@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 12 Sep 90 17:51:43 GMT
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In article <2072@nyx.UUCP>, bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) writes:
> In article <12542@wehi.dn.mu.oz> BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes:
>>As far as I am concerned, it seems that the price for the drive is so
>>reasonable that the CD is being included as an incentive to buy, and not
>>being sold for profit. I have no problems with this release.
> 
> The key, in my understanding, to whether they could be considered to be 
> selling it for profit or not is whether it is available from them separately.
> It is like the sweepstakes laws - you can't make someone buy anything to 
> enter a sweepstakes, so you always have to provide an address they can write
> to or something which will get them the entry form without buying the whatever
> it is.  They may put it in microscopic print but it has to be there someplace.
> Same deal with Xetec - they may not be advertising the availability of the
> Fish disk separately (understandable considering the small number of Amiga
> CD ROM systems out so far) but if they are not offering it separately at all
> (for "reasonable cost of duplication" etc.) it is the same as selling it.
> 
> Question: it is my understanding that these systems are sold "complete", 
> as in packaged with a SCSI interface.  I don't suppose Xetec sells them
> without an interface?  

Hmmm. You have definately hit the nail on the head there. I suspect that to
conform to my distibution conditions, that would have to be the case.
Can someone post the Xetec address/email/snail/fax number?

May as well get the ball rolling. Hang in there folks, we're in for a 
rough ride, but were gonna all get a CD out of this:-)

Regards Alan