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From: flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Educator discount list:  Is there/should there be one?
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Date: 11 Mar 91 16:17:29 GMT
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leo@hoss.unl.edu (Leo Chouinard) writes:

>So I was wondering whether it would make sense, given the number of 
>educators that use the net, for there to be a central list of educational 
>discounts (non-site-specific, i.e. of the sort that almost any educator 
>in the country would be eligible for) maintained in some form on the net - 

It would seem to be useful, the trick might be keeping it up to date,
getting info about what each different vendor requires in order to
prove your educational status, and having only reasonable deals on it. 
I haven't seen that many "Educational Discounts" (Borland is a
pleasant exception) that are all that worthwhile.  If you're a student
with not a lot of cash, you're going to end up with more machine for
less money buying a good clone mail-order than you will buying
name-brand at a 40% student discount: because that 40% is 40% off
"list price", when the reality is you're getting maybe 10% off the
normal street price, and sometimes not even that, to buy equipment
that costs 1/3rd more than the competition for comparable power.
-- 
Flint Pellett, Global Information Systems Technology, Inc.
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