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From: peterd@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Buying direct from NeXT (was: Re: SUMMARY: Why the big price jump?)
Summary: Sorry to rain on your parade...
Message-ID: <2307@opus.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 28 Sep 90 01:45:05 GMT
References: <1990Sep23.065958.1849@wam.umd.edu> <2789@unccvax.uncc.edu> <25785@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <25785@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>, bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken) writes:
> In article <2789@unccvax.uncc.edu> cbenda@unccvax.uncc.edu (carl m benda) writes:
> 
> >Why purchase the pizza box from your University when you can get it
> >through a direct purchase from NeXT at the student discount.   I 
> >understand that the basic 105 Meg box is 2995 direct from NeXT.
>  
> >This way you can deal directly with NeXT professionals instead of 
> >college Bookstore types.
> 
> And maybe avoid paying sales tax!?


Errr, reality check, guys. I saw this one go around a
while ago (maybe last summer??) so I mentioned it to the
NeXT East Coast Sales director. I actually said something
like "What!?!? You made us negotiate and sign a contract,
spend money gearing up for hardware and software support
training, stock machines and parts, train our staff and
gear up to sell NeXTen in our Computer Store, and now you
plan to sell directly to our students, and have us waste
our investment!?!?!" She said "Of course not! Who'd do
support? We want a sales and support network on campus and
direct sales would kill that."

So, unless someone in this thread has a direct quote from
a serious NeXT representative, I'd forget about direct
sales. And if you do have such a quote, I'd _love_ to hear
about it... 


				- peterd

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