Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!wyse!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: info on cost of Amiga 3000 and educational discount Message-ID: <1990Oct1.081257.9102@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 1 Oct 90 08:12:57 GMT References: <60277@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <41@atacama.cs.utexas.edu> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 26 garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) writes: > >From the "Make Up Your Own Mind. Amiga" brochure: > >Amiga 3000/25Mhz-100MB HD System: list: $5798, Education: $3899 > 25 50 4798, 3039 > 16 50 4098, 2599 Maybe poverty just gives me a keener grasp of reality, but look at the list prices for the 25/50 and 25/100 systems; now take a delta. I'd expect to get at least 250, and preferably 300, more megabytes of disk for $1000 list, since I can just buy the 25/50 system and go out and buy $1000 worth of second drive and have a much better system in terms of head contention, etc. That 50 megabytes is really cheap to add, a couple more heads and platters, you already have most of the stuff in the disk box, so it should be much less than 1/6 the price of going out and buying a 300 megabyte drive, not equal to it. I don't (much) mind a bit of profit built in for all concerned, but pricing policies that are obvious rip-offs just send customers away angry, and I have an extremely short fuse. Smarten up, Commodore. Kent, the man from xanth.