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From: herndon@sctc.com (William R. Herndon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: businessland fire sale tactics (eccch)
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.140336.10181@sctc.com>
Date: 13 Nov 90 14:03:36 GMT
References: <1635@camex.COM>
Organization: Secure Computing Technology Corporation
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geoff@circus.camex.com (Geoffrey Knauth) writes:

>The $2795 old demo cube fire sale was one big disappointment here.  Our
>local Businessland "reserved" 10 machines for us (a group of friends),
>faxed us a quote, then told us they were sold out and tried to peddle us
>their $3995 cubes.  I hope this didn't happen to any of you.

>        Geoffrey S. Knauth                           geoff@camex.com
>    Camex, Inc., 75 Kneeland St.                     geoff%camex@uunet.uu.net
>Boston, MA 02111, (617) 426-3577 x451                --standard disclaimers--


    I think that whether or not a person or group got a hold of some of 
    the demo cubes depended heavily on the savvy of the salesman at your
    local Businessland outlet.  A friend of mine and I each got a hold of
    demo cubes, but as I understand it our Minneapolis sales rep actually 
    got on the phone to the Chicago distribution center the morning the sale 
    started, reserved five machines, had somebody in Chicago tag them, and 
    then began selling them here.  He took a risk ( I guess ), but sold all 
    five of the machines that he had reserved within 24 hours of of the start 
    of the fire sale.  I was just lucky enough to be one of the people.


								- Max

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