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From: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac LC Availability??
Message-ID: <592@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 90 00:56:29 GMT
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In article <13680@chaph.usc.edu> ywhang@aludra.usc.edu (Yong Whang) writes:
>I thought that the educational prices were supposed to be cheapest???
  Don't kid yourself!  Just do alittle bit of shopping around and you'll see
that there's not a signifigant discount.
  I was about to order my IIsi 2/40 and AppleColor monitor from the Univ.,
but they said delivery would take 3 weeks.  Same problem - the semester was
going to be over in 2 1/2 weeks and I would be out of town.  No can do.  The
people at the demo area refered me to a local place that gave student
discounts.  I called them and they said "Bring in the money and you'll walk
out the door with a IIsi.  I was salvating.  Then they hit me with the punch -
NO CPU-monitor discount!  Bye bye $250 extra!  Forget that place.  So I
whipped out my latest MacWorld thinking "I'll just see what everyone else
is quoting for si's."  I called several places, and yes, educational
discount did beat 'em.  Until I called Texas MacStuff.  They claim to be
the losest and they sure are!  They didn't beat my educational discount, but
their price was a whole $40 more!  They have the money now, and it's being
shipped home right now!  Unfortunately, they also had a 3 week shipping
delay or I would have my new baby right now!

|     John Taggart Gorman Jr.    | "I'm a no rust build up man myself."
|                                |          -Christian Slater
| jtgorman@caslon.cs.arizona.edu |             in 'Heathers'