Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!crg5!lcline From: lcline@sequent.com (Larry Cline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Montgomery Grant? Message-ID: Date: 30 Oct 90 17:41:01 GMT References: <1990Oct18.064518.464@darwin.ntu.edu.au> <4859@copper.UUCP> <8004@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <3431@corpane.UUCP> Sender: root@crg5.UUCP Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Beaverton, Oregon Lines: 51 In-reply-to: sparks@corpane.UUCP's message of 29 Oct 90 20:12:52 GMT In article <3431@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes: >david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) writes: >> >>AmigaWorld has their ads. >> >>complaints (not rumors), they would "take action" (whatever that means). > >Why doesn't Commodore call them up or take some action? It should be clear >cut because: > That would be anti-trust and get the Feds on C='s butt. >1> MG is not an authorized Amiga dealer, and yet they are advertizing Amiga's > for sale. > They are buying their Amigas used/refurbed/from excess stock/out of business sales. They are not buying machines from C=. >2> Amiga's are not supposed to be sold mail order and they are doing so in > their (MG's) ads. > C= requires that all sales have a face-to-face meeting with the customer (at least the last time I was involved in sales - rules could have changed since then). This would preclude mail order normally. If C= could prove an authorized dealer was selling to MG or by mail order they would probably pull that dealer's authorization. >That alone should be enough for CBM to get the magazine to pull their ads. >Or even for CBM to sue MG. C= could conceivably sue MG and spend a lot of money and look like a bad guy to Joe Bloe consumer because they (C=) are trying to force the consumer to pay higher prices. Or they could just try to strangle the grey market supply and customers will stop calling MG because it takes 6 months to get a system in. C= could not force a magazine to pull an ad unless that ad violated criminal laws (maybe even civil) and they got the Feds to have it pulled (which is an unlikely prospect). >-- >John Sparks |D.I.S.K. Public Access Unix System| Multi-User Games, Email >sparks@corpane.UUCP |PH: (502) 968-DISK 24Hrs/2400BPS | Usenet, Chatting, >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|7 line Multi-User system. | Downloads & more. >A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of----Ogden Nash Larry Cline lcline@sequent.sequent.com ".sig, Contractors don't need to stinkin' .sig!!!"