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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fred Fish on CDROM....now being advertised
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Date: 17 Sep 90 20:45:26 GMT
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bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) writes:


>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.

Ben, you just said that if they aren't selling it then they are selling it.

There is nothing wrong with giving something away free, but not selling it
separately. How does that affect profitability? The only way they would
be guilty of trying to make a profit off of the disk would be if they said
"NEW! Fred Fish disk.....only $1000" or some other outrageous price. Giving
it away free is not making a profit. Call them up and ask if they will
sell you their drive cheaper if you don't want the fish disk, I don't think
they will. However, if they say "sure. we'll knock off $100" then you can
say they are trying to make a profit off of the fish disk. Maybe.



 

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