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From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
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Subject: Re: Price increases: wuddle be effected?
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Date: 8 May 91 05:05:45 GMT
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In article <17076@chopin.udel.edu> radel@chopin.udel.edu (Todd Radel) writes:
>Speaking of price restructuring, does anyone know for sure if the prices are
>going up or down?  I've held off buying my slab for this long; if the prices
>go up any more, I'll have to start looking at Macs!  (*shudder, groan*)
>

I just got back from tonites SCAN meeting (So. Cal. NeXT);
the word from the next reps there (campus reps + 1 next employee)
was:

(1) There will be no price restructing on 10th of may, or any
other time in the immediate future---this is an unfounded rumor.

(2) NeXT did recently (a week or so ago) modify its prices as follows:
    * 17'' color monitor dropped in price by $1000
    * 21'' color monitor dropped in price by $500
    * the cost of the NeXTStation Color _computer_
      (pizza box) increased in price by $1000 (so that
      a 17'' NS Color will stay the same price, and a 21''
      NS Color will cost $500 more than previously).

This brings the current price (edu discount) of the 17'' Color monitor
to around $2150 (here at UCLA), for example.





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Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)