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From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
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Subject: Re: The Price Wars Cometh? (was: Re University price differences)
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Date: 29 Sep 90 15:31:18 GMT
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In <428@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:

>Yes, but, in a surprise move, they have just dropped the price
>another $100 to $3349---before even selling any! (Yeah, bookstore!)
>This is in line with other University prices. (Thanks, whoever is responsible.)

Thank the school for agreeing to buy more NeXT's, that's what it takes
to lower the price.

>Still, this could backfire on them, by saturating their market for
>the forthcoming Mac SLC with these grossly outdated Mac Plus's---thus
>tying them to support for an outdated line (or screwing their customers...)

Apple has been quite active in screwing it's customers.  Just look at
the whole Apple II line.  Without that line, Mac wouldn't exist, and
it sure wouldn't be as good as it is today without Apple II revenue
being turned into Mac R&D.  And what do they do?  They sit on their
asses and WON'T upgrade a system that could be easily upgradeable to
be an a very powerful home/education/small business machine.  If there
is anybody I trust in being able to screw it's customers, Apple has my
vote!

>>Is it possible?  If so, does any school have a lower price than
>>Stanford?

>Record low is U of Arizona, at $2995, I hear. Hey--its not too far...:-)

That's the lowest it'll go.  When I was talking to the NeXT rep, he
had a price sheet with him.  According to what types of deal the
school makes, ie: how many it signs up to purchase, the NeXT has a few
different pricing structures.

There is of course retail (ick!).  Then there is the basic school
pricing.  For a color cube, you saved about 21%.  I think that the
slab runs at $3995 for the basic education price.  There are two other
middle pricing realms (if I recall correctly), and finally the
super-duper bonus price!  That's what the $2995 price comes from.  We
here at Purdue will get that price also if a freshman engineering lab
goes NeXT.  That represents a 40% price drop on the slab, and for the
color cube, I believe the price drop was about %35 ($9100 for cube/
monochrome monitor/dimension/color monitor)

-k