Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.hardware:9046 comp.sys.amiga.misc:3468 comp.sys.amiga.marketplace:1188 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!cbmvax!amix!undrground!accangel From: undrground!accangel@amix.commodore.com (Mark Gardner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace Subject: Re: NEW Commodore Upgrade offer! Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 06:35:48 GMT References: <1991May9.174838.10608@uncecs.edu> Lines: 44 urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes: > > > This C= upgrade offer is so generous that it almost defies a rational > explanation. It is open to all, and seems to be more generous than > their educational discount. > So I wonder if the following is a feasible legal thing to do? > Get a first A3000 using say a VIC20, and then chain several further > A3000 purchases using the covers of the preceding A3000 for each > succeding one. Then sell the extra A3000s to other students, splitting > the savings with them.??? No go. Can't be anything above an Amiga 2000 series. > Why do you suppose C= ever decided to offer such a sales promotion??? > Since one doesn't have to give up the old hardware, it does not help > them get rid of those gripes about the abandonment of obsolete > machines. So perhaps they make a healthy profit anyways at the promo > prices and the "send in the manual cover" part is just a gimmick. Perhaps they just want to flood the market with Amiga 3000's, and stop current users' gripes about a difficult upgrade path. Shoot, if you can KEEP your old computer, no need to worry about compatibility. And you know, these A3000's with the Power Up program make nice, fairly affordable graduation presents. > And a couple of questions of on a tangent: > How is C= stock doing just now? and What's new about the possible > Sony C= takeover? and How would this promo affect the stock price > and thus any takeover calculations? :-) Can't help you there. Anyone follow the NYSE around here? -Mark Gardner accangel@undrground.uucp "NeXT sells you a rock. AMIGA sells you a ROCKET!" ---------- Mark Gardner UUCP: uunet!cbmvax!amix!undrground!accangel Internet: undrground!accangel@amix.commodore.com