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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT international plans?
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.190344.18048@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 4 Oct 90 19:03:44 GMT
References: <1990Sep27.200513.20457@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <49@pubit.sublink.ORG> <1990Oct3.211448.15738@santra.uucp>
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In article <1990Oct3.211448.15738@santra.uucp>, jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:
|> In article <49@pubit.sublink.ORG> root@pubit.sublink.ORG (Arrigo Benedetti) writes:
|> >philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
|> >
|> >>I occasionally write for Computers in Africa. I wonder if anyone from NeXT
|> >>would like to discuss international marketing plans ...
|> >
|> >I'd like to join this discussion, too. I'm concerned in particular with
|> >distribution in Europe. Last week I was asked to pay "something beetwen
|> >$30000 and $40000" for the old Cube + Laser Printer (I'm not joking).
|> >I think that NeXT wouldn't be happy to know that a VAR is reselling their
|> >machines with such a price increase. So I'd like to discuss this matter with
|> >some international sales people at NeXT.
|> 
|> Then again, I got some material from the U.K. and their projected price
|> for the NeXTStation is only 3255 pounds.
If this is not the educational price, it is a _slight_ improvement on
the tendency of some computer companies to treat the exchange rate as if
pound=dollar. I wonder which computer company is going to be the first to
realize that Europe is going to be one big market in 1992, and start pricing
accordingly.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu