Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!rc6.urc.tue.nl!rw7.urc.tue.nl!rcbaab From: rcbaab@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Annard (Icon) Brouwer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Expensive International Macs Message-ID: Date: 7 Dec 90 11:56:42 GMT References: <1990Dec5.094856.3679@csc.anu.oz.au> <1990Dec5.004655.20387@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <22009@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: News Administration Reply-To: rcbaab@urc.tue.nl Lines: 30 nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us (Avi Rappoport) writes: >In article <1990Dec5.004655.20387@Neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu writes: >>How about starting a political campaign against international price fixing? >>The following changes might help: >>2. make it illegal to refuse service / support to anyone who imports >> through "unofficial" channels (preferably, make the concept of >> sole distributor/sole importer illegal as a monopolistic practice) >I think there are differences between software and hardware sales. If >a company has to pay someone to localize the product, and do tech support, >it makes sense for them to want to get some return for that investment. >There is a value for the customer, rather than a rip-off. This is the most outrageous idea I have heard for many a day! In the Netherlands it's nearly impossible to get ANY good tech support, be it from Apple or another company... Most of the time I have to tell them what's new (listen: they even shipped System 6.0.6 here with the new Macs!). I'm of the opinion that whereever I bought the product (hardware and software), I'm the customer, I have paid a great deal of money to get something and I want service! Have a nice day! Annard -- | Annard Brouwer Bitnet : rcgbbaab@heitue51 | Dreef 74 UUCP : rcbaab@urc.tue.nl | NL-5504 LD Veldhoven packet-radio : pe1koo@pi8mid | The Netherlands [44.137.28.6]