Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.wanted:2485 soc.college:6812 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!dog.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!simasd!ncr-sd!ncrcae!oiscola!dbarnhar From: dbarnhar@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted,soc.college Subject: Re: Will pay $200 for Student to Buy Mac Message-ID: <340@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM> Date: 1 Feb 91 17:01:48 GMT References: <5606@auspex.auspex.com> <3866@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <1991Jan31.031816.5109@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Reply-To: dbarnhar@oiscola.UUCP (David C. Barnhart II) Organization: NCR/OISD Columbia Lines: 43 In article <1991Jan31.031816.5109@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> sharp@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Maurice Sharp) writes: > > Paul was not strong enough in his protest. I think what your >friend is proposing is not only illegal but immoral. It is people like >your friend that could cause students to loose their educational >discount. > This is true, but it doesn't excuse your next paragraph. > Students get good prices for two main reaons. One it is good >advertising for the company that gives the discount. Two, students do >not have much money. Your friend probably works, makes money, has a >car. Just wait till you get out and have to pay $8,000 or more for a mac, and I'll see what you say then. Of course students don't have much money, but that doesn't mean that the rest of us should have to pay the OUTRAGEOUS list prices for these machines. Of course, only a legal recourse to this problem is permissible, but the argument that: "someone works, makes money, and has a car ==> he can afford to pay full price for a mac" just doesn't hold water. > > On a more positive note. Try calling MacFriends (see any mac mag). >Their prices compare to those we get with an educational discount. > You should have said this in the first place instead of trying to use a worthless argument. Dave Barnhart NCR Cooperative Computing Systems Division 3245 Platt Springs Rd. West Columbia, SC 29169 email: uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!oiscola!dbarnhar -- Dave Barnhart NCR Cooperative Computing Systems Division 3245 Platt Springs Rd. West Columbia, SC 29169 email: uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!oiscola!dbarnhar