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From: jason@cbmami.UUCP (Jason Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Does GVP offer Ed Discounts? Anyone use their a4000?
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Date: 7 Mar 91 07:44:10 GMT
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GVP does offer educational discounts, but you may have a lot of trouble
finding a dealer who will sell you stuff from GVP's educational program.
You may end up having to go throgh GVP directly (although they claim that
they wont do this.)  The problem with there program is that expect dealers
to sell the eductional stuff out of their own stock to customers, the
eductional prices are often signifigantly less than the dealers normal
price for the product, and GVP gives only a tolken price break to the
dealer (less than $10).  So what that means is that GVP's idea of an
Educational Program is for GVP to make their normal profit off you, and for
the dealer to lose money on your sale!  Why didn't someone think of this
before :-), the outcome is that many dealers refuse to sell product at the
GVP educational program, and many dealers refuse to sell GVP stuff at all.


-Jason-

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Jason Goldberg				UUCP: ucsd!serene!cbmami!jason
Del Mar, CA