Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) Subject: Re: Apple Trade-in Offer Message-ID: <1991Apr23.012729.14459@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL References: <3757@ux.acs.umn.edu> <3764@ux.acs.umn.edu> <17612@venera.isi.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 01:27:29 GMT Lines: 23 Apple's trade-in offer is a pathetic ripoff. Here at the UI, some cunning students went to the student union, where the trade-in program was being run. They stood outside the door and offered CASH to those people who were there to trade in their computers. These students got some really great bargains on macintosh computers. Apple's trade-in program was exposed as a ripoff. So what did Apple do? They called the campus police to have these student "troublemakers" thrown out of the building. Don Gillies | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gillies@cs.uiuc.edu | Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL ---------------------+------------------------------------------------------ "WAR! UGH! ... What is it GOOD FOR? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!" - the song "WAR" by Edwin Starr, circa 1971 --