Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!iuvax!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixa.cc.columbia.edu!cmm1 From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: The TT is finally there! Keywords: TT Message-ID: <1990Sep21.165705.20285@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 21 Sep 90 16:57:05 GMT References: <1898@ztivax.UUCP> <1990Sep12.190508.3153@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Sep13.172935.1342@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1990Sep13.185245.15406@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <283@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> Sender: news@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Daily News) Reply-To: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 24 [all bitching about difference in German and US pricing deleted] Listen, it is obvious that for whatever reason the computer companies have decided (or were forced due to regulations) to price their systems differently in Europe and the US. Until that changes, Atari will have a nice thriving market in the European marketplace. Great, that is fine. However, here in the US the manufacturers are more competetive in price and those companies that boast about "power without the price" but who do not deliver will lose (or never find) any market share. Maybe someday, the United States of Europe will adopt more fair trade practices and dispense with all the VAT and regulatory bullsh*t so that you fellows can buy a computer a the same reasonable cost that we can. Cheers, Chris ------------------------------+--------------------------- Chris Mauritz |D{r det finns en |l, finns cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu |det en plan! (c)All rights reserved. | Send flames to /dev/null | ------------------------------+---------------------------