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From: cek@wsc-sun.boeing.com (Conrad Kimball)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet III pricing?
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Date: 16 Apr 91 17:05:02 GMT
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In article <9104151944.AA15601@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU>, taylor@limbo.intuitive.com (Dave Taylor) writes:
|> 
|> I'm contemplating purchase of an HP LaserJet Series III printer,
|> the basic model, with a 2MB RAM expansion.  A shop in the local
|> area (Fry's) has it for $1549 (printer) + $150 (memory).  My
|> question, before I drop that kind of money, is whether this is a
|> good price or not.  If you've a LJIII, how much did you pay for
|> it, and where?  

Over the past month or two I've seen ads in the local Seattle newspaper
in which Ballard Computer was selling the LJIII for $1399 if you also
bought a toner cartridge from them (they didn't mention the price of
the cartridge, but I would figure about $100).  Their "specials" seem
to come and go; good for a week, then revert to a higher price, then
a week or two later they run the same ad that's good for another week,
etc.  So the strategy is simply to wait them out until they have another
special - it shouldn't take more than a few weeks.  I don't know about
the price of memory.

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