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From: johnhlee@thiazi.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Is this price gouging?
Keywords: Price Gouging
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Date: 29 Oct 90 16:53:13 GMT
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In article <1990Oct26.203914.4164@nmt.edu> mwed381@jupiter.nmt.edu (Fred Wilson) writes:
>	Is it just me or is it really price gouging. I live in New Mexico
>and I currently own an Amiga 500. I would like to put in a 1meg Angus in 
>my machine. There are only 2 computer stores in Albuquerque that service
>Amigas. One of the stores wants to charge me $450 for an Angus and instilation.
>The other wants $400 for the opperation. Both stores sell the 1meg Angus for 
>$195. What I think is insaine is the $400 per hour labor for a job that
>takes 1/2 hour to do.

Outrageous.  My 1Mb Agnus for my A2000 cost $150 installed by my dealer.
$100 for the chip, $50 for labor.  Actual time: 15 minutes.  Installation
is similar in a A500.  $400-$450 is not reasonable.

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