Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 Abandonment Message-ID: <1991Apr25.095959.22878@ncsu.edu> Date: 25 Apr 91 09:59:59 GMT References: <1991Apr25.042851.8912@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 18 pwvicory@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Paul William Vicory) writes: >Right now, I can't give my Amiga 1000 away. I would like to upgrade, but I >will never be able to justify or allow it if I can't sell the computer I have. >Will Commodore, if they are really interested in selling the new Amiga's, >offer some kind of discount to those who invested heavily in the Amiga at >the outset. An awful _lot_ of computers which cost $$ back in 1986 aren't worth much on resale now either... but this is natural, I think. We all seem to expect "favors" from computer companies, which we would never expect from, say, a television maker. (OTOH, it could easily be said that an enthusiastic computer owner is worth his weight in advertising gold :-). In the case of personal computers, it was fairly unusual for Commodore to have made the original trade-in offers on the A1000. Alas, I couldn't take them up on it either at the time. So while I understand fully what you meant about its current resale value, I also don't think it's up to Commodore to make it up to us. best - kev