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From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Consortium pricing on new macs
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.210955.25414@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 17 Oct 90 21:09:55 GMT
References: <1990Oct17.135435.15654@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Distribution: can
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <1990Oct17.135435.15654@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer) writes:
>> I see Canadian university students, or at least those here at the 
>> U of Manitoba are getting the shaft.
>>
>> Mac Classic 2/40          $1745<cdn>
> 
>Hmm. The University of Toronto Computer Shop is charging $1899<cdn>
>for the Mac Classic 2/40.

OUCH!!  Looks like your shaft is bigger than ours.

So, does anyone at Apple care<sometimes I wonder! <sorry, needed to get my
occasional Apple jab in there>> to explain why the Canadian prices are so
much higher than those in the U.S.?  I could possibly understand if we were
an ocean apart, but the only thing that seperates us is a river, a couple
lakes <big ones> and some wheat fields.

Charles