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From: tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Color Insert Ads.
Summary: IMPORTANT correction of 1-800 number on ad.
Message-ID: <16032@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 90 19:48:08 GMT
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A few hours ago, I wrote this article and combined in it a reply to another.
I included the 1-800 number from the advertisement stuffed into 50
college newspapers across the US, and made a typo.  I canceled the
original article; this is a reposting with the correct number.
The wrong number belongs to someone else; please don't call it.

In article <26025@boulder.Colorado.EDU> meadb@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Bennett R. Mead) writes:
>In article <30016@nigel.ee.udel.edu> BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>>
>>   I have some major beefs with the color inserts I found in the ISU Daily
>>today The ads were EXACTLY the same as the ads that ran in the newspaper
>>proper last week, with no changes whatsoever.  OK, there was one minor
>>change: they were in color, but this is where the differences end.

>	I completely agree with Marc.  The ads weren't given much consideration
>here.  Wherever the Colorado Daily was distributed there was always a large
>mess of unopened inserts.

Around here, this seems to be standard operating procedure with any sort of
insert in the paper, no matter what it is, so we shouldn't single out
Commodore for this.

>              Next time Comodore makes a color insert they need
>to make the out facing side yell "Notice this!"
I found it somewhat interesting that if it fell to the floor a certain way, 
it said "MIND.  AMIGA."

>                    It looked like most people
>didn't bother to even open it up and look inside before letting it drop to the 
>floor.  Good try, but I think that this wasn't the way to get to the
>brainwashed public.

> [More apologies on how the amiga doesn't initialy seem competetive
>   vs Macs/PCs in the eyes of the ignorant masses]

>On the whole it's a step in the right direction, we're just not there yet.
>			-Bennett   meadb%tramp@boulder.colorado.edu |  | 

It appears that this was a rather widespread campaign, which definitely
makes it a good step towards increasing awareness.  I'm a bit concerned
about what dealers they are going to direct people to here in North
Carolina, though.   (See other postings on that, and don't go to Digitz in
Raleigh under any circumstances, unless its with a bazooka.)

While I'm posting:
in <10385@hubcap.clemson.edu> ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu (douglas m dyer) writes:
>Date: 7 Sep 90 21:07:10 GMT
>Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
>
>Point taken though, interested students do not have an easy a time to look
>into an Amiga.  Does CBM even have a 1-800 number?  Byte (on their issue of
>the 3000) didn't give an 800 number.

The newspaper insert has 800 627 9595 as the number to call to find out where
your local "Campus Authorized Amiga Dealer" is.

[Again: This is a reposting, correcting a wrongly-typed 800 number.
The system here claims to have canceled the incorrect article. -sgt]

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