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From: stuckey@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Anthony J. Stuckey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,uiuc.sys.apple2,uiuc.general
Subject: Re: A2R&D vs. Apple
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.021420.13176@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 91 02:14:20 GMT
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frye@cerl.uiuc.edu (G. David Frye) writes:


>Having said that, I'd like to applaud the people who stood up personally to
>the absurd rebate program.  I wonder if the scheme was dreamt up locally by
>dealers or was a corporate plan.  The prices were an insult, at best, and

It was a corporate plan.. offered to "six universities in the midwest",
and actively promoted by apple (to the point of dorm mail-box flyers).

>most departments realized that there was no real value to the buyback offer.
>I hope that someone at UI purchasing got burned.  I hope that the apparent
>attempt to get around UI and State of Illinois surplus policy is noted and
>prosecuted.

not likely.  who'd tell the proper people??


-- 
Anthony J. Stuckey
stuckey@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu