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From: jlille@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Jeff Lille)
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Subject: Re: NEW Commodore Upgrade offer!
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Date: 9 May 91 22:53:20 GMT
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From article <1991May9.174838.10608@uncecs.edu>, by urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj):
> 
> 
> 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.???
> 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.

Look at the sales figures for A3000's in the United States...  If you can use
a gimmick to sell a machine, use it I say :).  It _does_ get rid of the 
problem concerning abandonment of older machines... you have a 3000, use it!
No reason to rely on the older hardware, but you still have it (besides real
Amiga owners would never abandon their old machine... we love them like family
:>).  

Regarding using the A3000 manual covers:  I've never seen anything saying you
could use 3000's in the deal, I think it's just <3000.  Just as the deal only
applies to the 3000 (you can't get a 2500 or 2000 in the deal).

Look at things this way, has Apple or IBM or HP ever said 'here's $1500 dollars
of your next purchase of our newer machine, oh, and keep your old too'?  I
don't think so.  In fact to upgrade a Mac you pay Mac prices to buy a new one 
and use the old one to hold your books up, or swap mother boards.