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From: ogil@quads.uchicago.edu (Brian W. Ogilvie)
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Subject: Re: Consortium pricing on new macs
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Date: 11 Oct 90 17:29:44 GMT
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In article <79186.27140AA8@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:

>Brian W. Ogilvie writes in a message on 06 Oct 90:
>
 [Stuff I wrote about U of Chicago pricing on Mac Classic deleted]
>
>Latest MacWEEK reports that list price on that machine will be $1499, and that
>dealers will buy it from 20-28% off list.  In the same article, dealers are
>quoted as saying something like "if people think we're gonna discount THIS one
>very much, they're nuts.  We got no room.  We gotta make *some* margin."
>
>So perhaps the $1350 isn't such a rip.  'Course, you should wait to see what
>your neighborhood dealer is going to charge.

But consortium schools have traditionally gotten better discounts than
dealers, and (being in theory not-for-profit) have passed on that savings
to their students, faculty and staff. $1350 is only 10% off list; previous
machines have been discounted more on the order of 30%. Moreover, prices
at the U of C have usually been a few percent higher than those at other
consortium schools with which I am familiar. Hence my interest in comparing
_consortium_ pricing on the Classic. Even the U of C has better prices than 
any dealer in town on the current Macs, and I can imagine aggressive dealers
pricing the Classic 2/40 at under $1350.
--
Brian W. Ogilvie           "Find a need and fool it!"
ogil@midway.uchicago.edu              --Zippy the Pinhead